Let's get out there and...
"Schmooze The Day Away!"

Born this date: 1945 Itzhak Perlman OOO-Rah!

R.I.P this date: 1964 Rocky Marciano

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Born this date: 1871 Ernest Lord Rutherford

Assumed Room Temp: 30 -BC- Cleopatra (sat on her asp, she did.)

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Born this date: 1632 John Locke

Locke believed that reason teaches that "no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions"; and that transgressions of this may be punished.

(so back off, Barry)

Martyrdom of John the Baptist 29 ad
(careful what you ask for, Salome!)

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Festival of Neon Revolution

Here are some reasons to be grateful you don't have to learn English at this point in your life:

1. In what other language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?

2. Ship by truck and send cargo by ship?

3. Have noses that run and feet that smell?

4. How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wiseguy are opposites?

5. Why is it you can park in the driveway and drive on the parkways?

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Born this date: 1884 Earl Biggers author ("Charlie Chan" detective series)

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Born this date: 1913 Walt Kelly: Creator of POGO!

A.R.T. (Assumed Room Temperature): 1900 Friedrich Nietzsche

"God is Dead" signed Nietzsche.
"Nietzsche is dead" signed God.

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Born this date: 1938 Mason Williams ("Classical Gas")

Life

"Isn't life beautiful?
ain't life gay?
isn't life the perfect thing,
to pass the time away?"

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Joke o' the day: Customer to stocker: "Do these turkeys get any bigger?"
sayeth the stocker: "no ma'am, they're dead."

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Born this date: 1932 Mark Russell

OOO-Rah!

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"Be an Angel Day"
(ah, to Hell with it.)

Born this date: 1934 Norman Schwartzkopf ("Stormin' Norman") OOO-Rah!

on this date: 1567 - The "Council of Blood" was established by the Duke of Alba.

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Whoop-it-up!! It's the "Festival of Goliath"

Born this date: 1906 Friz Freleng

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Benevolent aliens from the planet Emerald send superhero Starman to protect Earth from invasion by an evil alien race called the Spherions. (oh no! not the Spherions!)


Here come Starman, I feel a Spherion Smackdown is coming!

Here is the IMDb data on our "epic"...

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Celebrate! It's "Festival of Random Access Memory"

Born this date: 1902 Ogden Nash OOO-Rah!

"The cow is of the bovine ilk;
One end is moo, the other, milk."

R.I.P. this date: 1977 Julius (Groucho) Marx

"She got her looks from her father...
He's a plastic surgeon."

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Born this date: 1919 Walter J Hickel

Who once opined:
"Jeez! You just can't let nature run wild!"

R.I.P this date: 2009 Robert Novack

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Festival of Hungry Ghosts (China)

R.I.P. This date: 1983 Ira Gershwin

Event o' the day: 1948 Alger Hiss denies ever being a Communist agent

(he also denied ever swimming the English Channel without permission.)

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Those who can make you believe absurdities
can make you commit atrocities.

~~ Voltaire

R.I.P this date: 1948 - Babe Ruth

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Born this date: 1769 Napoleon Bonaparte

Died this date: 1935 Wiley Post & Will Rogers killed in plane crash in Alaska

Happened this date: 1945 V-J Day.

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From the Urban Dictionary:

"Palinize":

To attack a person for his or her conservative values by focusing an inordinate amount of attention on a single example of that person falling short (or being perceived as falling short) of the values they espouse. The term is derived from excessive criticism of Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin by the mainstream media and other public figures after it was learned that Palin's unwed teenage daughter was pregnant.

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"Tails of the Iditarod"

Born this date: Bert Lahr 1895

R.I.P this date: 2009 Lester William Polfuss (Les Paul)

1934 - Al Capp's comic strip "L'il Abner" made its debut in newspapers.

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Southpaws rejoice, it's LEFT HANDERS' DAY!
(show 'em how you feel about lefty discrimination!)

Born this date: 1887 Erwin Schrödinger (I hear he had a cat)

1851 Isaac Singer granted patent for his sewing machine (gee, I wonder what he'll call it?)

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Let's Dance. 'tis the "Festival of Happy Feet"!

Born this date: 1953 Hulk Hogan

1945 - The Allies informed Japan that they would determine Emperor Hirohito's future status after Japan's surrender. ("you lost, bozos. Don't try to dictate the terms!")

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Born this date: 1865 Alexander Glazunov

Assumed Room Temperature this date: 1976 Ray "Crash" Corrigan

Funnies & "ponderables"

1. I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.

2. Ninety-Nine percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

3. All those who believe in psycho-kinesis, raise my hand.

4. OK, so what's the speed of dark?

5. Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?

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Born This Date: 1930 Betty Boop

R.I.P. 1969 Sharon Tate

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Keeping You Abreast...

Apple Computer announced today that it has developed a computer chip that can store and play high fidelity music in women's breast implants. The iBoob will cost between $499 and $699, depending on the speaker size. This is considered to be a major breakthrough because women have always complained about men staring at their breasts and not listening to them.

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"Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier."
Blore's Razor

Born this date: 1926 Stan Freberg

1882 Hatfields & McCoys feud: 100 wounded or die.

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Celebrate! It's Odie's Birthday.

Born this date: David Robinson ("the Admiral") OOO-Rah!

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Bela at his best. 'nuf said

Remote control exploding spiders, nasty looking robots, invisibility, spies, G-men, this bad-boy has it all!

Nasty looking robot OOO-Rah!

IMDb info

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Success is overratted
Today is National Failures' Day
Get Down! Get Down!

Born this date: 1961 Barak Hussein Obama

Event: 1983 - New York Yankee outfielder Dave Winfield threw a baseball during warm-ups and accidentally killed a seagull. After the game, Toronto police arrested him for "causing unnecessary suffering to an animal." (jeez it was a freakin' SEAGULL!)

Quote: In heaven all the interesting people are missing. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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Hooray! Today is Nat'l "Waffle" Day!
"here we go a waffleing"...
Wait maybe not... Or on the other hand...
Okay! a definite "maybe"

Born this date: Martha Stewart 1941 (and that's a good thing?)

Event: 1880 - The American Canoe Association was formed at Lake George, NY

"I canoe ... Canoe?"

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Do da "dino stomp", it's...
Dinosaur Day!

Died this date: President Paul von Hindenburg. Successor: Adolph Hitler.

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Starman comes to save the day!

Wow! Special effects and costumes must have cost MILLIONS! (or not...)

If this classic comes to a theater near you ... you live in the wrong place!

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Birthday of "Chopsticks" 1877

Born this day: 10 BCE Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus

R.I.P. : 1975 Julian "Cannonball" Adderly

Event o' the Day: 1774 Priestly discovers oxygen
(good thing, else we'd all be dead!)

Quote: "Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime." ~ G. Gordon Liddy

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