Sunday, August 11, 2019

Wrong Fit (Cajun Joke) and Sunday Selections

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Just because Sandee of Comedy Plus is no longer hosting a Silly Sunday blog hop, do not expect me to quit telling Cajun jokes, especially as it has now become a habit

On the way to NOLA yesterday, Little Girl was talking about her exercise plans and how she has to keep fit for her military service.

#2 Son has also started working out, and is building muscle quite well.  Since he was around 16 he's been just over 5'10" and has never weighed more than 135lbs.  He has wanted to put on some muscle, and finally made the commitment to do it.

Clothile still done be goin' after Boudreaux to get him to exercise.

He done say, "Clothile, I a'ready do de crossfit!"

An' Clothile ax, "What you mean, you do de crossfit?"

An' Boudreaux say, "Mais, I cross my fingers an' hope de pants fit!"


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Sunday Selections was started as a way for bloggers to use photos that might otherwise just languish in their files.  The rules have been relaxed, and it is now simply a showcase for your photos, new or old, good or bad, although nothing rude, please.  It is now hosted by Elephant's Child.    

We have a fungus -- actually, what Grandma calls toadstools -- among us.























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Today is:

Alcatraz Day -- the first prisoners arrived this day in 1934

Day of Honor for Oddudua -- Santeria religion (cognate of the Roman Catholic St. Clare of Assisi; credited with the creation of humans)

Dog Days end -- yes, supposedly, in this heat

Don't Wait, Celebrate! Week -- 2nd full week of August each year; because spontaneous and frequent celebrations are good for you, says Patty Sachs 

Eid al-Adha -- Islam (Festival of Sacrifice, a three-day commemoration of Abraham's obedience and willingness to sacrifice his son; begins at sunset, local customs of date and official government days off in many places will vary)

Fathers' Day -- Brazil; Samoa (a public holiday in Samoa, with a day off tomorrow)

Feast of St. Attracta -- Irish Catholic Saint (founded a hospice and convents, and supposedly slayed a dragon; Patron of Achonry, Ireland; Men of Lugna)

Independence Day -- Chad(1960)

Ingersoll Day

Joust of the Quintana -- Ascoli Piceno, Italy (reenactment of a medieval jousting tournament)

Melon Day -- Turkmenistan (the country that really loves its muskmelons)

National Peacekeepers Day -- Canada (obs. on Sunday closest to the 9th)

National Raspberry Bombe Day or Raspberry Tart Day -- whichever one you like best, or both, if that's the way you roll

Play in the Sand Day -- as per many internet sites; yeah, like at the beach, nothing like sand in your shorts, i get enough of that on vacation, thank you

Presidential Joke Day**

Son and Daughter Day -- the day to give your son(s) or daughter(s) the gift of time

St. Clare of Assisi's Day -- (Foundress of the Order of Poor Ladies [Poor Clares] Franciscan nuns; Patron of embroiderers, eyes, gilders/gold workers/goldsmiths, good weather, laundry workers, needle workers, telegraphs, telephones, and television writers; Assisi, Italy; Santa Clara Indian Pueblo; against eye disease)***; related observance
    Fiesta de Santa Clara -- Santa Clara Pueblo, NM, US (Native American celebration of St. Clare of Assisi, their Patron saint, with a corn dance and prayers for rain)

St. Philomela's Day (Patron of babies, children, desperate causes, forgotten causes, impossible causes, lost causes, orphans, poor people, priests, prisoners, sick people, students, test takers, toddlers, young people; against barrenness, bodily ills, infertility, mental illness, sickness, sterility)

Tisha B'Av -- Judaism (began sunset yesterday, through sunset today)


Birthdays Today:

Will Friedle, 1976
Ashley Jensen, 1969
Viola Davis, 1965
Joe Jackson, 1955
Hulk Hogan, 1953
Stephen Wozniak, 1950
Marilyn vos Savant, 1946
Joanna Coles, 1944
Anna Massey, 1937
Arlene Dahl, 1928
Mike Douglas, 1925 (Note: he also died on this date in 2006)
Alex Haley, 1921
Carrie Minetta Jacobs-Bond, 1862
David Rice Atchison, 1807
Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, 1667 (Last of the Medicis)


Debuting/Premiering Today:

Nightmare on Elm Street 5: Dream Child(Film), 1989
"Die Harmonie der Welt /The Harmony of the World"(Opera), 1957


Today in History:

First day of the Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar, used my the Maya and other pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, BC3114
Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and founder of the Armenian nation, BC2492
Battle of Artemisium, naval battle of the Greco-Persian War, fought at the same time as the Battle of Thermopylae of the same war; Leonidas, King of Sparta, dies in the land battle, BC480*
Papandayan Java volcanic eruption kills 3,000, 1772
Charles Lawrence gives expulsion orders to remove the Acadians from Nova Scotia beginning the Great Upheaval, 1755
The world's first roller rink opens in Newport, RI, 1866
The first civilian prisoners arrive at Alcatraz, 1934
Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a frequency hopping, spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi, 1942
A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo to Honolulu, killing one teenager and injuring 15 passengers, 1984
NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history, 2003
A new species of a giant carnivorous plant, Nepethes attenboroughii, is discovered in the central Phillipines highlands, 2009
Jamaican runner Usain Bolt wins his third gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics, 2012
Scientists officially declare a Greenland shark to be the world's oldest living vertebrate, at over 400 years old, 2015


*some historians give different dates

**because presidents have a sense of humor, too, as shown this day in 1984 when Reagan thought the microphone was off and joked about Russia being outlawed



***why tv? because when she became too ill to attend mass at the end of her life, a miraculous image of the service would display on the wall of her room

13 comments:

  1. It looks like you have a fine crop of funghi. I find them fascinating (albeit not always safe to handle).

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  2. My daughter has the big white ones in her front lawn.

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  3. I like the fungi.
    I could make a comment about Presidential joke day but since Boris was selected we Brits can't comment on another country....

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  4. I have had all of those toadstools in my yard throughout this summer. Same type! That Cajun laugh was an especially good one!

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  5. I am also crossing my fingers and hope to keep fit. Lol! The fungi look like the ones we have here. They are pretty to look at but I never touch them. Have a blessed Sunday!

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  6. LOL @ Boudreaux haha!

    There is too mushroom for those taodstools there heheh!

    Have a fungilesstastic Sunday :-)

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  7. Thank you for explaining the television connection - I was just about to launch into bewilderment. :-)

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  8. We have toadstools sometimes but never any toads!

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  9. I'm so glad that your son is getting muscles. So do I except my muscle is called fat. LOL See ya Mimi.


    Cruisin Paul

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  10. Cute joke- that is my kind of exercise :) Mushrooms like wet weather.

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  11. Fabulous fungi photos! Thanks for the joke!

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  12. Fun Cajun joke! How true! Mushrooms ~ don't think I would eat them though ^_^

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

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  13. We used to stomp on the toadstools, of course spreading the spores.

    St. Murtagh's Day up in County Sligo, hmm.

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