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- December 22, 2024
- National Short Person Day 2024
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Today is National Short Person Day. It is a time to celebrate our more diminuative fellows and try to have a little fun in the process. The short people in your life have an advantage from a standpoint of general accessibility and even get carded much more frequently. I remember when I used to get carded at bars. It used to infuriate me. Nowadays it's an honor and a distinct pleasure that some one would even think I need to present identification for any manner of age verification.
"Short People" is song by Randy Newman from his 1977 album, Little Criminals. It was vastly overplayed during it's run because people try to be as stupid, "trendy", and faddish as possible at times. I had a former friend who was both redhead and had about the most bodacious set of ta ta's imaginable who was all about pop culture who thought this song was "the best" — and I hope I never see her again. Though it is said to present satire regarding prejudice all I can say is I hate the song and Randy Newman ... I don't know; he just never impressed me in my entire life.
Being short is relative to your culture. There are entire nations with short people. If you are 5 foot 7 and most everyone else in your environment is 5 foot 2 then you are not "really" short at all. I am about average. I am 6 foot or so and exist as this raging bald maniac with a white beard. I have been mistaken for Santa Claus in recent history.
So if you're short this day is for you. Now get out there and flaunt your stuff shorty !
Happy National Short Person Day.
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- December 21, 2024
- The discriminating gift
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The holiday season has me wanting to bestow some of the various tastes of the world on certain individuals in my midst.
Should you be a gourmet, I would likely choose for you a rare or particularly tasty food item from some premium specialty house I trust.
If your tastes include fine spirits you might get a nice bottle of Aberlour 16 year old single malt Scotch whiskey.
It's one of those superior personal items from which you get to partake for a while until it's gone.
Then you sit back and wait for my next inspirational holiday to come your way.
Bear in mind that you must first attain that pinnacle of my esteem — and that is an adventure in and of itself ...
But once you arrive, you are there for life. I am said by many to be fiercely loyal to my familiars.
So in this joyous Christmas season I hope you'll consider your gift to another and attempt to make a statement.
I am known for what I do and how I gift at the holidays. It is simply part and parcel of who I am.
A very merry Christmas to you and I hope you get everything you desire.
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- December 20, 2024
- 5 days til Christmas 2024
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- December 19, 2024
- Look for an Evergreen Day 2024
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My fondest memories of Christmas surround my Daddy going out into the woods and returning with a fine dense bushy evergreen for us to decorate and with which we got all festive.
Sometimes it would be a spruce, other times a pine, and occasionally even a fir.
Regardless, it added to the happy times each successive year of those memories added to my existence.
Now daddy is gone and we have a high falutin fiber optic tree in place of the natural ones he used to bring to us and oh how I yearn for yet another Christmas with him but alas, it can never happen.
Today is Look for an Evergreen Day.
Time to go out and fetch that magnificent tree like Daddy used to do to begin our Christmas season on Hollow Creek.
The literature states that the first evergreen tree ever decorated was in 1510 in Riga, Latvia.
It appears that the notion took in the mindsets of the populace because the practice continued from the 18th century onwards with all the jingle bells, tinsel, ornaments, fairy lights, and garlands which became seasonal decorations.
Still I remember the past and those memories are warm and vivid — and I yearn for it all again from time to time ...
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- December 18, 2024
- Flake Appreciation Day 2024
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Another Flake Appreciation Day is upon us. Each 18th of December we get to express appreciation for snowflakes. I am simply one of many who like them, their form, their uniqueness, their symmetry.
They occur with some 35 categories of shape. No two are exactly alike.
Snowflakes form when water vapor in clouds freezes around dust particles due to humidity. Their shapes are impacted by elements like dust, temperature, humidity, and currents. Typically hexagonal, snowflakes can sometimes take the form of flat, needle-shaped particles.
This day was primarily the influence of one Wilson Bentley of Jericho, Vermont. He authored articles and books about his microphotographic findings and donated some of his photographs to the Smithsonian Institution. He was the world’s leading snowflake expert called "The Snowflake Man" until he died in 1931.
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- December 17, 2024
- National Device Appreciation Day 2024
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I feel as though I've had my fair share of gadgets.
Yes, consumer electronics have held a certain affinity for me personally from my childhood until now. I'm afraid that lately that interest has indeed wained in favor of certain elements, for example I am much more at home at the keyboard of a strong desktop workstation configuration than a notebook as I was in the past.
Today is National Device Appreciation Day time to cultivate that appreication for those devices which aid and abet your lifestyle as it were ...
Those that hold personal importance to your existence.
This year, the Day is sponsored by the a company called Traverse which is a fully mobile insurance platform for Texans that provides customizable coverage in under a minute for your new or old mobile phones, laptops, bicycles, and so forth.
Traverse is affiliated by the Travelers insurance company which has been around for some 165 years.
I have never been one to subscribe to this notion that anyone "needs" insurance. I think it's just another confidence game employed by the governement in an effort to control us. So the day is about the gadgets not the insurance and I hope you'll engage those devices which you enjoy and add functionality and meaningfulness to your existence.
Personally, I just want my own sentient robot. I'm not too keen on those robotic love dolls either. I think they speak volumes for failure to grow as a person. Happy National Device Appreciation Day.
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You make me feel like a natural ...
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- December 16, 2024
- National Wreaths Across America Day 2024
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Today is National Wreaths Across America Day.
“Remember fallen U.S. veterans; honor those who serve; and teach your children the value of freedom.”
The day goes far beyond the mission. Each third Saturday in December at Arlington National Cemetery and other cemeteries at home and abroad we lay wreaths and remember both those who made the ultimate sacrifice in the name of freedom as well as those who currently serve in the armed forces.
Freedom isn't free.
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- December 15, 2024
- 10 days til Christmas 2024
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- December 14, 2024
- Aunt Bee Birthday 2024
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Dear hearts, today is the birthday of yet another entertainment icon from my youth.
Frances Elizabeth Bavier was born this day in 1902 in Manhattan, New York City. She was a widely known and loved stage and television actress and indeed, I considered her a part of my family from a very young age. She passed in Siler City North Carolina December 6, 1989. This was the general area in which those programs of Andy Griffith and Mayberry originated.
She portrayed Aunt Bee on The Andy Griffith Show and Mayberry RFD — which I viewed much less during my television watching — and she is noted for her career in theater prior to making the migration to film and television in the 1950s ...
When I was just a sprout.
She won an Emmy Award for outstanding performance as Aunt Bee in 1967.
There were other noteworthy roles and I have taken note of these which pop up on the television of late. Her end was tragic to the point of tear jerking in my memory. She will always be my Aunt Bee ...
I am fortunate to have been one of those in her audience.
Happy Birthday in Heaven Aunt Bee.
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- December 13, 2024
- Friday the 13th 2024
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Yeah, we have another Friday the 13th.
Congruent with the popular movie franchise you may wish to enact precautions on this day.
Toward this end you may wish to avoid:
Breaking a mirror
Walking under a ladder
Spilling salt
Crossing paths with a black cat
Stepping on Cracks
You may wish to include:
Carrying a lucky charm
Knocking on wood
Happy Friday the 13th and good luck you superstitious rascal. !
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- December 13, 2024
- Dick Van Dyke became a libtard
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When I was a child Dick Van Dyke was a favorite actor. I watched the Dick Van Dyke show religiously and enjoyed the antics of Mary Poppins and other appearances set before me. Later in his old age a leftish libtard streak came forth and I have now lost all respect for him.
It is said that I should end using the term because it is "highly offensive". I say libards are highly offensive with their skewed attitudes and counterproductive efforts in and of themselves.
Richard Wayne Van Dyke was born December 13, 1925 at West Plains, Missouri. He was trained at Danville High School and became an actor, comedian, singer, dancer, writer and insufferable litard. He is a veteran of the US Air force.
Some of his public statements are infuriating and insulting. It is quite possible that he may have had some infarct as the result of passing age and does not realize what a toad he has become.
He stated publically that he would rather die that see another four years of President Trump.
Now I get a fair amount of grief over calling select members of the left "libtards" because they are "liberal retards" but indeed, I stand by this labeling of the morons populating our country. I just never thought I'd ever be forced to include Dick Van Dyke in their stupid numbers ...
I simply cannot help it should the moniker offend some of my more hoity toity cohorts on the right.
In other words, kiss my ENTIRE ass.
His attitude toward Mr Trump is very unpatriotic and projects an unawareness of who has been good for the country while the democrats absolutely were not.
Today is his birthday. He is 99 and therefore pushing a hundred, an unseemly and ignorant asshole, and unaware of the politics of our nation.
Die libtard die.
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- December 12, 2024
- National Poinsettia Day 2024
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One of those decorations I look forward to during the Christmas holidays is the beautiful poinsettia plant. These come in a variety of colors and shades and verigation combinations.
They make me think of an old acquaintance, one Ms Jeanette Bodie whom I haven't seen in some 40 years. Her family lived in Monetta and was engaged in a floral business and as such she was a horticultural wonderkind. My mother was a big fan of her mother, Rheunette H Bodie and her work back in the day.
Their motto was "Say it with flowers. Say it with Ours."
Fittingly enough today is National Poinsettia Day which happens each December 12. I view it's proximity to Christmas Day as totally appropriate. Congress created this national day in 2002 in honor of Paul Ecke Jr., and the work that he did developing the poinsettia industry through marketing and grafting. The plant is actually named for Joel Roberts Poinsett a US minister to Mexico who introduced the plant to the United States in the 1820s. This tribute to his foresight is a big part of Christmas cheer in my life.
Nothing says Christmastime louder to me than a bunch of poinsettias around the house.
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- December 11, 2024
- International Mountain Day 2024
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Early in my teaching career I became enamoured with the mountains of the blue ridge chain up around the Pigsah Range, Asheville, NC and points beyond.
I made it a point to travel there regularly and I loved to get high up in places like the watershed and craggy gardens and call people on my cell phone.
It was thrilling for me personally and I never forgot the feeling of being high above my cohorts in all my self-ascribed glory.
Mountains are a geological feature which occur when the layers of the earth engage in upheval and they provided a respite from those concrete jungles I always occupied during that time. Nowadays I am content to sit on my acre in the city limits and just fritter away. I am someone who has always needed something to do but it simply hasn't been happening of late.
Maybe tomorrow.
December 11 brings us International Mountain Day.
It is a celebration of the geology of the earth and those blessings it bestows upon those willing to take the trip to where they are. That is me and indeed, I shall return — someday. Happy International Mountain Day to you !
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- December 10, 2024
- 15 Days til Christmas 2024
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