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Welcome to the Weekly Round Table for January 1 - 7, 2012
An English doctor, being shown around a Scottish hospital, is taken into a ward with a number of patients who show no visible signs of injury.
He goes to examine the first man he sees, and the man proclaims “Fair fa’ yer sonsie face, Great chieftain e’ the puddin’ race!” The Englishman, somewhat taken aback, goes to the next patient, who immediately launches into: “Some hae meat, and canna eat, and some wad eat that want it, But we hae meat and we can eat, and sae the Laird be thankit.”
The next patient sits up and declaims: “Wee sleekit cow’rin tim’rous beastie, O what a panic’s in thy breastie! Thou need na start awa sae hasty, wi’ bickering brattle. I wad be laith to run and chase thee, wi’ murdering prattle!”
“Well,” says the Englishman to his Scottish colleague. “I see you saved the psychiatric ward for last.”
“Nay, nay,” the Scottish doctor corrects him, “This is the Burns Unit!”
On January 1:
1901,The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.
1971 – Cigarette advertisements are banned on American television
1752 – Betsy Ross, American seamstress born 1895 – J. Edgar Hoover, American FBI director born 1942 – Country Joe McDonald, American musician 1972 – Maurice Chevalier, French actor and singer dies
January 2:
1788 – Georgia becomes the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution
1974 – President Richard Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum U.S. speed limit to 55 MPH in order to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo 1909 – Barry M. Goldwater, American politician born
January 3:
1977 – Apple Computer is incorporated 1892 – J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer born 1946 – John Paul Jones, British musician born
1967 – Jack Ruby, American killer of Lee Harvey Oswald dies
January 4:
1999 – Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is sworn in as governor of Minnesota. 2004 – Spirit, a NASA Mars Rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC.
1960 – Albert Camus, Algerian-born philosopher and Nobel laureate died 1961 – Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist and Nobel laureate died 1965 – T. S. Eliot, American-born British Nobel laureate died. Not a good day for Nobel laureates.
January 5:
1675 – Battle of Colmar: the French army beats Brandenburg.
1972 – U.S. President Richard Nixon orders the development of a space shuttle program. 1917 – Jane Wyman, American actress born Died on this date: 1589 – Catherine de' Medici, queen of Henry II of France 1933 – Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States 1943 – George Washington Carver, American educator 1963 – Rogers Hornsby, American baseball player 1994 – Tip O'Neill, American politician 1998 – Sonny Bono, American entertainer and politician but he did. 2004 – Tug McGraw, American baseball player, father of Tim McGraw 2007 – Momofuku Ando, inventor of instant noodles and cup noodles
January 6:
1912 – New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state. 1941 – President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address. 1994 – Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the knee at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit. Born on January 6: 1912 – Danny Thomas, American actor 1913 – Loretta Young, American actress 1920 – Sun Myung Moon, Korean evangelist 1924 – Earl Scruggs, American musician
Died on this date: 1852 – Louis Braille, French teacher of the blind and inventor of braille Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States1993 – Dizzy Gillespie, acclaimed jazz trumpet player
Today is the Feast of Epiphany
January 7:
1608 – Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia. 1952 – President Harry Truman announces that the United States has developed the hydrogen bomb. 1980 – President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation. 1999 – The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.
Born on this date:
1910 – Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas 1911 – Butterfly McQueen, American actress 1912 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist 1948 – Kenny Loggins, American singer 1963 – Rand Paul, American politician, Junior Senator from Kentucky 1964 – Nicolas Cage, American actor
Died on this date:
1920 – Sir Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia 1932 – André Maginot, French eponym of the Maginot Line 1943 – Nikola Tesla, Serbian-born inventor and electrical engineer 1944 – Lou Hoover, U.S. First Lady 1992 – Richard Hunt, American puppeteer 1989 – Hirohito, Emperor of Japan 1990 – Bronko Nagurski, American football player
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I can't believe the "Burns Unit" thing was the first reading I did for 2012. The Mayans may have been right...
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete. R. Buckminster Fuller
It's hard to take that such a cool "cat" as that dog drinks lite beer.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete. R. Buckminster Fuller
I am glad that 2011 is over. Just before the weekedn, I had to put my 17 year old dog "Monster" to sleep. She had a tumor that ruptured, and there was nothing the vet could do to help her, except to relive her pain by putting her down. She was my faithful companion for so long and I really miss my little follower. Ringing in the new year wasn't the same.
To a better New Year.
milk and Girl Scout cookies ;-)
Save your breath-You may need it to blow up your date.
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