TUESDAY MAY 14TH, 2013

Top of the morning to you or is it now the Bottom. it's Tuesday Tussle Time for the 14th run round the May Pole.  It was a bad night for the Barrie Colts and the Maple Leafs with both losing by a hair and quite frankly I have pretty well lost all my hair years ago with the Leafs. The Leaf loss was especially disheartening.with them being up 4-1.  Enough of that, the players have to live with it and that must be a lot worse. In 1983 the top temp was 22 and a low of 8.  It was very warm in 1991 in Ontario with a record 31 degrees in 1991.

I DON'T NEED TO EAT THIS PIZZA....THE  LEAFS HAVE ALREADY CHOKED .........

In 1643 Louis the XIV became King of France at age 4 when his father died.  I wondered why the Louis XIV chair I have has a round hole in the middle of the seat and an abacus on one arm.
In 1853 Gail Borden applied for a patent for the process of making Condensed Milk (was the Borden's cow a Legend Dairy Performer?).
In 1878 Vaseline was first sold and became the registered trademark for Petroleum Jelly (it is quite handy for other things such as On the bedroom Doorknob for couples with children).
In 1884 the "Anti-Monopoly Party" was formed in the U.S. (they were on the Reading Railroad heading for a vacation on the Boardwalk at the time).
In 1910 Canada authorized issuing Silver dollars.
Sunday Baseball was made legal in Washington D.C in 1918 .  The only problem was they had to Genuflect before stealing a base which slowed down the game considerably.
In 1927 "Ain't she Sweet?" by Ben Bernie hit no. 1 on the pop singles chart.
In 1932, a "We want Beer" parade was held in New York.
President Truman signed a bill establishing a rocket test range at Cape Canaveral in 1949 "It was the start of Rocket Roll.
1940 John Diefenbaker took his seat in the House of Commons for the first time as MP for Prince Albert.
1969 Saw the first performance of the 13 piece Canadian rock band "Lighthouse".  it was at The Rockpile in Toronto. They will be performing at the Legion in Barrie on June 22nd as will the Martels, (thanks Bill Mackie).



In 1969 the Last Chevrolet Corvair was built. There seemed to be a lot of confusion with the Corsair as well. The Corvair had an air cooled motor in the Back of the car.

It was panned by Ralph Nader and he included it in his Book "Unsafe at any Speed"

That is the back by the way where the motor is...The National Highway Traffic Safety Inspection Agency checked it out and said it is no worse than any of it's contemporaries in extreme situations.So "see ya Later Ralphie Nader. This is a Corvair by the way.

In 1970 Neil Young broke from the ranks of  Crosby, Stills and Nash on this date. after releasing the Album "OHIO"

In 1973, the U.S. launched Skylab 1, it's first manned Space Station.

In 1981,The Bank of Canada re-jigged it's Prime Lending rate to an incredible high of 18.98.  It continued to drift up till it hit the all rime record of 21.24 in August of 1981 and mortgage rates were over 20%.

The final Episode of  "Seinfeld" was broadcast on this date in 1998 after 9 years and a commercial on the show cost $2 Million. Thats 15 years ago.

PEEPS CELEBRATING BIRTHDAYS TODAY ON THIS 14TH OF MAY.

"Gump Worsely" (1929 2007(Hockey Legend) Jayna Hefford of the Canadian women's team is 36, Tom Cochrane ("Life is a Highway") is 60, Cate Blanchette is 44, Mark Zuckerberg the founder of "Facebook is 29 today, Roy Halliday (ex Jay) is 36, Tim Roth is 52, Catherine McKinnon is 69,

George Lucas (Star Wars) is 69 as well, 1936 Walden Robert Cassotto (aka Bobby Darin) was born in 1936.  His big break came with the song " Splish Splash" which went to No. 3 and sold a million copies in 1958.  He had the last number one song on Billboard for the end of the 1950's with ""Mack the Knife" He died in 1973.  This was my favourite of many from Mr. Darin.

Bobby and Sandra Dee were married in 1960 but their marriage was kept secret for several years.  They divorced in 1967 and Bobby died 6 years later.

and finally....I took part in the Tanning Olympics over the week-end.  I won the BRONZE.

mornin' everybody mornin'

This very sad note: they have found the body of the fellow who was kidnapped with his truck.  Our prayers to the family on this horrific news.