TUESDAY MAY 28TH, 2013

Time to throw another Blog on the Fire for May Day 28.  I think I have had enough time to recover from my tantrum yesterday of not being able to present Bruce Cockburn singing the Franklin the Turtle Theme song.
We hope for a nice day today. Last year it was 32 degrees for the high. 1981 was pretty warm as well with a 27. As of 8 am we had a temp of 10 C and it's kind of overcast.

In 1533 The Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cramner declared the Marriage of Henry the VIII to Anne Boleyn valid and gave Anne a Validation Sticker to wear for one year. (you never knew with Henry)
In 1818 the first Steam Vessel to ply the Great Lakes was Launched. This Steamer was called "The Ontario" but there is some discrepancies as to the actual date.
In 1897 Pearl B Wait was a cough syrup manufacturer whose business was not going well so he got into the Gelatin business and added fruit syrup to the gelatin and named his product JELLO.  He then sold it to a neighbour Orator Francis Woodward for $450.00.  Around 1900 it  caught on and in 1902 he started to advertise the Jello as "America's Most Favourite Dessert" and the rest is JIGGLE history. I guess Woodward was the first Gigolo.
in 1915 a patent was applied for the Raggedy Ann Doll, by John B Gruelle

There was no mention of Raggedy Andy though. Gruelle created Raggedy Ann for his daughter when she brought him an old hand-made rag doll and he drew a face on it.  He combined the names of two poems "The Raggedy Man" and Little Orphant Annie (later changed of course) and said why don't we call her Raggedy Ann.  Marcella died at the age of 13 when she was vaccinated at school for smallpox without her parents consent.  They blamed the vaccination and the doll was it was used as a symbol for the anti-vaccination movement. They were originally hand-made.
In 1928 the Chrysler corporation and the Dodge Brothers merged.
1934 was a big year for Ontario when the Dionne Quintuplets were born near Callander to Olivia and Elzire Dionne and were given the "High Five" for it.  Unfortunately it turned into a Media Circus (almost like the Rob Ford circus in Toronto now) and the girls suffered badly because of it.  There are only 2 of the original 5 left.



Pretty Scary stuff. It shows what Greed can do to what should have been a great experience.

In 1966 Frank Gallup's parody song "The Ballad of Irving" hit number 34 on the Charts
.  It's really good for a laugh.  Frank Gallop was also Perry Como's announcer if you'll remember and was one of the best parts of Perry's Show for me.

In 1972 The first of the Watergate Break-ins Occurred which made the Clinton Scandal look like "Small Potatoes".....or small Cigars.
iN 1985, David Peterson won a minority in the Ontario Election and signed a pack with Bob Rae of the NDP to bring down 42 years of Tory Rule.
In 1991 In Milan Italy, after 22 years of restoration Leonardo De Vinci's "Last Supper" was put back on display.

PEEPS BORN ON THIS DATE

JOHNNY WAYNE (1918-1990) was born on this date in Toronto, half of the comedy due of Wayne and Shuster who made more appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show than anyone else (except Ed of Course). The Quints of course in 1934. Dr. Joseph Guillotine who was a Head of his time(or maybe a head off his time) in 1738, Gladys Knight is 69 (does she still have her Pips) Ian Fleming (1908-1964) CCR"S JOhn Fogerty is 68, Kylie Minogue is 45, Michelle Collins is 52,(Stella on Coronation Street), Ex-Leaf coach Ron Wilson is 58, U.S. Political Types, Marco Rubio is 42 (anyone for a "Tea Party") and Rudy Giuliani is 69 (he was a Democrat in the 70's and a Republican in the 80's (no Wonder he got nowhere in the Democratic Nomination in which Obama won).

and Finally

how about the fellow who was stealing things in a supermarket while standing on the shoulders of a couple of Vampires. He was charged with "SHOPLIFTING ON TWO COUNTS"

mornin' everybody mornin'