"One day I closed my eyes and here I am, a cold unhappy man..."

Name that band!  That line is out of the middle, but its a good one.  here are the first two lines: "Staring at the white above Can't tell if I'm alive or am I dead..."

 

Good band, i like every one of their songs (at least on the old album, i havent heard the newer one yet, but i will before too long)

Today is the start of june, and a whole bunch of month-long celebrations, campaigns etc.  For this month: Aquarium Month, Candy Month (i like this month already!), Diary Month, Fight The Filthy(great word) Fly Month (gereat thing to do!), Rose Month, Turkey Lovers Month.

And this week is Fishing Week (3rd - 9th)

 

Today is Dare Day (I'll be taking dares today.  seriously.  email me and give me something crazy to do.  i'm out of fresh ideas) and Navy Day (thats a Mexican holiday!)

 

Random useless fact for the day:  Hermione's birthday is three days before Frodo's and Bilbo's birthdays.  talk about symbolism... ok i didnt have anything in mind.  this is your english assignment for this week.  figure out some symbolism and report back.

 

Happy Birthday:

Christiane Vulpius, 1675 (wife of my dear friend J.W. von Goethe)
Brigham Young, 1801
John Drinkwater, 1882

Frank A Whittle, 1907

Andy Griffith, 1926

Marilyn Monroe, 1926

Dan Quinn, 1965 (Flyers center, kinda)

 

Happy Deathday:

Gijsbert van Bronkhorst-Batenburg, 1568

Solomon George Washington Dill, 1864
James Buchanan, 1868

Leslie Howard, 1943

Lester Patrick, 1960

Helen Keller, 1968

 

Things that happened today in history:

1st written record of Scotch Whiskey appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, Friar John Cor is the distiller, 1495

Duke van Alva beheads 18 nobles in Brussels, 1568

1st earthquake recorded in US, at Plymouth, Massechussettes, 1638

Kentucky admitted as 15th US state, 1792

Voting machine patented, 1869

1st pay phone installed, 1880

John Krohn begins walk around perimeter of US, which took 357 days, 1908 (i so want to do that)

Superman 1st appears in DC Comics' Action Comics Series issue #1, 1938 (overrated)

Simon & Garfunkel's "Mrs Robinson" hits #1, 1968

Paul McCartney & Wings release "Live & Let Die", 1973

Ted Coombs began a 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to NYC, 1979 (i want to do that too)

Stanley Cup: Pittsburgh Penguins sweep Chicago Blackhawks in 4 games, 1992

 

Words of the day:

klazomania - compulsive shouting.  one who engages in klazomania is a klazomaniac.

dulcet - pleasing to the ear; agreeable, soothing

 

croí = heart
Usage: Croí has a wide range of both concrete and figurative meanings,not unlike English "heart":
          croí lag (KREE LAHG) = a weak heart

          croí bog (KREE BOG - O short, almost "bug") = a soft heart

          A Bhríd, a chroí! (uh VREEJ, uh XREE) = Brigid, darling!  (lit., O Brigid, o heart!)

History: From Old Irish "cride", which goes back to Indo-European *kerd-(heart). Cognates found in English are "heart", "cardiac" and "cordial"

Scotch Gaelic: cridhe (KREE-uh) (Note that the spelling indicates that the "r" has a slender pronunciation in Scottish Gaelic, while the Irish spelling shows that the word has a broad "r" in that language. I have not tried to show these distinctions in the imitated pronunciation.)

 

"I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow."

            Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)

"Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it."

            Cullen Hightower

"There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity."

            Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

"AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world."

            Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914)

"There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence."

            Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)

"Life sucks, then you die"

             Unknown source, but dang what a great quote!

 

And i'll conclude this raffish email with one word that describes me at this moment.  "uugh".
-B'arris

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