Ridley's
Believe It Or Not—July 15, 2014: Totally skunked today on holidays
but at least found a few factoids and a quote related to social media for you
to enjoy.
1. Respect
the Elderly Day--if you are vacationing in the island nation of Kiriboti
(the Gilbert Islands) and approaching the winter of your life, this is your
day.
2. Mongo
Is Your Friend Day—celebrating the
birth of Alex Karras in 1935 the great near-sighted lineman for the Detroit
Lions who after retiring starred as Mongo in the hilarious Mel Brooks film Blazing Saddles.
3. St.
Swithin’s Day—if you are in Britain on vacation, this is the day to observe
the weather; what you see will be according to legend the weather for the next
40 days.
4. Gummi Worm Day—celebrating great decadent
snack created back in 1981.
On this
day in:
a. 1910 in his book Clinical
Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gave a name to Alzheimer’s disease,
naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
b. in 1979 in what was a swan song
of his presidency Jimmy Carter gave what became known as the “malaise speech”:
wherein he characterized the greatest threat to the country as
"this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and
in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation" but in which he never
uses the word malaise.
c. in 2006 to the bane of those who
want more than 140 characters but thrive on social media, Twitter was launched.
“These days most of us have the attention span of a
meth-addicted squirrel.” Kristen Lamb author of Rise of the Machines-Human Authors
in a Digital World Sadly, a very
astute observation.
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 poems
to inspire, touch, emote, elate and enjoy. Go to Rhymes On The Newsworthy Times for
comments on important and breaking news events that should be of interest.
mridley@octechlaw.com www.twitter.com/alaskanpoet www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
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© July 15,
2014 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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