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Today’s Thoughts
Cold last
night. Warming up nicely today. Snow and
icicles should start melting soon.
Just before the Super
Bowl there was a shooting at Joel Osteen’s Mega Church. Two were injured and
the female shooter was killed. She had an AR-15 type rifle. News is slow in coming
out.
This Super Bowl may
have seen another Dynasty (Chiefs) in the making. It was a nail-biter OT game
that gave the Chiefs 2-in-a-row Championships. Did you know there were 2
Native-Americans on the Chief’s team? Center Creed Humphrey is a Potawatomi
Nation citizen and Long Snapper James Winchester is a Choctaw Nation citizen.
That’s cool.
Commercials were
decent, but none were that memorable from my viewing.
Usher and his guests
did a very good halftime show. Nice to see he brought quite a few other famous
singers onto the stage. The Roller
skating on stage was awesome, although I was waiting for someone to slip off,
which thankfully didn’t happen. Overall a good long event.
Decoding Common
Phrases…
Hit the Sack
“Hit the sack” is a colloquial expression commonly used to
indicate going to bed or starting the process of falling asleep. The phrase
originates from a time when mattresses were often sacks filled with straw or
other soft materials, making the action of “hitting” the sack a final step
before lying down to sleep.
It’s frequently used to convey a sense of weariness or the
need to rest after a long day or exhausting activity. The saying encapsulates
the universal human experience of seeking rest and the comfort of one’s bed at
the end of the day. In contemporary usage, “hit the sack” remains a casual and
relatable way of saying that one is ready to end the day and retreat to the
comfort of sleep.
Civil War Facts
The
Confederacy falls
Transportation
and supply blockades caused severe food shortages in the South. Famished troops
began leaving Gen. Robert E. Lee's last positions. In a desperate attempt to
replace the deserters, Confederate President Jefferson Davis approved enlisting
and arming enslaved people—the measure was never enforced.
Interesting Trivia…
The
biggest selling music single of all time is?
When
Walt Disney was a child, which character did he play in his school function?
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Answer:
Candle in the Wind (1997)
Answer:
Peter Pan
Historic Events
1741 – American
Magazine was first published. It was America’s first magazine.
1861 – Colonel
Bernard Erwin earned the first Medal of Honor, America’s highest military
honor.
February 13, 1937 –
Prince Valiant, Comic Strip debuted
1943 – Dresden,
Germany was firebombed, killing an estimated 135,000 people.
1961 – The Coso
Artifact was discovered, a 1920s era spark plug, supposedly found in a
500,000-year-old rock.
Birthdays with some
quotes
@97 – Bess
Truman, American wife of US President Harry S Truman (d. 1982)
“I’ve liked lots of
people ’til I went on a picnic jaunt with them.”
@97 –
Chuck Yeager, Brigadier general, pilot, 1st pilot to break sound barrier (d.
2020)
“You don’t
concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to
prevent the necessary job from getting done.”
91 – Kim
Novak, American actress
@88 –
Eddie Robinson, American college basketball coach (d. 2007)
@87 –
George Segal, American actor (d. 2021)
83 – Bo
Svenson, Swedish-American actor
80 – Stockard
Channing, American actress
@79 –
Jerry Springer, English-American television host (d. 2023;pancreatic cancer)
“Life is what it is,
and you take what’s handed, and you work as hard as you can, and hopefully
you’ll be successful, but I just don’t spend too much time worrying about
that.”
78 – Richard
Blumenthal, American politician
@77 –
Carol Lynley, American model and actress (d. 2019; heart attack)
@77 –
Peter Tork, American singer-songwriter, bass player and actor (d. 2019; cancer)
“Let them think what
they think. Nobody doesn’t get stereotyped. Nobody doesn’t get scorned.
Everybody’s bad news in somebody’s life.”
77 – MIKE KRZYZEWSKI,
Basketball coach
74 – Peter Gabriel,
English singer-songwriter and musician
@72 –
Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer and actor (d. 1991; liver failure)
67 – Denise Austin,
American fitness trainer
62 – Henry Rollins,
American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
“I think about the
meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it.
Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.”
“Scar tissue is
stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.”
@50 –
Grant Wood, American painter (d. 1942; cancer)
56 – Kelly Hu,
American actress
50 – Robbie
Williams, English singer-songwriter
45 – Mena Suvari,
American actress
…The End for today…
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