You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. – Rosalynn Carter
FOR TODAY – SEPTEMBER 10th – FRIDAY
253rd day of 2010 with 112 to follow.
Holidays for Today:
*Sewing Machine Day
*Swap Ideas Day
*TV Dinner Day
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- 1758 Hannah Webster Foster, Salisbury, Massachusetts, author (The Coquette, The History of Eliza Wharton)
- 1788 Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, Rethel, Ardennes, France, archaeologist , flint tools in the gravels of the Somme valley
- 1839 Isaac Kauffman Funk, Clifton, Ohio, publisher (Funk & Wagnalls)
- 1839 Charles Sanders Peirce, Cambridge, Massachusetts, philosopher, known for his contributions to logic, mathematics, philosophy, and semiotics (and his founding of pragmatism)
- 1892 Arthur Compton, Wooster, Ohio, physicist, known for Compton effect, Compton length, Compton scattering
- 1898 Waldo Semon, Demopolis, Alabama, inventor (vinyl)
- 1908 Raymond Scott, Brooklyn, New York, composer, music adapted by Carl Stalling in over 120 classic Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Daffy Duck and other Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies animated features
- 1929 Arnold Palmer, Latrobe, Pennsylvania, golfer (PGA Golfer of the Year 1960, 1962)
- 1934 Charles Kuralt, Wilmington, North Carolina, newscaster (On the Road)
- 1934 Roger Maris, Hibbing, Minnestora, Yankee, baseball player – HR champ (61 in 1961, AL MVP 1960, 1961)
- 1937 Jared Diamond, Boston, Massachusetts, biologist and author, award-winning popular science books The Third Chimpanzee; Guns, Germs, and Steel; and Collapse.
- 1941 Stephen Jay Gould, New York City, New York, paleontologist , theory of punctuated equilibrium which he developed with Niles Eldredge in 1972
- 1941 Gunpei Yokoi, Kyoto, Japan, inventor and video game designer (invented Gameboy)
- 1942 Danny Hutton, County Donegal, Ireland, American singer, best known as one of the three lead vocalists in the band, Three Dog Night
- 1949 Bill O’Reilly, New York City, New York, journalist and commentator
- 1950 Joe Perry, Lawrence, Massachusetts, musician, contributing songwriter for the rock band Aerosmith
- 1960 David Lowery, Texas, musician, founder of alternative rock band, Camper Van Beethoven, and co-founder of the more traditional rock band, Cracker.
- 1974 Ryan Phillippe,New Castle, Delaware, actor (I Know What You Did Last Summer, Cruel Intentions, 54)
- 1979 Jacob Young, Renton, Washington, actor and singer (The Bold and the Beautiful, The Beach Boys: An American Family)
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Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow. – Norman Vincent Peale
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HAPPENED THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
- 1776 American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army.
- 1813 Oliver H Perry defeats the British in the Battle of Lake Erie (‘We have met the enemy and they are ours…”)
- 1846 Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.
- 1858 George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
- 1897 Lattimer massacre: A sheriff’s posse kills 20 unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania, United States.
- 1898 Empress Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
- 1932 The New York City Subway’s third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened.
- 1939 Canada declares war on Nazi Germany, joining France, the UK, New Zealand and Australia in the Allies.
- 1955 “Gunsmoke” tv series premiers on CBS TV.
- 1972 The United States suffers its first loss of an international basketball game in a disputed match against the Soviet Union at Munich, Germany.
- 1973 Muhammad Ali defeats Ken Norton in boxing rematch.
- 1974 Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
- 1990 The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire – the largest church in Africa is consecrated by Pope John Paul II.
- 2001 Charles Ingram cheats his way into winning one million pounds on a British version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
- 2002 Switzerland, known for its neutrality, joins the United Nations.
- 2008 The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.
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A tourist in New England stopped at a small service station and asked directions to a certain town. Given the directions, the tourist drove on. An hour later, he found himself at the same service station!
“What in the world is going on?” the tourist roared.
The service station owner answered, “Old Ben over there bet me $50 you wouldn’t follow directions. I guess I win.”
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Call to Customer Service: “I’ve been calling 700-1000 for two days and can’t get through; can you help?”
“Where did you get that number, sir?”
“It’s on the door of your business.”
“Sir, those are the hours that we are open.”
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ONE-LINERS : More of the Brighter Side of Life
~ Remember half the people you know are below average.
~ Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how popular it remains?
~ Nothing is fool-proof to a talented fool.
~ He who laughs last thinks slowest.
~ Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
~ Eagles may soar, but weasels don’t get sucked into jet engines.
~ The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
~ I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.
~ I intend to live forever – so far so good.
~ Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
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A man went to visit a friend and was amazed to find him playing chess with his dog. He watched the game in astonishment for a while.
“I can hardly believe my eyes!” he exclaimed. “That’s the smartest dog I’ve ever seen.”
“Nah, he’s not so smart,” the friend replied. “I’ve beaten him three games out of five.”
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pic of the day: Ginger Lily (Hedychium-coronarium) after night rain
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I sent my newly licensed 16 year-old son to pick up a pizza. I handed him a $20 bill, a $5.00 coupon and sent him on his way.
About forty minutes later, the boy returned home with the pizza… and the coupon!
I asked the obvious question, “Why didn’t you use the coupon?”
“Dad, I had enough money. I didn’t need the coupon.”
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A guide dressed in Colonial garb was leading a tour through the city’s historic district. Unfortunately, he tripped and fell and had to be taken to the hospital.
A drunk happened to enter as the tour guide sat waiting in the emergency room. He took one look at the guy’s outfit and said, “Just how long have you been waiting?”
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WARNING! ENTERING THE PUN ZONE!
Every day a peddler pulled his cart of wool from his home to the village market. It was a long trip. He had to travel around the perimeter of a large lake that was owned by the town tycoon, a modern-day Scrooge.
One day during the winter the lake froze over. The peddler realized that he could cut off two miles from his trip if he crossed over the lake.
The tycoon spotted him when he was halfway across the lake. Scrooge came racing out of his mansion and screamed at the peddler, “I’ll be danged if I let anyone pull the wool over my ice!”
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Arnie, a young American, was on a short break holiday in Piddlehinton in the Dorset countryside. The next day he was going for a job interview in London but he needed to ask for directions, so he spoke to local farmhand, Martin. ‘Yo, feller, could you possibly tell me the quickest way to London?’
Martin replied in a rich Dorset country accent, ‘You driving or walking, lad?’
Arnie quickly replied, ‘Driving.’
Martin, the farmhand nodded wisely, saying: ‘Oooh aargh, that be certainly the quickest way’.
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A woman rushed to see her doctor, looking very much worried and all strung out. She rattled off, “Doctor, take a look at me. When I woke up this morning, I looked at myself in the mirror and saw my hair all wiry and frazzled up, my skin was all wrinkled and pasty, my eyes were blood-shot and bugging out, and I had this lifeless look on my face!
What’s wrong with me, Doctor?”
The doctor looked her over for a couple of minutes, then calmly said, “Well, I can tell you that there’s nothing wrong with your eyesight.”
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TODAY IN TRIVIA: Swimming is Fun!
Swimming is good thing to keep fit, it is obvious. Swimming is a lifetime sport that benefits the body and the whole person! But what is it that makes swimming good, specifically? It makes us good in so many ways.
Habitual swimming builds endurance, muscle strength and cardio-vascular fitness. It can serve as a cross-training element to your regular workouts. Before a gym workout, you can use the pool for a warm-up session. Increasing effort to gradually increase the heart rate and stimulate your muscle activity is easily accomplished in the water. Following a gym workout, running and walking exercise, swimming can assist you to cool-down, move blood through your muscles to help them recover, and help you relax as you glide through the water.
In addition to that, swimming burns calories at a rate of about 3 calories a mile per pound of body weight. If your weight is 150 lbs. and it takes you 30 minutes to swim one mile (1,760 yards or 1,609 meters), then you will be losing about 900 calories in one hour.
If you are looking for a smash from the stressful life, immersing yourselves in the water is exactly what you need; swimming is a way for you to cool off. It gives a wonderful and relaxing manner for individuals, families and friends.
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LIFE LESSON: You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand. – Woodrow Wilson
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Quip of the Day: His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork. – Mae West
THAT’S (ALMOST) ALL FOLKS!
THE LAST WORD: When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: ‘Only stand out of my light.’ Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light. – John W. Gardner
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