Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Big day in Denver

Tonight is game 5 of this round of playoff games. we are playing the Mavericks.. Since there is not much love lost between these two teams, tonight is promising to be a doozey.. Even if you don't really care for basketball, these games have been so exciting and full of last minute changes.. I will be watching for sure.

Just a heads up that i will not be posting for the next few days. the regular posts and snack updates will resume on Tuesday.... and i might even have some news, but you will have to check back on Tuesday to see what is going down..

sorry for such a short post today.. but i gotta get things moving.
Here are your reasons to celebrate today:

Today is National Open An Umbrella Indoors Day, a day to open an umbrella indoors and see if anything bad happens, sponsored by Thomas Knibb of Walkersville, Maryland.

Today si National Nightshift Workers Day.

Today is National Receptionists Day.

Today is Root Canal Appreciation Day

Today is Good Samaritan Involvement Day, a time to be unselfish and get involved to help others.

Today is Uncle Sam Day. On March 13, 1852, the New York Lantern first featured the Uncle Sam character. Uncle Sam came to be a symbol of American patriotism. The nickname of Uncle

Today is Earmuffs Day. Chester Greenwood of Maine patented earmuffs on this date in 1887.

Today is Commonwealth Day in the United Kingdom.

1975: Singers George Jones and Tammy Wynette were divorced after a stormy 6-year marriage.

1982: John Jaszowski of Milwaukee hit 12 consecutive strikes to become the youngest bowler ever to roll a perfect game. John was 11 years old.

1983: The Larry King Live show premiered on CNN.

1987: Bryan Adams' "Heat of the Night" became the first commercially released cassette single in the U.S.

1988: Gallaudet University, a liberal arts college for the hearing-impaired since 1864 in Washington, D.C., chose I. King Jordan to become the school's first deaf president.

1990: A blind man robbed a bank in Vallejo, California, then asked the teller to guide him out of the building. She refused, and he was still trying to find his way out when police arrived.

1991: Romanian peasant Calin Florea dug up his prize German-made Lanz tractor, which he had buried in his garden 35 years earlier to prevent a communist co-op from confiscating it. He cleaned the engine and it cranked right up.

1996: The Nigerian news agency reported that a woman waiting in line three hours for gasoline gave birth to a baby girl. Others in line at the service station nicknamed the baby "Fuel Crisis."

1997: A lock of British naval hero Lord Nelson's hair sold at auction for $8,096.

2002: President Bush declared Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was a menace and had to be dealt with, and Osama bin Laden had been reduced to a marginal figure in the war on terrorism.

2002: On Fox's "Celebrity Boxing." Tonya Harding beat Paula Jones, Danny Banaduce whipped Barry Williams and Todd Bridges defeated Vanilla Ice.

2006: U.S. Customs agents in California found 250 bogus billion dollar bills while investigating a man charged with currency smuggling. The investigation led agents to a West Hollywood apartment where they found the stash of yellowing and wrinkled one billion dollar bills with an issue date of 1934 and bearing a picture of President Grover Cleveland.

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