Ridley's Believe It Or Not—September 19. 2014: Trust
your Friday is proving to be a good one and a great jumping board to the
weekend and that you enjoy the holidays and factoids and quote from Teddy
Roosevelt with a smile on your sunscreened face, with an a butterscotch pudding
awaiting you for dessert, blessed with a positive attitude, and secure in the
knowledge that if you want to find a gift for a memorable event, you know that
the Alaskanpoet can provide you with a unique customized poem tailored to the
event and the recipient.
1. International Talk Like A Pirate Day—great day to grab your
parrot and eye patch but in the concern over terrorists leave your sword at
home.
2. National POW/MIA Day---honoring
those warriors who are still not accounted for from the conflicts we have
fought in the past and will fight in the future to protect our freedoms.
3. Handicap
Is A Myth Day—celebrating the birthday and career of Jim Abbott, who was born on this day in
1967 with only one hand, but spent 11 years in the Major Leagues and pitched a
no hitter against the Yankees on September 4, 1993.
4. Weight
Is A State Of Mind Day—celebrating the birthdays of two ends of the diet
spectrum-Mama Cass on this day in 1941(died of a heart attack in 1974) and British
model Leslie (Twiggy) Lawson on this day in 1969 (still alive today). In terms
of longevity, skinny is obviously better.
5. National
Butterscotch Pudding Day—assuming you survive the rat race for another
day, a great way to end it.
On this day in
a. 1778 the Continental Congress passed the first federal budget, which even
with over 200 years of inflation was dwarfed by the bloated and wasteful budget
we have today.
b. 1959 Nikita Khrushchev was barred from visiting Disneyland due to security
concerns.
c. 1982 Scott Fahlman posted the
first emoticon on a website J.
d. 2014 the citizens of Scotland
voted to remain in the United Kingdom. http://alaskanpoet.blogspot.com/2014/09/scotland-votes-on-independence-freedom.html
Not
sure if Teddy Roosevelt ever played baseball but he would have been a great
fan of Jim Abbott: “The
boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to
overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and
defeats.” Teddy
Roosevelt 26th President of the United States
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19, 2014 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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