Don’t let your worries get the best of you; remember, Moses started out as a basket case.
FOR TODAY – FEBRUARY 9th – TUESDAY
40h day of 2010 with 325 to follow.
Holidays for Today:
* Toothache Day
* St. Apollonia Day (patron of dentists; against toothaches)
* National Bagels and Lox Day
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TODAY IN BIRTHDAYS:
1773 – William Henry Harrison, VA, (Whigs) 9th President (March 4-April 4, 1841)
1846 – Wilhelm Maybach, German engineer, designer of first Mercedes
1871 – Howard T Ricketts, Findlay OH, pathologist (discovered causative organisms/mode of transmission of Rocky Mountain spotted fever & epidemic typhus)
1909 – Carmen Miranda, Brazil, vocalist/actress (Copacabana, Date With Judy)
1914 – Ernest Tubb, Crisp TX, guitarist/singer (I’m Walking the Floor over You, Ernest Tubb Record Shops)
1928 – Roger Mudd, Washington DC, news anchor (CBS Weekend News, NBC Evening News)
1942 – Carole King, [Klein], Brooklyn NY, pianist/singer (Tapestry)
1944 – Alice Walker, Eatonton GA, novelist (Color Purple, Meridian)
1945 – Mia [Maria] Farrow, Los Angeles, actress (Rosemary’s Baby, Purple Rose of Cairo)
1954 – Kevin Warwick, scientist (direct interfaces between computer systems and the human nervous system, robotics)
1960 – Peggy Whitson, Mount Ayr IA, NASA astronaut (Expedition 5, first female commander of ISS/ Expedition 16)
1963 – Travis Tritt, Marietta GA, country singer (Here’s A Quarter Call Someone Who Cares, Blues Bros.)
1985 – David Gallagher, Queens NY, actor (Simon Camden/7th Heaven)
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“Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.” – Ann Landers
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HAPPENED THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1822 – American Indian Society organizes.
1825 – After no presidential candidate receives a majority of electoral vote, House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams 6th US president.
1870 – US Army establishes US National Weather Service (Bureau).
1895 – William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
1942 – Year-round Daylight saving time is re-instated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources.
1964 – Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a “record-busting” audience of 73 million viewers.
1969 – World’s largest airplane, Boeing 747, makes 1st commercial flight.
1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned moon landing.
1971 – Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1995 – Space Shuttle astronauts Bernard A. Harris, Jr. and Michael Foale become the first African American and first Briton, respectively, to perform spacewalks.
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ONE-LINERS: MODERN-TIME MAXIMS FOR THE INTERNET AGE
~ Home is where you hang your @.
~ The e-mail of the species is more deadly than the mail.
~ A journey of a thousand sites begins with a single click.
~ You can’t teach a new mouse old clicks.
~ Great groups from little icons grow.
~ Speak softly and carry a cell phone.
~ C:\ is the root of all directories.
~ Don’t put all your hypes in one homepage.
~ Pentium wise; pen and paper foolish.
~ The modem is the message.
~ Too many clicks spoil the site.
~ The geek shall inherit the earth.
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My wife and I were looking at paintings in a gallery. One was of a beautiful nude woman with only a little foliage covering her private areas.
“Bad taste,” muttered my wife, and moved on.
Not me. I lingered, completely transfixed, until I heard her shout, “What are you waiting for? Autumn???”
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A man was on a walking holiday in a foreign country. He became thirsty so decided to ask at a stranger’s home for something to drink.
The lady of the house invited him in and served him a bowl of soup by the fire.
There was a wee pig running around the kitchen – running up to the visitor and giving him a great deal of attention. The visitor commented that he had never seen a pig this friendly.
The housewife replied: “Ummm, he’s not that friendly. That’s his bowl you’re using.”
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An elderly widow and widower were dating for about five years. The man finally decided to ask her to marry. She immediately said “yes”.
The next morning when he awoke, he couldn’t remember what her answer was! “Was she happy? I think so, wait, no, she looked at me funny…”
After about an hour of trying to remember to no avail, he got on the telephone and gave her a call. Embarrassed, he admitted that he didn’t remember her answer to the marriage proposal.
“Oh”, she said, “I’m so glad you called. I remembered saying ‘yes’ to someone, but I couldn’t remember who it was.”
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pic of the day:
Robin in Winter
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In the frozen foods department of our local grocery store, I noticed a man shopping with his son.
As I walked by, he checked something off his list, and I heard him whisper conspiratorially to the child;
“You know, if we really mess this up, we’ll never have to do it again.”
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SOON AFTER I arrived for duty as chief of public affairs for a Strategic Air Command wing, the unit had a surprise operational-readiness inspection. We had no time to alert the surrounding community that we’d be launching our fleet of B-52 bombers and KC-135 tankers, one after another, before the sun came up.
My office phones quickly lit up with noise complaints. One irate caller was a dairy farmer. “Sir,” I said, appealing to his sense of patriotism, “what you’re hearing is the sound of freedom.”
“Son,” he snapped, “your sound of freedom is souring my milk of kindness!” – Ronald D. Fuchs
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WARNING! ENTERING THE PUN ZONE!
Three vampires walk into a bar and sit down at a table. The waitress comes over and asks the first vampire what he would like. The first vampire responds, “I vould like some blood.”
The waitress turns to the second vampire and asks what he would like. The vampire responds, “I vould like some blood.”
The waitress turns to the third vampire and asks what he would like. The vampire responds, “I vould like some plasma.”
The waitress looks up and says, “Let me see if I have this order correct. You want two bloods and a blood light?”
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I’ve never understood why women love cats.
Cats are independent, they don’t listen, they don’t come in when you call, they like to stay out all night, and when they’re home they like to be left alone and sleep.
In other words, every quality that women hate in a man, they love in a cat.
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One day a man spotted a lamp by the roadside. He picked it up, rubbed it vigorously, and a genie appeared.
“I’ll grant you your fondest wish,” the genie said.
The man thought for a moment, then said, “I want a spectacular job — a job that no man has ever succeeded at or has ever even dared try.”
“Poof!” said the genie.
“You’re a housewife.”
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TODAY IN TRIVIA: American Robin (Turdus migratorius)
While some robins migrate, not all of them leave the area. If the food supply is plentiful, they are more likely to stay put. However, in the colder months, they tend to congregate in flocks for added warmth. They also tend to stay in more rural areas where more food is available.
When breeding season comes around in spring, the flock disperses. Each pair has its own breeding territory. You may be more likely to see them at that time, since they are more widely scattered. That’s why many people think robins are a sign of spring because they see them then. In reality, they’ve been around the region the entire winter.
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LIFE LESSON: A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration. – Kurt Lewin
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Forbidden fruits create many jams.
THAT’S (ALMOST) ALL FOLKS!
THE LAST WORD: Winning isn’t everything, but making the effort to win is. — Vince Lombardi
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