Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today. – James Dean
FOR TODAY – JANUARY 27th – WEDNESDAY
27th day of 2010 with 338 to follow.
Holidays for Today:
* Cake Day
* Punch the Clock Day
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This week Earth and Mars are having a close encounter. On Jan. 27th, the Red Planet will be only 99 million kilometers away and look bigger through a telescope than at any time between 2008 and 2014.
FULL STORY at NASA Mars Story
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TODAY IN BIRTHDAYS:
1756 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (composed over 600 works)
1832 – Lewis Carroll, English author (Alice in Wonderland)
1850 – Samuel Gompers, American labor leader (founded AFL – American Federation of Labor)
1901 – Art Rooney, Coulterville PA, Pittsburgh Steelers founder and owner
1908 – William Randolph Hearst, Jr., San Francisco CA, newspaper magnate (Pulitzer Prize for interview of Soviet premier, Nikita Kruschev)
1918 – William Seawell, Pine Bluff AK, former US Army Brigadier General / CEO Pan Am
1921 – Donna Reed, Denison Iowa, actress (It’s A Wonderful Life, Donna Reed Show)
1936 - Troy Donahue, NYC, actor (A Summer Place, The Godfather II, Hawaii Eye, Surfside 6, Terminal Force)
1936 – Samuel C. C. Ting, Ann Arbor MI, physicist (Nobel w/ Burton Richter, discovery subatomic J/ particle. Principal investigator for Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer project scheduled for installation on the International Space Station in 2010)
1940 - James Cromwell, Los Angeles CA, actor (The Rockford Files, The Green Mile, Dr. Zefram Cochrane/ Star Trek: First Contact)
1954 – Peter Laird, North Adams Mass., comic-book artist (co-creator Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
1955 – John G. Roberts, Buffalo NY, 17th Chief Justice of the United States
1957 – Frank Miller, Olney MD, comic book author and film director (Batman, Dare Devil, Sin CIty)
1964 – Bridget Fonda, Los Angeles CA, actress (Godfather III, Scandal, The Gloaming, After Amy)
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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none. – William Shakespeare
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HAPPENED THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1606 – Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, ending in their execution on January 31.
1785 – The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.
1825 – U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the “Trail of Tears.”
1870 – The first women’s fraternity, Kappa Alpha Theta, is formed at DePauw University.
1888 – In Washington, D.C., the National Geographic Society is founded.
1951 – Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flats.
1967 – Apollo program: Apollo 1 – Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of the spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center.
1967 – More than sixty nations sign the Outer Space Treaty banning nuclear weapons in space.
1996 – Germany first observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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A pharmacist looks out the front of the store and sees a woman holding a bottle jumping up and down in the parking lot. The pharmacist walks out to the parking lot and asks the woman, “Whats the matter?”
She replies ” I saw it said ‘Shake Well’ after I took it”.
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Did you hear about the nurse who died and went straight to hades?
It took her two weeks to realize that she wasn’t at work anymore!
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ONE-LINERS :
* “I tried Flintstone vitamins. I didn’t feel any better, but I could stop the car with my feet.”
* The Department of Labor just announced that unemployment hit a four-year high. Actually, it might be higher than that. The guy doing the survey was laid off.~Jimmy Kimmel
* People magazine reportedly paid Angelina Jolie $14 million for pictures of her twins. You can read about the deal in Jolie’s new self-help book, “How to Have Babies for Fun and Profit.” ~Conan O’Brien
* JetBlue is now charging $7 for a blanket and a pillow. So now you’ll be able to get a solid eight hours’ sleep on the runway. ~David Letterman
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FORT BENNING, home of the Army’s paratroop school, is near Columbus, GA, but its primary drop zone lies across the Chattahoochee River in neighboring Alabama – as I discovered when I made my first jump. After my parachute had opened safely, I looked around and spotted a sign, visible only to descending jumpers: “Welcome to Alabama – Drop in Anytime.” - 1st Lt. Patrick J. Chaisson
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When my grandson Billy and I entered our vacation cabin, we kept the lights off until we were inside to keep from attracting pesky insects.
Still, a few fireflies followed us in.
Noticing them before I did, Billy whispered, “It’s no use, Grandpa. The mosquitoes are coming after us with flashlights.”
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pic of the day: American Goldfinch bird
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WARNING! ENTERING THE PUN ZONE!
~ The electric chair is considered to be “period furniture” because it ends a sentence.
~ I could have been a big wheel, but I never spoke up.
~ “Doctor, doctor! You’ve gotta help me! I keep hearing ringing in my ears!”
“Nonsense, you’re as sound as a bell.”
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Two church members were going door to door. They knocked on the door of a woman who clearly was not happy to see them. She told them in no uncertain terms she did not want to hear their message and then slammed the door in their faces.
To her surprise, the door did not close. In fact, it bounced back open.Seeing the two church members at the door frustrated her. She stormed back to the door and flung it shut.
But the door still didn’t close. Furious, she grabbed the door with two hands and shoved it as hard as she could. But again, the door wouldn’t shut.
Convinced one of these rude church members was sticking a foot in the door, she reared back to give the door a slam that would really teach them a lesson.
Just then, one of the church members said, “Ma’am, before you do that again, you might want to move your cat.”
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Snow was falling heavily the day I decided to visit a car dealership. I was confident I’d get a great deal, figuring the salesmen would be desperate for customers on such a lousy day.
Sure enough, when I entered the showroom, I was the only client.
My hopes for getting a good deal quickly faded, however, when I heard the approaching salesman’s very first words:
“Boy,” he said, jovially, “you must really want a new car badly to come out on a day like this!”
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A merchant sent an order to a distributor for a large amount of goods totaling a great deal of money.
The distributor, noting that the previous bill hadn’t been paid, told the collections manager to check it. The collections manager left a voice-mail for them saying, “We can’t ship your new order until you pay for the last one.”
The next day the collections manager received a collect phone call, “Please cancel the order. We can’t wait that long.”
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I found two black-and-white negatives in a drawer and had them made into prints. I was pleasantly surprised to see that they were of a younger, slimmer me, taken on one of my first dates with my husband.
When I showed him the photos, his face lit up. “Wow, look at that!” he said with appreciation. “It’s my old Plymouth!”
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TODAY IN TRIVIA: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
In his time, Mozart was master of the classical style in all the forms. He began to compose and perform when he was only 6 years old. By the age of 11 he had composed three symphonies and 30 other works and arranged some piano concertos of J.S. Bach.
Mozart’s works are noted for their lyrical charm. His main works include the operas The Marriage of Figaro (1786), Don Giovanni (1787), and The Magic Flute (1791). He also composed chamber music, piano sonatas and fantasias, 50 symphonies and church music, including the Requiem (1791).
One of his most popular compsitions is A Little Night Music (1787).
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LIFE LESSON: “Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.” – Leonardo da Vinci
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The Immutable Law of Close Encounters: The probability of meeting someone you know increases exponentially when you are with someone you don’t want to be seen with.
THAT’S (ALMOST) ALL FOLKS!
THE LAST WORD:“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.” – Ashley Smith
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