Do What Works (Cajun Joke), Sunday Selections and Sunday Selfie

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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.

Grandpa had left for a meeting yesterday and i was tempted to stay late and visit with Grandma but we agreed he wouldn't be happy if he found out.

"Would he pitch a conniption?" Grandma asked.

He just might, i noted and she asked, "What is a 'conniption'?  What does it look like?  Is it in the dictionary?"

I looked up "conniption" and read several definitions, most of which boiled down to a fit of rage, anger or fear.

Grand-mère Boudreaux done be watching Tee Boudreaux an' Tee done t'ink dat mean she be goin' spoil him an' give him what hims Mère done say he cain't have dat day.

Well, Grand-mère done tole him, "You Mère done say, non, not today, so it be non."

An' Tee, he commence him to whoop an' holler an' cry, an' Grand-mère say, "Tee, it not goin' work!"

An' Tee done stop an' look at her an' say, "Mais, den what will work, Grand-mère?"

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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.       

Outdoors, indoors, a funny birthday card, a giant mushroom, and sky shots.

"I can't eat that, I'm a vegan."
"Has that fish been tested for mercury?"
"Is that bread gluten-free?"

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This week,  Celeste wants to join the Kitties Blue at The Cat On My Head for their Sunday Selfies Blog Hop with her hammock selfie.   

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Today is:

Champagne Day -- internet generated holiday, probably created by someone who wanted an excuse to celebrate

Coast Guard Day -- US (anniversary of founding in 1790)

Constitution Day -- Cook Islands

Ferry Fair -- South Queensferry, Edinburgh, Scotland (centuries old fair, a modern festival that was originally a way for farmers to find labour for harvest, but is now just for fun, through Saturday)

Festival of the Dead; Sunset Ceremony -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)

Fiestas de la Virgen Blanca -- Vitoria-Gasteiz, Alava, Basque Country, Spain; through the 9th

Fiestas Patronales -- El Salvador (through the 6th)

Founder's Day -- Ghana

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) 

Matica Slovenska Day -- Slovakia (main Slovak cultural institution, established 1863)

National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day

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

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

Nicole Robin Day -- St. John, USVI (unofficial celebration her safe return, with the crew, to the Virgin Islands after being held by Cubans.)

Single Working Women's Day

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

St. John Baptist Mary Vianney's Day (Cure of Ars; Patron of confessors, parish priests; Dubuque, Iowa; Kamloops, BC; Kansas City, KS; Saint Paul and Minneapolis, MN)

Vigil of St. Oswald -- Anglo-Saxon holy day, commemorates the day before King Oswald's death in 642

Zuni Corn Dance -- the Zuni Native Americans give thanks to Mother Earth, the Kokos (Nature Spirits), and the Corn Maidens for the maize harvest; through the 7th

Birthdays Today:

Cole and Dylan Sprouse, 1992

Daniel Dae Kim, 1968

Roger Clemens, 1962

Barack H. Obama, 1961

Billy Bob Thornton, 1955

Kristoffer Tabori, 1952

Richard Belzer, 1944

Maurice "Rocket" Richard, 1921

Helen Thomas, 1920

William Howard Schuman, 1910

Glenn Verniss Cunningham, 1909

Louis Armstrong, 1901*

Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, 1900

Louis Vuitton, 1821

Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"The Saturday Evening Post"(Magazine, first issue), 1821

Today in History

The destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans, 70

A supernova is observed in constellation Cassiopeia, 1181

The first printing of Zohar (Jewish Kabbalah), 1558

A hurricane in the Carribean kills thousands in Guadeloupe, Martinique, and St. Christopher, 1666

Dom Perignon invents champagne (traditional date), 1693

First edition of the Saturday Evening Post, which was published until 1969, 1821

The family of Lizzie Borden is found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home, 1892

The Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens, 1902

The Supreme Court of Japan is established, 1947

The Billboard Hot 100 is founded, 1958

American civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21, 1964

The African republic Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso, 1984

Operation Storm begins in Croatia, 1995

Prime Minister Paul Martin announces that Michaëlle Jean will be Canada's 27th Governor General, 2005

California's Proposition 8, the ballot initiative prohibiting same-sex marriage passed by the state's voters in 2008, is overturned by Judge Vaughn Walker in the case Perry v. Schwarzenegger, 2010

Britain has their greatest success in one day at an Olympics since 1908, winning six gold medals and a silver on Day Eight of the 2012 Summer Olympics, 2012

South Africa's Oscar Pistorius becomes the first amputee to compete at the Olympic Games in the 400 meters, 2012

Actor Peter Capaldi, of Scotland, lands the role of the Doctor in the twelfth incarnation of the 'Doctor Who' British science fiction show, 2013

A plague of locusts in southern Russia prompts a state of emergency to be declared, 2015

Frank Zapata becomes the first person to cross the English Channel by flyboard, taking only 22 minutes, 2019

The UN declares the Covid-19 pandemic has caused the largest disruption to education ever, affecting 94% of students, 2020

The Mediterranean region is becoming a "wildfire hotspot" according to authorities, amid extreme temperatures, 2021

*In several interviews, Satchmo claimed to have been born on July 4, 1900. Historians always disputed that claim, saying it was too neat and tidy, and his baptismal records, found in a church basement, proved otherwise. Some biographies still give the July 4, 1900 date in error.