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09
May
2023

TUESDAY is not Monday

Today is Liberation Day in Guernsey and Jersey. It commemorates the liberation of the Channel Islands on 9 May 1945, which marked the end of the islands’ occupation by Nazi Germany during World War II. On 9 May 1945, HMS Bulldog arrived in St Peter Port, Guernsey, and the German forces surrendered unconditionally aboard the vessel at dawn. British forces landed in St Peter Port shortly afterwards, greeted by crowds of joyous but malnourished islanders singing, amongst other patriotic songs, “Sarnia-Cherie”.

The same day, HMS Beagle arrived in Jersey to accept the surrender of the occupying forces there. Two naval officers, Surgeon Lieutenant Ronald McDonald and Sub Lieutenant R Milne, were met by the Harbor Master, who escorted them to his office where they together hoisted the Union Flag, before also raising it on the flagstaff of the Pomme d’Or Hotel.

Sark was liberated on 10 May 1945, and the German troops in Alderney surrendered on 16 May 1945.

BADA BING!!

Getting old is weird because you’re still that same enthusiastic kid trapped in an antique body.

Friend: Look, your husband is talking to another girl. Her: Let him. I want to see how long he can suck in his stomach.

I knew the psychic was a fraud when they accepted my check.

Why is there so much day left at the end of my patience?

I decided to paint all my clothes…Just finished my second coat.

Him: You always watch cooking shows but your cooking is abysmal. Her: You watch a lot of porn…

Grandma once said, “Sometimes you have to hug the people you don’t like so you know how big to dig the hole in your backyard.”

Eurovision song contest finals are on Saturday! Here are a couple more…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMmLeV47Au4

and Norway: http://eurovision 2023 norway

Posted by Tom in Humor, Music, World
08
May
2023

M M M M MONDAY

Many European countries celebrate today the end of World War II in Europe. The day has many names – Day of Liberation in Norway, Victory in Europe Day in Czechia and just End of World War II in Germany, France and many other countries. The day is celebrated on May 9 in the countries of the former Soviet Union. It was the deadliest conflict in human history with an estimated 75 million – 80 million fatalities, most of them in the Soviet Union and China.

Members of the French Republican Guard ride horses up the Champs-Elysees avenue, with the Arc de Triomphe in background, during ceremonies marking the 78th anniversary of the victory against the Nazis and the end of the World War II in Europe, in Paris, Monday, May 8, 2023. Emmanuel Macron presides over ceremonies in Paris and Lyon celebrating victory over the Nazis and commemorating victims of the Holocaust and French resistance fighters in World War II.

THE CORONATION!!

It’s time once again for the amazing Eurovision Song Contest with its amazing over the top entries from every European nation (and a couple of others). Here’s one of the favorites. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWfbEFH9NvQ

Posted by Tom in Humor, Music, World
05
May
2023

It is indeed FRIDAY

Today is Great Prayer Day in Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands. Store Bededag, also known as Great Prayer Day or General Prayer Day, is a special Danish festival celebrated on the fourth Friday after Easter Sunday. People in Denmark will no longer get a public holiday for “Great Prayer Day” from 2024 after lawmakers passed a bill on scrapping it as a public holiday.

Unusually for a holiday, the source for Great Prayer can be traced to one man, Hans Bagger, who was a bishop in Roskilde in the late seventeenth century. Bagger had introduced some new praying and fasting days, but given the number of holy days in the calendar already, it became clear that all the days of praying and fasting were having an impact on daily life, so it was decided that several of the lesser holy days should be combined into one of Bagger’s days, which became Great Prayer Day.

The Great Prayer Day was put on the Statute book by King Christian V in 1686.

Under the law, all trade, work, etc were forbidden from 6pm on the day before Great Prayer Day, to ensure that nobody would be late or drunk when they had to attend the next day’s obligatory church service.

The bakers came up with the idea of baking some extra ‘hvede’ – cardamom-infused wheat buns with a generous spreading of butter on the Thursday which could then be heated up and eaten the following day. It gradually became common throughout the country to eat the hot buns, but nowadays on the evening before Great Prayer Day.

Today is the birthday, in 1942, of American soul singer and actress Barbara Randolph who recorded for Motown Records in the 1960s. In 1964, she joined The Platters. She died on 15 July 2002 age 60. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEzfhclKO8Q

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Posted by Tom in doo-wop, Humor, Music
03
May
2023

WEDNESDESNESDAY

Today is Constitution Memorial Day in Japan also know as ‘Kenpo kinenbi‘. This public holiday commemorates the constitution of Japan coming into force on May 3, 1947. After Japan surrendered following the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the country’s constitution was rewritten to emphasize peace.

This holiday is part of the ‘Golden Week’ when four holidays occur in the space of seven days The days which are holidays each year depending on how the holidays fall in combination with the two weekends either side of Golden Week. It has become a very popular and busy holiday season in Japan.

Not very gentle…

Today is the birthday, in 1934, of Frankie Valli, singer, from American rock and pop band The Four Seasons who had the 1960s hits ‘Sherry’, ‘Big Girls Don’t Cry’, ‘Walk Like a Man’, and the 1976 UK & US No.1 single ‘December 1963, (Oh What A Night’). They are one of the best-selling musical groups of all time, having sold an estimated 100 million records worldwide. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAgQIb77UhU

Posted by Tom in Humor, Music, sixties and seventies
02
May
2023

TUUUUUUESDAY

Today is Day of the Flag in Poland, their national day and a public holiday. The date was chosen for two reasons.

The first, a historical one, is connected with the fact that on May 2, 1945, the Polish flag was hung in Berlin on the Reichstag and the Victory Column.

The second was defiance against the communist regime, which abolished the 3rd of May Constitution holiday: after May 1, the flags were to be taken down immediately so that they would not be around until May 3.

Along with the Flag Day on May 2 Poland celebrates the Day of Poles abroad, established by the Sejm on March 20, 2002.

It’s not what it looks like, dear.

Well-placed ad…

Today is the birthday, in 1946 of American singer, songwriter, actress and activist, Lesley Gore, who had the 1963 US No.1 & UK No.9 single ‘It’s My Party’, (which was produced by Quincy Jones). Gore composed songs for the soundtrack of the 1980 film Fame, for which she received an Academy Award nomination for ‘Out Here on My Own’, written with her brother Michael. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtCIdpnQoWk

Posted by Tom in Humor, Music, sixties and seventies

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