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January
3rd Celebrity Birthdays
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Lloyd 'Lloyd Harlin Polite
Jr.' (1986)
Mel Gibson (1956)
Stephen Stills (1945)
Victor Borge (1919-2000)
Victoria Principal (1946)
J.R.R. Tolkien (1892)
Dabney Coleman (1932)
Ray Milland (1905)
Sergio Leone (1929)
Robert Loggia (1932)
Anna May Wong (1905) |
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January
3rd's Daily Joke
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There was a man walking down a beach in California. he
stumbles across a lamp, and out comes a genie. "I'm
sick of granting wishes, so you only get one wish",
says the genie.
The man thinks for a minute, then replies: "I never
been to Hawaii before. I'm too scared to fly, and I get
seasick. So I want a bridge built to Hawaii".
The genie replies "That's too big of a wish".
Think of the Logistics of that. Think of how much concrete,
how much steel... How would the supports ever reach the
bottom of the Pacific Ocean?" No, no, think of another
wish", says the genie.
The guy thinks for a minute and says "I never really
understand my wife. What do women mean when they give you
the silent treatment?"
He continued, "What do women mean when they start
staring, and making gestures at you. I wish I could really
understand women better. "
The genie replies: "You want that bridge
with 2 lanes or 4?"
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January
3rd's Fun Facts
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Victor Borge's real name was Børge Rosenbaum.
► Victor's headstone, in Putnam Cemetery (Greenwich
Connecticut,), has a replica of the Little Mermaid on top
► J.R.R. Tolkien's real name was John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,
and he was a close friend of C.S. Lewis and W. H. Auden. |
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January
3rd's Other Fun Facts
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► 1521 - Martin Luther
was excommunicated by Roman Catholic Church
► 1777 - Washington defeated the British at Battle of
Princeton, NJ
► 1847 - Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco
► 1920 - New York Yankees purchased Babe Ruth from Red
Sox for $125,000
► 1924 - British egyptologist Howard Carter finds sarcophagus
of Tutankhamun (King Tut)
► 1938 - March of Dimes was established
► 1959 - Alaska was
admitted as 49th U.S. state
► 1973 - George Steinbrenner III bought the Yankees
from CBS for $12 million
► 1977 - Apple Computers incorporated
► 1987 - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts 1st female
artist, the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin |
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