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Bumper Stickers o’ the Day
Posted in Regular Features, tagged Humor, Miscellaneous, Society on February 4, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Quotes o’ the Day
Posted in Regular Features, tagged Miscellaneous, People, Society on January 19, 2020| 1 Comment »
Don’t raise your voice. Improve your argument.
— Desmond Tutu
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
— Marcel Proust
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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
— Douglas Adams
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Those who say it can’t be done should get out of the way of those who are doing it.
— Anne Lamott
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Tune o’ the Day
Posted in Regular Features, tagged Music, People, Society on January 11, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Roy Orbison (1936-1988) was an unlikely guy to become a rock star. But his operatic voice was captivating — angelic, otherworldly — and he sang sad songs about unrequited love. (“Pretty Woman” being the exception because he got the girl.)
Most of Orbison’s love songs were melodramatic, sometimes cheesy, yet still beautiful and memorable. A few examples: “Only the Lonely,” “In Dreams,” “Running Scared,” “Dream Baby.”
Then there is the classic “Crying.” Orbison at the top of his game.
Crying
By Roy Orbison, 1962
Written by Roy Orbison
I was all right for a while.
I could smile for a while.
But I saw you last night.
You held my hand so tight
As you stopped to say hello.
Oh, you wished me well.
You couldn’t tell
That I’d been crying
Over you.
Crying
Over you.
When you said so long,
Left me standing all alone,
Alone and crying.
Crying.
Crying.
Crying.
It’s hard to understand,
But the touch of your hand
Can start me crying.
I thought that I was over you,
But it’s true, so true:
I love you even more
Than I did before,
But, darling, what can I do?
For you don’t love me,
And I’ll always be
Crying
Over you.
Crying
Over you.
Yes, now you’re gone,
And from this moment on,
I’ll be crying,
Crying,
Crying,
Crying,
Yeah, crying,
Crying
Over you.
Trivia Questions o’ the Day
Posted in Regular Features, tagged History, Miscellaneous, Society on January 7, 2020| Leave a Comment »
The Questions…
1. Whales are classified as either baleen whales, which feed on krill and plankton, or toothed whales, which hunt prey (orcas, dolphins, porpoises). To what land creatures are whales most closely related?
2. Which came first, the band the Rolling Stones or the magazine Rolling Stone?
3. In the mid-1600s, lemonade vendors in Venice began selling a new drink that purported to offer great medicinal benefits. What was it?
4. Which planet in the solar system is the hottest?
5. Pogonophobia is the fear of what?
The Answers…
1. Hippopotamuses.
2. The band was started in 1962, the magazine in 1967. Both are named after the 1948 song “Rollin’ Stone” by Muddy Waters.
3. Coffee, a new sensation from the Muslim world.
4. Venus. Mercury is closer to the sun and gets more direct heat, but it has no atmosphere to hold the heat. Venus has a dense atmosphere of carbon dioxide that traps heat (the greenhouse effect thing). The surface temperature on Venus is a constant 865 degrees F.
5. Beards.
This Just In
Posted in Regular Features, tagged Humor, Life, People, Society on December 26, 2019| Leave a Comment »
MENOMONIE, WISCONSIN — A BASE jumper who parachuted illegally from the top of a cellphone tower ended up calling the police for help after his parachute got caught on a guy wire, leaving him dangling 50 feet in the air.
Police said the 20-year-old man jumped from a 300-foot Charter Communications tower. After his rescue and treatment at a local clinic, he was arrested for criminal trespass.
Note: BASE is an acronym for the most common fixed objects from which the jumpers launch themselves: buildings, antennas, spans, and earth (mountains, cliffs). BASE jumping occasionally is permitted, but most jumps are done illegally by grandstanding knuckleheads.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA — A 19-year-old female set her apartment on fire while burning love letters from a former boyfriend.
Police said the woman sat on the floor of her bedroom and used a butane torch to burn the stash of letters, then went into another room to take a nap. She woke up later to find the carpet burning.
Firefighters quickly extinguished the blaze, which caused an estimated $4,000 in damage to the building. No injuries were reported.
The woman was cited for negligent burning.
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA — A woman who dreamed she swallowed her engagement ring woke up to discover it actually happened.
The newly-engaged San Diego woman said she dreamed she was aboard a train and was approached by “bad guys” attempting to steal the ring. To thwart them, she swallowed the ring with the help of a glass of water.
When she awoke the next morning and discovered that the ring was missing, she called her fiance. They went to an urgent care clinic, where an X-ray confirmed the location of the ring. An emergency endoscopy retrieved it.
Quotes o’ the Day
Posted in Regular Features, tagged Miscellaneous, People, Society on December 18, 2019| Leave a Comment »
We never really grow up. We only learn how to act in public.
— Bryan White
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Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.
— Anne Frank
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Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.
— Attributed to W. R. Purche
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A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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Bumper Stickers o’ the Day
Posted in Regular Features, tagged Humor, Miscellaneous, Society on December 14, 2019| Leave a Comment »
