Repeat Day - June 3, 2020

DIANE'S CORNER ... Celebrate

Every year on Repeat Day followers of this unusual event seek out activities and experiences they love so much that they want to do them over and over again.

No-one is sure quite how this festival of going back for more started but popular activities include starting off with a viewing of “Groundhog Day”, having the same favorite meal for both lunch and dinner and revisiting important places from your past, such as the spot where you got engaged, graduated or celebrated a personal triumph.

Some take things further by repeating everything they say everything they say until others join in with the fun or ask what they are doing. Then the day can be rounded the day off by settling down again to watch Bill Murray win the heart of Andie Macdowell in Groundhog Day. If it’s worth doing once; it’s worth doing again.

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A comic to help you sharpen your misinformation Spidey senses:

Joke of the Day

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I'll tell you a coronavirus joke now, but you’ll have to wait two weeks to see if you got it.

Word of the Day

sayonara

Marlon Brando & Miiko Taka in Sayonara (1957)

MEANING:

interjection: Goodbye.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Japanese sayonara (goodbye), short for sayo naraba (if it is to be that way), from sayo (thus) + naraba (if it be), ultimately from Chinese. Earliest documented use: 1863.

USAGE:

“So while New Zealand have already said sayonara to the Webb Ellis Cup, perhaps there are advantages to having to hang around for Friday’s hated third-place playoff.”
A Shock Defeat, a Deserved Victory; Dominion Post (Wellington, New Zealand); Oct 28, 2019.

Idiom of the Day

42. First out of the gate

Meaning: Being the first one to make a start at something.

This Day in History

1539 - Hernando De Soto claimed Florida for Spain.

1784 - The U.S. Congress formally created the United States Army to replace the disbanded Continental Army. On June 14, 1775, the Second Continental Congress had created the Continental Army for purposes of common defense and this event is considered to be the birth of the United States Army.

1800 - John Adams moved to Washington, DC. He was the first President to live in what later became the capital of the United States.

1851 - The New York Knickerbockers became the first baseball team to wear uniforms.

1932 - Lou Gehrig set a major league baseball record when he hit four consecutive home runs.

1959 - The first class graduated from the Air Force Academy in Denver, CO.

1965 - Edward White became the first American astronaut to do a "space walk" when he left the Gemini 4 capsule.

1985 - After five years, the characters of Nancy and Chris Hughes returned to CBS-TV's "As the World Turns."

1991 - Willie Nelson began selling his "Who'll Buy My Memories - The IRS Tapes" album through phone orders. It was later released in stores. The album was made up of songs that had been seized by the U.S. government and would go towards paying off his $16 million tax bill.


1999 - Dennis Muren, the first visual effects artist to ever be so recognized, received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

2017 - The Amazing World of Dr. Seuss Museum opened in Springfield, MA.

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DAILY SQU-EEK

If You Were Born Today, June 3

You are especially perceptive and imaginative, an excellent storyteller, and well-liked, not just due to charm but because you take the time to make others happy. You are very strong-willed, even if you don't always come across that way. When young, you might worry a lot and have problems turning your thinking process off enough to truly relax. However, as you gain life experience, you learn to embrace change. Famous people born today: 

1726 James Hutton, geologist, born in Edinburgh, Scotland

1770 Manuel Belgrano, Argentine politician and Military Leader who took part in the Argentine Wars of Independence and created the Flag of Argentina, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (d. 1820)

1808 Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America (1861-65), born in Fairview, Kentucky (d. 1889)

1865 George V, King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India (1910-36), born in Marlborough House, London, (d. 1936)

1904 Charles R. Drew, American physician and surgeon who pioneered blood plasma research and developed the blood bank concept, born in Washington, D. C. (d. 1950)

1906 Josephine Baker, American dancer, Parisian night club owner (Folies-Bergere) born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1975)

1926 Allen Ginsberg, American beat poet (Howl, The Fall of America) and 1960s counterculture icon, born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 1997)

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READERS INFO

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(Not So) Totally Useless Facts of The Day:

The ancient Mayan civilization used chocolate as currency. Technically speaking, they used cacao beans to purchase goods.

The reason we say "redhead" instead of "orangehead" for hair color is because English didn't differentiate between the colors until the 1540s, long after the term was coined.


Chuck E. Cheese has an official backstory. He was an orphaned mouse who didn't know his own birthday. To make up for it, he'd host parties for children.

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1926 -

 
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) Writer and poet

My uncle Louis once was on his way to sell his old typewriter. He saw

Allen Ginsberg waiting for a bus and told him about the typewriter. 

Allen offered him very little money so my uncle sold it somewhere else.

For years, Uncle Louis felt badly. A few years later, he ran into Allen again 

and told him how he suffered for not selling the poet his machine. Allen

told my uncle, "Dont sweat the small stuff" and relieved him of years of 

guilt! 

3.

Coronavirus Style by Sylvia, CAN DO Correspondent

A cannibal was walking through the jungle and  came upon a restaurant operated by a fellow cannibal. Feeling somewhat hungry, he sat down and looked over the menu....    +Tourist:                           $ 5.00    +Broiled Missionary:        $10.00    +Fried Explorer:               $15.00    +Baked Democrat or Grilled Republican:  $100.00 The cannibal called the waiter over and asked,  "Why such a price difference for the Politicians?" The cook replied, "Have you ever tried to clean one? They're so full of s**t, it takes all day."

Pictures of the day

Anna Palm de Rosa (1859–1924) was a Swedish artist and landscape painter. In the 1890s, she was one of Sweden's most popular painters, with her watercolors of steamers, sailing ships and scenes of Stockholm, but she left Sweden for good at the age of 36, marrying an Italian and spending the rest of her life in southern Italy. This painting, dated 1885, shows a game of ombre at Brøndums Hotel, in Skagen in the north of Denmark. The hotel is remembered for its close associations with the late 19th-century artists' colony known as the Skagen Painters. In order to help cover their board and lodgings, some of the artists donated their work to the hotel, where the pictures were displayed on the walls of the dining room. This painting is now in the collection of Skagens Museum.

Germany

An apple tree plantation being spread with water in Boennigheim.

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Home Decor Knitting Pattern: Heirloom Table Mat Knit Pattern

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Crochet Pattern of the Day: 

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Knit Pattern of the Day: 

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Quarantine Cooking Recipes

RECIPE

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CROCKPOT RECIPE






SWEETS

ADULT COLORING

FUN

Word - Real or Made Up?

CRAFTS

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How to Build a Hanging Bird Feeder with Pot Lids from the Thrift Store

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CHILDREN'S CORNER

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Felt Kite Headbands

PUZZLE

WORD SEARCH

SUDOKU ... 

QUOTE

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CLEVER 

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Summer Dog Treats: Sweet Potato & Banana Pupsicles

EYE OPENER 

Every Hidden Symbol In Picasso's Guernica

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

There is nothing more dangerous than a government of the many controlled by the few. -Lawrence Lessig, professor and political activist (b. 3 Jun 1961)

OPTICAL ILLUSION

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