The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it. – Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957
FOR TODAY -FEBRUARY 10th – WEDNESDAY
41st day of 2010 with 324 to follow.
Holidays for Today:
* World Marriage Day
* Umbrella Day
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TODAY IN BIRTHDAYS:
1890 – Boris Pasternak, Russian poet, author (Nobel, Dr. Zhivago)
1893 – Jimmy Durante, Brooklyn NY, actor/comedian
1897 – John Franklin Enders, West Hartford CT, medical scientist/ Father of Modern Vaccines (Nobel Prize/poliomyelitis viruses grown in cultures)
1906 – Lon Chaney Jr., Oklahoma City OK actor (The Wolfman)
1930 – Robert Wagner, Detroit MI, actor (It Takes A Thief, Switch, Hart to Hart)
1937 – Roberta Flack, Black MT. NC, singer (First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, Killing Me Softly with His Song)
1944 – Frances Moore Lappe, Pendleton OR, writer and activist (Diet for a Small Planet)
1950 – Mark Spitz, Modesto CA, swimmer (7 gold medals 1972 Munich Olympics)
1961 – George Stephanopoulos, Fall River Mass., political commentator
1964 – Glenn Beck, Everett WA, radio and television host (Fox News)
1967 – Laura Dern, Los Angeles, actress, director (Jurassic Park)
1968 – Garrett Reisman, Morristown NJ, NASA astronaut (Expedition 16 ISS, Expedition 17/ scheduled on Atlantis May 2010)
1974 – Elizabeth Banks, Pittsfield Mass., actress (Scrubs, Spiderman)
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Victory belongs to the most persevering. – Napoleon Bonaparte
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HAPPENED THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1763 – French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.
1863 – The fire extinguisher is patented.
1870 – The YWCA is founded in New York City.
1923 – Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas.
1931 – New Delhi becomes the capital of India.
1933 – The New York City-based Postal Telegraph Company introduces the first singing telegram.
1962 – Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
1967 – The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
1996 – The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov for the first time.
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Last week my wife and I purchased a new computer. We ran into some difficulties while setting it up so we called the customer support phone number we found in the manual.
I picked up the phone and called the number. A man answered the phone and I explained the problem to him.
He began rattling off computer jargon. This confused us even more.
“Sir,” I said politely, “Can you explain what I should do as if I were a small child?”
“Okay,” the computer support guy said, “Son, could you please put your mommy on the phone?”
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Jimmy was sent to prison for his crimes, but upon arrival at the correctional facility, he told the warden he wasn’t at all worried about his future. He knew he wouldn’t have to serve the full term of his penalty.
“Why’s that, Jimmy?” the warden asked. “Sure of your appeal, are you?”
“No, sir.” Jimmy replied.
“Already making plans to escape, then?”
“Not a one, Warden.”
“Then why are you so sure you’ll be out of here before your time is up?”
“Well, Warden,” says Jimmy, “it’s like this. In the entire time I’ve been married, my wife has yet to let me finish a sentence!”
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ONE-LINERS : IF HOLLYWOOD WROTE PROVERBS…
* Cleanliness – and a “G” rating – are next to Godliness.
* Karo Syrup with food coloring is thicker than water.
* To err is human, to be forgiven is good PR.
* A gross point negotiated is a gross point earned.
* You can get more of what you want with a kind word and $20 million than you can with just a kind word.
* A rehab stint in time saves nine (days in the slammer).
* ‘Tis better to have been filmed and panned than never to have filmed at all.
* If at first you don’t succeed, do a sequel anyway.
[selected from Chris White's Top Five on the Movies]
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A man walks into a bar and says, “Bartender, give me two shots.” Bartender says, “You want them both now or one at a time?” The guy says,” Oh, I want them both now. One’s for me and one’s for this little guy here,” and he pulls a tiny three inch man out of his pocket.
The bartender asks “He can drink?”
“Oh, sure. He can drink.”
So the bartender pours the shots and sure enough, the little guy drinks it all up.
“That’s amazing” says the bartender. “What else can he do, can he walk?”
The man flicks a quarter down to the end of the bar and says, “Hey, Jake. Go get that.” The little guy runs down to the end of the bar and picks up the quarter. Then he runs back down and gives it to the man.
The bartender is in total shock. “That’s amazing” he says, “what else can he do? Does he talk?”
The man says “Sure he talks, hey, Jake, tell him about that time we were in Africa and you made fun of that witch doctor’s powers!”
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pic of the day: Snowy Llama Dude
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Following an overnight flight to meet my father at his latest military assignment, my mother, eight noisy and shoving siblings, and I arrived at Rhein-Main Air Base in Germany. “Do you have any weapons or illegal drugs in your possession?” the customs agent asked my weary mother.
“Sir,” she said while separating my brother and me, “if I had either of those items, I would have used them by now.” – Jim Risdal
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The blonde decided to buy an elaborate and expensive coffee and latte machine with all the latest gadgets, bells and whistles. Knowing her propensity for getting instructions mixed up, she got some first-hand instructions on how to use the machine. The salesman carefully explained how everything worked; how to plug it in and set the timer so she could go to bed and the coffee would be ready when she got up.
A few weeks later, she returned to the store and the salesman asked, “How do you like the coffee machine?”
“It’s wonderful! It’s very easy to use and it makes excellent tasting coffee. But there’s one thing that really bugs me and I don’t quite understand.”
“What’s that?”
“Why do I have to go to bed every time I want to make a pot of coffee?”
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WARNING! ENTERING THE PUN ZONE!
~ Did you hear about the blonde who robbed a bank and then ran home and sawed off the legs to her bed? She wanted to lie low for a while.
~ Homeowner on the phone to a plumber: “Can you come over and fix my kitchen sink again?”
Plumber – “You know I’m always at your disposal.”
~ “Doctor, doctor! You’ve gotta help me! I have a piece of lettuce stuck in my ear!”
“That looks nasty.”
“Nasty?!? This is just the tip of the iceberg!”
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My coworkers sympathized one day when I was complaining that my back hurt after moving some furniture.
“Why didn’t you wait until your husband got home?” they asked.
“Well, I could have,” I replied, “but I find the couch is easier to move if he’s not on it.”
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After she woke up, a woman told her husband, “I just dreamed that you gave me a pearl necklace for Valentine’s day. What do you think it means?”
“You’ll know tonight.” he said.
That evening, the man came home with a small package and gave it to his wife. Delighted, she opened it – to find a book entitled “The meaning of dreams”
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TODAY IN TRIVIA: Frances Moore Lappe wrote the 1971 bestselling book Diet for a Small Planet
She knew her audience would be skeptical that a vegetarian diet could supply sufficient protein. Therefore, much of the book is devoted to introducing her theory of complementing proteins, also called protein combining, so that their combined amino acid pattern matched that of animal foods.
As it turned out, the combining is unnecessary because individual plant foods contain all the amino acids required by humans, in amounts which satisfy growth and maintenance.
In a later edition she included this new information and that it is not necessary to worry about combining proteins with the exceptions of
“diets very heavily dependent on fruit or on some tubers, such as sweet potatoes or cassava, or on junk food (refined flours, sugars, and fat). Fortunately, relatively few people in the world try to survive on diets in which these foods are virtually the sole source of calories. In all other diets, if people are getting enough calories, they are virtually certain of getting enough protein.”
There is a new 20th anniversary edition of this book available. It features simple rules for a healthy diet; a streamlined, easy-to-use format; delicious food combinations of protein-rich meals without meat; hundreds of wonderful recipes, and much more. There are also kitchen hints with a comprehensive reference guide for planning and preparing meals.
Diet for a Small Planet
LIFE LESSON: Whenever I hear, ‘It can’t be done,’ I know I’m close to success. – Michael Flatley, (Lord of the Dance)
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A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded. –Tyne Daly
THAT’S (ALMOST) ALL FOLKS!
THE LAST WORD: Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. –Dowden
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