TUESDAY FEBRUARY 26TH, 2013

HOWDY.....tis Ken "Walking the Line" on a Tuesday  morn....a fairly mild  start to the day, with an expected high near Plus 2 or 3 but the winds will pick up this afternoon and bring with it snow and blowing snow tonight and overnight and that yucky weather will continue tomorrow. Back in 82 there was a gas war going on in our area and the "ICE OUT CAR" was almost ready to go for a skate on Kempenfelt Bay (the next day).  It should be a nice day to partake in a little Constitutional.

WHAT HAPPENED ON THIS DATE:

In 1867 The British House of Lords Passed the British North America Act, which was the cornerstone of our constitution. It came into effect of course on July 1st, 1867. It took many more acts before the final Canada Act act was completed in the Constitution Act in 1982. We had more Acts than a 3 RING CIRCUS. 
In 1870, The first NEW YORK subway line opened up, but it was very small and involved a Subway car being propelled by rushing air pushing the car.  It was a pneumatic system and last only 34 years before 
"going down the Tubes" (pardon the Pun).
In 1952, Winston Churchill announced that Britain had produced it's own Atomic Bomb (and it had nothing to do with Benny Hill.
In 1960 Ann Heggtveit won Canada's first Olympc Gold Medal in Skiing.
The year was 1991 when Tim Berners-Lee introduced the "World Wide Web". The information Highway started to flow but I keep hitting  so many "SPEED BUMPS".

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS:

Victor Hugo was born in 1802,  King Wenceslas in 1361, Levi Strauss (1829-1902), Michael Bolton is 60, Mitch Ryder is 69 (Devil with the Blue Dress on), Tony Randall (1920-2004) and we have a couple of Legendary guys:

...in 1928 FATS DOMINO was born and he's still alive and kicking at 85...as a matter of fact his abode was in the path of the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and lost a lot including his barbecue.  As a mater of fact HE FOUND HIS GRILL, ON BLUEBERRY HILL.  Antoine's first hit was "The FAT MAN" in 1950 and it sold 500,000 to 1 million copies and the rest as they say is history.  

ALSO BORN ON THIS DATE "THE MAN IN BLACK" Johnny Cash who had his first hit with "I Walk the Line" in 1956.  It took 3 attempts before it went to Number 1 in 1956.  It also  crossed over to the Pop Charts and sold over 2 million copies. He hummed through-out the song to keep him in tune because of the key changes.  Johnny died of course in 2003, just a few shorts months after his wife June did.
Two ICONS of the music world born on this date in history. The Fabulous Fat Man & the Man in Black.

AND FINALLY....THE BURGER KING STORIES of using horse meat in England in their Hamburgers
should have come to the fore earlier because of their employees LONG FACES.  Also in Europe at Ikea for lunch..."On top of Spaghetti all covered with cheese...I lost my poor meatball from Horsing around".

Mornin' everybody....Mornin'