Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force. – Tom Blandi
TODAY – JANUARY 6th – FRIDAY
6th day of 2017 with 359 days to follow. Moon in first quarter with 58% visible.
Holidays for Today:
~ Cuddle Up Day
~ National Bean Day
~ National Shortbread Day
~ Three Kings Day
~ National Hot Tea Month
~ National Mail Order Gardening Month
~ Epiphany or Twelfth Night (the 12th day after Christmas, celebrating the visit of the three kings or wise men to the Christ Child, signifying the extension of salvation to the Gentiles)
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BIRTHDAYS ON THIS DATE:
1745 Étienne Montgolfier, France, inventor (montgolfière-style hot air balloon, globe aérostatique)
1799 Jedediah Strong Smith, Bainbridge, New York, fur trader/ explorer (Rocky Mts. west coast, southwest)
1878 Carl Sandburg, Galesburg, Illinois, poet/ biographer of Lincoln (The People, Yes)
1883 Khalil Gibran, Lebanese-American poet (The Prophet, Broken Wings)
1912 Danny Thomas, Deerfield, Michigan, actor/ comedian/ founder St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (Make Room for Daddy, Danny Thomas Show)
1913 Loretta Young, Salt Lake City, Utah, actress (Farmer’s Daughter, Stranger)
1924 Earl Scruggs, Flint Hill, North Carolina, musician (perfected 3-finger style on 5-string banjo; Flatt & Scruggs- Ballad of Jed Clampett, Rocky Top, There Ain’t No Country Music on This Jukebox)
1925 John Z DeLorean, Detroit, Michigan, engineer/ founder DeLorean Motor Co. (designed Pontiac GTO & Firebird, & DeLorean DMC-12 sports car, which was later featured in the movie Back to the Future)
1937 Lou Holtz, Follansbee, West Virginia, football player, coach, and sportscaster (ESPN)
1948 Guy Gardner, Altavista, Virginia, NASA astronaut (pilot 2 Space Shuttle missions; STS-27, STS-35) /12th President of Williamson Free School of Mechanical Trades
1957 C. Michael Foale, England, astrophysicist/ NASA astronaut (STS-45, STS-56, STS-63, STS-84, Mir NASA-4 (Mir EO-23 and 24), STS-86, STS-103, Soyuz TMA-3, Expedition 8)
1957 Nancy Lopez, Torrance, California, golfer (won 48 LPGA Tour events, including 3 major championships)
1960 Andrea Thompson, Ohio, actress (Falcon Crest, Babylon 5, JAG, 24, Heroes, NYPD Blue )
1976 Danny Pintauro, Milltown, New Jersey, actor (Who’s the Boss? )
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world. – Woodrow Wilson
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HISTORICAL HAPPENINGS:
1838 Samuel Morse made 1st public demonstration of telegraph.
1912 New Mexico becomes 47th state.
1929 Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta to begin her work among India’s poorest and sick people.
1931 Thomas Edison submits his last patent application.
1941 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address (speech, worship, from want & from fear).
1942 Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world.
1958 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to ee cummings.
1963 “Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom” with Marlin Perkins begins on NBC.
1973 “Schoolhouse Rock” premieres on ABC-TV with Multiplication Rock.
1974 In response to the 1973 energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
1975 “Wheel Of Fortune” day-time version debuted on NBC-TV.
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“I had a meal last night. I ordered everything in French, surprised everybody. It was a Chinese restaurant. I said to this Chinese waiter,
“Look, this chicken I got here is cold.”
He said, “It should be, it’s been dead two weeks.”
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Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we’re kids? If you’re less than 10 years old, you’re so excited about aging that you think in fractions.
“How old are you?” “I’m four and a half!” You’re never thirty-six and a half. You’re four and a half, going on five!
That’s the key.
You get into your teens, now they can’t hold you back. You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead.
“How old are you?” “I’m gonna be 16!” You could be 13, but hey, you’re gonna be 16! And then the greatest day of your life…you become 21. Even the words sound like a ceremony…YOU BECOME 21. YESSSS!
But then you turn 30. Oooohh, what happened there? Makes you sound like bad milk. He TURNED 30! We had to throw him out. There’s no fun now, you’re Just a sour-dumpling. What’s wrong? What’s changed?
You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you’re PUSHING 40.
Whoa! Put on the brakes, it’s all slipping away. Before you know it, you REACH 50… and your dreams are gone.
But wait! You MAKE it to 60. You didn’t think you would!
So you BECOME 21, TURN 30, PUSH 40, REACH 50 and MAKE it to 60.
You’ve built up so much speed that you HIT 70! After that it’s a day-by-day thing; you HIT Wednesday!
You get into your 80s and every day is a complete cycle; you HIT lunch; you TURN 4:30; you REACH bedtime.
And it doesn’t end there. Into the 90s, you start going backwards; “I was JUST 92.”
Then a strange thing happens. If you make it over 100, you become a little kid again. “I’m 100 and a half!”
May you all make it to a healthy 100 and a half!!
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ONE-LINERS:
Things you learn from movies
~ All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices, which have large red read-outs to tell you exactly when it will go off.
~ Should you need to pass yourself off as a German officer it will not be necessary to speak the language, a convincing accent will do.
~ All apartments in Paris overlook the Eiffel tower.
~ Most lap top computers are powerful enough to override a bank security system or the communication system of an invading alien civilization.
~ Every single person in martial arts Film has a black belt in karate.
~ When staying in a haunted house, women should investigate any strange noises in their most revealing underwear.
~ 1 man shooting at 20 men has more chance of hitting them than 20 men shooting at 1 man if he is the hero.
~ During a police investigation it will be necessary to visit a strip joint at least once.
~ Large studio-type apartments in big cities are affordable by single people with a low wage.
~ The entire British population lives in London.
~ It doesn’t matter if you are heavily outnumbered in a martial arts fight; your enemies will attack you one at a time while the others dance around you menacingly.
~ In musicals everyone you meet in the street will know all the words to the songs and the steps to the dances.
~ When captured by an evil international terrorist, guns are not necessary to defeat them, sarcasm and wisecracks are your best weapons.
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A young woman walked into a fancy jewelry store. She looked through all the wonderful selections, found an especially gorgeous bauble and asked: “Can I please put a small deposit on this until my boyfriend does something stupid and unforgivable?”
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pic of the day: Rooster on the fence
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WARNING! ENTERING THE PUN ZONE!
An ant knocks on the door of a house. The homeowner opens the door. “I Awant a place to stay,” says the ant.
“I have a vacant room you can stay in for free,” says the owner.
The next day the ant brings in another ant and asks, “Can you please allow this ant to stay with me?”
“Oh sure, you can do that without paying any rent.”
Some days later the ant brings one more ant and for the new ant to stay. Once again owner agrees without asking for any rent.
This continues as the ant brings in another ant and another. Then one day, the ant brings in the tenth ant and the owner to allow him to stay as well.
The owner says, “You can all stay here but you all must now pay rent.”
You see, they had become ten-ants.
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A guy was walking through a cemetery when night began to fall. Unable to see well he stumbled into an open grave.
The next morning, an airhead lady arrived walking through the cemetery heard a voice murmur, “I’m soooo cold!”
Staring down into the grave, she replied, “Well no wonder! You poor thing. You kicked all your dirt off.”
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Signs Found In Kitchens
– Kitchen closed – – this chick has had it!
– Martha Stewart doesn’t live here!
– I’m creative; you can’t expect me to be neat too!
– So this isn’t Home Sweet Home… Adjust!
– Ring Bell for Maid Service…If no answer do it yourself!
– I clean house every other day…. Today is the other day!
– If you write in the dust, please don’t date it!
– I would cook dinner but I can’t find the can opener!
– My house was clean last week, too bad you missed it!
– A clean kitchen is the sign of a wasted life.
– COOK CAN’T TAKE IT ANYMORE!
– I came, I saw, I decided to order take out.
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A man stubbed his toe so badly he decided to go to the doctor. When he arrived at the office the nurse told him to remove his clothes and wait in the next room.
“I just hurt my toe,” complained the man. “Why do I need to take off my clothes?”
“Everyone who sees the doctor has to undress,” explained the nurse politely. “It’s our policy.”
“Well, I think it’s a stupid policy! Making me undress just to look at my toe! Good grief!”
From the next room another man’s voice piped up, “That’s nothing — I just came here to fix the copier.”
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TODAY IN TRIVIA: Which presidential spouse was the premiere first lady? Martha Washington was referred to as “Lady Washington.” Mary Todd Lincoln was the first presidential wife to be referred to as “The First Lady.”
~Do you get your money’s worth when you eat out? In a typical restaurant, customers get 27 cents worth of food for each dollar they spend. Of course, that doesn’t count the overhead for personell and the restaurant itself.
~Why wouldn’t you use wood to mix saffron? Since the spice saffron is so expensive, knowledgeable chefs don’t want to waste it. They never use wooden utensils when mixing saffron. Wood tends to absorb it easily.
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QUIP OF THE DAY:Learn from the past, live for today, look for tomorrow. Take a nap this afternoon. – Igor Stavinsky
THAT’S (ALMOST) ALL FOLKS!
Thought for the day. . . Our talents are the gift that God gives to us… What we make of our talents is our gift back to God. – Leo Buscaglia