Do all things with love. – Og Mandino
FOR TODAY – AUGUST 2nd – TUESDAY
214th day of 2011 with 151 days to follow.
Holidays for Today:
*National Ice Cream Sandwich Day
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TODAY IN BIRTHDAYS:
- 1754 Pierre Charles L’Enfant, France, American architect and civil engineer – designed and laid out streets for Washington, D.C.
- 1788 Leopold Gmelin, Göttingen, Germany, German chemist. (Discoverer of potassium ferricyanide 1822)
- 1815 Adolf Friedrich von Schack, Brusewitz , Germany, German writer.( Gedichte 1867, 6th ed.,1888)
- 1820 John Tyndall, Leighlinbridge, County Carlow, Ireland, British physicist. (Experiments on Magnetism and Diamagnetic Polarit
- 1835 Elisha Gray, Barnesville, Ohio, inventor/ entrepreneur (telephone, electric music synthesizer)
- 1890 Marin Sais, San Rafael, California, U.S., American actress. ( Film on William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night)
- 1891 Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky, St. Petersburg , Russia, Russian literary historian, linguist. (Narodnij geroicheskiy epos, Moskva 1962)
- 1892 Jack Warner, Canadian-born American film producer (president of Warner Bros.Studios)
- 1902 Helen Morgan, Danville, Illinois, actress (Kern’s musical Show Boat 1927)
- 1907 Mary Hamman, Baltimore, Maryland, writer and editor (Pictorial Review)
- 1910 Roger MacDougall, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, writer (The Man in the White Suit)
- 1912 Palle Huld, Denmark, Danish actor (Poeten og Lillemor i forårshumør 1961)
- 1924 Carroll O’Connor, New York City, New York, actor (All in the Family, Heat of the Night )
- 1924 James Baldwin, New York City, New York, writer (Another Country, Go Tell It On the Mountain)
- 1932 Peter O’Toole, Ireland, actor (Lord Jim, Beckett, Lawrence of Arabia)
- 1953 Butch Patrick, Los Angeles, California, actor (Eddie in The Munsters)
- 1964 Mary-Louise Parker, Fort Jackson, South Carolina, actress (Weeds, RED, West Wing, Fried Green Tomatoes, The Five Senses)
- 1977 Edward Furlong, Glendale, Califronia, actor (John Connor-Terminator 2, American History X)
- 1982 Sara Foster, Los Angeles, California, actress (Demoted, Entourage)
- 1982 Kerry Rhodes, Bessemer, Alabama, football player (Safety, played for New York Jets, Arizona Cardinals)
- 1992 Hallie Kate Eisenberg, East Brunswick Township, New Jersey, child actress (Pepsi commercials, Paulie, Bicentennial Man, The Goodbye Girl, P.J.)
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The worst prison would be a closed heart. – Pope John Paul II
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HAPPENED THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
- 1610 Henry Hudson sails into what it is now known as Hudson Bay, thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.
- 1790 The first US Census is conducted.
- 1798 French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay) concludes in a British victory.
- 1909 First Lincoln head pennies minted.
- 1918 Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.
- 1932 The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.
- 1934 Adolf Hitler becomes Fuhrer of Germany.
- 1937 The Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, essentially rendering marijuana and all its by-products illegal.
- 1939 Albert Einstein and Leó Szilard write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan project to develop a nuclear weapon.
- 1943 PT-109 rammed & sunk. Future US president, Lt. John F. Kennedy commanding. & saved all but 2 of his crew.
- 1956 First new contract to build a section of the U.S. Interstate Highway system was for U.S. Route 66 in Laclede County, Missouri, was awarded after the signing of the Highway-Aid Act of 1956 (became Interstate 44).
- 1964 North Vietnam fires on a US destroyers in Gulf of Tonkin.
- 1980 A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200.
- 1985 Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport killing 137.
- 1989 Pakistan is re-admitted back into the Commonwealth of Nations, for restoring democracy, since 1972.
- 1989 Valvettiturai massacre is carried out by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.
- 1990 Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to conflict with coalition forces in the Gulf War.
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One day a little girl came home from school, and said to her mother, “Mommy, today in school I was punished for something that I didn’t do.”
The mother exclaimed, “But that’s terrible! I’m going to have a talk with your teacher about this! By the way, what was it that you didn’t do?”
The little girl replied, “My homework.”
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A blonde calls her boyfriend and says, “Please come over here and help me. I have a killer jigsaw puzzle, and I can’t figure out how to get it started.” Her boyfriend asks, “What is it supposed to be when it’s finished?” The blonde says, “According to the picture on the box, it’s a tiger.”
Her boyfriend decides to go over and help with the puzzle. She lets him in and shows him where she has the puzzle spread all over the table.
He studies the pieces for a moment, then looks at the box, then turns to her and says, “First of all, no matter what we do, we’re not going to be able to assemble these pieces into anything resembling a tiger.”
He takes her hand and says, “Second, I want you to relax. Let’s have a nice cup of tea, and then …” He sighed……….
“let’s put all the Frosted Flakes back in the box.”
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ONE-LINERS :
~Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?
~If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest have to drown too?
~If you ate pasta and antipasta, would you still be hungry?
~If a pig loses it’s voice, is it disgruntled?
~Why do women wear evening gowns to nightclubs? Shouldn’t they be wearing night gowns?
~Why is it that when we bounce a check, the bank charges us more of what they already know we don’t have any of.
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One day, a teacher, a garbage collector and a lawyer wound up together at the Pearly Gates. St. Peter informed them that in order to get into Heaven, they would each have to answer one question.
St. Peter addressed the teacher and asked, “What was the name of the ship that crashed into an iceberg? They just made a movie about it.”
The teacher answered quickly, “That would be the Titanic.” St. Peter let him through the gate. St. Peter turned to the garbage man and decided to make the question a little harder, “How many people died on the ship?”
Fortunately for him, the trash man had just seen the movie and answered, “About 1,500.”
“That’s right! You may enter.” St. Peter then turned to the lawyer. “Name them.”
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pic of the day: Blue Angels practicing over Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Florida
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When I discovered my first gray hair I immediately wrote to my parents: “Dear Dad and Mom, You saw my first steps. You might want to experience this with me too.” I taped the offending hair to the paper and mailed it.
My father’s response: “That gray hair you sent is not the first one you gave us.”
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The tough businessman was feeling very ill and went to the doctor. The doc examined him and backed away, saying, “I’m sorry to tell you this, but you have an advanced case of highly infectious rabies. You must have had it for some time. It will almost certainly be fatal.”
“Could you give me a pen and paper?” said the businessman.
“Do you want to write your will?”
“No, I want to make a list of all the people I want to bite.”
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WARNING! ENTERING THE PUN ZONE!
Q. If seagulls are called seagulls because they fly over the sea, what are they called when they fly over the bay?
A. bagels
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Q. What did the zen-master say to the New York City hotdog vendor?
A. Make me one with everything.
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The lawyer was reading out the Will of a rich man to the people mentioned in the Will:
“To my loving wife Rose, who stood by me in the rough times, as well as the good, the house and $2 million.”
“To my daughter Jessica, who looked after me in illness and kept the business going, the yacht, the business and $1 million.
“And to my cousin Dan, who hated me, argued with me and thought I would not remember him in my Will, you were wrong: Hello Dan!”
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A big conference of beer producers takes place in the most beautiful town in the world: Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
At the end of the day, the presidents of all the beer companies represented decide to have a drink in a bar.
The president of ‘Budweiser’ orders a Bud, the president of ‘Miller’ orders a Miller Lite, Adolph Coors orders a Coors and the list goes on…
Then the waitress asks Sir Arthur Guinness what he wants to drink, and much to everybody’s amazement, Lord Guinness orders a Coke!
‘Why don’t you order a Guinness?’ his colleagues ask…
‘Naah. If you guys won’t drink beer, then neither will I.’
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TODAY IN TRIVIA: Hello TELEPHONE!
~ The first telephone answering service started in 1923, telephone operators used to be young men
~ It’s not “hello”, it’s “AHOY” which the original telephone greeting.
~One of the first to have a phone in his home was Mark Twain.
~The concept of allocating telephone numbers to individual phone lines was invented by a doctor.
~Britain’s first mobile phone call was made twelve years later by the comedian Ernie Wise.
~”Watson come here, I want you!” – was the very first phone call.
~As a tribute to Alexander Graham Bell when he died in 1922, all the telephones stopped ringing for one full minute.
~Thousands of people around the world collect antique phones and accessories.
~Lady Gaga, a singer, sang a song entitled TELEPHONE.
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LIFE LESSON: Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished. – Og Mandino
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QUIP OF THE DAY: Life is an ongoing project.
THAT’S (ALMOST) ALL FOLKS!
THE LAST WORD: Success must be continually practiced or it will take wings and fly away. - Kenneth Harmon
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