All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
FOR TODAY – JANUARY 11th – MONDAY
11th day of 2010 with 354 to follow.
Holidays for Today: National Clean Off Your Desk Day* Step in a Puddle and Splash Your Friend’s Day* Plough Monday (UK)*
Independence Day (Morocco)* National Unity Day (Nepal)
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TODAY IN BIRTHDAYS:
1755 – Alexander Hamilton, 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury
1807 – Ezra Cornell, Westchester Co. NY, businessman and university founder (Cornell University)
1814 – James Paget, British surgeon and pathologist (Paget’s Disease, founder modern pathology, discovered parasite causing trichinosis)
1870 – Alexander Stirling Calder, Philadelphia PA, sculptor (Washington as President)
1885 – Jack Hoxie, Kingfisher Creek OK, actor, rodeo performer (Lightning Bryce, Where Is This West?)
1895 – Laurens Hammond, Evanston IL, inventor tonewheel generator; founder Hammond Organ Co. (patents for an automobile transmission, a barometer, a “tickless” clock, guided missile controls)
1923 – Carroll Shelby, Leesburg TX, race car driver, automobile designer and businessman (Cobra cars)
1923 – Jerome Bixby, Los Angeles, writer/ editor (Planet Stories; Star Trek “Mirror, Mirror” & “Requiem for Methuselah” & “Day of the Dove”; Fantastic Voyage)
1930 – Rod Taylor, Australian-born American actor (The Time Machine, Oregon Trail, Twilight Zone)
1946 – Naomi Judd, Ashland KY, singer (The Judds)
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Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. – Albert Einstein
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HAPPENED THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1569 – First recorded lottery in England.
1759 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first American life insurance company is incorporated.
1787 – William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
1805 – The Michigan Territory is created.
1878 – Milk is first delivered in bottles.
1908 – Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
1922 – First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.
1935 – Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
1943 – World War II: The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China.
1949 – First recorded case of snowfall in Los Angeles, California.
1964 – US Surgeon General Dr. Luther Leonidas Terry, M.D., publishes a report saying that smoking may be hazardous to health. It is the first such statement ever made by the U.S. government.
1972 – East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh.
1986 – The Gateway Bridge, Brisbane in Queensland, Australia is officially opened.
1996 – Space Shuttle program: STS-72 launches from the Kennedy Space Center marking the start of the 74th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th flight of Endeavour.
2007 – JK Rowling completes the 7th novel in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
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As an instructor in driver education at the local area High School, I’ve learned that even the brightest students can become flustered behind the wheel.
One day I had three beginners in the car, each scheduled to drive for 30 minutes.
When the first student had completed his time, I asked him to change places with one of the others.
Gripping the wheel tightly and staring straight ahead, he asked in a shaky voice, “Should I stop the car first?”
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A drunk that smelled like a brewery got on a subway one day. He sat down next to a priest. The drunk’s shirt was stained, his face was full of bright red lipstick, and he had a half empty bottle of wine sticking out of his pocket.
He opened he opened his newspaper and started reading. A couple of minutes later he asked the priest, “Father what causes arthritis”?
“Mister, it’s caused by loose living, being with cheap wicked women, too much alcohol and contempt for your fellow man.”
“Gee whiz, I’ll be,” uttered the drunk and returned to reading his paper.
The priest, thinking about what he said turned to the man and apologized.
“I’m sorry son, I didn’t mean to come on so strong. How long have you had arthritis?”
“I don’t, father. I was just reading in the paper that the Pope has arthritis.. ”
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ONE-LINERS : Psychiatric Hotline
Welcome to the Psychiatric Hotline.
~ If you are obsessive-compulsive, please press 1 repeatedly.
~ If you are co-dependent, please ask someone to press 2.
~ If you have multiple personalities, please press 3, 4, 5 and 6.
~ If you are paranoid-delusional, we know who you are and what you want. Just stay on the line until we can trace the call.
~ If you are schizophrenic, listen carefully and a little voice will tell you which number to press.
~ If you are manic-depressive, it doesn’t matter which number you press. No one will answer.
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Coming home from his Little League game, Billy swung open the front door very excited. Unable to attend the game, his father immediately wanted to know what happened. “So, how did you do son?” he asked.
“You’ll never believe it!” Billy said. “I was responsible for the winning run!”
“Really? How’d you do that?”
“I dropped the ball.”
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pic of the day: Sheep in Snow Flurry
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Our local minister had all of his remaining teeth pulled and new dentures made a few weeks ago.
The first Sunday, his sermon lasted 10 minutes. The second Sunday, he preached only 20 minutes. But, on the third Sunday, he preached for an hour and a half.
I asked him about this. He then told me “well, John, that first Sunday, my gums were so sore it hurt to talk. The second Sunday, my dentures were still hurting a lot. Now the third Sunday, I accidentally grabbed my wife’s dentures AND I COULDN’T STOP TALKING!”
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A man visits his aunt in the nursing home. It turns out that she is taking a nap, so he just sits down in a chair in her room, flips through a few magazines, and munches on some peanuts sitting in a bowl on the table.
Eventually, the aunt wakes up, and her nephew realizes he’s absentmindedly finished the entire bowl. “I’m so sorry, auntie, I’ve eaten all of your peanuts!”
“That’s okay, dearie,” the aunt replied. “After I’ve sucked the chocolate off, I don’t care for them anyway.”
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WARNING! ENTERING THE PUN ZONE!
~ The man who worked at the watch factory was very funny. He stood about all day making faces.
~ There was a sign on the lawn at a drug re-hab center that said ‘Keep off the Grass’.
~ A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.
~ He drove his expensive car into a tree and found out how the Mercedes bends.
~ Police were called to a daycare where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.
~ To write with a broken pencil is pointless.
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A mother and a daughter are shopping in the mall, when the mother eyes an expensive fur coat. “This year,” she says, “I think that I will buy my present instead of making you and dad shop for me.”
The daughter protests, “But mom, some helpless, poor creature has to suffer so that you can have this.”
“Don’t worry honey,” says the mother, “your father won’t get the bill for a couple of weeks.”
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The two thousand member Baptist church was filled to overflowing capacity one Sunday morning. The preacher was ready to start the sermon when two men, dressed in long black coats and black hats entered through the rear of the church.
One of the two men walked to the middle of the church while the other stayed at the back of the church. They both then reached under their coats and withdrew automatic weapons.
The one in the middle announced, “Everyone willing to take a bullet for Jesus stay in your seats!”
Naturally, the pews emptied, followed by the choir. The deacons ran out the door, followed by the choir director and the assistant pastor.
After a few moments, there were about twenty people left sitting in the church. The preacher was holding steady in the pulpit.
The men put their weapons away and said, gently, to the preacher, “All right, pastor, the hypocrites are gone now. You may begin the service.”
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TODAY IN TRIVIA: Plough Monday is the traditional start of the English agricultural year. While local practices may vary, Plough Monday is generally the first Monday after Twelfth Day (Epiphany).
The day traditionally saw the resumption of work after the Christmas period. In some areas, particularly in northern England and East Anglia, a plough was hauled from house to house in a procession, collecting money. They were often accompanied by musicians, an old woman or a boy dressed as an old woman, called the “Bessy”, and a man in the role of the “fool”. ‘Plough Pudding’ is a boiled suet pudding, containing meat and onions, it is from Norfolk and is eaten on Plough Monday.
~ 1922, First injection of insulin:The first person to receive an injection of insulin to treat diabetes was Leonard Thompson. He was 14 years old at that time and weighed only 65 pounds. His condition was grave, as he almost comatose, and close to death. He had an allergic reaction, attributed to an impurity in the pioneering extract provided by Drs. Frederick Banting and Charles Best. His symptoms began to disappear when twelve days later Thompson received a more purified dose of insulin prepared by Dr. James Collip. His blood sugar returned to normal and he regained strength. Thompson lived another 13 years with the insulin. Before this time, diabetes had inevitably resulted in death within months or even weeks of the diagnosis. He died at the age of 27 due to pneumonia, a diabetes complication.
~ Smoking hazardous to health: U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry announced in 1964 the results of a study on the health effects of smoking, ordered by President Kennedy in 1962. It stated “Cigarette smoking is a health hazard of sufficient importance in the United States to warrant appropriate remedial action.” This was America’s first widely publicized official recognition of the dangers, and was reviewed in over 7,000 articles in medical journals, and concluded that cigarette smoking was a cause of lung and larynx cancer and of chronic bronchitis. Male cigarette smokers were 1,000 times more likely to die from lung cancer than non-smokers. In 1965, the U.S. Congress required printed health warnings on cigarette packages.
~ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is an upcoming two-part fantasy film adapted from the novel of the same name by J. K. Rowling. Part I is scheduled to be released on 19 November 2010, while Part II is due to come out 15 July 2011. These two movies will be the final installments in the Harry Potter film series.
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LIFE LESSON: The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company… a church… a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past… we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you… we are in charge of our Attitudes.” – Charles R. Swindoll
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If you haven’t got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. ~Alice Roosevelt Longworth
THAT’S (ALMOST) ALL FOLKS!
THE LAST WORD: Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. ~Charles Richards
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