The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself. – Oscar Wilde
TODAY – JANUARY 27th – FRIDAY
27th day of 2012 with 339 to follow.
Holidays for Today:
* Cake Day
* Punch the Clock Day
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BIRTHDAYS ON THIS DATE:
- 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, Pennsylvania, 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, Arkansas, 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, New York, actor (A Summer Place, The Godfather II, Hawaii Eye, Surfside 6, Terminal Force)
- 1936 Samuel C. C. Ting, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 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, Massachusetts, comic-book artist (co-creator Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
- 1955 John G. Roberts, Buffalo, New York, 17th Chief Justice of the United States
- 1957 Frank Miller, Olney, Maryland, comic book author and film director (Batman, Dare Devil, Sin City)
- 1964 Bridget Fonda, Los Angeles, Califronia, actress (Godfather III, Scandal, The Gloaming, After Amy)
- 1965 Alan Cumming, Scottish actor (Cabaret, GoldenEye, X2: X-Men United, Spy Kids)
- 1976 Clint Ford, Fort Worth, Texas voice actor (Yu Yu hakusho, Blue Gender, Dragon Ball Z)
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All will be well, all will be well, and all manner of things will be well. – Julian of Norwich
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HISTORICAL HAPPENINGS:
- 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.
- 2003 The first selections for the National Recording Registry are announced by the Library of Congress.
- 2006 Western Union discontinues its Telegram and Commercial Messaging services.
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Two lawyers went into a diner. One ordered a Coke and the other ordered a 7-Up. When their drinks arrived they opened their briefcases, pulled out sandwiches and started to eat.
The owner, quite irate, marched over and told them, “You can’t eat your own sandwiches in here!”
The attorneys looked at each other, shrugged and exchanged sandwiches.
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ONE-LINERS: Things That Drive A Sane Person Mad . . .
Trying on sunglasses with that stupid little plastic thing in the middle of your nose.
The person behind you in the supermarket runs his cart into the back of your ankle.
The elevator stops on every floor and nobody gets on.
There’s always a car riding your tail when you’re slowing down to find an address.
You open a can of soup and the lid falls in.
There’s a dog in the neighborhood that barks at EVERYTHING.
You can never put anything back in a box the way it came.
Your tire gauge lets out half the air while you’re trying to get a reading.
A station comes in brilliantly when you’re standing near the radio but buzzes, drifts and spits every time you move away.
There are always one or two ice cubes that won’t pop out of the tray.
You wash a garment with a tissue in the pocket and your entire laundry comes out covered with lint.
The car behind you blasts its horn because you let a pedestrian finish crossing. [I know a guy who got out of the car, handed his keys to the guy behind and said, "Here. You run her down. I don't have the heart."]
A piece of foil candy wrapper makes electrical contact with your filling or braces.
You set the alarm on your digital clock for 7pm instead of 7am.
The radio station doesn’t tell you who sang that song.
You rub on hand cream and can’t turn the bathroom doorknob to get out.
People behind you on a supermarket line dash ahead of you to a counter just opening up.
Your glasses slide off your ears when you perspire.
You can’t look up the correct spelling of a word in the dictionary because you don’t know how to spell it.
You have to inform five different sales people in the same store that you’re just browsing.
You had that pen in your hand only a second ago and now you can’t find it.
You reach under the table to pick something off the floor and smash your head on the way up.
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pic of the day:
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WARNING! ENTERING THE PUN ZONE!
I sent my two daughters to college in hopes that they would find a marketable course of study. They both decided to specialize in research on ancient Egyptian plumbing.
Can you believe it?!? I’m supporting a couple of Pharaoh Faucet Majors!
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“How did you do on your math test, son?”
“Well … I have good news and bad news.”
“Give me the good news first.”
“Remember when you told me you’d give me twenty dollars if I passed my math test?”
“Yes … ?”
“Well, the good news is that I just saved you twenty bucks!”
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In delivering the ruling the judge, agreeing that the claim was frivolous, stated nevertheless that the man held a policy from the company in which it had warranted that the cigars were insurable and also guaranteed that it would insure against fire, without defining what it considered to be ‘unacceptable fire’, and was obliged to pay the claim. Rather than endure a lengthy and costly appeal the insurance company accepted the ruling and paid the man $15,000 for the rare cigars he had lost ‘in the fires’.
After he cashed the cheque, however, the company had him arrested on 24 counts of arson. With his own insurance claim and testimony from the previous case being used against him, the man was convicted of intentionally burning his insured property and sentenced to 24 months in jail and a $24,000 fine.
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TODAY IN TRIVIA: Have you heard Kappa Alpha Theta?
~1870 on this very day when The first women’s fraternity, Kappa Alpha Theta, is formed at DePauw University
~ Headquarters: 8740 Founders Road Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
~ The Fraternity is a not-for-profit Indiana corporation, with Headquarters in Indianapolis, Indiana.
~The Fraternity’s philanthropic arm, the Kappa Alpha Theta Foundation, supports the Fraternity’seducational programs and Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), Theta’s international philanthropy.
~The Foundation annually awards more than $300,000 in graduate and undergraduate scholarships to members and has awarded over $6,000,000 since the program’s inception.
~The first women’s fraternity to establish a chapter in Canada was Kappa Alpha Theta.
~The first woman elected to the U.S. Senate in her own right was a Theta.
~Walt Disney’s daughTers were Thetas and the song in Mary Poppins, “Let’s go fly a kite” was written for Kappa Alpha Theta
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QUIP OF THE DAY: If I knew I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself. – Mickey Mantle
THAT’S (ALMOST) ALL FOLKS!
Thought for the day. . .
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired. – Erik H. Erikson
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