Thursday, April 22, 2004

Please give me your extra boxes

Wow, so all of my favorite people are gone/leaving this week, and its making me feel not so good. i already miss kevin and nathan and they just left less than half an hour ago. so anyway, today is Girl Scout Leader Day, Earth Day and National Jelly Bean Day. maybe jelly beans will make me feel better, theyre hecka cheap in cosmos. if they still have any, that is. Tomorrow is Lovers Day (someone please help me celebrate this one), Take a Chance Day, and World Labratory Day Next week is the start of Scoop the Poop Week, thought someone might get a kick out of that one. and some of the month long observances that i forgot to mention earlier (and some that i found today) are Couple Appreciation Month (im interested in celebrating this one too, give me a call), International Twit Award Month, Month of the Young Child, Month of the Military Child, National Kite Month, National Poetry Month, National Soft Pretzel Month, Soy Foods Month, and a whole bunch of stupid ones. awareness of this, awareness of that... very tedious to sort through. so those are just the best 25%. and in case you are wondering they are all legitimate congressional acts, i check them out before i report. because if i dont, and someone finds a flaw in my email, i lose all credibility and then i will never aspire to be Student Body President, or king of the train depot, or even President-King of the United States.

Todays birthdays are:
Giuseppe Torelli, 1658
Alexander McDowell McCook, 1831
Nikolai Lenin, 1870
John van Capel, 1884 (oldest man in the Netherlands, died in 1992)
J(ulius) Robert Oppenheimer, 1904
James Stirling, 1926 (Scottish D-day-parachutist/architect/knight)
Aaron Spelling, 1928 (producer of Charlie's Angels etc)
Robert Dickson, 1931
Siem Vroom, 1931 (actor in A Bridge Too Far and others)
Jack Nicholson, 1937
Dectuplets from Bacacay Brazil, 1947 (8 males & 2 females)
Carole Drinkwater, 1948
Ryan Stiles, 1959 (funny funny man!)
Zarley Zalapski, 1968 (go flames...)
George Williams, 1969 (catcher for the A's, just for you, Brooklyn!)

Happy Deathday to:
Eleonora Plantagenet, 1355 (for anyone who doesnt know this about me, i hate (i mean HATE) the Plantagenet line, and im glad they are all dead now!)
Bartolommeo Ammanati, 1592
Georg Stiernhielm, 1672
Hans A baron von Abschatz, 1699
Francis Washburn, 1865
Melville Bell Grosvenor, 1982 (president of the National Geographic Society, thats my goal)
Huey Newton, 1989 (Black Panther leader, also my goal)
Richard Milhous Nixon, 1994 (haha, milhous...)
Erma Bombeck, 1996

And the things that happened today in history:
Supernova Crab nebula last seen by the naked (Gasp! unaided) eye, 1056
Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovers Brazil & claims it for Portugal, 1500
Henry VIII ascended to throne of England, 1509
France declares on Spain, 1521
1st slave revolt occurs in SC, 1526
Treaty of Saragosa, 1529
Lord protector Cromwell disbands English parliament, 1659
Pres Washington attends opening of Rickett's, 1st circus in US, 1793
Gioacchino Rossini (12) performs in Imola, 1804
Thomas Stevens starts 1st bike trip around world (2 yrs 9 mos), 1884
Babe Ruth's 1st professional game (as a pitcher) is a 6-hit 6-0 win, 1914
Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 3, 1945 (HAHAHAH!!! DIE RED WINGS, DIE!!!)
Congress orders all US coins bear motto "In God We Trust", 1955 (on the 91st anniversary of the first printing of the motto on a US coin)
1st human eye transplant performed, 1969
1st Earth Day held internationally to conserve natural resources, 1970
Flat Earth celebrated, 1970 (weirdos)
Ingmar Bergman leaves Sweden due to taxation, 1976 (one of my favorite directors ever)
NJ Devil Patrik Sundstrom ties NHL playoff record of 8 pts in a playoff game (hat trick & 5 assists) in 10-4 rout over the Capitals, 1988 (holy cow!)
Nolan Ryan strikes out his 5,000th batter, 1989
Holocaust Museum dedicated in Washington DC, 1992
Candid Camera creator Allen Funt suffers a stroke, 1993
largest lollipop, weighing 3,011 pounds, made in DENMARK!!!, 1994

Kim says she loves and will miss everyone!

And today's quotes:

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
Dick Cavett (1936 - )

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)

Would those of you in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
John Lennon (1940 - 1980)

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)

Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
David Dunham

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966) (thats why i am always early to everything, i have NOTHING else to do!)

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892)

Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944)

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Edward De Bono

No legacy is so rich as honesty.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
My bowels are sending me some pretty ominous messages.
Canada Longmuir (1985 - )

I hope you enjoyed those, because i enjoyed finding them and reading the ones that im keeping to myself. hey its 11:30 and i have only had two real meals in the last three days, so i think im going to risk the wrath of Arch-Nemesis Shirley and her Nefarious Sidekick Doug. And my family is coming tomorrow morning, so no worries if i get kicked out for good :) Well im off, have a good day all!

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