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Almanac: Flagstaff: Week: 32/ Day: 222
Today: H 80°…L 46°
Wind: ave: 5mph; Gusts: 8mph Ave. humidity: 56%
Average Low: 50° Average High: 81°
Record Low Record High
44° (1999) 89° (1980)
Quote of
the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
ABC enters network TV at 7 PM (WJZ, NY)…1948
Allen Funt's "Candid Camera" TV
debut on ABC…1948
Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200…1833
Congress charters "nation's attic,"
Smithsonian Institution…1846
Daylight meteor seen from Utah to Canada. Only
known case of a meteor
entering Earth's atmosphere & leaving it again…1966
FDR stricken with polio at summer home on
Canadian Is of Campobello…1921
Mary Decker trips on heel of Zola Budd during
3,000m Olympic run…1984
Postal employee David Berkowitz "Son of
Sam" arrested…1977
Pueblo Rebellion takes place in New Mexico under the leadership of
a Tewa
named Popé…1680
Scotland Yard disrupts major terrorist plot to
from UK to the US, toiletries are banned…2006
Traditional date of the Laylat al-Qadr, when
Muhammad began to receive the Qur'an…610
Word of the United States Declaration of
Independence reaches London…1776
♫ Today’s
Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
Someday I will learn. Every month or so, when I make my monthly graphic changes, I think that the black background with white lettering looks cool. Then after a week or so, I realize how hard it is for me to read. Well it is back to ‘normal’ now. Someday I will learn not to mess with ‘normal’.Some retired friends from Tuba stopped by this morning to ‘check up’ on me. I hadn’t seen them for a couple of months. Both were doing fine…and had just become ‘great grandparents’ for the first time. They put on the naming ceremony and feast at their house. After that was over they traveled to NM for several Pueblo feasts. So nice to see them, hear their stories, and know that they are really enjoying their retirement.No rain today and quite nice. The sun keeps rising later and later, the nights are getting much cooler. I’m really not ready for ‘fall’ and want to keep enjoying a beautiful summer at 7000’.I am such a dreamer sometimes. I have always enjoyed following the Olympics. I have seen it as an athletic competition for the very best. Each participant takes the Olympic Oath, since 1920: "In the name of all competitors, I promise that we shall take part in these Olympic Games, respecting and abiding by the rules that govern them, in the true spirit of sportsmanship, for the glory of sport and the honor of our teams." Back in the 80’s our government boycotted the Olympics in Moscow and the USSR retaliated by boycotting ours four years later. Sadly, politics is entering the athletic field again. We seems to have moved a little forward from the 80’s to have an online petition to the IOC demanding that the Olympics be moved away from Russia because of their new draconian LGBT laws that might have consequences for some of the athletes. To me, that makes sense. I hope the IOC recognizes that a political boycott of the games will only hurt those athletes that aren’t allowed to attend. Most of the athletes at the games get one time in their life to participate. The IOC should do everything it can to insure that those athletes get their chance.
Game Center (answers
at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
When you behead a word, you remove the first
letter and still have a valid word. You will be given clues for the two words,
longer word first. Example: Begin -> Sour, acidic Answer: The words are
Start and Tart.
1. Adoration -> Elevate 2. Indulge in -> Permit 3. Den -> Atmosphere 4. Precipitation -> Current time 5. Morally pure -> Swift action 6. Prize -> Person under protection 7. Head covering -> City related 8. Most plump -> Provide evidence for
Lifestyle
Substance:
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
Hmmmm…Tongue
Twisters
I
I cannot bear to see a bear
Bear down upon a hare.
When bare of hair he strips the hare,
Right there I cry, "Forbear!"
^^
I can think of six thin things and of six thick things too.
^^
I correctly recollect Rebecca MacGregor's reckoning.
^^
If a Hottentot taught a Hottentot tot
To talk ere the tot could totter,
Ought the Hottenton tot
Be taught to say aught, or naught,
Or what ought to be taught her?
If to hoot and to toot a Hottentot tot
Be taught by her Hottentot tutor,
Ought the tutor get hot
If the Hottentot tot
Hoot and toot at her Hottentot tutor?
^^
If one doctor doctors another doctor, does the doctor who doctors the doctor doctor the doctor the way the doctor he is doctoring doctors? Or does he doctor the doctor the way the doctor who doctors doctors?
^^
If Stu chews shoes, should Stu choose the shoes he chews?
^^
I'm not the pheasant plucker,
I'm the pheasant plucker's mate.
I'm only plucking pheasants
'Cause the pheasant plucker's late.
^^
Inchworms itching.
^^
I need not your needles, they're needless to me;
For kneading of noodles, 'twere needless, you see;
But did my neat knickers but need to be kneed,
I then should have need of your needles indeed.
^^
Irish wristwatch.
^^
I saw Esau kissing Kate. I saw Esau, he saw me, and she saw I saw Esau.
^^
I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit.
^^
Is this your sister's sixth zither, sir?
^^
I thought a thought
But the thought I thought
Was not the thought
I thought I thought.
Ever wonder where the name came from?
I cannot bear to see a bear
Bear down upon a hare.
When bare of hair he strips the hare,
Right there I cry, "Forbear!"
^^
I can think of six thin things and of six thick things too.
^^
I correctly recollect Rebecca MacGregor's reckoning.
^^
If a Hottentot taught a Hottentot tot
To talk ere the tot could totter,
Ought the Hottenton tot
Be taught to say aught, or naught,
Or what ought to be taught her?
If to hoot and to toot a Hottentot tot
Be taught by her Hottentot tutor,
Ought the tutor get hot
If the Hottentot tot
Hoot and toot at her Hottentot tutor?
^^
If one doctor doctors another doctor, does the doctor who doctors the doctor doctor the doctor the way the doctor he is doctoring doctors? Or does he doctor the doctor the way the doctor who doctors doctors?
^^
If Stu chews shoes, should Stu choose the shoes he chews?
^^
I'm not the pheasant plucker,
I'm the pheasant plucker's mate.
I'm only plucking pheasants
'Cause the pheasant plucker's late.
^^
Inchworms itching.
^^
I need not your needles, they're needless to me;
For kneading of noodles, 'twere needless, you see;
But did my neat knickers but need to be kneed,
I then should have need of your needles indeed.
^^
Irish wristwatch.
^^
I saw Esau kissing Kate. I saw Esau, he saw me, and she saw I saw Esau.
^^
I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit.
^^
Is this your sister's sixth zither, sir?
^^
I thought a thought
But the thought I thought
Was not the thought
I thought I thought.
Ever wonder where the name came from?
LG
Famous for iPhone-baiting touch phones, as well as fridges, microwaves and TVs, LG is the abbreviated result of the merger between two different companies - Lucky, which made household products and GoldStar which fashioned cheap consumer electronics. The GoldStar name eventually disappeared in 1995, when the company was renamed LG Electronics, partly as the result of a push to upmarket.
Ok, then?
Harper’s Index
Estimated amount by which federal tax revenue will increase if the Defense of Marriage Act is overturned: $35,000,000
Songs with Double Meanings:
Horse With No Name - America Key Triple Lyric of song: "I've been through the desert on a horse with no name" (1) To some, a silly song about being with a nameless horse in some desert; (2) To others, a very intelligently written song about heroin addiction and the effects the drug has on the body. Note: "Horse" is drug slang for heroin. (3) Dewey Bunnell, who wrote the song, was an Army brat, and as a child he lived in several southwestern US desert cities for short periods of time because of his father's work.
Hotel California - The Eagles Key Triple Lyric of song:"Welcome to the Hotel California, such a lovely place, such a lovely face, plenty of room at the Hotel California, any time of year, you can find it here" (1) About a visit to a whore house; (2) About going to a place where drugs are always available; (3) Main/real meaning: Song and its lyrics are about living life to the extreme or living in emotional excess.
Unusual Fact of the Day
The Three Stooges Shemp had many phobias. He was afraid of driving, heights, and elevators!Joke-of-the-day
A guy walking down a street one afternoon passes an old man sitting on the side of the road with a large sack.The younger guy says to the old man, "Watcha got in the sack?"The old man responds, "I got some monkeys in that there sack."The younger man asks, "If I guess how many monkeys you got in the sack, can I keep one?"The old man replies, "Son, if you guess how many monkeys I got in this sack, I'll give you both of 'em!"
Rules of Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
MAKING A FUSE IN A PINCH
If your car blows a wierd-looking fuse and you don't have a spare--one wrap of cigarette-pack foil around the old fuse will give you a 20 amp emergency fuse; two wraps will give you about 35 amps.
Yeah, It Really Happened
British Utility company Thames Water says it has discovered what it calls the biggest "fatberg" ever recorded in Britain, a 15-ton blob of congealed fat and baby wipes lodged in a sewer drain.That's enough "wrongly flushed festering food fat mixed with wet wipes" to fill a double-decker bus such as the famous London Routemaster, the company said.If you don't feel vomit welling up in the back of your throat right now, keep reading.Thames Water deals with fatbergs all the time, thanks to the widespread use of household oil and food fat. But few reach the mammoth size of the one found under a road in the London suburb of Kingston.This blockage - built up over an estimated six months - was discovered after residents in nearby apartment buildings were unable to flush their toilets.Examination found that the mound of fat had reduced the 70-centimeter (28-inch) by 48-centimeter (19-inch) sewer to just 5 percent of its normal capacity. It damaged the sewers so badly that it will take six weeks to repair them.The company said Tuesday it was sharing news of the massive lard lump in hopes that customers will think twice about what they dump down the drain.
Somewhat Useless Information
- Avocados are the size of a baby in its mother's womb at 16 weeks.
- Avocados are one of the only fruits that contain heart-healthy monounsaturated fat (the good-for-you fat) that helps boost good (HDL) cholesterol and lowers bad (LDL) cholesterol.
- The word "avocado" comes from the Spanish word aguacate, which is from the the Nahuatl word ahuacatl.
- Avocado trees do not self-pollinate; they need another avocado tree close by to bear fruit. The avocado is an Aztec symbol of love and fertility, and they also grow in pairs on trees
- Avocado is a fruit and is climacteric, meaning it matures on the tree but ripens off of the tree
- Avocados are ripe when they feel heavy for their size, yield to light pressure and are dark in color.
Calendar Information
National Farmers'
Market Week
Old Fiddler's Week
Rock for Life Week
Assistance Dog Week
Knights of Columbus Family Week
National Resurrect Romance Week
Old Fiddler's Week
Rock for Life Week
Assistance Dog Week
Knights of Columbus Family Week
National Resurrect Romance Week
Exercise With
Your Child Week
National Fraud Awareness Week
(This is sponsored by the FCC and has to do with phone & mail fraud.)
Single Working Women's Week (Week always has the 4th in it)
Exhibitor Appreciation Week
Intimate Apparel Week
National Bargain Hunting Week
Psychic Week
National Fraud Awareness Week
(This is sponsored by the FCC and has to do with phone & mail fraud.)
Single Working Women's Week (Week always has the 4th in it)
Exhibitor Appreciation Week
Intimate Apparel Week
National Bargain Hunting Week
Psychic Week
Sturgis Rally
8-11
8-11
National Hobo
Week
10-16
10-16
Elvis Week
Feeding Pets of the Homeless Week
Feeding Pets of the Homeless Week
Weird Contest
Week
Today Is
·
National Duran Duran Appreciation Day
·
National Garage Sale Day
·
Skyscraper Appreciation Day
·
Smithsonian Day S'mores Day
^^^
·
Ecuador: Independence
Day (1809 from Spain)
·
US: Missouri:
Admission Day (1821 / 24th)
Today’s Events through History
Cardinal Richelieu begins siege of La Rochelle…1627
Coca-Cola Bottling Co agrees to pump $34
million into black business…1981
Earliest recorded prize fighting rules
formulated…1743
Former slave Nat Turner leads uprising against
slavery…1831
Nez-Perce Indians murdered @ Big Hole
River: Col John Gibbon …1877
Portuguese sea captain Diego Diaz is first
European to sight Madagascar…1500
US's Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus…1990
Today’s Birthdays
Ian Anderson, Scotland, rocker (Jethro
Tull-Bungle in the Jungle) is 66
Devon Aoki, American supermodel and actress
is 31
Rosanna Arquette, actress (Desperately Seeking
Susan, After Hour) is 54
Antonio Banderas, Malaga Spain, actor (Phila,
Evita, Mambo Kings) is 53
Rhonda Fleming, [Marilyn Louis], Hollywood
California, actress (Spellbound) is 90
Angie Harmon, fashion model and
television/film actress is 41
Lucinda Williams, US sprinter
(Olympic-gold-1960) is 76
Remembered
for being born today
Noah Beery Jr, actor (Rockford Files, Quest,
Doc Elliot) [1913-1994]
Jimmy Dean, actor/singer (Jimmy Dean Show,
Diamonds are Forever) [1928-2010]
Eddie Fisher, singer (Oh My Papa, Lady of
Spain) [1928-2010]
Jack Haley [John Joseph], actor (The Wizard of
Oz) [1898-1979]
Herbert Hoover, 31st President [1874-1964]
Henri Nestlé, Swiss industrialist,
confectioner [1814-1890]
Leopold Zunz, German scientist (Synagogical
Poetry) [1794-1886]
Today’s Historical Obits
Ray "Crash" Corrigan, cowboy (Crash
Corrigan's Ranch)…heart attack…1976…at 74
Robert H. Goddard, American rocket pioneer….cancer/TB…1945…at
62
Isaac Hayes, American musician and actor…stroke…2008…at
65
Brain
Teasers
1. Praise -> Raise 2. Wallow -> Allow 3. Lair -> Air 4. Snow -> Now 5. Chaste -> Haste 6. Award -> Ward 7. Turban -> Urban 8. Fattest -> Attest
Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel
free to agree or disagree.
All ‘data’ info is from the internet
sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned
that every site has mistakes and sadly once out the information is out there,
many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events
occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be
totally accurate.
§ And That Is All for Now §
