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July 19th

Updated: July 19, 2012

★~ Today’s Quote:  Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

★~ Stick Out Your Tongue Day:

Did you know that you cannot stick your tongue out and look up at the ceiling at the same time?

But, today, you can stick it out at anyone and everyone because it’s Stick Out Your Tongue Day! If someone annoys you, go ahead and stick your tongue out at them. It’s especially fun to do this to crying children in the grocery store or to make this gesture behind someone’s back … and if someone call’s you immature, you know what to do!  ;-p

★~National Daiquiri Day: 

It’s National Daiquiri Day! The drink many people associate with author Ernest Hemingway was, in fact, invented in 1898 by an engineer named Jennings Stockton Cox in the small iron mining town of Daiquiri near Santiago, Cuba. Ernest Hemingway did inspire the creation of the frozen Daiquiri at El Floridita, a restaurant in Havana. In Islands  in the Stream, he wrote: “This frozen daiquiri, so well beaten as it is, looks like the sea where the wave falls away from the bow of a ship when she is doing thirty knots.” No matter who  invented it, I plan to have a frozen strawberry daiquiri today, with a pink umbrella, and let my tongue savor the taste. Cheers!

★~ Today in History:

♥~ 1946 – Marilyn Monroe acted in her first screen test. She passed it with flying colors and was signed to her first contract with Twentieth Century Fox Studios. The first of her 29 films was Scudda-Hoo! Scudda-Hay!

♥~ 1954 – The Lord of the Rings:  First part published anniversary.  The Fellowship of the Ring, the first part of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic The Lord of the Rings, was published. The publishers chose to publish the book in three parts because it was so long. The Two Towers was published on Nov 11, 1954, and The Return of the King was published on Oct 20, 1955.

♥~ 1980 –  Billy Joel earned his first gold record with It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me, which reached the top of the Billboard pop music chart.

♥~ 1994 – Susan Montgomery blew a record bubble-gum bubble in Fresno, California. It measured 23 inches in diameter.

♥~ 2003 – A 42-year-old Austrian man received the world’s first transplanted tongue at Vienna’s General Hospital.

♥~ 2009 – Without warning, a mystery object struck Jupiter this day. An amateur astronomer in Australia detected the new scar that covered some 73 million square miles, an larger area than the Pacific ocean.

★~ Born Today:

♥~ 1860 – Lizzie Borden accused of axe murder of her parents; acquitted in a highly public trial; died June 1, 1927

♥~ 1865 – Charles Mayo surgeon: founded Mayo Clinic & Mayo Foundation with his brother; died May 26, 1939

♥~ 1941 – Vikki Carr (Florencia Bisenta deCasilla Martinez Cardona) singer: It Must be Him, With Pen in Hand, The Lesson

♥~ 1947 – Bernie Leadon  musician: guitar: group: The Eagles: Take It Easy, Best of My Love, One of these Nights

♥~ 1978 – R.J. (Robert Jackson) Williams actor: Full House, The Big Five, The Price of Life, The Night They Saved Christmas, American Anthem, The Other Woman, Passions, General Hospital

★~ Did You Know: 

♥~ 85% of the population can curl their tongue into a tube.

♥~ We have four basic tastes. The salt and sweet taste buds are at the tip of the tongue, bitter at the base, and sour along the sides.

♥~ Not all our taste buds are on our tongue; about 10% are on the palette and the cheeks.

♥~ Every person has a unique tongue print.

♥~ Taste is the weakest of the five senses.

♥~ If you suck on an ice cube before you eat a food you don’t like, you won’t notice the bad taste. Try it next time you have to take medicine that you can’t stand!

♥~ We are born with about 10,000 taste buds.

♥~ Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is only attached at one end.

♥~ Stephen Taylor (UK) has a tongue that measures 9.5 cm (3.74 in) from the tip to the centre of his closed top lip.

♥~ The tube-lipped nectar bat (Anoura fistulata) can launch its tongue one and a half times its body length, longer than any other mammal and second only to chameleons among vertebrates

★~ Today’s Giggle: 

In honor of stick out your tongue day I thought we would get it our tongues ready for game mode with few warm up tongue twisters.

I’m not the pheasant plucker, I’m the pheasant plucker’s mate,
And I’m only plucking pheasants ’cause the pheasant plucker’s late.
I’m not the pheasant plucker, I’m the pheasant plucker’s son,
And I’m only plucking pheasants till the pheasant pluckers come.

Theophilus Thadeus Thistledown,
The successful thistle-sifter,
While sifting a sieve-full of unsifted thistles,
Thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb.
Now, if Theophilus Thadeus Thistledown,
The successful thistle-sifter,
Thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb,
See that thou, while sifting a sieve-full of unsifted thistles,
Thrust not three thousand thistles through the thick of thy thumb.
Theophilus Thistle, the successful thistle sifter,
In sifting a sieve full of unsifted thistles,
Thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb.
If Theophilus Thistle, the successful thistle sifter,
Can thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb,
See thou, in sifting a sieve full of unsifted thistles,
Thrust not three thousand thistles through the thick of thy thumb.

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Have a terrific Tuesday. Hope a strawberry Daiquiri is in your future! I know one is in my future! If you have a morno moment leave a comment–Odd Loves Company.
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Kb