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Gahrie's Grumbles and Groans

Friday, November 27, 2009

Happy Birthday


My blog is five years old today!

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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Give The Man Some Cowbell!

Christopher Walken, one of America's greatest actors, turned 66 today! Happy birthday Chris!


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Sunday, March 29, 2009

Happy Birthday Coca-Cola!


On this day in 1886, the first batch of Coca-Cola was brewed upNow Coke is one of the great American success stories, sold all over the worldI'll hoist a Cuba Libre tonight in your honorHere in honor of rule 5 Sunday are some Coca-Cola models to help celebrate this day.

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Monday, June 09, 2008

Happy Birthday to Me.....

Woo freaking hoo....

43 todayI wake up, turn on Mike and Mike, and they are wishing Dick Vitale happy birthdayA little later, I switch to CNN and they are wishing one of their financial analysts happy birthdayThat's a little weird...

Gave myself a sort of birthday present and paid off my car loan earlyThe girl on the phone noticed and wished me a happy birthday.

Oh well, another year older....

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Sunday, November 11, 2007

Veteran's Day

Today was Veteran's DayThank you to all the veterans out there.

What some of you may not know, is that originally today's holiday was called Armistice DayIt marked the official end of combat in World War IBecause communication was so much less sophisticated back then, they had to set a time in the future to cease hostilities to ensure that everyone got the wordSo the ceasefire was set for the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th monthIt was changed to Veteran's Day to celebrate all of our veterans in 1952.

It's still celebrated as Armistice Day in France and Belgium.

It's a completely different holiday in other parts of Europe, including Germany, the Netherlands and AustriaIt's StMartin's Day, and celebrates a Catholic saint(fittingly enough, he was once a Roman soldier)

In most of the Commonwealth (Including the UK, Canada and Australia) it's celebrated as Rememberance Day.

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Thursday, October 11, 2007

Happy Birthday Dad!



My Dad turns 62 today....and he's been semi-retired for a while now, but today he begins collecting Social SecurityHe quit smoking, got into pretty good shape, and is about to run a 5 K raceLooks like he's got years of retirement ahead of him to enjoy his grandkidsHappy birthday dad, and thanks for providing an interesting childhood for me, and giving me a love of history.
Update 11:30 10/13/07: Dad came in fourth in his age group, running 12 minute miles, which is pretty damn good for your first 5K at age 62.

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Sunday, September 16, 2007

Hmmmm.....

Today is both Molly Shannon's (1964) and Amy Poehler's (1971) birthdayLast night NBC showed an episode of SNL with Amy in the cast and Molly as the guest hostCoincidence? You decide.

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Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Never Forget

Today is the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the United States by Islamic terroristsWe must not, we cannot forget these attacksRadical Islam declared war on us, and attacked us on our homeland.



It appears that we are soon going to try to cut and run from the warWhat people seem to forget is that our choice is not whether or not to fight radical Islam, our enemies have made that choice for usOur choice is where to fight themI for one, would much rather fight them in Iraq than the United States.

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Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Happy Birthday El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula

Or as we know her today, Los AngelesOn this day in 1781, forty-four Spanish (NOT Mexicans or Aztecs), founded the cityThe city was part of Mexico for only 27 years, from 1821 to 1848.



LA is now the second biggest city in the countrySometimes it hard to like her, but I still love her............

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Saturday, September 01, 2007

Happy Birthday Mom!

Today is my Mom's birthdayShe was born on September 1, 1946She is the youngest of five childrenShe was Los Angeles born, but has lived all over the worldShe lived in the Middle East while she was a girl, and then followed my dad around (usually to England) during his career in the military, only to settle down back in So Cal when my Dad retired.

My Mom didn't have it easy by any meansShe had two babies by the time she was 21, and was living in a foriegn country, poor and married to the Air Force as well as my DadMy life was infinitely easier than hersI treasure the fact that both of my parents are relatively young (61 and 62 to my 42) because I consider them my friends as well as my parentsWe are probably closer than most because we spent so much time as a nuclear family far away from the rst of our relatives.

She shares her exact birthday with Barry Gibb of the Bee GeesI don't how she feels about that, or even if she is aware of itBut I'll dedicate this one to her anyway.


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Thursday, August 23, 2007

The Universe Has Never Been the Same...........

One year ago today the International Astronomical Union demoted Pluto from the status of planet to the diminutive "dwarf planet"I have felt diminished ever since........

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Sunday, August 19, 2007

Happy Birthdays!

Today is certainly a star crossed day for birthdays! First politically....Fred Thompson (1942)Bill Clinton (1946), Tipper Gore (1948) and Tammy Bruce (1962) were all born on this day.

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on the same day, (the same exact day, July 4, 1826 ironically for two of our Founding Fathers) but if Thompson is elected president I wonder if that will be the first time two presidents were born on the same day?

Few people remember Tipper's attack on music with the PMRC, but she shares her birthday with John Deacon (1951) of Queen; Ginger Baker (1939) of Cream and Blind Faith; Ian Gillan (1945) of Deep Purple and (briefly) Black Sabbath; rapper Nate Dogg (1969) of Death Row Records (who has song on 60 singles with rappers like DrDre, Snoop Dogg and Warren G.); rapper Fat Joe (1970); and rapper Lil Romeo (1989).

There are also at least a half dozen other international singers born on this date, including Lee Ann Womack.

Famous tennis player and doctor Renee Richards was born on this day in 1934 as Richard Raskind before becoming a woman in 1975.

Star Trek fans will surely know that both Gene Roddenberry (1921) and Jonathan Frakes (1952) share this birthday.

Adam Arkin (1956) who had a re-occuring role (one of my favorites) as DrStanley Keyworth on The West Wing was also born on August 19.

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Thursday, August 16, 2007

Elvis Has Left the Building!



Well, he left it thirty years ago todayHave a peanut butter and banana sandwich for me big guy.

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Tuesday, August 14, 2007

It's Alive!!

Today is the 82nd anniversary of the passing of the Social Security Act, the largest ponzi scheme in the history of the worldThe question now...will it live to be 100?

I'm not betting on it, and if you are younger than fifty, hopefully you aren't either.

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Sunday, August 12, 2007

A Brave New World......

Today is the 26th anniversary of the IBM PCIt is four years younger than the Apple PC, but quickly came to dominate the personal computer market.

Can you imagine a world without it now?

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Thursday, August 09, 2007

Sistine Chapel

On August 9, 1483, the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City was dedicated and celebrated its first massIt was dedicated to the Virgin Mary.

One of my favorite movies from the 1960's is about the painting of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo at the command of Pope Julius IIIt's called The Agony and the Ecstasy and it stars Charlton Heston as Michelangelo and a surprisingly good Rex Harrison as Pope Julius IIThe movie is beautifully made, and a fine example of when movie making was as much an art form as an industry.

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Betty Boop

Sixty-seven years ago today, Betty Boop premired in her first cartoon, Dizzy DishesHere it is for you in all of its glory:




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Jerry Garcia

This is the 12th anniversary of Jerry Garcia's deathHe was the lead singer of The Grateful Dead, one of rock's most unique bandsFunnily enough, my favorite Dead songs are the ones that serious deadheads hate, "Touch of Grey" and "Hell in a Bucket" off of In The Dark (their most commercially succesful album) Here's Touch of Grey:




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Monday, August 06, 2007

Enola Gay

The Enola Gay was the B-29 piloted by ColPaul Tibbets that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima sixty-two years ago todayHe named the plane after his motherIn 1980 British group Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark released a song called Enola Gay with thinly veiled references to the attack.

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Hiroshima

A B-29 called the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb called "Little Boy" on Hiroshima on this day in 1945This is the first use of an atomic bomb in warA second is dropped on Nagasaki three days laterThese are the only two uses of an atomic weapon in war to dateThey cause comparatively few casualties(Many more peole died in the fire bombing of cities such as Dresden and Tokyo) In modern terms they are very small bombs, but they manage to convince the Japanese to surrender and end World War II.

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