Wednesday, June 23, 2010

SUMMER PEOPLE

1.  Sumarr was a Norse god. Summer is named after him.
2.  Summer Sanders is a former Olympic swimmer and TV host
3.  Ed Summers was a baseball player. His nickname was Kickapoo Ed.
4.  Summer Phoenix is a famous actress that few people have heard of.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

TATTOO MY HEAD

                           
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RAT OF THE DAY: MEET KOFI, AN AFRICAN POACHED RAT

African poached rats are the largest rats in the world. These rats make wonderful pets, and they are also good at ridding your house of cats and other pests.

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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

FACT: IN THE OLD DAYS EVEN VICIOUS CRIMINALS DRESSED UP

At least when they got their pictures taken.

That's Billy the Kid, Jesse James, and John Wesley Hardin, just in case you didn't know.

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FACT: MANY BANDS ARE NAMED AFTER ANIMALS

For example:

1. The Animals (that was an easy one)
2. The Beatles  (spelling!)
3. The Turtles
4. The Arctic Monkeys (there is no such thing)
5. The Monkees (there is, but spelling again)
6. The Stray Cats
7. The Boomtown Rats
8. The Byrds (really, I 've had it with the spelling problems)
9. The Miniature Tigers (I know you've never heard of them, but there are good, and they can spell.)

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NEWS OF THE DAY

An Immokalee man was squeezed behind bars after police say he became sour over the lack of lemonade at a local fast food restaurant.

Burger King manager Brenda Jackson, 51, said a drive-thru customer, later identified as Pedro Vargas, 36, of the 200 block of North 3rd Street, Immokalee, began screaming at her after she informed Vargas that the restaurant was out of lemonade on Sunday night.

Jackson said Vargas got out of his pick-up truck, reached through the drive-thru window and grabbed her by the shirt nearly pushing her down.

A female passenger in the vehicle was pleading for Vargas to settle down and let go, Jackson said.
Vargas eventually released Jackson, got back in his truck without ordering any food and went across the street to another fast food restaurant.

Witness Karen Guzman, 32, also a Burger King employee, said she saw the man, who wanted the lemonade, attack the manager.


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Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Monday, June 14, 2010

HAPPY FLAG DAY


Working as a grade school teacher in Waubeka, Wisconsin in 1885, Bernard J. Cigrand held the first recognized formal observance of Flag Day at the Stony Hill School.

The school has been restored, and a bust of Cigrand also honors him at the National Flag Day Americanism Center in Waubeka.



From the late 1880s on, Cigrand spoke around the country promoting patriotism, respect for the flag, and the need for the annual observance of a flag day on June 14, the day in 1777 that the Continental Congress adopted the Stars and Stripes.

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Wednesday, June 9, 2010

YOU ARE A WASP

                           


   

   

   

     
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Tuesday, June 8, 2010

TECHNICAL VEGETABLE OF THE DAY: THE POTATO


Potato Facts:

1.   Potatoes are grown in all 50 United States
2.   A potato is about 80% water.
3.   The rest is potato stuff.
4.   The world's largest potato weighed over 18 tons.
5.   I mean pounds.
6.   The potato is a relative of the tomato.
7.   I think they are cousins.
8.   Mr. Potato Head was born in 1952.
9.   He married Mrs. Potato Head in 1953.
10. That's right, he got married when he was 1 year old.
11. The sweet potato is most definitely not a real potato.
12. Thomas Jefferson served the first French Fries in America.
13. That is why he was a great president.
14. Mashed Potato Time is a song as well as time to eat mashed potatoes.

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FACT: THESE 3 VIDEOS ARE EXTREMELY ANNOYING. ENJOY.






Friday, June 4, 2010

A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

Today is National Doughnut Day.  National Doughnut Day is on the first Friday of June each year.

ISLAND OF THE DAY: EASTER ISLAND

 FACT: You will not find bunnies, chocolate candy eggs, or jelly beans on Easter Island.  

Wednesday, June 2, 2010