How do you tell the difference between a frog and a TRIVIA QUIZ?!?!

Today is National Rowdy Friends Day, a time to check up on your old rowdy friends to see if they’re okay.

Today is No Pants Day. It's okay to wear something, just not pants (nopantsday.com), a way of telling world, "Hey, saggy pants aren't so bad."


The 2-day annual Barbed Wire Swap begins today in LaCrosse, Kansas, and Toad Suck Daze begin in Conway, Arkansas. Oh, man, and I'm stuck in Seattle!

On this day in 1939, not hitting well and feeling bad, Ironman Lou Gehrig took himself out of the Yankee line-up after playing 2,130 consecutive games. The Yankees destroyed Detroit 22-2, and Gehrig never played baseball again.

On this day in 1960, Billboard magazine reported that, in the wake of the payola scandal, many radio stations were switching to a "better music" format and banning rock & roll.

On this day in 1991, Mike Lehtonen and Juhani Saramies left Nokia, Finland, in history’s longest taxicab ride. They took a 15-day, 14,414-mile trip to Spain and back with the meter running. It cost $16,000. No word on the tip.

On this day in 2007, Iowa spent $6,000 to change the locks at one of its state prisons after someone paid $12 on e-Bay for a set of keys belonging to a guard who retired in the 1970s. The warden said he did not know if any of the old keys actually opened any of the locks in the 135-year-old prison -- but he was not sure they didn't. The prison housed a number of violent criminals.

Here's an odd trivia question: In Auburn, Washington, is it illegal to pretend your parents are: (a) rich; (b) smart; or (c) dead?

Good luck :)