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Ridley's Believe It Or Not--January 4, 2014: Two all
time favorite holidays, 11th Day of Christmas
(if you love bagpipes like I do--get out your ear plugs 11 bagpipers
piping) and National Trivia Day ( yet another reason to
look forward to these factoids); and on this day in 1863 James Plimpton
patented the four wheel roller skate; in 1896 Utah outlawed polygamy
permitted under Mormon law (and was admitted as the 45th State; and in 1965
in his State of the Union Address President LBJ announced the
formation of the Great Society.
Thank God there's not room enough on an officer's
motorcycle for this piece of equipment: “New Rule: Stop calling bagpipes a
musical instrument. They're actually a Scottish Breathalyzer test. You blow
into one end, and if the sound that comes out the other end doesn't make
you want to kill yourself--you're not drunk enough.” Bill Maher,
The New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me
Has Their Head Up Their Ass. With
apologies to the soul of my mother who loved bagpipes and spent many
frustrating years trying to learn how to play them such that her cats
would not immediately all hide their tails, thinking that one of their
fellow felines had just had their tail stepped on.
As
you enjoy the start of NFL playoffs, take five and please enjoy the 140
character poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you
like them, retweet and join 134 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 for Christmas just posted and poem on the 2013 in
review just posted.
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