November 1, 2022
QUOTE
Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.
Poly means more than one, and ticks are bloodsucking parasites.
Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won’t get a lot done in the mornings, but we’ll work late and be honest.
Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.
Well, I just said that Jesus and I were both Jewish and that neither of us ever had a job, we never had a home, we never married and we traveled around the countryside irritating people.
If you’re paranoid long enough, sooner or later you’re gonna be right.
When a stray animal crosses your path, it may be as close to God as you’re going to get in this lifetime.
There’s a fine line between fiction and non-fiction and I think I snorted it somewhere in 1979
God created whiskey to keep the Irish from taking over the world.
--All from the mind of Kinky Friedman
BIRTHDAYS
846 – Louis the Stammerer, Frankish king
1918 – Ken Miles, English-American race car driver
1935 – Gary Player, South African golfer and sportscaster
1944 – Kinky Friedman, Singer-songwriter and author
IN MEMORY
1925 – Max Linder, French actor, director, screenwriter, producer and comedian
1955 – Dale Carnegie, Author and educator
1985 – Phil Silvers, Actor and comedian
1999 – Walter Payton, Football player and race car driver
ON THIS DAY
IN ON THIS DAY
1520 – The Strait of Magellan is first discovered and navigated by European explorer Ferdinand Magellan during the first recorded circumnavigation voyage.
1765 – The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the Thirteen Colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.
1800 – John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House).
1805 – Napoleon Bonaparte invades Austria during the War of the Third Coalition.
1870 – In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast.
1894 – Buffalo Bill, 15 of his Indians, and Annie Oakley were filmed by Thomas Edison in his Black Maria Studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
1896 – A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
1938 – Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed “the match of the century” in horse racing.