Celebrate Men Make Dinner Day
A beautiful image isn’t it? Coming home at the end of the day and the wife has dinner all laid out and ready for her hard-working husband. Part of the bucolic yesteryear images of the 50’s, when the man worked and the woman stayed home (working harder than him most days!).
They worked to keep the house in order and running, it’s not surprising that while the tradition of the wife making dinner has persisted, most of the time it’s as part of a two-earner household.
It’s time to start turning that around, and Men Make Dinner Day is just one small step on equally sharing the responsibilities of making a home and life together.
Besides, some of the world’s greatest chefs are men, so there certainly isn’t any standing evidence that men are just worse cooks. Men Make Dinner Day is your chance to try out your culinary skills… just remember that ordering take-out isn’t actually ‘making dinner’ boys.
History of Men Make Dinner Day
Men Make Dinner Day was established to help those men that have perhaps never cooked outside of a barbecue, and are a little intimidated by the kitchen. Sandy Sharkey was responsible for the creation of this day, determined that men could be amazing in the kitchen, and help to produce some truly tremendous meals.
They’d met far too many men who were not just inexperienced in the kitchen, but were in fact entirely afraid of the prospect of approaching a kitchen with the intent of preparing a meal. Men Make Dinner Day is your opportunity to get out from in front of the barbecue, and truly amaze your family with a great meal… eventually.
Wow
Joke of the Day
ONE MAN'S MOTIVATION
Interviewer: What drives you?
Candidate: The bus mostly.
Interviewer: I mean what motivates you to get out of bed in the morning?
Candidate: Missing the bus!
Candidate: The bus mostly.
Interviewer: I mean what motivates you to get out of bed in the morning?
Candidate: Missing the bus!
Public transportation, visualized
Word of the Day
bareknuckle
Band-Aid? You mean duct tape?
MEANING:
adjective, adverb
1. Without using boxing gloves.
2. Rough; unrestrained by rules or scruples.
ETYMOLOGY:
From bare, from Old English baer + knuckle, diminutive of Middle Low German knoke (bone). Earliest documented use: 1883.
USAGE:
“This will be bareknuckle brawl on the mountainside and the strongest, smartest rider will win.”
Lawrence Ostlere; Froome vs Thomas: Two Old Friends Set to Be Tested by Opposing Ambitions; The Independent (London, UK); Jul 24, 2018.
1. Without using boxing gloves.
2. Rough; unrestrained by rules or scruples.
Lawrence Ostlere; Froome vs Thomas: Two Old Friends Set to Be Tested by Opposing Ambitions; The Independent (London, UK); Jul 24, 2018.
Public transportation, white glove service
Idiom of the Day
Idiom of the Day
GLAD TO SEE THE BACK OF
To be happy that you no longer have to deal with someone
I was very glad to see the back of John because he made the atmosphere in the office so uncomfortable.
I was very glad to see the back of John because he made the atmosphere in the office so uncomfortable.
This Day in History
1637 - Anne Hutchinson, the first female religious leader in the American colonies, was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for heresy.
1874 - The Republican party of the U.S. was first symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly.
1893 - The state of Colorado granted its women the right to vote.
1895 - The last spike was driven into Canada's first transcontinental railway in the mountains of British Columbia.
1916 - Jeanette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress.
1929 - The Museum of Modern Art in New York City opened to the public.
1940 - The middle section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington state collapsed during a windstorm. The suspension bridge had opened to traffic on July 1, 1940.
1944 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first person to win a fourth term as president.
1963 - Elston Howard, of the New York Yankees, became the first black player to be named the American League's Most Valuable Player.
1965 - The "Pillsbury Dough Boy" debuted in television commercials.
1967 - Carl Stokes was elected the first black mayor Cleveland, OH, becoming the first black mayor of a major city.
1973 - New Jersey became the first U.S. state to permit girls to play on Little League baseball teams.
1989 - L. Douglas Wilder won the governor's race in Virginia, becoming the first elected African-American state governor in U.S. history.
1991 - Magic Johnson (NBA) announced that he had tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS, and that he was retiring from basketball.
2000 - Hillary Rodham Clinton made history as the first president's wife to win public office. The state of New York elected her to the U.S. Senate. (New York)
2001 - After a 16-month stoppage the Concorde resumed flying commercially.
thanks, Heide
DAILY SQU-EEK
If You Were Born Today, November 7
You have a mysterious aura about you, although others sense that you are determined, opinionated, and strong nevertheless, which you are. You have a strong interest in politics or religion, but you don't necessarily adhere to tradition. Your views are progressive and you think outside of the box. A conformist, you definitely are not! There is a dreamy side to you. You are a visionary who is especially sensitive to injustices. On a personal level, you often feel misunderstood. However, on some level, you enjoy being somewhat elusive or puzzling. Famous people born today:
15 Agrippina the Younger [Julia Agrippina], Roman Empress (sister of Caligula, wife of Claudius, mother of Nero), born in Oppidum Ubiorum (Cologne) (d. 59)
1867 Marie Curie, Polish-French scientist who discovered radium and the 1st woman to win a Nobel Prize (1903, 1911), born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1934)
1879 Leon Trotsky, Russian Marxist revolutionary, political theorist and founder of the Red Army [OS 26-10-1879], born in Yelizavetgrad, Russian Empire (d. 1940)
1913 Albert Camus, French author (The Just-Nobel 1957), born in Dréan, Algeria (d. 1960)
1943 Joni Mitchell [Roberta J Anderson], Canadian singer (Clouds), born in Fort Macleod, Alberta
READERS INFO
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(Not So) Totally Useless Facts of The Day:
A cosmic year is the amount of time it takes for the sun to orbit once around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. One cosmic year is equal to 225-250 million years.
Captioning may be defined as transcribed text that runs simultaneously with video.
Those who are hard of hearing, deaf, or speak a foreign language can benefit from the use of a captioning service. The first use of captioning occurred
in 1976, on Julia Child’s PBS show The French Chef. PBS sought approval to use closed captioning on their programming to ensure that their deaf and hard-of
hearing audiences weren’t excluded from viewing. In 2014, the FCC updated their rules to require that all digital services must provide closed captioning.
Part of the film watching experience are the movie trailers or previews that are shown. But why are they called trailers when they are shown before the movie? That’s because once upon a time these preview clips were shown AFTER the movie, hence the name “trailer”.
2.
1637 - Anne Hutchinson, the first female religious leader in the American colonies, was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for heresy.
Captioning may be defined as transcribed text that runs simultaneously with video.
hearing audiences weren’t excluded from viewing. In 2014, the FCC updated their rules to require that all digital services must provide closed captioning.
Copper Crest Holiday Arts and Crafts Sale 2019
Nov 25, 2019 | Tucson, AZ
45 tables of Handcrafted items from local artists. Baked Goods and Books.
further information: Holiday Arts and Crafts Sale
3.
Icelandic Association of Washington DC Jólabasar 2019
Nov 9, 2019 | Fairfax, VA
American Legion Post 177|3939 Oak St
Ever wondered how Iceland celebrates Christmas? The different traditions they hold? Find out by joining the Icelandic Association of Washington DC at their Jólabasar. Gift your family unique Nordic and Icelandic gifts without leaving the country to acquire them. And don"t forget to sink your teeth into authentic Icelandic cuisine.
further information: The Icelandic Association of Washington D.C. – Since 1969
4.
Martyn Farm Harvest Festival 2019
Nov 9 - 10, 2019 | Pasadena, TX
Armand Bayou Nature Center|8500 Bay Area Blvd
It’s the year 1900 and not even your parents were thought of yet. That’s really old, festival-goer, and you’re about to find out how old at the Martyn Harvest Festival. Late 1800s farm life describes your weekend here, exposing you to the simpler life with quilting, butter-making, blacksmithing, old country music and a pie-eating contest.
further information: Martyn Farm Harvest Festival
Yep. That's me
Pictures of the day
Pictures of the day
The Pool of Bethesda is a pool of water in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem, on the path of the Beth Zeta Valley. It is known from the New Testament story of healing the paralytic at Bethesda, from the fifth chapter of the Gospel of John; the gospel describes a pool in Jerusalem, near the Sheep Gate, which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Until the 19th century, there was no evidence outside of John's gospel for the existence of this pool; therefore, scholars argued that the gospel was written later, probably by someone without first-hand knowledge of the city of Jerusalem, and that the pool had only a metaphorical, rather than historical, significance. In the 19th century, archaeologists discovered the remains of a pool fitting the description in the gospel. This picture is an 1877 oil-on-canvas painting of the Pool of Bethesda by English painter Robert Bateman, now in the collection of the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut. The Johannine narrative describes the porticos as being a place in which large numbers of infirm people were waiting, which corresponds well with the site's 1st century AD use as an asclepeion. Some ancient biblical manuscripts argue that these people were waiting for the troubling of the water; a few such manuscripts also move the setting away from Roman rituals into something more appropriate to Judaism, by adding that an angel would occasionally stir the waters, which would then cure the first person to enter.
Sewage surfer (US)
This tiny estuary seahorse ‘almost hopped’ from one bit of bouncing natural debris to the next, bobbing around on a reef near Sumbawa Island, Indonesia. As a brisk surface wind picked up, the seahorse took advantage of something that offered a stable raft: a waterlogged plastic cottonbud.
You know it's cold outside when ...
knit
thanks, Phyllis
knit
thanks, Charlotte
knit
thanks, Valerie, Canadian Correspondent
thanks, Shelley, New York Food Correspondent
CROCKPOT RECIPE
thanks, Shelley, New York Food Correspondent
ADULT COLORING
CRAFTS
BFFs
CHILDREN'S CORNER ... Thanksgiving
PUZZLE
now this is using your head!
SUDOKU ... medium
QUOTE
This is profound
CLEVER
CROCKPOT RECIPE
thanks, Shelley, New York Food Correspondent
Pretty sweet, eh?
SWEETS
thanks, Shelley, New York Food Correspondent
Let's play soccer.
Oh! Oops!
You're an NFL kicker instead!
this bar gives tickets to those that leave their cars in the parking lot
CRAFTS
MAGNETIC FRIG PEN HOLDER
Materials: toilet paper roll, sticky magnetic strip, and a piece of fabric.
Directions: Carefully squeeze one end of a toilet paper tube, and fasten it with glue or duct tape. Apply beads of glue to the dull side of the fabric before pulling it taut across the cardboard roll and allowing it to dry. Secure the magnetic strip on the back of the toilet roll.
BFFs
CHILDREN'S CORNER ... Thanksgiving
thanks, Kitty
PUZZLE
Liking those odds?
WORD SEARCH
| afloat again avoid bless bound brake choice clean count | demand early elect equal fabricate friend fussy | grasp hear heel hurry illegal intelligent | leaf lecture light load quarter real relax rogue | shake shine similar sleep sneak spirit tiger trust woven |
now this is using your head!
SUDOKU ... medium
solution:
It's a bird!
QUOTE
thanks, Valerie, Canadian Correspondent
This is profound
CLEVER
What is an Anagram?
anagram (AN-uh-gram)
noun: A word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.
verb: To rearrange letters in such a way. To anagrammatize.
example: The word lemon is an anagram of melon.
origin: From Greek anagrammatismos, ana- (up, again, back, new) + -gram (letter).
MAKE YOUR OWN ANAGRAMS:
Rapid fire!
EYE OPENER
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. -Marie Curie, scientist, Nobel laureate (7 Nov 1867-1934)
OPTICAL ILLUSION
Depending on how you look at this image,
you may see a portrait of a woman, or a silhouette of a man playing a saxophone.
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