There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing. – Lorraine Hansberry
FOR TODAY – NOVEMBER 10th – THURSDAY
314thday of 2011 with 51 to follow.
Holidays for Today:
*Forget-Me-Not Day
*USMC Day - Marines 236th Birthday – Birthday Salute Video:
Please join Go Daddy in wishing the United States Marine Corps a Happy 236th Birthday.
*National Vanilla Cupcake Day
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TODAY IN BIRTHDAYS:
- 1483 Martin Luther, Eisleben, Germany, founded Protestantism
- 1879 Vachel Lindsay, Springfield, Illinois, poet (father of modern singing poetry)
- 1891 Carl Stalling, Lexington, Missouri, film composer (Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies)
- 1893 John P. Marquand, Wilmington, Delaware, writer , best known for his Mr. Moto spy stories
- 1895 John Knudsen Northrop, Newark, New Jersey, aircraft designer (Northrop Air)
- 1916 Billy May, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ,composer, arranger and bandleader (Moonlight Serenade )
- 1918 Ernst Otto Fischer, Solln, since 1938 part of Munich, German Empire, German chemist, Known for Organometallic compounds Ferrocene
- 1919 George Fenneman, Beijing, China, American radio and television announcer (You Bet Your Life)
- 1924 Russell Johnson, Ashley, Pennsylvania, actor (The Professor on Gilligan’s Island)
- 1933 Ronald Evans, St. Francis, Kansas, astronaut (Apollo 17: one of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon)
- 1947 Glen Buxton, Akron, Ohio, musician (Alice Cooper)
- 1948 Hugh Moffatt, Fort Worth, Texas, songwriter (2003 Live and Alone Brambus )
- 1956 Sinbad, Benton Harbor, Michigan, actor (Houseguest, First Kid and Jingle All the Way. )
- 1958 Brooks Williams, Statesboro, Georgia, musician (Baby-O! :2010)
- 1968 Tracy Morgan, Brooklyn, New York, actor/comedian (Saturday Night Live )
- 1972 DJ Ashba, Monticello, Indiana, musician (Guns N’ Roses)
- 1986 Josh Peck, Hell’s Kitchen, New York, actor (Mean Creek, Drillbit Taylor, The Wackness, Red Dawn)
- 1987 Charles Hamilton, Cleveland, Ohio, hip-hop artist (2010: “Paperboy” )
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Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination. – Mark Twain
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HAPPENED THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
- 1766 The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen’s College (later renamed Rutgers University).
- 1775 The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas.
- 1865 Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes.
- 1871 Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika saying “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”
- 1938 Kate Smith, on her weekly radio show, sings Irving Berlin’s God Bless America for the first time.
- 1951 Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
- 1954 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington National Cemetery.
- 1969 National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts the children’s television program Sesame Street. (See trivia below)
- 1972 Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro.
- 1975 The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.
- 1975 United Nations Resolution 3379: United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with racism (the resolution is repealed in December 1991 by Resolution 4686).
- 1979 A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada just west of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North American history.
- 1989 Fall of the communist regime in Bulgaria.
- 1995 In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop), are hanged by government forces.
- 1997 WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time).
- 2006 Sri Lankan Tamil Parliamentarian Nadarajah Raviraj is assassinated in Colombo.
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A young man and a priest are playing together. At a short par-3 the priest asks, “What are you going to use on this hole, my son?”
The young man says, “An iron, father. How about you?”
The priest says, “I’m going to hit a soft seven and pray.”
The young man hits his iron and puts the ball on the green. The priest tops his iron and dribbles the ball out a few yards.
The young man says, “I don’t know about you, father, but in my church when we pray we keep our heads down.”
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National Transportation Safety Board recently divulged a program they had funded with the U.S. auto makers for the past five years. The NTSB covertly funded a project whereby the auto makers were installing black boxes in four wheel drive pick-up trucks in an effort to determine, in fatal accidents, the circumstances in the last 15 seconds before the crash.
They were surprised to find in 49 of the 50 states the last words of drivers in 61.2% of fatal crashes were, “Oh, no!” Only the state of Alabama was it different, where 89.3% of the final words were, “Hey, hold my beer and watch this!”
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ONE-LINERS : 10 Good Reasons to buy fabric
1) It insulates the closet where it is kept.
2) It is less expensive and more fun than psychiatric care.
3) A sudden increase in the boll weevil population might wipe out the cotton crop for the next 10 years.
4) I’m participating in a contest – the one who dies with the most fabric wins!
5) Because I’m worth it!
6) It’s not immoral, illegal or fattening. It calms the nerves, gratifies the soul, and makes me feel good!
7) Buy it now, before your husband retires and goes with you on all your shopping expeditions.
It helps keep the economy going. It is our patriotic duty to protect the jobs of textile mill workers, and quilt shop staff with cute babies and grandchildren.
9) It keeps the dust off those previously empty spaces like the dining room table or the living room floor.
10) It keeps without refrigeration, you don’t have to cook it to enjoy it, you never have to feed it, burp it, change it, wipe its nose, or walk it!
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The first day at my new health club I asked the woman at the front desk, “I like to exercise after work. What are your hours?”
“Our club is open 24/7,” she told me helpfully, “Monday through Saturday.”
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pic of the day: Rolls of Cotton in Field
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Somewhere in the city there was a small apartment building. there were four floors and 1 person lived on each floor.
On the first floor there lived a police man. Everybody could tell it was him at the door because he knocked once.
On the second floor there lived a fire man. Everybody could tell it was him at the door because he knocked twice.
On the third floor there lived a blind man. Everybody could tell it was him at the door because he knocked three times.
On the Fourth floor there lived a woman. Everybody could tell it was her at the door because she knocked four times.
one day the woman was in the shower and she heard one knock at the door. She put on her robe and answered the door. It was the police man. He said “guess what! guess what! I just made my first arrest!” Then he left and the woman went back in the shower.
Then she heard two knocks at the door. so she put on her robe and answered the door. It was the fire man. He said “guess what! guess what! i just saved a person from a burning building!” then he left and she went back in the shower.
A while later she heard 3 knocks at the door. She knew it was the blind man, so she didn’t put on her robe and she answered the door. He said “guess what! guess what! I just got might sight back!
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Judge: “You have asked for a divorce decree from this court. Madam, is that correct?”
“Yep, sure is.”
“And the grounds for your request is that your husband is too careless about his appearance. Is that also correct?”
“That’s right, Yer Honor. He ain’t appeared home at night for five years now.”
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WARNING! ENTERING THE PUN ZONE!
What do you call a snail on a ship?
A snailor.
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A frog goes into a bank and approaches the teller. He can see from her nameplate that her name is Patricia Whack. So he says, ”Ms. Whack, I’d like to get a loan to buy a boat and go on a holiday.”
Patti looks at the frog in disbelief and asks him how much he wants to borrow. The frog says $30,000. The teller asks his name and the frog says it’s Kermit Jagger and that it’s ok, he knows the bank manager.
Patti explains that $30,000 is a substantial amount of money and that he would need to secure some collateral against the loan and asks if he has anything he can use as collateral.
The frog says ”Sure, I have this” and produces a tiny pink elephant, about half an inch tall. Bright pink and perfectly formed.
Very confused, Patti explains that she’ll have to consult with the manager and disappears into a back office. She finds the manager and says: ”There’s a frog called Kermit Jagger out there who claims to know you and wants to borrow 30 grand. And he wants to use this as collateral”. She holds up the tiny pink elephant. ”I mean, what is this?”
The bank manager replies: ”It’s a knick-knack Patti Whack. Give the frog a loan, his old man’s a Rolling Stone”.
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A Texan walks into a pub in Ireland and clears his voice to the crowd of drinkers. He says, “I hear you Irish are a bunch of hard drinkers. I’ll give $500 American dollars to anybody in here who can drink 10 pints of Guinness back-to-back.” The room is quiet and no one takes up the Texan’s offer.
One man even leaves. Thirty minutes later the same gentleman who left shows back up and taps the Texan on the shoulder. “Is your bet still good?”, asks the Irishman.
The Texan says yes and asks the bartender to line up 10 pints of Guinness. Immediately the Irishman tears into all 10 of the pint glasses drinking them all back-to-back.
The other pub patrons cheer as the Texan sits in amazement.
The Texan gives the Irishman the $500 and says, “If ya don’t mind me askin’, where did you go for that 30 minutes you were gone?”.
The Irishman replies, “Oh…I had to go to the pub down the street to see if I could do it first”.
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A Redneck buys a ticket and wins the lottery. He goes to Austin to claim it and the man verifies his ticket number.
The Redneck says, ”I want my $20 million.”
The man replied, ”No, sir. It doesn’t work that way. We give you a million today and then you’ll get the rest spread out for the next 19 years.”
The Redneck said, ”Oh, no. I want all my money right now! I won it and I want it.”
Again, the man explain that he would only get a million that day and the rest during the next 19 years.
The Redneck, furious with the man, screams out, ”Look, I want my money! If you’re not going to give me my $20 million right now, then I want my dollar back!”
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TODAY IN TRIVIA: SESAME STREET fun FACTS
~Sesame Street was the number one show recalled by mothers of children ages 6 months to 11 years when asked to name any children’s program. It’s no wonder this incredibly popular and educational program has stayed on the air for 40 years!
~Speaking of lovable blue creatures, Cookie Monster wasn’t an amateur when he joined the Sesame Street cast. In fact, he’d started his acting career almost three years prior, starring as “The Wheel Stealer” in an unaired General Foods commercial. He then went on to appear in an IBM training film and a Munchos commercial.
~Cookie Monster is also the only Muppet character who has five fingers. Everyone else has four.
~You must know Rosita, right? Most people know Rosita as the only Hispanic Muppet on Sesame Street, but few know what she actually is. Are you curious? Rosita is a fruit bat.
~To date, this children’s series has won 118 Emmy Awards — that’s more than any other show in television history. Around 8 million people tune in every week. Sesame Street has aired in over 120 countries since its inception, making it the most widely viewed children’s series in the world.
~Ernie’s song “Rubber Ducky” was released as a single in 1970, and made it to #16 on the Billboard chart.
~Ernie is also the only Sesame Street Muppet to have a built in smile. His rubber ducky sure makes him happy!
~ Sesame Street has already 4,212 episodes that have aired over the past 40 years andover 440 celebrities have visited Sesame Street, including four first ladies: Barbara Bush, Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush, and Michelle Obama. The first celebrity who appeared happen to be James Earl Jones.
~The search for a catchy name was long and tough, until one of the show’s writers suggested Sesame Street. The word “sesame” was meant to invoke a sense of excitement and mystery, as in the old Arabian Nights saying, “Open Sesame!” The word “street” was used because of the show’s urban setting – Sesame Street was the ideal combination of these two words.
~ Big Bird is actually an 8’2 golden condor, not a giant yellow canary.
~Elmo, a kids’ favorite, didn’t debut until 1984, but if you look closely, you’ll see he’s worked as a background Anything Muppet since the early 1970s. He is also the only Muppet in history to have testified before Congress. Twenty-five years after he appeared on the scene, Elmo is still only 3 ½ years old.
~ If you’re curious about type of animal Snuffleupagus is, he’s a Pachyderm.
~ Big Bird’s favorite snack cost a mere 20 cents at Hooper’s Store back in 1969. Today, these frothy creations go for a whopping $2.99.
~1969 on this exact day whenNational Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts the children’s television program Sesame Street.
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LIFE LESSON: Always do right–this will gratify some and astonish the rest. – Mark Twain
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QUIP OF THE DAY: Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. – Confucius
THAT’S (ALMOST) ALL FOLKS!
THE LAST WORD: When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don’t take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do; then they act upon it, and if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it; if it fails, they generously give her the whole. – Louisa May Alcott
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