Today is the birthday, in 1945, of José Monserrate Feliciano García better known as José Feliciano. He was born in Puerto Rico, the fourth child of eleven boys, blind due to congenital glaucoma. He taught himself to play many instruments (accordion at age 7) and began playing the guitar at age 9. A musician, singer and composer, he received widespread popularity in the 1960s and has released more than 50 albums worldwide. He is not only an amazing singer, but an outstanding guitarist. Here he is doing a cover of B.B. King’s ‘The Thrill is Gone’.
Today is the birthday, in 1941, of Otis Redding., influential singer in pop music. He died in a plane crash in 1967 at the age of 26. Shortly before his death he recorded this song which went on to become the first posthumous number one song on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the R&B charts.
Do you suppose the run on Ivermectin has been caused by Republicans who have finally decided to get serious about global worming?
In retrospect, hiding all the microchips in Horse Dewormer was a stroke of genius.
The spouse and I took up woodworking.A friend said he didn’t know we were carpenters.I said, “We’ve only just begun”.
When I was in school, I had a second-hand calculator that had no multiplication button.I tell you, times were hard back then.
Do you remember, before the internet, that it was thought that the cause of collective stupidity was the lack of access to information?Well, it wasn’t that!
Due to the internet, stupidity has just gone public.
When people want to be stupid they always found a way to be stupid, Internet or not.
How many terrorists are there in Afghanistan now? We don’t know because we can’t count them. There’s a tally ban.
I’m not sure how many cookies it takes to be happy but so far it’s not 27.
The Roomba vacuum cleaner just beat me to a piece of popcorn I dropped on the floor, This is how the war against the machines begins.
A new scientific study claims that fertility is hereditary. If your parents didn’t have any children, chances are you won’t either.
I went to an antique auction and people started bidding on me.
A newly married man asked his wife, “Would you have married me if my father hadn’t left me a fortune?”“Honey,” his wife replied, “I’d have married you, no matter who left you a fortune.”
I came home tonight to find out someone had broken into my home.Seems the only things that were taken were light bulbs. I was delighted.
Today is the birthday, in 1932 in Winchester, Virginia, of Virginia Patterson Hensley, also known as ‘Ginny’. She was one of the most influential vocalists of the 20th century and one of the first country music artists to successfully cross over into pop music under her stage name – Patsy Cline.
Today is the birthday, in 1936, of Charles Hardin ‘Buddy’ Holley. He became famous under the name Buddy Holly and was a pioneering figure in 1950s rock and roll.
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