Ridley’s Believe It Or Not—September
19, 2015 Trust your weekend is off to a great start, looking
forward to your college or pro football teams winning (Go Cardinal against the
Trojans!) and as always I hope you enjoy
Saturday’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest, a music
video by John Waite, a relevant poem
by the Alaskanpoet, looking forward to enjoying
a bowl of butterscotch pudding, blessed with a positive attitude
and secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any
memorable event like birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries, you know that the
Alaskanpoet can provide you with a unique customized poem at a great price
tailored to the event and the recipient. You need only contact me for
details.
1. Talk Like A Pirate Day —”Arrrh,Ahoy Matey.” Here is a whimsical observance to talk like a pirate even if you do not have a parrot, peg leg, or eye patch—given the rapacious nature of our politicians who want to spend increasing amounts of our hard earned cash this is an observance that should be mandatory daily in Washington and Sacramento.
1. Talk Like A Pirate Day —”Arrrh,Ahoy Matey.” Here is a whimsical observance to talk like a pirate even if you do not have a parrot, peg leg, or eye patch—given the rapacious nature of our politicians who want to spend increasing amounts of our hard earned cash this is an observance that should be mandatory daily in Washington and Sacramento.
2. International
Coastal Cleanup Day—sadly our oceans have become the globe’s largest
garbage dump which spills over on to our beaches and coasts and today is the 30th
anniversary of thousands of volunteers around the world going to the coasts to
clean up millions of pounds of trash.
3. 1984 Number One Song—celebrating
the number one song in 1984 on a brief run of one week in that position Missing You by John Waite. Here is a link to John Wait performing Missing You: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9e157Ner90
4.
National Butterscotch Pudding Day—celebrating another
great way to end a meal.
5. California Dreaming
Dreams—celebrating the birthday on this day in 1941 of Mama Cass Elliot
of the Mamas and Papas who given her obesity died far too early at
the age of 32. On this day
in:
a. 1692 81 year old Giles Corey achieved the dubious distinction of being
pressed to death (process took two days) for refusing to plead during the Salem
Witchcraft Trials; but in so dying prevented his heirs from being deposed of
his estate if he were found guilty and then hung or burned to death.
b. 1778 the Continental Congress passed the first federal budget (could not
find the exact amount but certain that it was a fraction of the bloated amount
we have today).
c.
1952 in a great blow against tolerance, the United States denied Charlie
Chaplin from reentry into the United States.
d. 1982 Scott
Feldman posted the world’s first emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University bulletin
board system.
e.
2010 BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill was officially declared sealed after
approximately five million barrels of oil had been released into the Gulf of
Mexico.
Reflections on Coastal
Cleanup Day
To calm one’s soul,
go to the ocean to hear the waves crash
To dampen one’s
spirits, walk along a beach strewn with ocean borne trash
Join thousands around
the globe to clean up the coast
An act truly worthy
of a well-deserved boast!
The Alaskanpoet
Please enjoy the 140 character poems on events of interest on my
twitter account below (if you like them, retweet and join 162
growing followers and please follow me) and follow my blogs. Always
good, incisive and entertaining poems on my blogs—click on the links below. Go
to www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com for Ridley’s Believe It Or Not—This Day In
History, poems to inspire, touch, emote, elate and enjoy and poems on
breaking news items of importance. Go to Rhymes On The
Newsworthy Times for comments on important and breaking news events that should
be of interest. www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com Ridley's Believe It Or Not Rhymes On The
Newsworthy Times
© September
19, 2015, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
Alaskanpoet for Hire, Poems to Admire
Alaskanpoet for Hire, Poems to Admire
Poet
Extraordinaire Beyond Compare
Rhymes
for All the Memorable Times
The Perfect Gift, All Recipients to Receive a Lasting Lift
The Perfect Gift, All Recipients to Receive a Lasting Lift
No comments:
Post a Comment