TUESDAY FEBRUARY 19TH, 2013

Good morning...
it's a snowman making day for sure with the snow coming down in Gobs and Goblets for Tuesday the 19th as of 8:30 anyway.  One of the days you can run outside (well maybe hobble) and catch a snowflake on your tongue. 
In 1981 it was an amazing +13 for the high and a +6 for the low.  The snow was melting big-time and the grass was visible in many places.  1984 clocked in with a plus 7.
In Non-weather related news...
Times are bad financially in Italy "HOW BAD ARE THEY" ....they are so bad...dentists have stopped doing "root canals" in Venice....times are so tough...someone has put a LIEN on the Tower of Pisa...and times are so tough in Vatican City...they've started taking in Laundering instead of sending it out. On  this Date: The CPR was incorporated in 1873 with Sir Hugh Allen as their first President.  (he had taken a course in CPR).

In 1897 "the Women's Institute" (W.I) was formed at Stoney Creek led by Mrs. Adelaide Hunter Hoodless which spread to other Provinces and then to Britain.

A.J. Casson, the last of  "the Group of 7" died in 1992. This print is one of my favouites that i managed to pick up at auction.  I wish it was the original but of course who can afford that.  It is lovely to see over our fireplace.  By the way Casson was also in a group of 30:  30 siblings from 7 stepdads and 3 stepmoms. That's a lot of steps.

Way back in 1473, The founder of modern astronomy, Copernicus, was born in Poland and there is quite a nice tribute on the Google Page. Continuing with birthdays, Prince Andrew is 53, Mama Cass Elliot (1943-1974) and according to Snopes she did not choke on a ham sandwich.  Also born on this date Jeff Daniels is 58 and Seal is 50 years old (his latest release is Heidi Klum or vice versa). Also born on todays date is Lou Christie who is 70.  

Lou supposedly wrote songs with his musical partner Twyla Herbert and she was into spiritual reading and she would choose the songs that she felt would become hits. He had hits like "Lightening Strikes", "Two Faces Have I" and "Rhapsody in the Rain" which caused quite a stir with the words and was banned by a lot of radio stations because of the words.

Released in the spring of 1966, "Rhapsody In The Rain" featured a haunting melody inspired byTchaikovsky's "Romeo and Juliet", telling of a teenager's memory of his sexual experience in the back seat of a car during a rainstorm as the windshield wipers Made a rhythmic sound of "together, together".

Later after the romance ends, the wipers seem to say "never, never". Many radio stations banned the song after hearing the opening lyrics:

Baby, the raindrops play for me/ A lonely rhapsody 'cause on our first date/ We were makin out in the rain/ And in this car our love went much too far/ It was exciting as thunder/Tonight I wonder, where you are? 

MGM insisted on a re-recorded version that toned down the lyrical content. The re-dubbed lyrics for the "clean" version of the song were changed to:

Baby, the raindrops play for me /A lonely rhapsody cause on our first date/ We fell in love in the rain /And in this car our love came like a falling star/ It was exciting as thunder /Tonight I wonder, where you are

and on those notes I guess its time to end our time Together/together....and finally: 
A tv can insult your intelligence but nothing rubs it in like a computer.

mornin' everybody....mornin'