I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision. – Eleanor Roosevelt
TODAY – JANUARY 25th – WEDNESDAY
25th day of 2012 with 341 to follow.
Holidays for Today:
*A Room of One’s Own Day
* National Irish Coffee Day
* Burns Night
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BIRTHDAYS ON THIS DATE:
- 1759 Robert Burns, Scottish poet (Auld Lang Syne)
- 1860 Charles Curtis, Topeka, Kansas, 31st Vice President of the United States (1929-33)
- 1874 W. Somerset Maugham, English writer (Of Human Bondage, The Letter, Rain, The Razor’s Edge)
- 1882 Virginia Woolf, English writer (Jacob’s Room, To The Lighthouse)
- 1913 Luis Marden, Chelsea, Massachusetts, photojournalist (National Geographic, pioneer in use of color photography)
- 1916 Frank “Pop” Ivy, Skiatook, Oklahoma, football coach (only person ever to serve as a head coach in the National Football League, the American Football League and the Western Interprovincial Football Union)
- 1923 Shirley Mason, Dodge Center, Minnesota, psychiatric patient (aka, “Sybil”)
- 1931 Dean Jones, Decatur, Alabama, actor (Love Bug, That Darn Cat, Beethoven, Clear & Present Danger)
- 1938 Leiji Matsumoto, Japanese creator of anime (Space Battleship Yamato, Arcadia of my Youth, Captain Harlock, Galaxy Express 999)
- 1941 Buddy Baker, Florence, South Carolina, race car driver (2X winner of NASCAR Championship; Hall of Fame member. In 1970, he became the first driver to ever exceed 200mph (320kph) on a closed course.)
- 1941 Gregory Sierra, New York, New York, actor (Barney Biller, Sanford and Son)
- 1949 Paul Nurse, English biochemist (Nobel: discoveries of protein molecules that control division of cells)
- 1954 Kay Cottee, Australian, first woman to sail solo and non stop around the world
- 1957 Jenifer Lewis, Kinloch, Missouri, actress (Sister Act, The Preacher’s Wife, Get Bruce, Shark Tale, Cars, The Princess and the Frog)
- 1970 Stephen Chbosky, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, writer, director (The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Rent, Jericho)
- 1971 Ana Ortiz, Manhattan, New York, actress and singer (Ugly Betty)
- 1973 Geoff Johns, Detroit, Michigan, comic book writer (DC Comics/ The Flash, Green Lantern, Teen Titans)
- 1979 Christine Lakin, Dallas, Texas, actress (Step by Step, Reefer madness, Race to Witch Mountain)
- 1981 Alicia Keys, NYC, singer/songwriter/actess (R&B, soul/The Secret Life of Bees)
- 1982 Shawna Waldron, Glendale, California, actress (Little Giants, The American President, Ladies Man)
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. – Lord Byron
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HISTORICAL HAPPENINGS:
- 1858 The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn becomes a popular wedding recessional after it is played on this day at the marriage of Queen Victoria’s daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia.
- 1881 Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
- 1890 Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
- 1915 Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
- 1919 The League of Nations is founded.
- 1924 The 1924 Winter Olympics open in Chamonix, France (in the French Alps), inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
- 1949 At the Hollywood Athletic Club the first Emmy Awards are presented.
- 1961 In Washington, D.C. John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
- 1993 Sears stopped production of its general merchandise catalog after 97 years.
- 1998 During a historic visit to Cuba Pope John Paul II demands the release of political prisoners and political reforms while condemning US attempts to isolate the country.
- 2004 Opportunity rover (MER-B) lands on surface of Mars.
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My pet parrot flew away the other day. I was beside myself, but before too long I received a phone call, “Did you lose a parrot?”
“Yes, I did.”
“Well, he landed on my balcony. I have him in my apartment.”
“That’s great, I’ll be right over. But … how were you able to locate me?”
“Listen to what the parrot keeps saying.” He held the phone to the bird and I heard, ‘Hi. You have reached 555-1234. I can’t come to the phone right now, please leave a message at the tone.’”
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ONE-LINERS: A TEACHER’S DICTIONARY
CONTEST: An examination taken by a prisoner.
DETENTION: What causes de stress: “De love of teaching outweighs DETENTION that comes with de job.”
DIPLOMA: De person who fixes de pipes.
DRAMA TEACHER: A stage coach who produces class acts.
ENGLISH TEACHER: An inmate in the House of Correction.
FACULTY MEETING: A debate in which teachers take hours to take minutes.
FIRST GRADE TEACHER: One who knows how to make little things count.
GEOMETRY: What an acorn says when it’s all grown up.
HEAD OF THE SCHOOL ORCHESTRA: A super- conductor.
HINDSIGHT: A talent that helps a teacher to avoid sitting on tacks placed on her chair by mischievous students.
(from “A Tribute To Teachers,” (c) 2011 by Richard Lederer)
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pic of the day:
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WARNING! ENTERING THE PUN ZONE!
A thief in Paris planned to steal some paintings from the Louvre. After careful planning, he got past security, stole the paintings and made it safely to his Honda Odyssey. However, he was captured only two blocks away when his vehicle ran out of gas.
The Gendarme, of course, asked, “How could you mastermind such a crime yet make such an obvious error?”
The suspect replied, “Monsieur, that is the reason I stole the paintings. I had no Monet to buy Degas to make the Van Gogh.”
(See if you have deGaulle to share this with someone. I posted it because I figured I had nothing Toulouse since it is the Cezanne of Bastille Day).
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Earl and Bubba are sitting in a boat fishing, chewing tobacco and drinking beer. Bubba says, “Think I’m gonna divorce the wife.”
“Why?”
“She ain’t spoke to me in over 2 months.”
Earl spits overboard, takes a long, slow sip of beer and says, “Better think it over … a woman like that is hard to find.”
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Golden Oldie… A professor – an atheist – was teaching a college class and he told the class that he was going to prove that there is no a God.
He said, “God if you are real, then I want you to knock me off this platform. I’ll give you 15 minutes!”
Ten minutes went by. He kept taunting God, saying, “Here I am God, I’m still waiting”
He got down to the last couple of minutes and a BIG 240 pound football player happened to walk by the door and heard about what the professor said.
The football player walked in the classroom and in the last minute, he walked up, hit the professor full force, and sent him flying off the platform.
The professor got up, obviously shaken and said, “Where did you come from, and why did you do that?”
The football player replied, “God was busy. He sent me.”
TODAY IN TRIVIA: AULD LANG SYNE?
You know that song you hear every New Year’s Eve? The one about not forgetting old acquaintances.
On New Year’s Eve, the most common song for most English-speaking people to sing is “Auld Lang Syne”. Isn’t it funny if it meant “Big Pink Elephants”?
A good sub-question is, what language is it?
It turns out that “Auld Lang Syne” is an extremely old Scottish song that was first written down in the 1700s. Robert Burns is the person whose transcription got the most attention, so the song is associated with him.
According to some, a good translation of the words “auld lang syne” is “times gone by.” So (incorporating a couple of other translations) when we sing this song, we are saying, “We’ll drink a cup of kindness yet for times gone by.”
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QUIP OF THE DAY: A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. – Donna Roberts
THAT’S (ALMOST) ALL FOLKS!
Thought for the day. . .
People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within. – Ramona L. Anderson
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