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Ridley's Believe It Or
Not--January 21, 2014: Since all good things come in threes here are
three holidays to celebrate today after MLK Day yesterday:
1.
National Hug Day--Always a good idea; but you do not need a holiday to
give or receive.
2. Squirrel Appreciation Day--not nuts about this one, but it is what it is, but beware
of being in the woods near Bastogne and responding like General McAuliffe
in a loud voice to some pushy German tourists demanding you move out of the
way so they can get to the River Meuse quicker to get to Antwerp.
3. Rid the World of Fad Diets and
Gimmicks Day--prompted by the observation
that the only way one can lose weight by relying on diet pills and not
changing diet or exercise is to spend so much on diet pills and supplements
that you have no money left to buy food.
On this day in:
a. 1915 Kiwanis International was founded in Detroit, Michigan.
b.
1968 in one of the major oops, a B-52 laden with nuclear bomds crashed near
Thule Air Force Base in Greenland, contaminating the area. One bomb was
never found and fortunately was not armed on impact or a large portion of
Greenland would be known as Hotland from the radiation.
c.
1976 the first commerical air service of the Concorde commenced (from Paris
to Rio and London to Bahrain.
The best diet is one that
involves a lot of laughter:
1. "I am a nutrional overachiever." Anon
2. "It is a hard thing to argue with the belly, my friends, since it
has no ears." Plutarch
3. "Do not dig your own grave with your own knife and fork."
English Proverb
4. "The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the
second you are off it." Jackie Gleason--he would know
5. "The best diet in the world is the one in which you can eat
anything; just do not swallow." Anon
Hope your favorite team won and are able to withstand
the next two weeks of media overkill before the Super Bowl. Please enjoy the 140 character poems on events of
interest on my twitter account below (if you like them, retweet and join
136 growing followers and please follow me) and follow my
blogs. Always good, incisive and entertaining poems on my blogs--click on
links below. www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
for an original poem to honor Martin Luther King, Jr. and an original in
poem honoring a 17 year young Progeria victim who died on the eve of
becoming an honorary captain for the Patriots (have tissues handy).
Just posted for your enjoyment on www.alaskanpoetcommentary.blogspot.com
poems on the PA AG's office investigating massiive cheating scandal at
Philadelphia's public schools--not students but their teachers and
principals; hanging up of a 911 dispatcher on a call from a son coming home
to find a dead mother; and new diseases and conditions added to the list of
medical problems caused by smoking, including one if you are a noncelibate
male, that will really, really make you want to read it and stop. Still in
the works, a comment on the Imperial Presidency's power grab.
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