Blondie Bumstead's husband's name was TRIVIA QUIZ!
Today is Income Tax Pay Day and Quarterly Estimated Federal Income Tax Payers' Due Date. It's also Rubber Eraser Day and National Gripers Day.
Today is National That Sucks Day, usually Income Tax Day and the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.
Today is National Take a Wild Guess Day, a day honoring hunches, guesses, speculation, and other forms of "intuitive intelligence."
Today is National Glazed Ham Day. Yum!
Today is Fluff Appreciation Day. Find something fluffy and appreciate it.
On this day in 1934, comic strip wife Blondie Bumstead gave birth to Alexander. She called him "Baby Dumpling."
On this day in 1947, Jackie Robinson became the first black player in a major-league baseball game since brothers Moses and Welday Walker played for Toledo in 1884. During his rookie year with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Robinson played first base.
On this day in 1970, The Beer Can Collectors of America was incorporated. Headquartered in Fenton, Missouri, the group now includes over 100 active chapters.
On this day in 2000, Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles became the 24th major league player to hit safely 3,000 times.
Ok, trivia folks...I'm going to start lifting trivia from Ken Jennings' book "Brainiac," which I highly recommend. What's the last country in the world alphabetically?
Good luck :)
5 Comments:
Zimbabwe?
Wasn't there a Slavic country called Zyrgystan? No, in all seriousness I'll agree with Kim.
Fluff appreciation day sounds like fun - I will have to eat marshmallow fluff before going to sleep with a fluffy pillow!
Yup, you've got it with Zimbabwe!
Kim, nice work...continuing your streak, I see!
JD, how was the marshmallow fluff? Is PB and marshmallow fluff a southern delicacy, or did everybody have that growing up?
nope, us yankees had fluff too. Yum!
we definitely enjoyed Fluffernutters!!!
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