My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions. – Ertha Kitt
FOR TODAY – OCTOBER 11th – TUESDAY
284th day of 2011 with 81 to follow.
Holidays for Today:
*It’s My Party Day
*Take Your Teddy Bear to Work Day
*National Sausage Pizza Day
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TODAY IN BIRTHDAYS:
- 1809 Orson Squire Fowler, Cohocton, New York, phrenologist, popularized the octagon house in the middle of the nineteenth century.
- 1821 George Williams, English founder of the YMCA
- 1844 Henry Heinz, German-American food manufacturer (founded Heinz company)
- 1855 James Gayley, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, metallurgist who invented a device to ensure uniform humidity in the air stream going into blast furnaces
- 1884 Eleanor Roosevelt, New York, New York, First Lady of the United States and humanitarian
- 1884 Friedrich Bergius, Breslau (Wrocław), German chemist, who invented converting coal dust and hydrogen directly into gasoline and lubricating oils without isolating intermediate products
- 1913 Joseph H. “Joe” Simon,American comic book writer, artist, editor, and publisher (co-created Captain America)
- 1925 Elmore John Leonard Jr., New Orleans, Louisiana, author (Get Shorty, Out of Sight, Hombre, Mr. Majestyk and Rum Punch, which was filmed as Jackie Brown; 3:10 to Yuma and The Tall T)
- 1941 Lester Bowie, Frederick, Maryland, jazz trumpeter, a member of the AACM, and cofounded the Art Ensemble of Chicago
- 1946 Daryl Hall, Pottstown, Pennsylvania, rock singer (Hall & Oates)
- 1966 Luke Perry, Mansfield, Ohio, actor (Beverly Hills 90210, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Fogbound, Invasion, Jeremiah, Supernova, Biker Mice from Mars, Angel and the Badman)
- 1976 Emily Deschanel, Los Angeles, California, actress (Bones)
- 1977 Matthew Bomer, Spring, Texas, actor (White Collar)
- 1985 Michelle Trachtenberg, New York City, New York, actress (17 Again, Cop Out)
- 1989 Michelle Wie, Honolulu, Hawaii, golfer (LPGA)
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Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have. – Doris Mortman
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HAPPENED THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
- 1582 Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
- 1776 American Revolution: Battle of Valcour Island – On Lake Champlain 15 American gunboats are defeated but give Patriot forces enough time to prepare defenses of New York City.
- 1809 Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee, explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinder’s Stand.
- 1811 Inventor John Stevens’ boat, the Juliana, begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry (service between New York, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey).
- 1852 University of Sydney, Australia’s oldest university, is started in Sydney.
- 1890 The Daughters of the American Revolution group is founded in Washington, D.C.
- 1910 Ex-president Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane. He flew for four minutes with Arch Hoxsey in a plane built by the Wright Brothers at Kinloch Field (Lambert-St. Louis International Airport), St. Louis, Missouri.
- 1929 JC Penney opens store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. states.
- 1950 CBS’s mechanical color system is the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
- 1958 NASA launches the lunar probe Pioneer 1 (the probe falls back to Earth and burns up).
- 1968 Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronautsWally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard.
- 1975 The NBC sketch comedy/variety show Saturday Night Live debuts with George Carlin as the host and Andy Kaufman, Janis Ian and Billy Preston as guests.
- 1976 George Washington’s appointment, posthumously, to the grade of General of the Armies of the United States by congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 is approved by President Gerald R. Ford.
- 1984 Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.
- 2001 The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.
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A woman with a baby walked into a doctor’s office. She asked if they could weigh the baby. A nurse said that the baby scale was not working that day, but what they could do is weigh the mother while she was holding the baby, and then weigh the mother by herself, and subtract.
The woman thought about this for a minute. “It wouldn’t work,” she said, after a while, “I’m not the mother; I’m the grandmother.”
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There’s this guy, and he’s just bought a new car, so he wants to take it into the country to see how fast it can go. Now, he gets it up to about 80 miles per hour when this chicken runs up beside him and starts to pass him. The guy cranks up the speed to 90 mph, and same as before, the chicken starts to pass him. So he gets his speed up to 100 miles per hour, and the chicken veers off to the right.
The guy screeches to a halt, backs up, and then follows the chicken down a small country road. After quite some time, the guy comes across a small farm. He sees a farmer working in the fields.
He gets out of his car and walks over to the farmer and says “Is that your chicken?”
“You bet that’s my chicken,” replies the farmer.
“How does it go so fast?” asks the guy.
“Why, it’s got three legs, that’s why.”
The guy looks at the farmer strangely. “Why does it have three legs?”
“Well, I like a chicken leg, my wife likes a chicken leg, and my son likes a chicken leg,” replies the farmer very sensibly.
“Err…Well, how do they taste?” asks the guy.
“Well, I dunno, I haven’t caught one yet.”
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ONE-LINERS : WEIRD NOTES
- At one time in Holland it took four years to train to be a hatmaker but only three years to train to be a surgeon.
- Despite the many rat infested slums in New York City, only 311 people are bitten by rats in an average year. But 1,519 residents are bitten annually by other New Yorkers.
- No one knows why, but 90 percent of women who walk into a department store immediately turn to the right.
- The term skyscraper was first used way back in 1888 to describe an 11 story building.
- There are twice as many kangaroos in Australia as there are people. The kangaroo population is estimated at about 40 million.
- During his entire lifetime, Herman Melville’s timeless classic of the sea, ‘Moby Dick’, only sold 50 copies.
- Drivers tend to drive faster when other cars are around. It doesn’t matter whether they are in front, behind or beside them.
- A small tribe named the Todas in southern India don’t greet each other with a handshake, they thumb their noses.
- The host team in an NFL football game must have 26 footballs inflated and ready to play..
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A blonde goes into a store and sees a shiny object. She asks the clerk, “What is that shiny object?”
The clerk replies, “That is a thermos.”
The blonde then asks, “What does it do?”
The clerk responds, “It keeps hot things hot and it keeps keeps cold things cold.”
The blonde says, “I’ll take it!”
The next day, she walks into work with her new thermos. Her blonde boss sees her and asks, “What is that shiny object you have?”
She said, “It’s a thermos.”
The boss then says, “What does it do?”
She replies, “It keeps hot things hot and cold things cold.”
The boss said, “Wow, what do you have in it?”
The blonde replies, “Two cups of coffee and a popsicle.”
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pic of the day: Reflection in Pond
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An old guy is sitting out on the front porch when his wife comes out to find him. She asks, “What are you doing today?”
Her husband replies, “Nothing.”
“You did that yesterday,” she says.
“I wasn’t finished yet.”
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One afternoon a man came home from work to find total mayhem in his house.
His three children were outside, still in their pajamas, playing in the mud, with empty food boxes and wrappers strewn all around the front yard. The door of his wife’s car was open, as was the front door to the house. Proceeding into the entry, he found an even bigger mess. A lamp had been knocked over, and the throw rug was wadded against one wall. In the front room the TV was loudly blaring a cartoon channel, and the family room was strewn with toys and various items of clothing. In the kitchen, dishes filled the sink, breakfast food was spilled on the counter, dog food was spilled on the floor, a broken glass lay under the table, and a small pile of sand was spread by the back door.
He quickly headed up the stairs, stepping over toys and more piles of clothes, looking for his wife. He was worried she may be ill, or that something serious had happened. He found her lounging in the bedroom, still curled in the bed in her pajamas, reading a novel. She looked up at him, smiled, and asked how his day went.
He looked at her bewildered and asked, “What happened here today?”
She again smiled and answered, “You know every day when you come home from work and ask me what in the world did I do today?”
“Yes” was his incredulous reply.
She answered, “Well, today I didn’t do it.”
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WARNING! ENTERING THE PUN ZONE!
What a dog thinks:
My family loves me. They care for me and feed me. They scratch behind my ears and play my favorite games with me. They must be gods!
What a cat thinks:
My family loves me. They care for me and feed me. They scratch behind my ears and play my favorite games with me. I must be a god!
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Two small boys, not yet old enough to be in school, were overheard talking at the zoo one day. ‘My name is Billy. What’s yours?’ asked the first boy. ‘Tommy,’ replied the second. ‘My Daddy’s an accountant. What does your Daddy do for a living?’ asked Billy. Tommy replied, ‘My Daddy’s a lawyer.’ ‘Honest?’ asked Billy. ‘No, just the regular kind’, replied Tommy.
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The young man entered the Ice Cream Palace and asked, “What kinds of ice cream do you have?”
“Vanilla, chocolate, strawberry,” the girl wheezed as she spoke, patted her chest and seemed unable to continue.
“Do you have laryngitis?” the young man asked sympathetically.
“Nope,” she whispered, “just vanilla, chocolate and strawberry.”
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TODAY IN TRIVIA: Who hate Sausages? No one hates this!
~The word sausage is derived from the Latin word salsus which means something salted.
~More than 2, 700 years ago, Sausages was mentioned in The Odyssey which was written by Homer .This is how he mentioned it:
“These goat sausages sizzling here in the fire -
we packed them with fat and blood to have for supper.
Now, whoever wins this bout and proves the stronger,
Let that man step up and take his pick of the lot!”
~During the Second World War, this was called bangers because they contained so much water they exploded when fried.
~90% of British households buy sausages, 50% at least every 4 weeks.
~Every day, 5 million Britons will eat sausages.
~ It’s not Saturday. More sausages are eaten on Saturday than any other day.
~Around 18% of sausages are eaten for breakfast and 44% for the evening meal.
~Grilled sausage is the most loved, followed by fried then baked sausages. 44% for grilling, 23% for frying and 20% for baking
~83% of sausages are made from pork.
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LIFE LESSON: We should be careful and discriminating in all the advice we give. We should be especially careful in giving advice that we would not think of following ourselves. Most of all, we ought to avoid giving counsel which we don’t follow when it damages those who take us at our word. – Adlai Stevenson
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QUIP OF THE DAY: Dust is a protective coating for fine furnishings.
THAT’S (ALMOST) ALL FOLKS!
THE LAST WORD: The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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