April 9, 2013
Volume 16 No 57
Stupid Quote Of Quotes Of The
The Day
Day
On Predictions,
Fundamentally Unsound:
[M
1
ortgage giants] Freddie Mac
and Fannie Mae are
fundamentally sound . . . I think
they are in good shape going
forward.
Rep. Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts), two
months before the government spent
billions bailing them out
ertolt Brecht:
B
“Because things are the way
they are, things will not stay the
way they are.”
Mike Myers:
“Silly is you in a natural state, and
serious is something you have to do until
you can get silly again.”
Voltaire:
“To succeed in the world it is not
enough to be stupid, you must also be wellmannered.”
Barry Switzer:
"Some people are born on third base and
Word A Day
l
ex loci Pronunciation (leks LOH-sy,
-kee, -ky)
noun: The law of the place.
From Latin lex (law) + locus (place).
Earliest documented use: 1832.
Lex loci says that the law of that country or
jurisdiction applies where the act was done.
"Another statute book named Conscience
is observed lex loci wherever God sees."
David Mitchell; Cloud Atlas; Random
House; 2004.
"He is also survived by his two Labrador
retrievers: Lex Loci and Stare Decisis."
Obituary: Nathan S. Heffernan, Chief
Justice (Ret.); Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;
Apr 17, 2007.
This week’s theme:
terms from the world
of law.
DILBERT-OF-THE-DAY
go through life thinking they hit a triple."
Useless Facts
Of The Day
U
seless facts:
Urban Word(s)
Of The Day

Actors Robert Redford, Steve
McQueen, and Paul Newman
all turned down a contract offer
of $ 4 million for the starring role in
Superman. Christopher Reeve was
paid $250,000 for the part.
s
uicide by superpower
annihilation stemming from picking a
fight with an utterly more powerful
force.
The supreme leader of North Korea will die
of suicide by superpower if he even aims a
missile at the United States
Published: 3/7/2016 9:10 AM
*Happy Birthday*
------------------------1924 Harald Heilmann composer
[89]
1926 Hugh [Marston] Hefner Chgo (Playboy) [87]
1928 Tom Lehrer parody/folk singer
[85]
1932 Jim Fowler naturalist (Wild Kingdom) [81]
1932Paul Krassner comic strip cartoons(MAD)[81]
1933 Jean-Paul Belmondo actor (Magnifique)[80]
1939 Michael Learned actress (The Waltons) [74]
1941 Hannah Gordon actress (Oh Alfie) [72]
1944 Gene Parsons rock drummer (Byrds) [69]
1948 Philip Wright rocker (Paper Lace) [65]
1953 Hal Ketchum NY, country singer [60]
1954 Dennis Quaid TX, actor (Big Easy) [59]
1959 Dave Innis cntry singer (Restless Heart) [54]
1961 Mark Kelly Irel, rock keyboards (Marillion)[52]
1965 Paulina Porizkova Czech, model [48]
1966 Cynthia Nixon actress (Pelican Brief) [47]
1971 Austin Peck actor (Days of Our Lives) [42]
1974 Jenna Jameson actr (Cruisin Jennaville) [39]
1979 Keshia Knight Pulliam actress (Crosby)[34]
1986 Leighton Meester actress (Gossip Girl) [27]
1990 Kristen Stewart actress (Twilight) [23]
1998 Elle Fanning actress (CSI:NY) [15]
2000Jackie Evancho sng(America’s Got Talent)[13]
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Stuff-Of-The-Day Newsletter
History Of The
Day
1
609 Spain & Netherlands sign 12
Year Resistant Pact
1953 "TV Guide" publishes 1st issue
1957 Suez Canal cleared for all shipping
1962 Arnold Palmer wins his 3rd Masters
golf tournament
1962 26th Golf Masters Championship
Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 280
1682 Robert La Salle claims lower
Mississippi (Louisiana) for France
1965 Beatles "Ticket to Ride" is released in
UK
1770 Captain James Cook discovers
Botany Bay (Australia)
1965 India & Pakistan engage in border
1989 Mike Tyson strikes a parking
attendant when asked to move his car
1991 Release of Microsoft MS-DOS 5.0
1992 Noriega convicted on 8 of 10 drug &
racketeering charges
1992 US Federal court finds Panamanian
dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of drugs
1994 Singer Wayne Newton (52) weds
attorney Kathleen McCrone (30)
1995 59th Golf Masters
Championship Ben Crenshaw
wins, shooting a 274
1829 Danzig (Gdansk) dike
break flood kills 1,200
2000 64th Golf Masters
Championship Vijay Singh
wins with 10-under-par 278
1831 Robert Jenkins loses an
ear, starts war between
Britain & Spain
1833 1st tax-supported public
library (Peterborough NH)
Gadget Of
The Day
1865 Robert E Lee & 26,765
troops, surrender to US Grant
at Appomattox
S
1866 Civil Rights Bill passes
over President Andrew
Johnson's veto
elf-Twirling Spaghetti
Fork
Rejoice, spaghetti
lovers! Your pasta prayers
1869 Hudson Bay Company
have been answered! Thanks
cedes its territory to Canada
to this remarkably pointless
new invention, you can now
1872 Samuel R Percy
avoid the drudgery of having to
twirl your own spaghetti. With
Las Pozas, Mexico
patents dried milk
the Motor-Powered Selfby Diane Cook and Len Jenshel
1878 1st Lady Lucy Hayes
Twirling Spaghetti Fork, all you
When a freak freeze killed the orchid collection on his Mexican estate, English
begins egg rolling contest on eccentric Edward James created Las Pozas, a garden with surreal follies like the
have to do is switch it on, jab it
White House lawn
into a bowl of pasta, and watch
concrete Bamboo Palace—durable and immune to the vagaries of weather.
the fork do all the hard work.
http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/655/cache/las-pozas1894 1st performance of
The Self-Twirling Spaghetti
cook-jenshel_65521_990x742.jpg
Anton Bruckner's 5th
Fork is so well-designed, it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Pozas#Las_Pozas
Symphony in B in Graz
works with Linguini, Fetucinni,
and Angle Hair Pasta too! Hard to believe,
1912 Titanic leaves Queenstown Ireland for
fight
but true nevertheless. The fork operates on
New York
two AA batteries (not included) and twirls at
1967 1st Boeing 737 rolls out
1914 1st full color film shown "The World,
22 revolutions per minute. (According to the
The Flesh & the Devil" (London)
1970 Paul McCartney announces official
Institutei de Parma, this is the optimal
split of the Beatles
speed for spaghetti twirling.)
1914 Tampico incident - US ship crew
Unfortunately, you still have to lift to
arrested in México
1971 Ringo releases "It Don't Come Easy"
fork to your mouth, but they're
in UK
1928 Mae West's NYC debut in a daring
working on that, too.
new play "Diamond Lil"
1972 36th Golf Masters Championship
Price: $9.99
Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 286
1928 Turkey passes separation of church &
http://www.stupid.com/selftwirlingstate
spaghetti-fork.html
1973 Otto Kerner, former Governor of
Illinois, convicted for his role in an illegal
1940 German cruiser Blücher
racetrack scheme
torpedoed/capsizes in Oslofjord, 1,000 die
1940 Germany invades Norway & Denmark
during WWII (Denmark surrenders)
1978 42nd Golf Masters Championship
Gary Player wins, shooting a 277
1945 Liberty ship at Bari Italy carrying
aerial bombs explodes, kills 360
1979 Longest doubles ping-pong match
of 101 hours, begins
1947 Atomic Energy Commission is formed
1981 US sub George Washington rams
Japanese freighter Nisso Maru
1947 Baseball suspends Brooklyn Dodger
Leo Durocher for 1 year
1947 Tornadoes striking West Texas &
Oklahoma kill 169, injuring 1,300
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Friday
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1985 White Sox pitcher Tom Seaver
starts a record 15th opening day game
1988 US imposes economic sanctions on
Panamá
1950 Bob Hope's 1st TV appearance
http://www.stuffoftheday.com/
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