USELESS INFO TUESDAY

 ~  The modern aerosol can was invented in the early 1940's by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and was first used as a "bug bomb" by U.S. soldiers in the Pacific to spray malaria - and other disease-carrying insects.

 ~  Genericide is the process by which a brand name - such as Thermos or Aspirin (or in the South Coke) - becomes a generic name.

~  Movie producer George Lucas originally intended to name his archaeologist-adventurer Indiana Smith.  When director Steven Spielberg objected, Smith was changed to Jones.

 ~  When Jello was first introduced in 1942, it was a big flop.  It was first marketed with a cola flavor.

~  In Chinese, chop suey means "mixed pieces" or "mmiscellaneous scraps."

WHAT ARE YOU WATCHING?

I love TV.  No, I mean I REALLY LOVE TV.  I have lots of different shows that I am very loyal to.  I do not have on-demand or DVR, so it is really important that I watch my shows at the time they first air.  And, believe me, I do.  Not much can come between me and my TV. 

Here is a sampling (sampling hell) of what a typical week of TV for me looks like.

Sunday - (one of my favorite nights)

Amazing Race, Boardwalk Empire, The Walking Dead (I wish I could fit in Undercover Boss, but there is just no way).

Monday

Antiques Roadshow, The Event, Hawaii 5-O

Tuesday

Not much on for me here.  Usually watch Food Network, maybe a movie, then House Hunters and House Hunters International

Wednesday

Survivor (LOVE IT), Modern Family, Cougar Town, House Hunters duo.  This Wednesday I have to watch Throwdown with Bobby Flay on the Food Network at 8.  He is challenging The Pioneer Woman (love her blog) to a 1 hour Thanksgiving ThrowDown!  I am missing Hell's Kitchen.  It comes on this night too at 7.  Wish it would move to Tuesday or Thursday.

Thursday

Fringe, Project Runway (was watching, now it is off), I can take some suggestions here too.

Friday and Saturday I just wing it.  Of course Saturday is mostly filled with football.  WAR EAGLE.

So there, I have posted on my blog today after taking a needed break last week.  I am a little rusty, and I know not very interesting, but it is something.  You should consider yourself lucky.  I almost blogged about "Items Currently in my Purse."  Hey, wait, that is what I can blog about Wednesday!  I know you can't wait!

TAKING A BREAK...

...TO GET THE CREATIVE JUICES FLOWING...BE BACK MONDAY...LOVE!

USELESS INFO TUESDAY ON WEDNESDAY

~  FORTY is the only number that when spelled out has its letters in alphabetical order

 ~  The basilisk lizard is commonly referred to as the Jesus Christ lizard because of its unique ability to run on water when fleeing predators.  Their web like hind feed make this possible.

~  TIME magazine picked Albert Einstein as the 20th Century's Person of the Century.  In its January 2, 2000 edition, the news weekly described Einstein as "the genius among geniuses who discovered, merely by thinking about it, that the universe was not as it seemed."  (HUH?)

~  Grammium is the special alloy used in making the music industry's Grammy award.  It is a custom zinc and aluminum alloy developed specifically for the Grammies.  After the miniature gramophones are cast in grammium, they are plated in 24-karat gold.

~  Emergency shutdown buttons on control panels in nuclear power plants around the world are routinely labeled "SCRAM" buttons.



Southern Fried Thursday

Here are some of you favorite quotes from one of my favorite movies...

Loretta Lynn: Hey Doolittle Lynn, who's that sow you got wallowin' in your jeep?

Girl: What'd you call me?
Loretta Lynn: A sow, that's a woman pig!

Doolittle: Hop in; I'll run you back up to the house. What are you doin' in this bottom anyway?

Loretta: I came to see the doctor.
Doolittle: What for, you sick?
Loretta: Yeah, I'm sick alright; I'm goin' to have a baby.
Doolittle: [laughing] You know, Loretta, we may have found something you know how to do.


[Doolittle walks out of the door after an argument with Loretta]

Loretta: Doolittle; are you leavin'?
Doolittle: [come back in the house] Naw, Loretta; *I* ain't leavin'.
[Loretta walks up to her parents' house]
Ted: Well, look whose back!
Loretta: Doolittle's done throwed me out.
Clara: Maybe it ain't to late to stop you from ruinin' your life.
Ted: I believe married life is makin' you fat, girl.
Clara: [to herself] Oh, no!

Loretta: I done wrote me a song Betty Sue. Your mama dadgome songwriter now.

Betty Sue Lynn: That's a nice song mama.
Loretta Lynn: Thank you baby


[the morning after the wedding night]

Loretta: This food's cold.
Doolittle: That's 'cause it froze on the way over here from the damn restaurant. You want a hot breakfast, you got to come with me.
Loretta: You think I'm going over there with you and all them folks knowin' what we been doin' in here?
Doolittle: Hell's Bells, Loretta. You think this is somethin' the rest of the world ain't caught onto yet? They don't give a damn.


Loretta Lynn: [Loretta is trying out a new song] It goes like this 'It'll be over my dead body, so get out while you can', then it drops down to 'cause you ain't woman enough to take my man!'

Doolittle: Where'd you come up with the idea for that song, Loretta?

Radio station manager: And come off that dumb hillbilly act!

Doolittle: If you knew Loretta, you'd know that ain't no act.
Loretta Lynn: Thank you, honey.


Loretta Lynn: An' stoppa that growlin'. You sound like a big ol' bar.


Loretta Lynn: [Loretta catches Doo with another woman] Woman, if you want to keep that arm, you better get it off my husband.

Girl at fairgrounds: Who are you telling what?
Loretta Lynn: I don't know who you are, but I know what you are.


Loretta Lynn: [Loretta is trying to practice the guitar but her sons keep interrupting] If you boys don't settle down on this porch I'm gonna have to whup you!

Loretta & Mooney's child: That's right!


Loretta Lynn: [in a radio interview] Shoot, we've been driving so much, I don't know where I am half the time. But it's fun. We sing, and talk, and Doo - that's my husband - he'll get to acting horny.

Speedy West: [shocked] What!
Loretta Lynn: And the more I laugh, the hornier he gets, and then he'll say, "Loretta, spread me up another one of them baloney sandwiches!"


Loretta Lynn: [In the bathroom of the honkytonk when Doo is trying to convince her to sing on stage for the first time] Loretta says : "I may be ignorant, but I ain't stupid!"

USELESS INFO TUESDAY

~  The longest possible time an individual can serve as president of the United States is 10 years.  Under Amendment 22 of the U.S. Constitution ratified in 1951, "No person shall be elected to the office of President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once."

~  The term blue blood originated in Spain.  Blue blood was claimed by pure-blooded aristocratic families to differentiate themselves from those who had intermarried.  They were not referring to the color of the blood they bled, but rather to the blueness of their veins, which could be seen clearly through their fair skin.

~  Honey has played a part in the game of golf.  Before the solid core of golf balls was introduced in the late 1960's, most golf balls had a rubber center that was filled with a liquid, which was frequently honey.

~  The U.S. used to distribute cigarettes free to GIs beginning in 1917.  General John J. Pershing claimed that cigarettes were needed "as much as bullets" to win World War I.  They were eliminated from C rations and K rations in 1975.

~  Yoko Ono released an album in 2007 titled "Yes, I'm a Witch."

ANOTHER BEST COSTUME EVER!

Don't you love it?  He came as one of the rescued Chilean miners in the rescue capsule!  My friend ran in the Spooktacular 5K race on Saturday.  She said he ran the entire way in this costume taking baby steps.