Ridley's
Believe It Or Not—July 6, 2014: Trust all are enjoying a
marvelous safe and sane 4th Weekend
and will enjoy these holidays of note, factoids and a quote from an anonymous
source. Also hope you enjoy this poem on what Newport Beach on the 4th
too often degenerates into. http://alaskanpoet.blogspot.com/2012_07_01_archive.html
1. Jed Clampett Day —mourning the death of a
great American actor on this day in 2003, Buddy Ebsen star of among other TV
series, The Beverly Hillbillies and Barnaby
Jones and but for an allergy would also have been immortalized as the Tin
Man in the Wizard of Oz.
2. Happy
Trails Day—mourning the loss of that iconic screen cowboy Roy Rogers.
3. National
Fired Chicken Day—what better way to celebrate the 4th of
July weekend with soaring beef prices than to enjoy some fried chicken at the
park or beach—forget KFC, go to Popeyes Louisiana Fried Chicken to declare
culinary independence from the KFC grease and fat.
4. International
Kissing Day—celebrating that unique human act, a kiss. Today if you
observe the holiday forgo the garlic and pickled herring and reach for the
Listerine.
On this
day in:
a. 1885 Louis Pasteur first successfully
tested his vaccine for rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who had been bitten by a
rabid dog.
b. 1934 the first Major League
Baseball All Star game was held in Chicago’s Comiskey Park with the American
League prevailing 4-2 over the National League.
c. 1947 that iconic and very deadly
automatic rifle the AK-47 was first produced.
A
thought to remember on International Kissing Day:
“In trying to get our own way, we should remember that kisses are sweeter than
whine. ~Author Unknown
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2014 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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