MERRY CHRISTMAS

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a safe and Happy New Year!

YOU KNOW WHAT TODAY IS

Sorry I have been so busy with Christmas....hopefully better after today.

~ The Eskimo language has more than 20 words to describe different kinds of snow.

~ The characters of Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's A Wonderful Life."

~ The leaves of the Victorian water lily are sometimes more than 6 feet in diameter.

~ Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to enter space.

~ Michael Jordan shaves his head on Tuesdays and Fridays.

SOUTHERN FRIED THURSDAY - "TACKY"

Another excerpt from this cute little book! I have enjoyed it for years....

"What is considered trash or quality in the South has nothing to do with money. Some of the best families around here haven't had money for generations. The emphasis is on breeding and manners. No amount of money can make you quality if you don't act like quality. For instance, good Southern belles don't place much importance on paying $400 to buy a pocketbook that's got some Italian designer's initials all over it. In the South, grandmother's monogrammed napkin rings are much more important than Gucci's monogrammed luggage. To think otherwise is just considered tacky. And around here, nothing is more tacky than being tacky."

-Alabama belle discussing the intricacies of being Southern

USELESS

~ A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans. Every year, more than 8,800 people injure themselves in some way with a toothpick.

~ An octupus will eat its own arms if it gets really hungry.

~ Thomas Edison, the inventor of the lightbulb, was afraid of the dark.

~ The Nobel Prize was first awarded in 1901. It resulted from a late change in the will of Alfred Nobel, who did not want to be remembered after his death as a propagator of violence - he invented dynamite.

~ Jeans were named after Genoa, Italy, where the first denim cloth was made.

Pease forgive me...

...I have been slacking I know. I am just so busy at the end of the year, and Rachel has spent the last two weekends in T-town, so they have not been around for me to observe funny happenings.

It seems to be turning into a pretty hectic Christmas. Here is where things stand:

1. I have not finished my shopping
2. I have not finished addressing my cards
3. I have not finished my Mom's shopping
4. I have not received all the internet ordered gifts
5. My dog is not putting pressure on his back right leg, so he is hurt
6. My cat is licking all the hair off her back at the base of her tail, so she is crazy
7. I have not spent all of my pre-tax medical money - have to spend $500 more before 12/31

SOUTHERN FRIED THURSDAY

"...in the South, even football is a folk ritual, touching on religiosity, and Saturday is a Holy Day."
- Willie Morris

"To Coach Bryant, that guy who played three plays was just as important as Joe Namath."
- Jackie Sherrill, Head Coach, Mississippi State University

"The doctors say it's 85% smoking, poor diet, and the pressures of coaching, and 15% booze and other things. I wish it had been 85% booze and other things."
- Paul "Bear" Bryant, beloved University of Alabama Crimson Tide Head Coach, about his health problems

TUESDAY IS USELESS

~ Every episode of Seinfeld contains a reference to Superman.

~ Hitler was claustrophobic. The elevator leading to his "Eagle's Nest" in the Austrian Alps was mirrored so it would appear larger and more open.

~ The tail section of an airplane gives the bumpiest ride.

~ To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.

~ Laws forbidding the sale of sodas on Sunday prompted William Garwood to invent the ice-cream sundae in Evanston, Illinois, in 1875.