There was no joy in mudTRIVIA QUIZ!
Pet Appreciation Week begins today.
Today is Chimborazo Day, the day each year when Robert L. Birch of Falls Church, Virginia, explains why the Mississippi River flows uphill. He's right, of course.
Today is National Chocolate Macaroon Day.
Today is Dr. Charles Drew Day, marking the birth of the physician who developed a system for storing blood plasma and organized the first blood bank in New York during World War II. He could not donate blood because he was black.
On this day in 1888, the poem "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest L. Thayer was published in the San Francisco Daily Examiner. The author was paid $5.00.
On this day in 1982, Elvis Presley's Memphis mansion, Graceland, opened as a tourist attraction.
On this day in 1992, William Maxwell Gaines died at age 70. He founded and published Mad magazine. One year he and 20 staffers traveled to Haiti to try to dissuade Mad’s only subscriber there from canceling.
On this day in 1997, residents of the Dickinson, North Dakota, school district voted 2,035 to 569 to continue to call the high school sports teams the Dickinson Midgets. The name, chosen in the 1920s to honor a short basketball team, had been challenged by residents who felt it was inappropriate.
Oh, trivia, you say? On this day in 2003, what Chicago Cubs player broke a bat and grounded out against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. The bat was corked.
Good luck :)
5 Comments:
I think it was slammin' Sammy Sosa! But do you really need to cork your bat against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays?
Great video, by the way! Hilarious.
Jon is right - it was Sammy Say-It-Ain't Sosa.
Yup, Sammy Sosa it is!
JD, you've got a point there with the Devil Rays! Are they still even a team these days? ;)
Laine, that's a great nickname! Do you get the credit for coming up with that?
The Devil Rays now just go by the Rays. They are actually having a great year though! (I'm withholding comment on the M's...) :)
And no I cannot take credit for the nickname, that's definitely a Berman-ism.
I'm catching up on my R-dogg trivia...have I ever mentioned that my dad made me memorize "Casey at the Bat" when I was about 10 or 11? I can still do most of it.
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