It’s Carnival Time! (Wordless Wednesday) and Frugal Fun (Words for Wednesday)

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Linking up with Wordless Wednesday and Sandee at Comedy Plus.     

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Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and has become a moveable feast of word or picture or music prompts to encourage us to write stories, poems, or whatever strikes our fancy.    

This month, the prompts are being provided by Mark Koopmans, and are being posted by Elephant’s Child.           

This week's prompts are:

1. Splurge
2. Bonking
3. Veterans
4. Windows
5. Lasagne
6. Inconceivable!

        

And/Or 

1. Ruling
2. Extinguished
3. Ebonics
4. Dresser
5. Marley
6. Yikes

“Which movie do you want to watch tonight?”

“You mean we will SPLURGE on watching a movie while we eat our cheap, frozen LASAGNA!”

“Very funny.  We have plenty of DVDs, so even if we are watching our money this month, it doesn’t mean we can’t have some entertainment.  We’ll cover the WINDOWS to make it darker, like a dinner theater.  Who knows, by the end of this saving money experiment, we’ll know we are RULING our money instead of it ruling us, and we might be VETERANS of enjoying cheap thrills.”

“YIKES, that’s a scary thought.  Okay, so give me a couple of movie choices.”

“How about The Princess Bride?”

“INCONCEIVABLE!  We watched that about two months ago, didn’t we?”

“Okay, MARLEY and Me.”

“I’m not sure I’m emotionally up to that one tonight.”

“Hmmm, here’s The DRESSER.”

“It’s perfect if you want to have me BONKING my head against the wall over and over by the end of the evening.  I never liked that one.”

“Then let’s have a laugh tonight, Airplane!”

“Yes!  The scene where they are speaking EBONICS is a scream.”

“Excellent choice.  Dinner is on the table, the main lights are EXTINGUISHED, and it’s showtime!”

“Did I ever tell you that you get some crazy ideas?”

“Frequently.  And you love me anyway.”

“You’re right!”

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Today is:

Blue and Pink Day -- Fairy Calendar

Bubblegum Sculpture Day -- commonly listed on ecard sites, and not to be confused with National Bubble Gum Day, coming in February

Carnation Day -- in honor of William McKinley; also on the date of his assassination each year, Sept. 14

Curmudgeons' Day -- W.C. Field's birth anniversary

National Corn Chip Day

National Puzzle Day -- because they are just fun

Sahid Diwash -- Nepal (Martyrs' Day)

St. Constantius of Perugia (Patron of Perugia, Italy)

St. Gildas the Wise's Day (one of the earliest British historians)

Thomas Paine Day/Freethinkers' Day -- birth anniversary of Thomas Paine

Vasant Panchami / Saraswati Puja  -- Hindu (celebrating Saraswati, the goddess of knowledge)

Winterfest & US National Snow Sculpting Competition and Championships -- Lake Geneva, WI, US (through Sunday)

Anniversaries Today:

Establishment of The Seeing Eye, 1929 (first US guide dog school)

Kansas becomes the 34th US state, 1861

Birthdays Today:

Adam Lambert, 1982

Jonny Lang, 1981

Andrew Keegan, 1979

Sara Gilbert, 1975

Heather Graham, 1970

Bobby Phillips, 1968

Nick Turturro, 1962

Greg Louganis, 1960

Oprah Winfrey, 1954

Teresa Teng, 1953

Ann Jillian, 1950

Tom Selleck, 1945

Katharine Ross, 1942

Germaine Greer, 1939

John Forsythe, 1918

Victor Mature, 1913

Huddie William "Leadbelly" Ledbetter, 1885

W.C. Fields, 1880

Anton Chekhov, 1860

William McKinley, 1843

Henry Morton Stanley, 1841

Thomas Paine, 1737

Emanuel Swedenborg, 1688

Debuting/Premiering Today:

Black Panther(Film), 2018

"Sweet Charity"(Musical), 1966

Dr. Strangelove(Film), 1964

Sleeping Beauty(Cartoon movie), 1959

"The Potting Shed"(Play), 1957

"All My Sons"(Play), 1947

"The Raven"(publication date), 1845

"Idomeneo"(Mozart Opera), 1781

"The Beggar's Opera"(Gay Ballad Opera), 1728

Today in History:

The first performance of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, 1595

John Beckley of Virginia is appointed the first Librarian of Congress, 1802

Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" is first published, 1845

The Victoria Cross is established to acknowledge bravery, 1856

Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile, 1886

Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, its last monarch, 1891

Walt Disney starts his first job as an artist, earning $40/week with the KC Slide Co, 1920

North America's first guide dog school, The Seeing Eye, is incorporated in Nashville, Tennessee, 1929

The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced, 1936

The first inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced, 1963

Hungary establishes diplomatic relations with South Korea, making it the first Eastern Bloc nation to do so, 1989

President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear weapons testing, 1996

La Fenice, Venice's opera house, is destroyed by fire, 1996

The first direct commercial flights from mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines flight lands in Beijing, 2005

Ken Dryden's #29 jersey is retired by the Montreal Canadiens, 2010

American snowboarder Shaun White achieves the first ever SuperPipe perfect score (100) in Winter X Games history, 2012

Archaeologists discover the oldest Roman Temple (6th C BC) at Sant’Omobono, 2014

Scientists announce they have discovered how to convert normal cells into stem cells in mice, 2014

Malaysia officially declares the disappearance of missing flight MH370 an accident, 2015

The Norwegian government proposes building a floating road tunnel as part of a new roadway between Kristians and Trondheim, 2019