Sunday, August 1, 2021

Big Difference (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.


With all the illnesses going around, we need a little levity.


Thibodeaux done be tellin' Boudreaux, "My wife gots her a bad cold."


An' Boudreaux say, "Did you done try de euthanasia?"


Den dey hear Clothile from in de house yell, "Mais, Boudreaux, how many time I's got to tole you, it be pronounce echinacea!"



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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 was hosted by River, who still participates, and is now hosted by Elephant's Child.       


Since i haven't been anywhere much this week, all i have is sunset photos, including from yesterday when i thought the day's rain was going to leave enough clouds to make it a non-event, but i was wrong.






















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Today is:


Air Force Day -- US (declared by President Truman in 1947)


Anniversary of the Founding of Scouting -- first day of Brownsea Island Camp in 1907, where Robert Baden-Powell began Scouting


Armed Forces Day -- Lebanon


Emancipation Day -- Barbados; Guyana; Jamaica; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and Grendines; Trinidad and Tobago; Turks and Caicos Islands (Trad.)


Fast in Honor of the Holy Mother of Jesus / Procession of the Cross and Dormition Fast -- Orthodox Christian


Feast of Kamal (Perfection) -- Baha'i


Festival of Domhnach Chrom Dubh -- Ireland (also called Festival of Lughnasa or Garland Sunday, Black Chrom's Sunday, associated with the god Lugh and connected to the festival of Lammas; also connected to John Barleycorn, the personification of the grain, who is killed by being harvested at this time; many honor St. Patrick's Fast by making a pilgrimage to Croagh Patrick, where he fasted until he overcame the pagan deity Crom Cruach [Crom of the Reek])


Fiesta de Santo Domingo -- Managua, Nicaragua (patron saint; through the 10th)


Girlfriends' Day -- a day to celebrate the women who enrich your life


Harriet Quimby Day -- first woman to earn a pilot's license, this date in 1911


Hirosaki Neputa Matsuri -- Hirosaki, Japan (through the 7th, parade and purification ritual to rid the the town of future illness and bad fortune)


Homowo -- Ghana (a festival of thanksgiving and remembrance, among various groups of Ga peoples, all through August and September.)


Imps Charity Scramble -- Fairy calendar (Do they scramble the imps, or do the imps scramble for something?)


Independence Day / National Day -- Benin(1960)


Kalends of August -- Ancient Roman Calendar; related observances

     Feast of Spes (personification of hope)

     Festival for Victoria (goddess of victory)


Lammas Day / Lammac Tide -- Christian, a Cross Quarter Day (called the Gule of August in Wales, and known as August Eve and Lady Day Eve)


Liberation of Haile Selassie -- Rastafari


Loch-mo-Naire Pilgrimage -- Loch mo Naire, Scotland (tonight from midnight to 1am tomorrow is the magical hour, complete the ritual there to be healed by the waters because of magic stones in the water that a Celtic priestess put there) 


Lughnassad / Imbolc -- Wicca and Pagan (based in the Northern Hemisphere on the Celtic Feast of Bread, beginning of the harvest season)


Minden Day -- British Armed Forces


Nagaoka Festival -- Nagaoka, Japan (through the 3rd, samuri procession, traditional music and dances, fireworks)


National Day -- Switzerland (where it is also called Swiss Confederation Day, when Switzerland became a single unit in 1291)


National Doll Day -- US (another with its own Facebook page


National Friendship Day -- US (designated by Congress in 1935)


National Minority Donor Awareness Week -- US (bringing awareness to the fact that there are fewer minorities who are organ donors


National Non-Parent Day -- sponsored by The National Organization for Non-Parents and No Kidding!


National Raspberry Cream Pie Day


National Tree Day -- Australia


Parents' Day -- Democratic Republic of the Congo


Respect For Parents Day -- with information here 


Rounds Resounding Day -- sponsored by Rounds Resounding Society (Grab your friends and sing a few songs that go in rounds, like "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" and "Frere Jacques".)


Sisters' Day® -- celebrating the bond between sisters, as begun by Tricia Eleogram; a wiki page on how to celebrate this day 


Social Resistance Day -- North Cyprus


Spiderman Day -- he first appeared today in Amazing Fantasy #15, released Aug. 1, 1963


St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori's Day (Founder of the Redemptorists, a/k/a Ligourians; Patron of confessors, final perseverence, moralists, scrupulous people, theologians, vocations; Pagani, Italy; Sant'Agata de' Goti, Italy; against arthritis, scrupulosity disorder)


World Breastfeeding Week begins -- International (the theme this year is "Protect Breastfeeding, a Shared Responsibility") 


World Lung Cancer Day -- International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer  


World Scout Scarf Day -- wear your Scout Scarf in public today 


World Wide Web Day -- what would become our current ability to waste time reading blogs and doing other fun stuff was begun as an idea at CERN during August back in 1990


Yorkshire Day -- Yorkshire, England



Anniversaries Today:


Colorado becomes the 38th US State, 1876



Birthdays Today:


Tempestt Bledsoe, 1973

Robert Cray, 1953

Giancarlo Giannini, 1942

Jerry Garcia, 1942

Yves Saint Laurent, 1942

Ronald Harmon "Ron" Brown, 1941

Dom DeLuise, 1933

Tom Wilson, 1931

James Hill, 1916

Herman Melville, 1819

Maria Mitchell, 1818

Francis Scott Key, 1779

William Clark, 1770



Debuting/Premiering Today:


M2(TV Network), 1996

"The Rush Limbaugh Show"(Radio), 1988

MTV(TV Network), 1981



Today in History:


The future Caesar Augustus, Octavian, enters Alexandria, Egypt, and brings it under the control of Rome, BC30

Japan sends Ono no Imoko to the Sui court in China as envoy, 607

The Swiss Confederation is formed with the signature of the Federal Charter, 1291

Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile drive the Jews out of Spain, 1492

Henry Tudor, soon to be Henry VII, sails with his army to England, 1495

The first black Americans arrive in Jamestown, Virginia, 1619

Oxygen is "discovered" for the 3rd time, by Priestly, 1774

The Act of Union is passed in which merges the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 1800

Slavery is abolished throughout the British Empire, 1834

First coast to coast automobile trip, from San Francisco to New York, is completed, 1903

The first Jeep is produced, 1941

Anne Frank makes the last entry in her diary, 1944

The United States and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD), 1957

Israel annexes East Jerusalem, 1967

Peat cutters discover Lindow Man, Lindow Moss, Cheshire, England, 1984

CERN physicists begin discussing building what would eventually become the World Wide Web, 1990

Bulgaria, Cyprus, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia and Slovakia join the European Environment Agency, 2001

King Fahd of Saudi Arabia dies and is succeeded by Prince Abdullah, 2005

Buddhist treasures buried during the Mongolian Communist Purge in the 1930's are rediscovered in the Gobi Desert, 2009

Russia grants NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden one year of temporary political asylum; Snowden leaves Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport, 2013

Two crowns and an orb from the Swedish crown jewels are stolen from Strängnäs Cathedral, Stockholm, 2018

12 comments:

  1. Ha Ha euthanasia/echinacea. I love the two fiery sunsets.

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  2. Gorgeous skyscapes - and I love that funny too.

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  3. Haha, that's a good one! Lovely sunsets. That hole in the greenery makes me wonder if it't a door to a magic world.

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  5. Nice photos our slies in London has been covered in dark clouds for days including today arrghh!

    LOL @ joke :-)

    Have a sunsetastic Sunday 🌅 👍

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  6. A great selection of sky photos. Thanx.

    God bless.

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  7. Lovely wonderful photos Mimi. Have a great Sunday my friend.

    Cruisin Paul

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  8. That was a good one. Big difference between those 2 words. :) Great photos. XO

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  9. Fun Cajun joke and awesome sky photos ~ Xo

    Living in the Moment,

    A ShutterBug Explores,
    aka (A Creative Harbor)

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  10. Funny joke! The sky photos were wonderful and I hope you both are doing okay.

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  11. Euthanasia - I must admit that sometimes when I get a bad cold I think that might be a solution! And I LOVE your sunset shots! We had cooler weather and not wind today, so we had a ton of smoke, I can hardly see across the street, that meant the rain did not roll through...We are supposed to be back to the hots tomorrow.

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  12. Oh the sky shots. SO beautiful. God never lets us down. Oh Bourdreaux, hahahaha that was so funny. I sure love visiitng you. You take care.

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