Month: August 2022

If it’s TUESDAY, it must be TUESDAY

Today is Popular Consultation Day in Timor-Leste, a public holiday. This day commemorates the referendum that took place on this day in 1999, paving the way for independence from Indonesia.

First Date Stories

Bada Bing!

So excited for my kids to return to school so I can spend my free time reading the 50 emails their school sends each day.

Grandpa: The internet used to come in through the phone. It made a terrible noise, like robots screaming. Grandson: Hush Grandpa, take your pills.

Parents, please have a respectable email address you can give teachers. ThicknJuicy69@hotmail.com is not a good look.

Texas & Florida are removing the alphabet from their schools and are now going back to grunting as a form of communication.

I love how a fly will get into your house through a 2mm crack in a window, but can’t find its way out even if you have the side of your house taken off.

I just got ketchup in my eye. Now I have heinzsight.

Store sign…If it’s in stock, we have it!

So apparently RSVPing to a wedding invite with “maybe next time” isn’t a good response.

A man entered the bus with both of his front pockets full of golf balls and sat down next to a beautiful blonde. The puzzled blonde kept looking at him and his bulging pockets. Finally, after many such glances from her, he said: ‘It’s golf balls’. Nevertheless, the blond continued to look at him for a very long time, deeply thinking about what he had said. After several minutes, not being able to contain her curiosity any longer, she asked: ‘Does it hurt as much as tennis elbow?’

Today is the birthday, in 1944, of Charles Colbert from the rock band The American Breed. They had this hit song.

Posted by Tom in Humor, Music, sixties and seventies

It’s MONDAY and we’re back!

Today is National Heroes Day in the Philippines. It is a day to honour the bravery of all Filipino heroes who struggled for the nation’s freedom, including those who vanished into anonymity. The date chosen is intended to mark the ‘Cry of Pugad Lawin’ in August 1896, which was the first act of insurrection against the Spanish colonisers by the Katipunan, a hitherto secret Filipino revolutionary movement.

Spider Costumes for Dogs!!

Today is the birthday, in 1924, of Dinah Washington. She had this hit in 1959 and a couple more in the early sixties. She died in 1963 of a fatal drug interaction.

Posted by Tom in Humor, Music, sixties and seventies

TUESDAY, Tuesday…

Today is ‘Black Ribbon Day’, also known as the Europe-wide Day of Remembrance for the victims of all totalitarian and authoritarian regimes.

Reminder…cats have serious claws! (Murder Mittens)

Globalization:

Bada Bing!

Primenesia – When you order so much stuff from Amazon that you don’t know what’s in the box.

Jehovah’s Witnesses seemed a little shocked when I asked if they were here for the orgy.

My ancestors navigated the ocean using the stars and I’m over here missing my exits with GPS.

If you lose one sense, your other senses are enhanced; that’s why people with no sense of humor have an increased sense of self-importance.

My doctor has advised me to stop drinking, it’s going to be a massive change for me. I’ve been with that doctor for 15 years.

So I set up my new Alexa to respond to “computer”. I didn’t think about it until I turned on Star Trek, and halfway through the episode, my house fired a spread of photon torpedoes into our neighbor’s garage. Sorry about your truck Kevin.

They say a large group of Karens is called a homeowners association.

It must be a very worrying time for anyone who has dumped a body in a reservoir.

Replacing RBG with Amy Coney-Barrett is like if your server said, “We don’t have Coke, is urine OK?”

I thought I was a good person, but the way I react when people drive slow in the left lane would suggest otherwise.

No good birthdays today. Here’s another of those amazing 80’s music videos, this one with Billy Idol.

Posted by Tom in eighties music, Humor, Music

MONDAY still comes…

Saturday was Revolution Day, a public holiday in Morocco. Also known as the King and People’s Revolution Day, this day commemorates the exile by the French of Sultan Mohammed V on this day in 1953. This was the beginning of the Moroccan battle for independence.

Hmmm…

Everyone is using dating apps….

Today is the birthday, in 1945, of Carmine John Granito, also known as Ron Dante, C.G. Rose, Bo Cooper and other names. He is best known as the lead vocalist for The Archies with whom he had this number one hit.

Posted by Tom in Humor, Music, sixties and seventies

It’s…………….FRIDAY!!

Today is Day of the Tribes, a public holiday in Nauru. It is celebrated on August 19 to honor the country’s twelve traditional tribes and matrilineal system. With a population of about 10,500 people, Nauru is the world’s second smallest sovereign state by population, after Vatican.

Aim for the stars!

SYNGSSSSSSS

Today is the birthday, in 1940, of Roger Cook, songwriter. Cook had more than 80 top 30 hits including this one by The Hollies.

Posted by Tom in Humor, Music, sixties and seventies