Ask Your Doctor & Start Slowly
June 7th
Singer Tom Jones was born on June 7th in 1940. Tom was an innovator in stage fashions. In fact, he was the first to wear the leather in his pants tighter than it was on the cow.
Today is Boone Day, marking June 7th in 1767 when Daniel Boone first sighted Kentucky. Daniel was a cool dude. Today, you know he'd wear his coonskin cap with the tail in front.
French painter Paul Gaugin was born on June 7th in 1848. After leaving his wife and five kids, giving up his career as a successful stock broker, running off to Tahiti, becoming sick and destitute, and lousing up a suicide attempt, Gaugin became the Father of Modern Art.
- Moral: If at first you don't fail, try it in Tahiti.
- Gaugin was the one who didn't cut off his ear. Instead, he went to Tahiti to paint the native girls nude. But when they all laughed, he put his clothes back on.
On June 7th in 1960 the artist formerly known as Prince was born. He wasn't a real prince. In fact, his only tie to a royal family is that sometimes he buys shoes in the same store as Fergie.
Love & Learn
Researcher Studies Connection Between Autism, Vaccines - The absolute truth about autism and mercury is as slippery and hard to grab as a bead of quicksilver on a clean glass surface. It's no longer dismissed as a wild-eyed theory clung to by desperate-for-answers family members of children with autism.
Sports Roundup - Spring brings a new crop of golf books.
Scanning the Bookshelf - "The Toughest Show on Earth: My Rise and Reign at the Metropolitan Opera," by Met general manager Joseph Volpe gives the impression that running America's foremost opera company is the second most important job in New York.
Editorial: Don't Let Resentment Smolder - A recent road accident in Kabul, however, has brought to light a problem that, left untended, could doom U.S. efforts to tame the Taliban and create a reasonably democratic and stable government in that country. From the Milwaukee Journal.
Boon Docking Provides RV Alternatives - You might be surprised how many RV vacationers spend a night or two in a Wal-Mart parking lot.
Today's exciting Thought for the Day:
Have you noticed? No matter what language people speak, they always sneeze in English?
And remember:
June is the month for marriage. But, if you're over 40, be sure to check with your doctor and start slowly.
Singer Tom Jones was born on June 7th in 1940. Tom was an innovator in stage fashions. In fact, he was the first to wear the leather in his pants tighter than it was on the cow.
Today is Boone Day, marking June 7th in 1767 when Daniel Boone first sighted Kentucky. Daniel was a cool dude. Today, you know he'd wear his coonskin cap with the tail in front.
French painter Paul Gaugin was born on June 7th in 1848. After leaving his wife and five kids, giving up his career as a successful stock broker, running off to Tahiti, becoming sick and destitute, and lousing up a suicide attempt, Gaugin became the Father of Modern Art.
- Moral: If at first you don't fail, try it in Tahiti.
- Gaugin was the one who didn't cut off his ear. Instead, he went to Tahiti to paint the native girls nude. But when they all laughed, he put his clothes back on.
On June 7th in 1960 the artist formerly known as Prince was born. He wasn't a real prince. In fact, his only tie to a royal family is that sometimes he buys shoes in the same store as Fergie.
Love & Learn
Researcher Studies Connection Between Autism, Vaccines - The absolute truth about autism and mercury is as slippery and hard to grab as a bead of quicksilver on a clean glass surface. It's no longer dismissed as a wild-eyed theory clung to by desperate-for-answers family members of children with autism.
Sports Roundup - Spring brings a new crop of golf books.
Scanning the Bookshelf - "The Toughest Show on Earth: My Rise and Reign at the Metropolitan Opera," by Met general manager Joseph Volpe gives the impression that running America's foremost opera company is the second most important job in New York.
Editorial: Don't Let Resentment Smolder - A recent road accident in Kabul, however, has brought to light a problem that, left untended, could doom U.S. efforts to tame the Taliban and create a reasonably democratic and stable government in that country. From the Milwaukee Journal.
Boon Docking Provides RV Alternatives - You might be surprised how many RV vacationers spend a night or two in a Wal-Mart parking lot.
Today's exciting Thought for the Day:
Have you noticed? No matter what language people speak, they always sneeze in English?
And remember:
June is the month for marriage. But, if you're over 40, be sure to check with your doctor and start slowly.
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