Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Winning Is The Only Thing and Other Funnies, a Random and Happy Tuesday Post

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It's time once again for a random and happy Tuesday, linking up with Stacy's Random Thoughts at Stacy Uncorked and Sandee at Comedy Plus.  

Overheard at a meeting:

"Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?"

"I don't care about being right, I care about winning."

"Okay, do you want to win or do you want to be happy?"

"I want to be happy because I am winning!"

Dr. D had a very happy moment yesterday when we found some money tucked away she didn't know she had.  "Put it with the stack of items I need to tend when I leave the house this afternoon" she told me.

Of course, a couple of hours after I left, she called to ask where it was.  While i can appreciate it's not amusing to her, sometimes the way her mind works is an almost endless source of amusement for me, in a laugh with her not at her kind of way.

And now for a few funnies Grandma sent:











Have a fabulous Tuesday, everyone!







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Today is:

Abu Simbel Festival -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (along with Feb. 22, the day when the sunlight fell perfectly on the statues of Ramses, Ra, and Amun at the temple complex)

Caps Lock Day -- celebrating life in screaming CAPITALS (i'd include a link to the promo site, but it's rather annoying)

Clean Up the Earth Day -- begun because having only one Earth Day a year doesn't give enough emphasis to the amount of work that needs to be done

Color Day -- a day to consider how color affects your life, health, and world

Eat a Pretzel Day -- unclaimed sponsorship; does anyone else suspect that pretzel makers know how to spread stuff around the internet, too?

International Stuttering Awareness Day -- information here  

Jidai Matsuri -- Kyoto, Japan (Festival of the Eras or Festival of the Ages)

National Knee Day -- take care of your knees, and they will take care of you!

National Nut Day -- UK & US (also now celebrated around the world) (launched by Liberation Foods CIC, a fair trade nut company, urging us to celebrate fairly traded nuts and swap out a nut based burger for a meat based meal, at least for today, or grab a handful of nutritious almonds or walnuts or your own favorite mix; if you don't like nuts, you can just choose to go be one, instead)        

Seeking of King Look Under Your Mattress -- Fairy Calendar

Smart is Cool Day -- and i don't know who started this one, but i'd say someone tired of being made fun of for being a bookworm

St. Mary Salome's Day (Patron of Veroli, Italy)


Anniversaries Today:

Toastmasters International founded, 1924
The first Metropolitan Opera House in NYC opens, performing Faust, 1883


Birthdays Today:

Carlos Mencia, 1967
Valeria Golino, 1966
Brian Boitano, 1963
Jeff Goldblum, 1952
Deepak Chopra, 1946
Catherine Deveuve, 1943
Jan De Bont, 1943
Annette Funicello, 1942
Tony Roberts, 1939
Derek Jacobi, 1938
Christopher Lloyd, 1938
Timothy Leary, 1920
Joan Fontaine, 1917
Robert Capa, 1913
Curly Howard, 1903
George Beadle, 1903
N. C. Wyeth, 1882
Sarah Bernhardt, 1844
Franz Liszt, 1811


Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Me and Bessie"(Musical), 1975
"Take Me Along"(Musical), 1959
"The Far Off Hills"(Play), 1928


Today in History:

The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside of Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious fire, 362
Emperor Kanmu relocates Japanese capital to Heiankyo (now Kyoto), 794
Battle of the Southern Fujian Sea, Ming Dynasty wins a victory against the Dutch East India Company, 1633
Princeton University is chartered, 1746
Andre-Jacques Trim becomes the first sky diver, parachuting over Paris from a balloon, 1797
Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas, 1836
First telegraph line linking US east and west coasts of the US is completed, 1861
First concert performance of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1881
World's first automobile dealer opens in London, 1897
President Hoover gives the "American system of rugged individualism" speech, 1928
The FBI ambushes Pretty Boy Floyd, 1934
First commercial flight from the mainland to Hawai'i, 1936
Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but turns down the honor, 1964
A Multi-Party Parliamentary Committee selects the design which becomes the new official Flag of Canada, 1964
The Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus, 1975Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it 
is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs, although the dye is still used in Canada, 1976
Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms, 2005
A Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a National referendum held in Panama, 2006
India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1, 2008
North Korea gives the US permission to search for the remains of American soldiers killed during the Korean War, 2011
Six Italian scientists are convicted of manslaughter for their failure to predict the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake, 2012

16 comments:

  1. Love the funnies.
    I suspect that Dr D would do my head in on a regular basis.

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  2. Love the funnies. I'd like to be happy because I'm winning too, but mostly I'm just happy anyway.

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  3. I like the idea of National Nut Day. Something for everybody.

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  4. Whoever invented CAPS LOCK DAY needs to be taken out back and shot.
    No. Just, no.

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  5. TYhank you for the smiles.
    Happy, I'll always chosse happy over being right, winning or most any other thing.
    In your wonderful list of things great and small I found an error or two:
    Typo: Catherine Deveuve should be Catherine Deneuve.
    Missing: Today we celebrate John Paul II, on the day of his inauguraation (1978).

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  6. We have lousy weather, so I think we will stay inside and delete cookies today, LOL!

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  7. Thank you GRandma. I'm still laughing. See ya Mimi and have a wonderful Tuesday.

    Cruisin Paul

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  8. There is news on a new drug that will reverse the effects of Alzheimer's having good results. I sure hope it is successful. I am not as afraid of dying as I am of living and not knowing where or who I am.

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  9. Dr. D is an endless form of entertainment. That's for sure.

    Love all the funnies. Clever.

    Thank you for joining the Happy Tuesday Blog Hop and thank you for being such a loyal participant in my blog hops.

    Have a fabulous Happy Tuesday, my friend. ♥

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  10. That Dr. sounds like you have to either crack up, or you will crack up, so to speak! Ok, it's Knee Day. Since I have only one, is it a half day for me? Hee hee...
    Cat

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  11. the funnies were fantastic today; or as dai$y would say FABulous !! ☺☺☺♥♥♥♥

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  12. I wonder if Dr. D would benefit from some meds for ADD? I like the collie flower :)

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  13. Love those funnies from Grandma, nothing like a good laugh (or a few) at the end of the day,

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  14. Oh great fur person quotes and pics! Love 'em!

    Happy Day to You,
    A ShutterBug Explores,
    aka (A Creative Harbor)

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