January 17 2023 Ridley's Believe It Or Not

 

On Monday night the last wild card playoff game was played which most likely will be the last NFL game this quarterback legend will have played after coming back from a short retirement which was the fatal blow to a marriage already at risk in the hopes of securing yet another Superbowl Championship. The Buccaneers lost to the Cowboys 31-14 as the Buccaneers were shut out 24-0 until scoring a T.D. with 3:09 left in the 3^rd quarter but in the 4^th the Cowboys widened the lead to 31-6 as on a 4^th down Dallas having seen its PAT kicker miss on his 4 prior attempts, Prescott threw a T.D. pass. Brady tried to pull a win out of the hat tossing a T.D. pass  and 2 pt. PAT pass with 2:39 left in the 4^th quarter and after recovering an onside kick launched a long pass to a wide open streaking receiver who could not hold to the ball and Patriots turned over the ball on downs to lose. It looks like the winter storm that hit California and ended Monday night is the last hurrah for rain and snow for a while (we still need more rain and snow but hopefully more spaced out to prevent recurrence of mudslides). I hope you also enjoy today’s Ridley's Believe It Or Not  and find it worthy to read and if not reply “Unsubscribe” to be removed.  
Ridley’s Believe It Or Not January 17, 2023
          Noted Holidays: Rid the World of Fad Diets and Gimmicks Day, Created by Francie Berg, the founder of Healthy Diet Week and celebrated on the 3^rd Tuesday of January to promote a healthy diet as opposed to a fad diet that promotes rapid weight loss and is often deficient in needed nutrients but worst of all after the weight is lost next to impossible to maintain and the pounds come back with a vengeance. n.
          Word of the Day: The word of the day is “adipescent” which means becoming fat or fatty, a state of affairs exacerbated by the plethora of holiday parties and functions and the proclivity to shed oneself of New Years’ Resolutions to lose weight sooner than the weight desired to be lost and the perfect word to go with a famous holiday. 
          Number 1 Song of the Day: The number 1 song on this day in 1984 was “Say Say Say” by Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney on a run of 2 weeks following 4 in 1983 to share with 19 other songs achieving number 1 status while 15 acts achieved their first number 1 song.  Here is a music video of Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney  performing “Say Say Say”: httpshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnkVQHh25es
          Noted Birthdays: Ulysses Dove, an American dancer and choreographer, was born on this day in 1947. His dancing and choreography emphasized, speed and eroticism and he was sought out often by the American Ballet Theater and the London  Ballet Theatre but even a noted Dove can’t fly on winds crippled by AIDS and he died to early from AIDS on June 11, 1996.
          Notable Events that occurred on January 17:
          1.     1991—In a you can’t scramble and try to shoot down what you can’t see Coalition Air Forces led by the first combat use of the stealth fighter F-117 crossed the Iraq border to attack command and control centers and begin the softening of Iraqi troop fortifications while Iraq in a failed attempt to shed Arab forces from the Coalition launched 8 Scud missiles into Israel.
          2.     1992—In a we took far too long to seek forgiveness moment during a visit to South Korea Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa  publicly apologized for Japan’s enslavement of “comfort women” to sexually service Japanese troops.
          3.     1998—Matt Drudge of the Drudge Report disclosed the sexual tryst of President Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky which probably did not shock a large number of the public due to his proclivity to have an active reptilian brain.
          4.     2013—After denying for years that he had used performance enhancing drugs, 7 time consecutive Tour de France winner, Lance Armstrong confessed to doping on Oprah’s Next Century and was stripped of his cycling medals.
          5.     2017—The search for Malaysia Air Flight 370 which disappeared on March 8, 2014 after taking off from Kuala Lumpur was officially suspended as authorities were convinced the plane crashed into the Indian Ocean by the pilot on a suicide mission.
         Quote of the Day: Madam X from China on Her Being a “Comfort Woman”: “I was forced to have sex with ten to twenty men a day. As a result I was continuously raw. Red raw. Sex was excruciating. Oh, you have no idea how painful it was! You couldn’t imagine it! But I had to be gentle and serve every soldier well. If I didn’t perform well, I would get beaten. Some of the men would be drunk and beat me anyway. One man, although drunk, stayed inside me his whole allotted hour. It was unbearable – but I had to bear it.”
Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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