Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. – William Arthur Ward
FOR TODAY – FEBRUARY 22nd – MONDAY
53rd day of 2010 with 312 to follow.
Holidays for Today:
* World Thinking Day
* Be Humble Day
* St. Lucia Independence Day
* National Margarita Day
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TODAY IN BIRTHDAYS:
1732 George Washington, Westmoreland Co. Virginia, 1st American President (1789-97).
1778 Rembrandt Peale, Bucks Co. PA, artist (George Washington, Thomas Jefferson paintings)
1857 Heinrich Hertz, German physicist, 1st to broadcast & receive radio waves
1857 Lord Robert Baden-Powell, English founder of Boy Scouts
1889 Olave Baden-Powell, English founder of the Girl Guide (Girl Scouts)
1892 Edna St Vincent Millay, Rockland Maine, poet/writer/feminist (Harp Weaver-Pulitzer Prize)
1907 Robert Young, Chicago IL, actor (Father Knows Best, Marcus Welby MD)
1932 Ted Kennedy, Boston Mass., politician (former Senator Mass.)
1950 Julius Erving, Roosevelt NY, basketball player (Dr. J)
1952 Bill Frist, Nashville TN, physician, businessman, U.S. senator from Tennessee
1959 Kyle MacLachlan, Yakima WA, actor (Paul Atreides in Dune, Twin Peaks, Desperate Housewives)
1962 Steve Irwin, Australian herpetologist – The Crocodile Hunter (d. 2006)
1968 Jeri Ryan, Germany (dad in US Army), actress (7 of 9/ST Voyager, Shark, Leverage, Boston Public)
1975 Drew Barrymore, CA, actress (ET, Firestarter, Poison Ivy, Altered States)
1986 Miko Hughes, Apple Valley CA, actor (Mercury Rising, Full House, Apollo 13)
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Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. – Jack Benny
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HAPPENED THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1856 Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1821 Spain sells (east) Florida to United States for $5 million by proclamation of Adams-Onis Treaty.
1879 First 5¢ & 10¢ store opened by Frank W Woolworth in Utica NY.
1889 President Cleveland signs bill to admit Dakotas, Montana & Washington as states.
1924 Calvin Coolidge first President of US to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.
1956 Elvis Presley’s first hit in Billboard’s top 10 “Heartbreak Hotel”.
1959 First Daytona 500 auto race – Lee Petty wins (135.521 MPH).
1980 US ice hockey team defeats Soviet Union team at 1980 Winter Olympic Games in an upset dubbed the “Miracle on Ice”.
1997 In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned.
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On a recent flight, an elderly passenger kept peering out the window. Since it was totally dark, all she could see was the blinking wing-tip light. Finally, she rang for the flight attendant.
“I’m sorry to bother you,” she said, “but I think you should inform the pilot that his left-turn indicator is on and has been for some time.”
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The businessman dragged himself home and barely made it to his chair before he dropped, exhausted.
His sympathetic wife was right there with a tall cool drink and a comforting word.
“My, you look tired,” she said. “You must have had a hard day today. What happened to make you so exhausted?”
“It was terrible,” her husband said, “The computer broke down and all of us had to do our own thinking.”
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ONE-LINERS :
~ Nobody can ever get too much approval.
~ No matter what you wear, you will not look good if you look cold.
~ I’ve broken so many mirrors in my life, if I live long enough to have all that bad luck, I’ll be lucky.
~ Any attempt to simplify creates more complications.
~ Helpful hints aren’t.
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A doctor, an engineer and a lawyer were arguing over whose was the oldest profession. The doctor asserted that, of course, a physician removed Adam’s rib to create Eve. The engineer disagreed and said, “Of course, an engineer had to have constructed the Garden of Eden.”
“I have you both beaten,” the lawyer gloated. “Before Adam and Eve, before the Garden of Eden, before all creation, there was a state of chaos, wasn’t there? And who but lawyers could have created that?”
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pic of the day: Icicles along road in TN
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Little Bobby was spending the weekend with his grandmother after a particularly trying week in kindergarten. His grandmother decided to take him to the park on Saturday morning. It had been snowing all night and everything was beautiful.
His grandmother remarked…”doesn’t it look like an artist painted this scenery? Did you know God painted this just for you?”
Bobby said, “Yes, God did it and he did it left handed.”
This confused his grandmother a bit, and she asked him, “What makes you say God did this with his left hand?”
Well,” said Bobby, “we learned at Sunday School last week that Jesus sits on God’s right hand!”
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A YOUNG city slicker was sent to his uncle’s farm to learn country values. He’d been accustomed to going to bed very late and sleeping until noon. His first night at the farm saw him in bed at 9, but it took some time before he could sleep.
“Time to rise,” his uncle said waking him around dawn. “You’re on the farm now, so hoist yourself up, my boy.”
The tired lad rubbed his eyes and managed to sit up. “Why are we getting up so early?” he asked sleepily.
“We’re going out to cut oats,” the uncle replied.
“Mercy sakes alive!” exclaimed the lad. “Do you have to sneak up on them in the dark?”
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WARNING! ENTERING THE PUN ZONE!
Two cartons of yogurt walk into a bar. The bartender, who was a tub of cottage cheese, says to them, “We don’t serve your kind in here.”
One of the yogurt cartons says back to him, “Why not? We’re cultured individuals.”
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A newspaper reporter was writing a feature story about prison life and was interviewing one of the prisoners. “Do you watch much television here?”
“Only the daytime shows,” the inmate said. “At night we’re locked in our cells and don’t see any television.”
“That’s too bad,” the reporter said, “But I do think it is nice that the warden lets you watch it in the daytime.”
“What do you mean, nice?” the inmate said. “That’s part of the punishment.”
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A man was praying to God.
He said, “God!?”
God responded, “Yes?”
And the guy said, “Can I ask a question?”
“Go right ahead,” God said.
“God, what is a million years to you?”
God said, “a million years to me is only a second.”
“Hmmm,” the man wondered. Then he asked, “God, what is a million dollars worth to you?”
God said, “a million dollars to me is as a penny.”
So the man said, “God. Can I have a penny?”
And God cheerfully said, “Sure!!…..just a second.”
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TODAY IN TRIVIA: What is the Bhagavad Gita?
The Bhagavad Gita is a Sanskrit poem that is part of the Indian epic known as the Mahabharata. This poem describes the Hindu path to spiritual wisdom through a dialogue between Lord Krishna and Prince Arjuna. It also describes how to obtain the unity with God that can be achieved through karma (action), bhakti (devotion), and jnana (knowledge). The Bhagavad Gita was most likely written sometime between 100 B.C. and A.D. 200.
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LIFE LESSON: To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. -Ella Wheeler Wilcox, poet
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People seldom get dizzy from doing good turns.
THAT’S (ALMOST) ALL FOLKS!
THE LAST WORD: “Don’t ask the Lord to guide your footsteps unless you are willing to move your feet.”
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