| Celebrities Born Today: < |
Mariah
Carey (1969)
Brenda Song (1988)
Sarah Vaughan (1924 - 1990)
Xuxa (1963)
Quentin Tarantino (1963)
Sadie Frost (1968)
Stacy 'Fergie' Ferguson (1975)
Bart Conner (1958)
Gloriah Swanson (1899 - 1983)
Julian Glover (1935)
Pauley Perrette (1969)
Michael York (1942)
Tony Banks (1950) |
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| March
27 Trivia: |
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► 1998 - The FDA approved Viagra. It seems like the commercials
were running a lot longer than that. |
| About
Daylight Savings Time... |
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► Daylight saving has been used in the United States
and in many European countries since World War I, when
the system was adopted in order to conserve fuel needed
to produce industrial and household electric power.
If more of the waking day was during daylight hours, fewer
lights would need to be burned. The law, however, proved
so unpopular that it was later repealed in 1919.
► During World War II, the United States observed year-round
Daylight Saving Time. But after the war, since there was no
federal laws, states were free whether to observe or not to
observe DST. That got confusing. One popular story goes that
on the 35-mile stretch of highway between Moundsville, West
Virginia, and Steubenville, Ohio, every bus driver and his
passengers had to endure seven time changes! To curb the
resulting chaos the United States passed The Uniform Time
Act of 1966. And with a few small modifications it has been
this way ever since.
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| March
27th's Joke: |
A linguistics professor was lecturing to his class one day.
"In English," he said, "A double negative forms a positive.
In some languages, though, such as Russian, a double negative
is still a negative. However, there is no language wherein a
double positive can form a negative."
A voice from the back of the room piped up..."Yeah, right."
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Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead.
Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow.
Do not walk beside me, either.
In fact, just leave me the heck alone. |
