Muffie's Minutes of Mindless Trivia

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Today's birthdays

Fay Wray is 95 - and still alive!!! I'll be damned!!!

Arnold Palmer is 73.

Jose Feliciano is 57.

Joe Perry is 52.

Amy Irving is 49.

 

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Thomas Paine, the author of 'Common Sense' and the creator of the name " UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" died in obscurity in 1809. Only six people came to his funeral.

 

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Thomas Paine, the author of 'Common Sense' and the creator of the name " UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" died in obscurity in 1809. Only six people came to his funeral.

And Herman Melville fell into horrible obscurity in his later life, after a couple of books that busted, and worked as a dock laborer for something like 19 years.

Paine was a pretty fiery revolutionary, and wrote inflammatory stuff. He makes for interesting reading.

 

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And Herman Melville fell into horrible obscurity in his later life, after a couple of books that busted, and worked as a dock laborer for something like 19 years.

Paine was a pretty fiery revolutionary, and wrote inflammatory stuff. He makes for interesting reading.

Sheeesh mbb how do ya' know all this stuff?
I'll have to look into some Paine reading

 

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"Dixie' The popular Confederate song during the civil war, was written by Dam Emmett who was a Northerner.

 

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Sheeesh mbb how do ya' know all this stuff?
I'll have to look into some Paine reading

Probably the same way you do!!! We like this sort of thing.

 

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"Dixie' The popular Confederate song during the civil war, was written by Dam Emmett who was a Northerner.

And it was probably written as a bit of sarcasm, too. Some of the lyrics are completely incongruous.

 

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LOLLL thanks mbb..... I'm sitting here trying to sing the song . Have forgotten some of the lyrics. Now the tune will be in my head all day ;-)
*giggling*

 

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LOLLL thanks mbb..... I'm sitting here trying to sing the song . Have forgotten some of the lyrics. Now the tune will be in my head all day ;-)
*giggling*

Sometimes, it's fun to research a batch of lyrics from some old and/or popular tune like that. "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" has some interesting lines and images as well.

And, yeah, they will get stuck in the head, too.

 

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*makes a note to surf some research sites*

No U.S. President has been an only child

 

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Jimmy Carter stood on Coke bottles as a kid to attempt to cure his flat feet so that the condition wouldn't keep him out of the Naval Academy.

 

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This date in history

1789 - Alexander Hamilton was appointed the first Secretary of the Treasury.

1814 - An American fleet scored a decisive victory over the British in the Battle of Lake Champlain during the War of 1812.

1936 - President Franklin Roosevelt dedicated Boulder (now Hoover) Dam and the nation's first hydroelectric generation system.

1941 - Charles Lindbergh got himself in hot water in a speech in which he accused the "British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration" of tryiong to draw the US into WWII.

1962 - The Beatles made their first record, "Love Me Do" (flip side "PS I Love You") for EMI Records.

1971 - Former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev died.

1972 - The troubled Munich Olympic games finally ended.

1973 - Chilean president Salvador Allende died in a violent military coup.

 

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A U.S. government-backed study found that pigs can become alcoholics.



This day in History
2001 America Attacked

 

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A U.S. government-backed study found that pigs can become alcoholics.



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2001 America Attacked

According to a letter sent to Ann Landers, so can dogs. A woman wrote in and described how her husband had given their Daschund beer for a long time. The dog got so it would get all excited when the husband would hit the Budweiser.

 

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According to a letter sent to Ann Landers, so can dogs. A woman wrote in and described how her husband had given their Daschund beer for a long time. The dog got so it would get all excited when the husband would hit the Budweiser.

Good God! well, maybe that's why dogs make good "drug sniffers" they're addictable? Is there such a word?

 

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Good God! well, maybe that's why dogs make good "drug sniffers" they're addictable? Is there such a word?

I've heard that that's exactly how dogs are made into sniffers - they're sniffing out their next hit.

I'll bet you'd never get one to drink straight whisky, though. I'm not gonna try, either.

 

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According to a letter sent to Ann Landers, so can dogs. A woman wrote in and described how her husband had given their Daschund beer for a long time. The dog got so it would get all excited when the husband would hit the Budweiser.

My friend came back from Barrow Alaska with a retired sled dog. We discovered soon after that he knows a cool trick.

If you set a beer down where he can get to it, he'll knock it over and lap it up.

Funny thing is...Barrow is supposed to be a dry town.

 

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My friend came back from Barrow Alaska with a retired sled dog. We discovered soon after that he knows a cool trick.

If you set a beer down where he can get to it, he'll knock it over and lap it up.

Funny thing is...Barrow is supposed to be a dry town.

My first ex-wife got a Golden Retriever when she was a senior at UVA, where drinking is an art form. The damned dog would go and hit the "catcher bowl" under the tap at parties. Of course, people would spill more to watch the dog lurp it up. He'd get so his back end wouldn't follow the front, and she'd get mad at him for being drunk and the people who "abused" her dog.

I suggested she leave him at home.

 

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My first ex-wife got a Golden Retriever when she was a senior at UVA, where drinking is an art form. The damned dog would go and hit the "catcher bowl" under the tap at parties. Of course, people would spill more to watch the dog lurp it up. He'd get so his back end wouldn't follow the front, and she'd get mad at him for being drunk and the people who "abused" her dog.

I suggested she leave him at home.

LOL We used to have a bull terrier that if you tipped a beer and poured it right from the bottle,she would catch it in midstream. She loved people and hated cats...hubby always DID like that dog!

 

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This date in history

1609 - English explorer Henry Hudson sailed into the river which now bears his name.

1880 - H. L. Mencken, author and publisher, was born in Baltimore.

1943 - German paratroopers under Otto Skorzeny rescued Benito Mussolini from a hotel where he was being held by the fledgling Italian revolutionary government.

1944 - US Army soldiers entered Germany for the first time, near Trier.

1977 - South African student dissident Steven Biko died in police custody.

 

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Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the death of their cats.

 

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Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the death of their cats.

....whom they regarded as dieties. If you think about it, cats live as though they are dieties.

If there is reincarnation, I want to come back as one of my mother's cats. That would be the live to lead.

 

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Today's B-days

Dickie Moore ("Our Gang") is 77.

George "No Show" Jones is 71, and should have died drunk years ago.

Linda Gray is 62.

Maria Muldaur is 59.

Barry White is 58.

Neil Peart is 50.

Rachel Ward is 45.

Liam Gallager is 30.

 

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Rubberbands last longer when refrigerated

 

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This date in history

1759 - During the final French and Indian War, the British defeated the French on the Plains of Abraham near Quebec City.

1788 - The Congress of the Confederation authorized the first national election and declared NYC the temporary capital.

1948 - Margaret Chase Smith was elected to the US Senate, making her the first female to serve in both houses of Congress.

1949 - The LPGA was formed in NYC.

1971 - A four-day prison uprising at Attica ended as the prison was stormed by authorities. Forty-three people died during the ordeal.

1993 - Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat signed an accord granting limited Palestinian autonomy. This event took place at the White House.

1997 - Funeral services were held in Calcutta for Nobel laureate Mother Theresa.