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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 at the grocery store, i'd gotten what i needed and was looking for Grandpa (we each take a shopping cart/trolley and get what we need). I found him on the soda pop aisle, standing in front of the Barq's Root Beer cans. When we were growing up, he never had a meal without a Barq's Root Beer, but he hasn't had any in years.
He said he was considering buying it, and i talked him into it, he really enjoys the taste and needs to treat himself more often.
Boudreaux done be at de store wit' Tee an' he reach fo' a big bag o' onions.
"Père, what fo' you use so many onions?" Tee ax.
"Dey be my favorite food," Boudreaux say.
"But, Père, dey allus make you cry when we git home an' you chop dem," Tee continue.
"Dat dey do, mon fils."
"Père, do onions be de only food dat make you cry?" Tee ax.
An' Boudreaux t'ink 'bout dat an' say, "Mais, I prolly cry if'n you t'row a coconut at me!"
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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. Our friend River is hosting, and other participants often include Charlotte/Mother Owl, Andrew, and WiseWebWoman.
This week, it was a bumble bee which caught my attention, a new hose holder in Mr. BA's garden, my little Annie with her hair up (it makes her look so grown!), and a sunset.
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This week, Jack wants to join the Kitties Blue at The Cat On My Head for their Sunday Selfies Blog Hop.
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Today is:
Be Kind to Humankind Week: Sacrifice Our Wants For Others Needs Sunday
Constitution Day -- Kazakhstan
Day of Satisfying the Hearts of the Ennead (Nine Major Gods) -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)
Festival of Charisteria -- Ancient Roman Calendar (a day to give thanks)
Frankenstein Day -- in honor of Mary Shelley
Huey P. Long Day -- Louisiana, US
International Day of the Disappeared -- Latin American Federation of Associations for Relatives of Detained-Disappeared
International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances -- UN
International Whale Shark Day -- WiseOceans has more information
National Holistic Pet Day -- celebrating the growing interest in natural/holistic medicine for animals
National Toasted Marshmallow Day
Popular Consultation Day -- East Timor
Santa Rosa de Lima -- Peru
St. Fiacre's Day (Patron of box makers, cab drivers, costermongers, florists, gardeners, hosiers, pewterers, taxi drivers, tile makers; against barrenness, fistula, haemorrhoids, piles, sterility, syphilis, venereal disease)
Talk Intelligently Day -- holiday thought up by someone tired of non-intelligent conversations (maybe with co-workers?)
Victory Day -- North Cyprus; Turkey
Turkey's Hellespont Swim -- one of the world's busiest shipping lanes is closed so that over 300 participants can swim the Hellespont from Europe to Asia, a Victory Day commemoration of winning the Turkish War of Independence in 1922 against the Greeks
Anniversary Today:
Roman Polanski marries Emmanuelle Seigner, 1989
Birthdays Today:
Cameron Diaz, 1972
Michael Michele, 1966
Michael Chiklis, 1963
David Paymer, 1954
Timothy Bottoms, 1951
Lewis Black, 1948
Peggy Lipton, 1947
Frank "Tug" McGraw, 1944
Jean-Claude Killy, 1943
Elizabeth Ashley, 1939
Warren Buffett, 1930
Kitty Wells, 1919
Ted Williams, 1918
Fred MacMurray, 1908
Roy Wilkins, 1901
Shirley Booth, 1898
Huey P. Long, 1893
Claire Straith, M.D., 1891
Ernest Rutherford, 1871
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 1797
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Anna Lucasta"(Play), 1944
Today in History:
European leaders, in an attempt to end war "for all time", outlaw the crossbow, 1146
One of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty, begins between the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders, 1363
Capture of the entire Dutch fleet by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell, 1799
Founding of Melbourne, Australian, 1835
Founding of Houston, Texas, 1836
Hubert Cecil Booth patents the vacuum cleaner, 1901
The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in south Louisiana, the longest bridge over water (continuous, not aggregate) that is not also a viaduct, opens, 1956
The Hotline between the leaders of the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union goes into operation, 1963
Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1967
Guion Bluford becomes the first African American astronaut in space, 1983
NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces, 1995
A commercial expedition to raise part of the sunken British luxury liner Titanic ended in failure, 1996
Harley-Davidson celebrates its 100th anniversary in Milwaukee with a parade of 10,000 motorcycles, 2003
India and Pakistan agree to release hundreds of fishermen and other civilians in each other's jails as part of their ongoing attempts to negotiate peace between their nations, 2005
Sumatra's Sinaburg volcano continues to erupt, two people are killed and 21,000 are evacuated from the vicinity, 2010
In Chile, 33 miners trapped half a mile beneath the surface make contact with their families for the first time in three weeks since the incident, 2010
Late author Terry Pratchett’s unfinished works are destroyed as per his request, 2017
For the second time, Ukrainian amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov discovers an interstellar comet, 2019
Algeria becomes the last country to stop selling leaded petrol/gasoline, 2021
The largest water treatment facility in Jackson, Mississippi, US, fails leaving thousands without clean drinking water, closing schools and businesses, 2022
Over 100 schools in the UK are told to close buildings days before the start of the school term because of concrete in danger of collapse, 2023
The MacLean brothers, Ewan (32), Jamie (31), and Lachlan (27) of Scotland arrive in Cairns, Australia in a rowboat from Lima, Peru, setting new record for non-stop unsupported crossing of the Pacific Ocean (139 days, 5 hours, 52 minutes), 2025
