Blowtorch Heat & Melted Speedos
Big News
Blowtorch heat blistered the Midwest on Monday, endangering millions of people with outdoor jobs -- including NFL players in training camp, who were forced to fan themselves with their fat contracts.
- In Chicago there was a 40 percent chance your Speedo could melt.
- In Cincinnati you could fry an egg on the sidewalk -- or boil a bluejay in the birdbath.
August 1st
August is National Catfish Month, sponsored by Mississippi catfish ranchers. Catfish ranching is easier than cattle ranching -- but the rodeos are just as smelly.
The first U.S. Navy medical school opened in Brooklyn on August 1st in 1893. It must be really nerve-wracking to practice medicine aboard ship. Every time there's a storm, Navy doctors have to worry about their golf clubs washing overboard.
Francis Scott Key was born on August 1st in 1779. He wrote "The Star Spangled Banner," which was a big hit in 1814 and probably would have won the Grammy for Best Song if it had been a little more upbeat.- When they played "The Star Spangled Banner," everybody stood up but nobody danced.
Today's exciting "Star Spangled Banner" trivia question:
- The War of 1812 inspired Francis Scott Key to write the words to "The Star Spangled Banner," but what inspired the music?
- The music is an old English song entitled "Anacreon in Heaven," inspired by the Greek poet Anacreon, who lived in Athens around 520 B.C. and who wrote exclusively about the joys of wine and women. In other words, the U.S. National Anthem was inspired by a dirty old man.
- Which, I suppose, explains a lot of things.
Love & Learn
Day Care and Dad - For Jack, day care's child's play, but not for Dad.
Faces of War: Healing the Wounds - A missing arm or leg can be replaced with a prosthesis. Things get more complicated when the task is fixing a wounded soldier's horribly disfigured face.
Now, today's exciting lawn-mowing safety tip.
Before mowing, go over the lawn carefully to search for anything the mower might pick up and throw: a rock, a piece of wire, a nail ... a wino.....
Blowtorch heat blistered the Midwest on Monday, endangering millions of people with outdoor jobs -- including NFL players in training camp, who were forced to fan themselves with their fat contracts.
- In Chicago there was a 40 percent chance your Speedo could melt.
- In Cincinnati you could fry an egg on the sidewalk -- or boil a bluejay in the birdbath.
August 1st
August is National Catfish Month, sponsored by Mississippi catfish ranchers. Catfish ranching is easier than cattle ranching -- but the rodeos are just as smelly.
The first U.S. Navy medical school opened in Brooklyn on August 1st in 1893. It must be really nerve-wracking to practice medicine aboard ship. Every time there's a storm, Navy doctors have to worry about their golf clubs washing overboard.
Francis Scott Key was born on August 1st in 1779. He wrote "The Star Spangled Banner," which was a big hit in 1814 and probably would have won the Grammy for Best Song if it had been a little more upbeat.- When they played "The Star Spangled Banner," everybody stood up but nobody danced.
Today's exciting "Star Spangled Banner" trivia question:
- The War of 1812 inspired Francis Scott Key to write the words to "The Star Spangled Banner," but what inspired the music?
- The music is an old English song entitled "Anacreon in Heaven," inspired by the Greek poet Anacreon, who lived in Athens around 520 B.C. and who wrote exclusively about the joys of wine and women. In other words, the U.S. National Anthem was inspired by a dirty old man.
- Which, I suppose, explains a lot of things.
Love & Learn
Day Care and Dad - For Jack, day care's child's play, but not for Dad.
Faces of War: Healing the Wounds - A missing arm or leg can be replaced with a prosthesis. Things get more complicated when the task is fixing a wounded soldier's horribly disfigured face.
Now, today's exciting lawn-mowing safety tip.
Before mowing, go over the lawn carefully to search for anything the mower might pick up and throw: a rock, a piece of wire, a nail ... a wino.....
posted by Joe Hickman at 2:37 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home