October 20, 2022
QUOTE
Life is like a dogsled race. If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
The idiot who invented instant grits also thought of frozen fried chicken, and they ought to lock him up before he tries to freeze-dry collards.
It’s difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.
The only way that I could figure they could improve upon Coca-Cola, one of life’s most delightful elixirs, which studies prove will heal the sick and occasionally raise the dead, is to put bourbon in it.
There’s no such thing as being too Southern.
Baptists never make love standing up. They’re afraid someone might see them and think they’re dancing.
Instead of getting married again, I’m going to find a woman I don’t like and give her a house.
God bless Merle Haggard. He did all the things that Johnny Cash was supposed to have done.
--All from Lewis Grizzard
BIRTHDAYS
1913 – Grandpa Jones, Singer-songwriter and banjo player
1927 – Joyce Brothers, Psychologist, author, and actress
1931 – Mickey Mantle, Baseball player and sportscaster
1946 – Lewis Grizzard, Comedian and author
1950 – Tom Petty, Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
IN MEMORY
1964 – Herbert Hoover, Engineer and politician, 31st President of the United States
1977 – Ronnie Van Zant, Lynyrd Skynyrd lead singer, songwriter
1977 – Steve Gaines, Lynyrd Syknyrd guitarist
1977 – Cassie Gaines Lynyrd Syknyrd vocalist (Steve’s older sister)
1977 – Dean Kilpatrick, Lynyrd Syknyrd road manager
1994 – Burt Lancaster, Actor
IN ON THIS DAY
1803 – The United States Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase.
1818 – The Convention of 1818 is signed between the United States and the United Kingdom, which settles the Canada–United States border on the 49th parallel for most of its length.
1944 – Liquefied natural gas leaks from storage tanks in Cleveland and then explodes, leveling 30 blocks and killing 130 people.
1961 – The Soviet Navy performs the first armed test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, launching an R-13 from a Golf-class submarine.
1977 – A plane carrying the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd crashes in woodland in Mississippi. Six people, including three band members, are killed.