When you get to the end of the rope, tie a knot and hang on. – Franklin D Roosevelt
TODAY – JUNE 6TH – MONDAY
158th day of 2016 with 208 days to follow. Moon is waxing with 3% visible.
Holidays for Today:
*D-Day Anniversary
*National Applesauce Cake Day
*UN Russian Language Day
*National Gardening Exercise Day- Get out and exercise with your plants.
*National Yo-Yo Day (in honor of the birthday of Donald F. Duncan Sr.)
*Woodmen of the World Founders Day (founded in 1890, 124 years in 2014)
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BIRTHDAYS ON THIS DATE:
1755 Nathan Hale, Coventry, Connecticut, hanged patriot (America’s 1st spy), “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
1756 John Trumbull, Lebanon, Connecticut, painter (Declaration of Independence)
1850 Karl Ferdinand Braun, German-American physicist ( known for Cathode ray tube, Cat’s whisker diode)
1867 David Abercrombie, Baltimore, Maryland, entrepreneur (Abercrombie & Fitch founder)
1868 Robert Falcon Scott, English explorer, leader of ill-fated south polar expedition
1892 Donald F. Duncan, Sr., American entrepreneur and inventor (founder of Duncan Toys Company)
1906 Max August Zorn, German mathematician (Zorn’s lemma, a powerful tool in set theory)
1918 Edwin G. Krebs, Lansing, Iowa, biochemist (Nobel / reversible protein phosphorylation as a biological regulatory mechanism)
1932 David R Scott, San Antonio, Texas, Col USAF/astronaut (Gemini 8; Apollo 9, 15)
1933 Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist (Nobel / design of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM))
1943 Richard Smalley, Akron, Ohio, chemist (Nobel / discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene)
1944 Phillip Allen Sharp, Falmouth, Kentucky, scientist (Nobel / co-discovered gene splicing)
1945 David Dukes, San Francisco, California, actor (The Winds of War, War and Remembrance, The Josephine Baker Story, Sisters, Dawson’s Creek)
1947 Robert Englund, Glendale, California,actor (Nightmare on Elm Street film series )
1952 Harvey Fierstein, Brooklyn, New York, actor (Torch Song Trilogy, Mrs. Doubtfire, Independence Day, Mulan, Broadway 4D)
1954 Cynthia Rylant, American author of children’s books (A Fine White Dust, Missing May, The Relatives Came)
1955 Sandra Bernhard, Flint, Michigan, actress and comedian (Roseanne, Hercules, 2 Broke Girls)
1969 Erik Prince, Holland, Michigan, former US Navy SEAL, businessman (Founded Blackwater USA, chairman of Frontier Services Group Ltd)
1973 Patrick Rothfuss, Madison, Wisconsin, academic and author (The Kingkiller Chronicle, The Adventures of the Princess and Mr. Whiffle)
1974 Danny Strong, Manhattan Beach, California, actor (Clueless, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gilmore Girls, Justified)
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Don’t worry about moving slow. Worry about standing still. – Chinese Proverb
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HISTORICAL HAPPENINGS:
1813 War of 1812: Battle of Stoney Creek – A British force of 700 under John Vincent defeats an American force three times its size under William Winder and John Chandler.
1832 The June Rebellion of Paris is put down by the National Guard.
1833 U.S. President Andrew Jackson becomes the first President to ride on a train.
1844 The Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in London.
1857 Sophia of Nassau marries the future King Oscar II of Sweden-Norway.
1889 The Great Seattle Fire destroys the entirety of downtown Seattle, Washington.
1892 Chicago El begins operation
1894 Governor Davis H. Waite orders the Colorado state militia to protect and support the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek miners’ strike.
1912 Eruption of Novarupta (meaning “new eruption”) in Alaska begins. (10X more powerful than 980 eruption of Mount St. Helens and led to the formation of this 841 m (2759 ft) volcano)
1932 The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States, at a rate of 1 cent per US gallon (1/4 ¢/L) sold.
1933 The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey, United States.
1934 New Deal: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Act of 1933 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
1944 D-Day of World War II, code named Operation Overlord, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. The allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland in the largest amphibious military operation in history.
1944 Alaska Airlines commences operations.
1946 The Basketball Association of America is formed in New York City.
2002 Eastern Mediterranean Event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at 10 metres diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The resulting explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
2005 The Supreme Court ruled 6-to-3 that people who smoke marijuana because their doctors recommend it to ease pain can be prosecuted for violating federal drug laws.
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While I sat in the reception area of my doctor’s office, a woman rolled an elderly man in a wheelchair into the room. As she went to the receptionist’s desk, the man sat there, alone and silent.
Just as I was thinking I should make small talk with him, a little boy slipped off his mother’s lap and walked over to the wheelchair. Placing his hand on the man’s, he said, I know how you feel. My mom makes me ride in the stroller too..
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As I was nursing my baby, my cousin’s six-year-old daughter, Krissy, came into the room. Never having seen anyone breast feed before, she was intrigued and full of all kinds of questions about what I was doing. After mulling over my answers, she remarked, ‘My mom has some of those, but I don’t think she knows how to use them..’
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ONE-LINERS:
~ Reality is a crutch for people who can’t handle drugs.
~ Remember half the people you know are below average.
~ Save the whales. Collect the whole set.
~ My sixty year kindergarten reunion is coming up soon and I’m worried about the 195 lbs. I’ve gained.
~ I’m getting kind of tired always slowly raising my hand when someone asks, “Who *does* something like that?!?”
~ The speed in which a woman says “nothing” when asked “What’s wrong?” is inversely proportional to the severity of the coming storm.
~ I can’t understand why women are okay that JC Penny has an older women’s clothing line named “Sag Harbor.”
~ My therapist said that my narcissism causes me to misread social situations. I’m pretty sure she was hitting on me.
~ The location of your mailbox determines how far from home you can be in a robe before you start looking like a mental patient.
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Out bicycling one day with my eight-year-old granddaughter, Carolyn, I got a little wistful.
‘In ten years,’ I said, ‘you’ll want to be with your friends and you won’t go walking, biking, and swimming with me like you do now.
Carolyn shrugged. ‘In ten years you’ll be too old to do all those things anyway.’
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pic of the day: The Sweet Taste of Bird-Flavored Water….
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WARNING! ENTERING THE PUN ZONE!
~Energizer Bunny arrested — charged with battery.
~A pessimist’s blood type is b-negative.
~Practice safe eating — use condiments.
~A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
~Shotgun wedding: wife or death.
~I used to work in a blanket factory, but it folded.
~If electricity comes from electrons… does that mean that morality comes from morons?
~A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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Working as a pediatric nurse, I had the difficult assignment of giving immunization shots to children.. One day, I entered the examining room to give four-year-old Lizzie her needle.
‘No, no, no!’ she screamed. ‘Lizzie,’ scolded her mother, ‘that’s not polite behavior.’
With that, the girl yelled even louder, ‘No, thank you! No, thank you!”
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Christmas was finally over and the Pastor’s wife dropped into an easy chair saying, “Boy! Am I ever tried.”
Her husband looked over at her and said, “I had to conduct two special services last night, three today, and give a total of five sermons. Why are you so tired?”
“Dear,” she replied, “I had to listen to all of them.”
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LATE NIGHT QUIPS. . .
*This weekend Vladimir Putin played in an exhibition hockey game with some former NHL players and scored eight goals. Even Evander Holyfield and Mitt Romney said, “That looks fake.” – Jimmy Fallon
*A resort in Mexico has opened the first underwater bar. Shortly afterwards it became host to the world’s slowest bar fight ever. – Conan O’Brien
*In the news, a man got so fed up that he drove his truck through his own living room. He said it was one of those spur-of-the-moment crazy things. No, it was not! That’s just regular crazy. Getting frozen yogurt at midnight, or driving to Vegas — those are spur-of-the-moment crazy ideas. – James Corden
*Vladimir Putin reportedly scored eight goals during a hockey game in Sochi this weekend. And the goalie only had one save: his own life. – Seth Meyers
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On the way back from a Cub Scout meeting, my grandson innocently said to my son, ‘Dad, I know babies come from mommies’ tummies, but how do they get there in the first place?’
After my son hemmed and hawed awhile, my grandson finally spoke up in disgust, ‘You don’t have to make up something, Dad. It’s okay if you don’t know the answer.’
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My wife and I were sitting at a table at her high school reunion, and my wife kept staring at a drunken man swigging his drink as he sat alone at a nearby table. I asked my wife, ‘Do you know him?’
‘Yes,’ she sighed, ‘He’s my old boyfriend. I understand he took to drinking right after we split up those many years ago, and I hear he hasn’t been sober since.’
‘Good grief!’ I said to my wife, ‘who would think a person could go on celebrating that long?’
And then the fight started.
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TODAY IN TRIVIA:~Which Great Lake is entirely in the U.S? The Great Lakes are the most important inland waterway in North America. All the lakes, except Lake Michigan, which lies entirely in the United States, are shared by the United States and Canada and form part of the border between these countries.
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QUIP OF THE DAY: A dog has lots of friends because he wags his tail and not his tongue.
THAT’S (ALMOST) ALL FOLKS!
Thought for the day. . . Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vintage point. – Harold B Melchart