Sunday, March 21, 2021

Blurry (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.


Yesterday, Miss Eva asked me if i was going to get the vaccine, and i joked with her that no one should ask that question.  It's true, i won't answer that question, as no matter what i say, someone is going to disagree with me.  Better to leave that topic alone.


Boudreaux come back from gettin' him de vaccine, an' he tell Thibodeaux, "Don' do it!  Dere be somepin' wrong!  Already I done be not seein' right, mebbe we need to call me de amb'lance!"


Den Clothile done stick her head in de room an' say, "Mais!  De vaccine center call to tell you come back an' get you new glasses you done forgot dere!"



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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.    


Many here were concerned the ice storm destroyed the azalea buds.  Not to worry:





















the wisteria is out, too!





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Today is:


Aizu Higan Shishi/Sanbiki Shishimai -- Aizu Wakamatsu, Japan (lion dances to mark the end of winter)


Back Badge Day -- Gloucestershire Regiment, British Army


Birth of Benito Juarez, a Fiestas Patrias -- Mexico (trad.)


Camp Fire USA Birthday Week


Care Sunday / Carling Sunday -- England, 5th Sunday of Lent (possibly from the Old Saxon "carles", or husbandman)


Common Courtesy Day -- commonly listed on this day on many sites, with no origin given, but it's not a bad idea!


Fragrance Day and Flower Day -- the first full day of spring


Harmony Day -- Australia (managed by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship)


Human Rights Day -- South Africa


Independence Day -- Namibia(1990)


International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination -- UN


Memory Day -- internet based, to examine the use of memory aids throughout history


Mother's Day -- most Arabic nations


National Common Courtesy Day -- guess it's not so common any more, someone had to declare a holiday to try to foster some


National French Bread Day


National Single Parent Day -- US (by Presidential designation in 1984)


National Tree Planting Day -- Lesotho


Orthodox Sunday -- Orthodox Christian


Paper Dress Day -- the paper dress was introduced as part of an ad campaign by the Scott Paper Co. on this day in 1966


Single Parents' Day -- sponsored by Parents Without Parners, on the date of their inception in 1957


Spring Fairy Fun Day -- Fairy Calendar


St. Nicholas of Flue's Day (Patron of councilmen, difficult marriages, large families, magistrates, parents of large families, Pontifical Swiss Guards, separated spouses, Switzerland)


World Down Syndrome Day -- UN


World Forest Day/International Day of Forests and the Trees -- UN


World Puppetry Day  


World Poetry Day -- UNESCO


Youth Day -- Tunisia



Birthdays Today:


Ronaldinho, 1980

Kevin Federline, 1978

Matthew Broderick, 1962

Rosie O'Donnell, 1962

Ayrton Senna da Silva, 1960

Gary Oldman, 1958

Eddie Money, 1949

Timothy Dalton, 1944

Peter Brook, 1925

Julio Gallo, 1910

John D Rockefeller III, 1906

Bascom Lamar Lunsford, 1882

Florenz Ziegfeld, 1867

Modest Mussorgsky, 1839

James Jesse "King Strang" Strang, 1813

Benito Juarez, 1806

Francis Lewis, 1713

Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685



Debuting/Premiering Today:


"Annie"(Film), 1982

"Stop the Music"(Radio show), 1948



Today in History:


The Byzantine emperor Heraclius restores the "True Cross" to Jerusalem, 630

Accession to the throne of Japan by emperor Antoku, 1188

3,000 Jews are killed in the Black Death riots in Efurt, Germany, 1349

n Oxford, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake, 1556

Czar Peter the Great begins his tour through West, 1697

Fire destroys 856 buildings in New Orleans, Louisiana, 1788

With the church leadership driven out of Rome during an armed conflict, Pius VII is crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mâché, 1800

Code Napoléon is adopted as French civil law, 1804

The Bahá'í calendar begins, 1844

An earthquake in Tokyo, Japan kills over 100,000, 1857

The Zoological Society of Philadelphia, the first in the US, is incorporated, 1859

Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone, 1871

Loretta Walsh becomes the first female US Navy Petty Officer, 1917

Charles Lindbergh is presented the Medal of Honor for his first trans-Atlantic flight, 1928

Shah Reza Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran, which means 'Land of the Aryans,' 1935

Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio, 1952

Martin Luther King Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, 1965

The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto, 1970

Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research, 1985

Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon, 1999

The first full face transplant is performed by surgeons at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, 2011

Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard formally apologizes to people affected by forced adoptions during the 1950s through 1970s, 2013

The European Space Agency reveals new data that indicates that the universe is 13.82 billion years old, 2013

Dave Patterson and John Hennessy win computings' Turing Award for RISC computer chips, 2018

A Bangladeshi woman with two uteruses safely gives birth to twins 26 days after giving birth to another child, 2019

16 comments:

  1. Those azaleas are SPECTACULAR. Thank you.
    I do feel sorry for that poor Bangladeshi woman. Three children in under a month is a huge burden for her to bear.

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  2. love the Cajan joke, and for the azaleas, fantastic!

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  3. Not to worry about the azaleas! and thanks for that joke!

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  4. Ha,ha,ha, to get your glasses. Have a wonderful day Mimi my friend.

    Cruisin Paul

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  5. Our Dad always forgets his glasses...in the other room!

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  6. Fun joke about glasses and Bravo to you for not answering whether you got the shot or not ~ I too think it is a private matter ~ Xo

    Great azaleas photos ~ so pretty ^_^

    Living moment by moment,

    A ShutterBug Explores,
    aka (A Creative Harbor)

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  7. Giggles @ the joke heheh!

    Beautiful Azaleas photos too :-)

    Have a bloomingspectacletastic safe Sunday 👍😷😷😷

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  8. Cute joke. I know what you mean about the vaccine. My hubby and I got it, but my mom refuses. Beautiful azaleas. XO

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  9. What wonderful azaleas in your part of the world. I'm wondering if they grow naturally there. That ice storm must have been such a shock.

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  10. Gorgeous drifts of colour in those azaleas :)
    Silly Boudreaux forgetting his glasses, why on earth did he take them off? so he wouldn't see the needle?

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  11. Two uteruses?!?
    I had no idea...

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  12. The azaleas are drop dead gorgeous! Love the Cajan joke too! And I forgot it was memory day. But we did have French toast made from French bread! We hope you have a marvellously happy day!

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  13. You are right not to answer to avoid an argument over the vaccine. Gorgeous and colourful azaleas in your area.

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  14. I just smile over talk of the vaccine. You can not win an argument and many wish to argue only. Those azaleas, oh goodness, strikingly beautiful. W O W ! Oh the Cajuns...sure get many smiles here. Thank you.

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  15. I feel your pain, Boudreaux. Without my glasses, everything certainly does look 'different'!
    Spring renewal always renews me! Those azaleas are GORGEOUS!!!

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