MONDAY FEBRUARY 25TH 2013

Good Monday mornin "I don't usually watch the Oscars, but when I do, I choose the best cleavage".  and I didn't  watch last night but I see a movie called "Argo" won for best picture...I thought it was about Pinball Clemons...but apparently not. It was a movie that Americans turned into a Hero-worship backing of the C.I.A instead of what former President of the U.S. Jimmy Carter said was a 90% Story of Canadian heroism from former ambassador Ken Taylor and the staff of the Canadian Embassy. Oh well, we still got to see some beautiful gowns and one or two from Oscar De La Renta Wreck.

 It's not a bad morning although small amounts of snow continue to fall and there's more on the way tomorrow and Wednesday apparently.



WHAT HAPPENED ON THIS DATE:

 1836 - Sure as shootin’, Samuel Colt received a patent for a pistol that used a revolving cylinder containing powder and bullets in six individual tubes. (Pre-assembled loads [cartridges] came later.) Up to that time, the single-shot flintlock pistol had been the fastest firearm around. Colt’s Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company was incorporated in 1855 and some 30 million Colt pistols and rifles have been sold since making America the peaceful place it is today.

 U.S. INCOME TAX was established on this date in 1913...to our friends in the U.S. "many happy returns". 1924 - Ty Cobb, one of the legends of baseball, issued an edict to his team, the Detroit Tigers, that outlawed the playing of golf during training camp. A report in the Detroit Free Press said that Cobb went so far as to confiscate players’ golf clubs! Wow! Talk about being a little ‘teed off’, eh!
 1940 - The first televised hockey game was broadcast. The New York Rangers whipped the Montreal Canadiens at Madison Square Garden on W2XBS-TV in New York City. The Rangers won, 6-2.
 1964 - Twenty-two-year old Cassius Clay won the world heavyweight boxing title by defeating Sonny Liston in the seventh round in Miami, FL. Clay had been an 8-1 underdog. In fact, only 8,297 fans showed up for the bout.  

 1966 - Nancy Sinatra was high-stepping with a gold record award for the hit, "These Boots are Made for Walkin’". When she cracked open the wooden-framed award to check out the gold disk inside, she heard "Pink Shoe Laces" by Dodie Stevens. Nancy was reported to have been incensed. I wonder how many people Frank had bumped off for doing that, Mind you it was "SOMETHING STUPID" to do.







The Top Songs ON THIS DATE IN 1960 The Theme from "A Summer Place" - Percy Faith (born in Toronto) Handy Man - Jimmy Jones... What in the World’s Come Over You - Jack Scott (born in Windsor in 1936)and He’ll Have to Go - Jim Reeves

THE  BIRTHDAY FILE ).... 1841 - Pierre-August Renoir (Impressionist artist: He did a great John Wayne Impression.

 In 1752, John Graves Simcoe, after which our County was named was born. In 1913 - Jim (James Gilmore) Backus (actor,the voice of Mr. Magoo ,AND  he was Thurston Howell on ""Gilligan’s Island, He was also in  I Married Joan, Blondie, The Great Lover, Rebel Without a Cause, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, and he was also the first host of TV's Talent Scouts. ( he died July 3, 1989). The youngest of The Marx Brothers, Zeppo was born in 1901 on this day and was put into the role of the straight man after his brother Gummo left the act. Zeppo also acted as an understudy to all three of his brothers, and he has been said to have played Groucho's part better than Groucho himself, but not nearly as well as Karl. After playing small parts in the first five Marx Brothers movies, Zeppo felt his talent wasn't being used to its full extent and left the act to join his brother Gummo as an agent. Somewhat of a mechanical whiz, Zeppo invented a wristwatch that would monitor the pulse rate of cardiac patients. He died Nov 30, 1979)   
OTHERS BORN ON THIS DATE: Faron Young (country singer Hello Walls etc) in 1932

 and George Harrison (known as the "quiet Beatle" was born on this date in 1943 and died Nov 29, 2001). HE WOULD HAVE BEEN 70 YEARS OLD TODAY.... His songs with the band include "Taxman", "While My Guitar Gently Weeps",  "Here Comes the Sun", "For You Blue", and "Something", which has become the second most-covered  Beatles song.  He also had many great tunes after the break-up.

and Finally...some people age well but for others like Joan Rivers, it's a matter of "NIP and Tuck"

Have a great day Mornin' everybody, Mornin'