Ridley's Believe It Or Not-This Day In History-January 25, 2914 Opposite Day

Ridley's Believe It Or Not--January 25, 2014:  Here are some traditional and unique holidays to be celebrated today, one of which at least in D.C. should not and certainly not the persons crafting a State of the Union speech.
             1. Burns Night:--celebrating Scotland's National Poet, Robert Burns, with a festive dinner of piping, haggis, toasts of fine Scotch and eloquent grace delivered in an almost unintelligible brogue that is understood only by those in kilts:

"Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it; But we hae meat, and we can eat, And sae let the Lord be thankit."         

             2. Opposite Day-- celebrated by making statements which are exactly opposite of what they mean or if applied retroactively what was meant. Sadly, practiced daily by most politicians including our President with or without the use of a "period".

             3. National Swap Seeds Day--always a great idea especially now in Colorado to experiment with improving the potency of the crop.

              4. National Irish Coffee Day--self explanatory and to no surprise also celebrated on St. Patrick's Day but note the word "day"--do not celebrate at a Burns Night dinner--might offend the hosts with the toasts.

 On this day in:

             a.  1915 Alexander Graham Bell instituted transcontinental phone service.

             b.  1949 the first Emmy Awards were awarded.

             c.  1984 the first transcontinental (NYC-LA)  commercial jet flight occurred for the fare of $301 which is about $1850 in today's dollars and explains why you get only peanuts and pay for your bags and worse are served by attendants who are not pleased due to salary freezes or reductions.

Extreme example of Opposite Day in action as only a politician could do:  "If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide." Meg Greenfield, noted Washington Post and Newsweek editorial writer and Washington, D.C. insider. 

As we approach Super Bowl XLVIII which may be played in sub freezing temps with snow falling, it is  not who wins or loses, but the quality not of the play but of the Super Bowl ads! Please enjoy the 140 character poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you like them, retweet and join almost 140 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 collusion between the EPA and environmental groups to kill KeystoneXL with the end of Canadian patience; the Governor's statement that conservatives, pro-life, pro-2nd Amendment, anti-gays do not belong in New York; Semper Grati for Semper Fi--two Navy Crosses awarded to two Marines killed in green on blue shooting in Afghanistan; Pennsylvania  AG's office investigating massive cheating scandal at Philadelphia's public schools--not students but their teachers and principals. Still in the works, a comment on the Imperial Presidency's power grab and State of Union Address, which, hopefully, will not have been crafted today on Opposite Day.

www.octechlaw.com www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com  www.twitter.com/alaskanpoet www.alaskanpoetcommentator.blogspot.com  www.alaskanpoethistory.blogspot .com

www.facebook.com/Alaskanpoet  www.linkedin.com/in/octechlaw
mridley@octechlaw.com