11/26/13


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Flagstaff Almanac:
Week: 48 / Day: 330   
Today: L 15°…H 42°… Ave. humidity: 91%
Wind: ave:   18mph; Gusts:  31mph  
Average Low: 20° Record Low:  -8° (1906)
Average High: 48° Record High:  70° (1977)

Quote of the Day
 
Today’s Historical Highlights
"Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll published in USA…1865
"Casablanca" premieres at Hollywood Theatre, NYC…1942
"The Price Is Right" debuts on NBC…1956
1st lion exhibited in America (Boston)…1716
1st meteor photograph…1885
1st modern 3-D movie "Bwana Devil" premieres in Hollywood…1952
1st national Thanksgiving in USA…1789
1st recording session under name "Beatles"…1962
Cost of Hurricane Sandy to New York is announced to be $32 Billion…2012
French King Louis XIV declares war on Netherlands…1688
Lottery for Selective Service draftees bill signed by President Nixon…1969
Maya King Siyaj Chan K'awill II (Stormy Sky) ascends the Tikal throne in Guatemala…411
Random House buys Richard Nixon’s memoires for $3,000,000…1985

♫  Today’s Birthdays: ♫   
How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays
 
My Free Rambling Thoughts   
At last, a sunny day with a blue sky!!!! A tad too windy for my taste, but seeing the sun after a weekend of overcast sky is very pleasant.
 
Mary and I had lunch and I caught up on her many stories from visiting her Chicago grandkids…along with some pictures. Great time and a nice way to start this Thanksgiving Week.
 
Not a happy camper after the Bronco game on Sunday night. They had the first half, but seem to have forgotten that the game has 2 halves. Even after letting the Patriots tie the game, they couldn’t pull it off in overtime. They are still having a good season, but this was certainly a blow.
 
As we found out today, there have been secret talks for months with Iran, and now there is a deal. For sure not the best deal, but a deal none the less. If Iran doesn’t follow the deal, they are back to the sanctions that have crippled their economy and their people. Stop all the arguing, especially since none of them have been involved with any of the secret negotiations. Give it a try for 6 months and keep trying to derail it.
Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
Where should you go to find the meaning of life?
Lifestyle  Substance:     
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

Very Strange Laws…Nebraska
  • Drivers on mountains should drive with caution near the right hand edge of the highway –there are no mountains in Nebraska!
  • It is illegal to fly a plane while drunk.
  • Persons with gonorrhea may not marry.
  • If a child burps during church, his parent may bearrested.
  • It is Illegal to go whale fishing.
  • It is illegal for bar owners to sell beer unless they are simultaneously brewing a kettle of soup.
  • It is illegal for a mother to give her daughter a perm without a state license.
  • Lehigh
    • --Doughnut holes may not be sold.
  • Omaha
    • --Sneezing or burping is illegal during a church service. /A man is not allowed to run around with a shaved chest.
  • Waterloo
    • --Barbers are forbidden from eating onions after 7 A.

OK Then…
 
Harper’s Index 
  • Percentage change in the number of immigrants entering the US illegally between 2006 and 2011: -72
  • Price for a simulated illegal border crossing at an amusement park in Hidalgo, Mexico: $20

Unusual Fact of the Day
In writing his own tombstone, Thomas Jefferson penned a lengthy memorial listing many of his great accomplishments, from “author of the Declaration of Independence” to “founder of the University of Virginia.” However, he did forget one small achievement: the tombstone fails to mention that Jefferson was once president of the United States.

Joke-of-the-day
A couple is arguing about who should make the coffee in the morning. The wife says, “I think your should do it because you get up first.”
He counters with, “The kitchen is your domain, and you do all the cooking so you know where everything is. I think you should make the coffee.”
“No way,” she says. “You should do it. The Bible even says so.”
“What the heck are you talking about?”
She grabs the family Bible, thumbs through, and point to the appropriate section: “Hebrews”
Rules of Thumb:   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
BUILDING A STONE WALL
You should plan on ordering (or collecting) two cubic yards of stone for every cubic yard of finished wall.    
Yeah, It Really Happened
MADAWASKA, Maine - A Maine teenager said a beaver stole his rifle and dragged it underwater when he took a break from hunting to use the restroom. Nathan Baron, a student at Madawaska High School, said he was hunting Monday near his home when he decided to pop into the house for a bathroom break, the Bangor (Maine) Daily News reported Thursday.
"I walked out of the woods and got on my four-wheeler and I went home," he said. Baron said he returned a short time later and noticed his Remington .30-06 rifle, which he had left leaning against a tree, was missing. He said he quickly searched the area. "There was a stream that was running about 100 feet away from me. I look, and there's a beaver hauling that gun into the water," he said. Baron said it was too late to rescue his rifle. "There was nothing I could do," he said. "The gun was in the water and the beaver went under. That was it." Baron admitted the story may seem unlikely. "My close friends don't believe me, but all the other kids in school believe me," he said. The teenager said he is hoping to obtain proof of the incident by getting the gun back. "I'm trying to get my gun back," he said. "If there are beaver marks on it, I'm going to hang it on the wall of my garage [so others can come and see it]." 
Somewhat Useless Information   
  • Cream cheese was invented in 1872; Philadelphia Cream Cheese hit the market in 1880. It wasn't until Joseph and Isaac Breakstone began selling their Breakstone Cream Cheese brand in 1920 that New York bagel eaters discovered it.
  • According to Guinness World Records, the world's largest bagel was made by Bruegger's in Syracuse, New York. It weighed 868 pounds, measured 6 feet in diameter and 20 inches thick, and was blueberry flavored.
  • During the 2002 American League Championship Series between the New York Yankees and Anaheim Angels, Anaheim mayor Tom Daly bet New York mayor Michael Bloomberg a crate of oranges and chilies that the Angels would win. Bloomberg's bet: a crate of Nathan's hot dogs and 48 H&H bagels. Daly won.
  • Some historians credit a Viennese baker for creating the bagel to commemorate the victory of Polish King Jan III Sobieski over the Turks in 1683. The bread was formed into the shape of a buegel or stirrup, because the liberated Austrians had clung to the king's stirrups as he rode by. 
  • There are numerous etiologies of the word bagel. In Yiddish, it was beygel, from the Middle High German bouc and Old High German boug, both meaning a ring or bracelet. Another possible origin is from the German word bügel, for a round loaf of bread. 
  • In 1927, Polish baker Harry Lender came to New Haven, Connecticut, USA, and founded the first bagel factory outside New York City. His company is credited with being the nation's first frozen bagel manufacturer and the first to put bagels in supermarkets.


Calendar Information        
Happening This Week:
22-28: National Farm-City Week
24-30: Better Conversation Week / Church-State Separation Week / National Bible Week / National Family Week  /National Game & Puzzle Week

Today Is                                                                      
·        International Aura Awareness Day
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·        Lebanon: Independence Day (1941 from France)
·        Mongolia: Republic Day (1924)

Today’s Events through History  
Captain Cook discovers Maui in the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii)…1778
Condoms are handed out to thousands of NY High School students…1991
Refrigerated railroad car patented by JB Sutherland of Detroit…1867

Today’s Birthdays                                                           
Rich Little, Ottawa Canada, impressionist/actor (Love on a Rooftop) is 75
Tina Turner, [Anna Mae Bullock], Brownsville Tx, singer (Proud Mary) is 74
Chris Hughes, businessman, co-founder of Facebook is 29

Remembered for being born today
Bruno Hauptmann, kidnapper of Charles Augustus Lindbergh III [1899-1936]
Katharine Drexel, Roman Catholic Saint [1858-1955]
William Wilson (Bill W.), co-founder (alcoholics anonymous) [1895-1971]
Karl Ziegler, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (polymers) [1898-1973]
Eric Sevareid, newscaster (CBS Weekend News) [1912-1992]
Charles M. Schulz, cartoonist (Peanuts) [1922-2000]
Robert Goulet, singer and actor [1933-2007]

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           
Sojourner Truth, US abolitionist/women's rights advocate…1883…@86
Scatman Crothers, singer/actor (Shining, Chico & The Man)…cancer…1986…@76
Tommy Dorsey, big bandleader…choked…1956…@51

Brain Teasers
You should go to a dictionary! The meaning of "life" can be found in a dictionary.
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.
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11/25/13


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Flagstaff Almanac:
Week: 48 / Day: 329   
Today: L 30°…H 32°… Ave. humidity: 91%
Wind: ave:   3mph; Gusts:  8mph  
Average Low: 20° Record Low:  -8° (1906)
Average High: 48° Record High:  70° (1949)

Quote of the Day
 
Today’s Historical Highlights
"Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" appears on music charts…1949
1st sword swallower in US performs (NYC)…1817
1st Thanksgiving Parade (Phila)…1920
35 Amistad survivors return to Africa…1841
Alfred Nobel patents dynamite…1867
Archaeologist Howard Carter enters King Tut's tomb…1922
Disneyland Main Street Electrical Parade ends after 24 years..1996
Farmer's Almanac 1st published…1792
Group of nineteen Hopi "hostiles" are placed under arrest by the army for 
    interfering with "friendly" Hopi Indian activities on their Arizona reservation…1894
Irish Republican Army is outlawed in Britain following deaths of 21…1974
JFK laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery…1963
Lech Walesa wins in Poland's 1st popular election…1990
Pres Eisenhower suffers a mild stroke, impairing his speech…1957
Race segregation forbidden on trains & buses between US states…1955
Woody Woodpecker debuts with release of Walter Lantz's "Knock Knock"…1940
World's greatest robbery 25,000,000 pounds of gold, Heathrow, England…1983

♫  Today’s Birthdays: ♫   
How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays
 
My Free Rambling Thoughts   
Yet another overcast day with light snow. Nothing is sticking, but we are sure getting a lot of moisture. Reading this morning’s paper I discovered that 100 years ago, the weather was basically the same…rain mixed with snow. Interesting.
 
Mary got back to town, so we are having lunch tomorrow, before she and Mike head back to Phoenix for Thanksgiving with their families. Our discussion group was quite a good discussion. It is interesting to hear the changes in demographics around the world in the past 25 years. The Japanese are hiring Chinese laborers because they don’t have the youth to do the jobs and sadly paying them very low wages, so once they get there, it is impossible for them to leave. Countries that are trying to move people from rural areas to urban areas (China, Viet Nam, and others) are finding they are simply creating ghettos of people who have no idea how urban life really works. This rural to urban movement reminds me of the problems with the Navajo Relocation of the 1980’s, where many families lost their land to the Hopi and the Feds bought them houses in Flagstaff and other border towns. Many of the elderly could not adjust to the new environment after spending a lifetime on the rez. Many of the adults also had problems with the lack of jobs, high taxes and many distractions of urban life. The youngsters seemed to enjoy all these new amenities, but lost their culture and their language. All the ‘good intentions’ of moving from rural to urban life never considered what the people were giving up. The same is now true in other countries as they try to urbanize their countries. Our history of the industrial revolution also created the same problems. Man never seems to learn.  
 
Always nice when Broncos are winning, they are on AZ TV a whole lot more…looking for another win tonight. Cards won again too.

Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
Take the given words, and by moving a single letter from one word to the other, make a pair of synonyms, or near synonyms. For example, given: Boast - Hip, move the 's' from 'Boast' to 'Hip' creating two synonyms: Boat - Ship.
1. Eat - Fact 2. Fist - Spam 3. Ham - Smock 4. Tilde - Food 5. Sale - Cranking

Lifestyle  Substance:     
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

Very Strange Laws…West Virginia
  • A person may not hold public office if he or she has ever participated in a duel.
  • For each act of public swearing a person shall be fined one dollar.
  • According to the state constitution, it is unlawful for anyone to own a red or a black flag (Repealed 2010)
  • If you wear a hat inside a theater, you may be fined(Repealed 2010)
  • Unmarried couple who live together and “lewdly associate” with one another may face up to a year in prison. (Repealed: 2010)
  • Roadkill may be taken home for supper.
  • When a railroad passes within 1 mile of a community of 100 or more people in it, they must build a station and stop there regularly to pick up and drop off passengers.
  • Whistling underwater is prohibited.
  • Any person who commits adultery shall be fined at least twenty dollars. (Repealed 2010)
  • It is legal for a male to have sex with an animal as long as it does not exceed 40 lbs.
  • A tax of 1 cent is levied for every 16 and 9 ounces of coke sold in a store.
  • A person may be placed in jail for up to six months for making fun of someone who does not accept a challege.(Repealed 2010)
  • It is illegal to snooze on a train.
  • Alderson--One may not walk a lion, tiger or leopard, even on a leash.
  • Huntington--Firemen may not whistle or flirt at any woman passing a firehouse. /It is legal to beat your wife so long as it is done in public on Sunday, on the courthouse steps.
  • Nicholas County--No member of the clergy is allowed to tell jokes or humorous stories from the pulpit during a church service.

 OK Then…



Harper’s Index 
  • Percentage increase of private security guards employed in Europe since 2004: 73
  • Percentage by which the private guards outnumber police there: 23

Unusual Fact of the Day
A report by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission in 1995 indicated that between 1978 and 1995 no less than 37 deaths in the U.S. were credited to vending machines.


Joke-of-the-day
The sergeant-major growled at the young soldier: “I didn’t see you at camouflage training this morning.”
“Thank you very much, sir.”  
Rules of Thumb:   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
CARING FOR AN INSECT STING
Ammonia for a bee sting; vinegar for a wasp sting.    
Yeah, It Really Happened
Wisconsin, land of cheese, is test-driving a new material for de-icing the roads this year: the liquid by-product of cheese-making, known as "cheese brine." The method has been around for a few years, but this is the first time a major city, Milwaukee, is trying it out, the Journal Sentinel reports.
A few years back, rural highway employee Emil Norby suggested to his employer, the Polk County Highway Commission, that it try using cheese brine to help with ice on the roads. F&A Dairy offered its by-product, and the first cheese-brine-for-the-road was born.
Cheese brine is typically difficult and expensive to dispose, costing cheese-makers up to thousands of dollars each year, according to MSN. Repurposing the waste product could save cheese-makers time and money.
It could save highway commissions money as well. In the first year that Polk County Highway Commission tried F&A Dairy's cheese brine on the roads, the company saved $40,000 it would have spent on rock salts. “Everybody wins,” Chuck Engdahl, F&A Dairy’s wastewater manager, told Modern Farmer.
In addition to being cost-effective, cheese brine could offer a greener alternative to salting the roads, which comes with its own set of problems. Twenty million tons of salt are used on the roads each year, according to Slate, and it can pollute drinking wells and erode soil.  
Somewhat Useless Information   
  • The largest of all mollusks, the giant clam prefers the warm waters around Australia's Great Barrier Reef. 
  • The giant clam gets only one chance to find a nice home. Once it fastens itself to a spot on a reef, there it sits for the rest of its life. 
  • These bottom-dwelling behemoths are the largest mollusks on Earth, capable of reaching 4 feet (1.2 meters) in length and weighing more than 500 pounds (227 kg). They live in the warm waters of the South Pacific and Indian Oceans. 
  • Giant clams achieve their enormous proportions by consuming the sugars and proteins produced by the billions of algae that live in their tissues. In exchange, they offer the algae a safe home and regular access to sunlight for photosynthesis, basking by day below the water's surface with their fluted shells open and their multi-colored mantles exposed. They also use a siphon to draw in water to filter and consume passing plankton. 
  • Giant clams have a wildly undeserved reputation as man-eaters, with South Pacific legends describing clams that lie in wait to trap unsuspecting swimmers or swallow them whole. No account of a human death by giant clam has ever been substantiated, and scientists say its adductor muscles, used to close the shell, move far too slowly to take a swimmer by surprise. Even the largest specimen would simply retreat into its shell rather than attempt to sample human prey. 
  • The adductor muscle of the giant clam is actually considered a delicacy, and overharvesting of the species for food, shells, and the aquarium trade have landed it on at least one group's "vulnerable" list. 


Calendar Information        
Happening This Week:
22-28: National Farm-City Week
24-30: Better Conversation Week / Church-State Separation Week / National Bible Week / National Family Week  /National Game & Puzzle Week

Today Is                                                                      
·        International Day For the Elimination of Violence Against Women Day
·        National Flossing Day
·        Native American Heritage Day
·        Shopping Reminder Day
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·        Suriname: Independence Day (1975 from Netherlands)
·        Bosnia and Herzegovina: National Day (1990 from USSR)

Today’s Events through History  
3 Palestinians hijack KLM B747 above Iraq, to Dubai…1973
Delmonico's, one of NY's finest restaurants, provides a meal of soup, steak, 
     coffee & half a pie for 12 cents…1834
Great Storm of 1703, greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of 
     Great Britain, winds gust up to 120 mph, 9,000 people perish…1703
Greenback (Independent) Party organizes in Indianapolis…1894
In retaliation of Battle of the Little Bighorn, US Army troops sack Chief Dull Knife's 
     sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River…1876
Siege of Granada, last Moorish stronghold in Spain, begins…1491

Today’s Birthdays                                                           
Noel Neill, actress (TV-Lois Lane) is 93
Percy Sledge, soul singer (When A Man Loves A Woman) is 73
John Larroquette, actor (Dan Fielding-Night Court) is 66
Amy Grant, gospel/rock singer (Glory of Love, Baby Baby) is 53
Dougray Scott, Scottish television and film actor is 48
Christina Applegate, actress (Kelly-Married With Children) is 42
Barbara and Jenna Bush, twin daughters of U.S. President George W. Bush are 32

Remembered for being born today
Carrie Nation, temperance advocate [1846-1911]
Andrew Carnegie, Scottish/US industrialist/philanthropist [1835-1919]
Pope John XXIII [Angelo Roncalli], 261st pope [1881-1963]
Jeffrey Hunter, actor (Star Trek Cage, The Searchers) [1926-1969]
"Joltin'" Joe DiMaggio, Yankee Clipper (56 game hitting streak) [1914-1999]
John F Kennedy Jr, lawyer, magazine publisher (George) and son of JFK [1960-1999]
Ricardo Montalban, Mexican actor (Fantasy Island, Star Trek II, Naked Gun) [1920-2009]

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           
Clarence Kolb, actor (Mr Honeywell-My Little Margie)…1964…@90
Upton Beall Sinclair, US author (The Jungle)…1968…@90
Jack Albertson, actor (Chico & the Man)…cancer…1981…@74
Robert Coote, actor (MacBeth)…heart attack…1982…@73
Luther "Bill" Robinson, "Bojangles" famed tap dancer…heart failure…1949…@71
Thomas A Hendricks, 21st US VP…while in office…1885…@66 
Harold Washington, 1st black mayor of Chicago…heart attack…1987…@65
[Sithu] U Thant, UN Sec-General (1961-72)…cancer…1974…@65
Flip Wilson, actor and comedian…cancer…1998…@64
Albert DeSalvo, Boston strangler…stabbed in prison…1973…@42

Brain Teasers
1. Feat - Act 2. Fit - Spasm 3. Sham - Mock 4. Tide - Flood 5. Scale - Ranking
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.
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11/24/13


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Flagstaff Almanac:
Week: 48 / Day: 328   
Today: L 32°…H 34°… Ave. humidity: 95%
Wind: ave:   6mph; Gusts:  20mph  
Average Low: 20° Record Low:  -7° (1902)
Average High: 48° Record High:  68° (1970)

Quote of the Day


Today’s Historical Highlights
1st live murder on TV-Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald…1963
1st time since 1800, residents of Wash DC permitted to vote…1964
1st US absentee voting law enacted by Vermont…1896
Air Force One, 1st US Presidential airplane, christened…1954
American Woman's Suffrage Association forms…1869
Brady bill passes establishing 5-day waiting period for handgun sales…1993
Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species"…1859
Clyde Coleman of NYC patents automobile electric starter…1903
Gangnam Style becomes the most viewed YouTube video; 808+ million views…2012
Ireland votes for independence from UK…1948
Ireland votes to end 70-year-old ban on divorce (50.28% to 49.72%)…1995
John Steinbeck's novel "Pearl" published…1947
Lt William L Calley charged with massacre of over 100 civilians in My Lai Vietnam…1969
National Rifle Association organized (NYC)…1871
New York City experiences the smoggiest day in the city's history. 400 die…1966 
Un-American Activities Committee finds "Hollywood 10" in contempt…1947
US admits troops in Vietnam were exposed to the toxic Agent Orange…1979

♫  Today’s Birthdays: ♫   
How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays
 
My Free Rambling Thoughts   
So excited….got to read the newspaper and the comics with no problem.  So cool. Also read up for tonight’s Great Decisions discussion group. The topic is Changing Demographics. Should be good as we are talking about age groups, life expectancy, birth rates, immigration and emigration in various parts of the world. Somehow I wish that our current Congress and state legislature members could be present. They all seem so short sighted in their world view. Without understanding the impact of demographics on just about everything, one can hardly be a leader.

Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
Mr. Black, Mr. Gray, and Mr. White are fighting in a truel (duel with three people). They each get a gun and take turns shooting at each other until only one person is left. Mr. Black, who hits his shot 1/3 of the time, gets to shoot first. Mr. Gray, who hits his shot 2/3 of the time, gets to shoot next, assuming he is still alive. Mr. White, who hits his shot all the time, shoots next, assuming he is also alive. The cycle repeats. If you are Mr. Black, where should you shoot first for the highest chance of survival?
Lifestyle  Substance:     
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

Very Strange Laws…Oklahoma
  • One may not promote a “horse tripping event”.
  • It is illegal for the owner of a bar to allow anyone inside to pretend to have sex with a buffalo.
  • Oral sex is a misdemeanor and is punisable by one year in jail and a $2,500 fine.
  • Anyone arrested for soliciting a hooker must have their name and picture shown on television.
  • Females are forbidden from doing their own hair without being licensed by the state.
  • It’s statutory rape for a man over 18 to have sex with a female under the age of 18, provided she’s a virgin.
  • Dogs must have a permit signed by the mayor in order to congregate in groups of three or more on private property.
  • Tattoos are banned. (Repealed, Effective 11/1/2006.
  • Oklahoma will not tolerate anyone taking a bite out of another’s hamburger.
  • No one may spit on a sidewalk.
  • It is against the law to read a comic book while operating a motor vehicle.
  • It is illegal to wear your boots to bed.
  • Whaling is illegal.
  • It is illegal to have sex before you are married.
  • It is illegal to have the hind legs of farm animals in your boots.
  • Fish may not be contained in fishbowls while on a public bus.
  • Residents are taxed for the furniture in their homes, and any other personal belongings.
  • Tissues are not to be found in the back of one’s car.
  • People who make “ugly faces” at dogs may be fined and/or jailed.
  • Cars must be tethered outside of public buildings.
  • Ada--If you wear New York Jets clothing, you may be put in jail.
  • Bartlesville--If ones dog is run over by a car, the owner must pay for the dog’s disposal. /No person may own more than two adult cats. /It is illegal to cause “annoying vibrations” in the city limits. /Persons may not play catch on any city street.
  • Clinton--Any person who leans against a public building will be subject to fines. /Molesting an automobile is illegal.
  • Hawthahorne--It is unlawful to put any hypnotized person in a display window.
  • Moore--It is illegal to drive with a trailer hitch on your vehicle.
  • Oklahoma City--The mayor may not go on strike. /While it is legal to serve alcohol in a pool hall, all intoxicated persons must leave the premises. /One may not tip over a casket at a funeral. /It is illegal to own a stink bomb. /No one may walk backwards downtown while eating a hamburger.
  • Tulsa--You may not open a soda bottle without the supervision of a licensed engineer. /Elephants are not to be taken into the downtown area.
 

OK Then…


Harper’s Index 
  • Chances a US public school had a full-time security guard in 1997: 1 in 17
  • Today:  1 in 3

Unusual Fact of the Day
Whiskey is clear when it is first distilled. It gets it's color and much of it's taste from the oak barrels in which it is aged.

Joke-of-the-day
Q: Why can't idiots make Kool-Aid? A: They can't get a quart of water to stay in the envelope  
Rules of Thumb:   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
TIME TO SEASON FIREWOOD
For hardwoods, season wood for 1 year if split and for 2 years if not split prior to burning.    
Yeah, It Really Happened
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A Florida man who wore a sweatshirt bearing a recipe for crack cocaine to court pleaded no contest to narcotics trafficking charges. Christopher Patterson, 27, who previously served time for felony cocaine possession, entered no contest pleas Tuesday in a Fort Lauderdale courtroom to distribution and conspiracy charges related to the sale of the painkiller Oxycodone to an undercover investigator, The Smoking Gun reported Thursday. Patterson, who sentenced to three years in prison, was photographed in a courtroom last year wearing a hooded sweatshirt bearing a cartoon-like recipe for crack cocaine and a caption reading, "Stack Paper Say Nothing." The sweatshirt had a zipper pull in the shape of a handgun. The picture was taken by a lawyer who noticed the sweatshirt's images in the courtroom.  
Somewhat Useless Information   
  • The Bible  is a canonical collection of texts considered sacred in Judaism as well as in Christianity. 
  • Out of the 6,800 languages in the world, the complete Bible has been translated into 438. It is also estimated that the total worldwide sales of the Bible comes up to six billion.
  • Did you know that during the celebration ‘Saturnalia’ in ancient Rome masters used to provide table service for their slaves due to a social egalitarianism spirit? Saturnalia was is honor of the deity Saturn held in the 17th of December of the Julian calendar and the Greek equivalent was ‘Kronia’.


Calendar Information        
Happening This Week:
22-28: National Farm-City Week
24-30: Better Conversation Week / Church-State Separation Week / National Bible Week / National Family Week  /National Game & Puzzle Week

Today Is                                                                      
·        Celebrate Your Unique Talent Day
·        D.B. Cooper Day: 1971 plane jump
·        Mother Goose Day

Today’s Events through History  
"Guys & Dolls" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 1200 performances…1950
1st Lutheran pastor ordained in America…1703
Abel Janzoon Tasman discovers Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania)…1642
Dan "DB" Cooper parachutes from a Northwest AL 727 with $200,000…1971
FBI Crime Lab officially opens…1932
Joseph F Glidden patents barbed wire…1874
Rabbi Nathan ben Yehiel of Rome completes Talmudic dictionary…1105
River Thames freezes…1434
River Thames freezes…1715
Wilt Chamberlain pulls down 55 rebounds in a game (NBA record)…1960

Today’s Birthdays                                                           
Oscar Robertson [The Big O], NBA guard Olympic-gold-1960 is 75
Pete Best, British drummer (Beatles) is 72
Dwight Schultz, actor (A-Team) is 66
Damon Evans, actor (Lionel-The Jeffersons) is 63
Katherine Heigl, actress (Grey's Anatomy) is 35

Remembered for being born today
Zachary Taylor, (Whig) 12th Pres [1784-1850]
Thomas Dick, Scottish scientific teacher and writer [1774-1857]
Collodi, [Carlo Lorenzini], Italian author (Pinocchio) [1826-1890]
Scott Joplin, ragtime entertainer and composer (The Entertainer) [1867-1917]
Dale Carnegie, author (How to Win Friends & Influence People) [1888-1955]
Ted Bundy, Burlington VT, serial murderer [1946-1989]
Howard Duff, actor (Flamingo Road, Knots Landing) [1913-1990]
William F. Buckley Jr, conservative author and commentator [1925-2008]

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           
Arthur Hailey, British-born author (Hotel)…2004…@84
George Raft, actor (Scarface, Johnny Angel, Mr Ace)…leukemia…1980…@79
Pat Morita, actor (Happy Days, Karate Kid)…renal failure…2005…@73
James J Kilroy, tank inspector (Kilroy was here)…1962…@60
Héctor Camacho, Puerto Rican boxer…gunshot injuries…2012…@50
Lee Harvey Oswald, JFK's assassinator…shot by Jack Ruby…1963…@24

Brain Teasers
He should shoot at the ground.
If Mr. Black shoots the ground, it is Mr. Gray's turn. Mr. Gray would rather shoot at Mr. White than Mr. Black, because he is better. If Mr. Gray kills Mr. White, it is just Mr. Black and Mr. Gray left, giving Mr. Black a fair chance of winning. If Mr. Gray does not kill Mr. White, it is Mr. White's turn. He would rather shoot at Mr. Gray and will definitely kill him. Even though it is now Mr. Black against Mr. White, Mr. Black has a better chance of winning than before.
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.
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