daily humor

Aug

2024

Could be WEDNESDAY, but…

Today is Independence Day, a public holiday in Pakistan. On this day in 1947, Pakistan gained independence from British rule. Pakistan had been part of the colony of India since the 18th century, firstly as part of the East India Company and then as part of the British Indian Empire.

In 1946, Britain, exhausted by World War II, realized that it had neither the mandate at home, the support internationally, nor the reliability of the British Indian Army for continuing to control an increasingly restless British India. plans began to end British rule.

the Indian National Congress, being a secular party, demanded a single state. The All India Muslim League, who disagreed with the idea of single state, stressed the idea of a separate Pakistan as an alternative. On 3 June 1947, the British government announced that the principle of division of British India into two independent states was accepted.

The partition was accompanied by violent riots and mass casualties, and the displacement of nearly 15 million people due to religious violence across the subcontinent; millions of Muslim, Sikh and Hindu refugees trekked the newly drawn borders to Pakistan and India respectively in the months surrounding independence.

On 14 August 1947, the new Dominion of Pakistan became independent and Muhammad Ali Jinnah was sworn in as its first governor general in Karachi.

Sometimes we find irony in the wild

Today is the birthday, in 1941, of American singer-songwriter and guitarist David Crosby, a founding member of both the Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash. With CS&N he had the 1969 UK No.17 single ‘Marrakesh Express’, 1970 US No.11 single with Crosby, Stills Nash & Young plus the 1970 US No.1 album ‘Deja Vu’ and the 1975 US No. 6 solo album ‘Wind On The Water’. Crosby died on 18 January 2023 age 81. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuLBhxZUkmU

Aug

2024

just TUESDAY

Today is Independence Day, a public holiday in the Central African Republic. This is the National Day of the Central African Republic (CAR)CAR is a state in the heart of the African continent with a territory of about 622,400 square km and a population of 4.6 million people.

According to the UN, the republic is among the least developed countries in Africa in socio-economic terms, however, the country has rich deposits of uranium, oil, gold and diamonds. This country’s inland location meant that it didn’t have the first wave of contact with Europeans as they rounded the coast of Africa looking for a passageway to India.

The isolation ended with the arrival of the slave trade with some local tribes becoming suppliers to the Europeans and Arab traders. The slave trade depopulated large parts of the region and shattered the sophisticated societies that had developed. To compound the chaos, at the end of the 19th century, the region couldn’t escape the so-called ‘Scramble for Africa’ as France, Germany, and Belgium all vied for control of the land.

Already controlling large swathes of surrounding Africa, the French won out and in 1894, set up a dependency called Ubangi-Shari. In 1910, Ubangi-Shari became part of the Federation of French Equatorial Africa. The history of Ubangi-Shari then runs along similar lines to the other French colonies with the French imposing and abusing harsh labour laws to exact the cost of maintaining their expensive overseas colonies

After the end of the second world war, Ubangi-Shari reached a nationalist milestone when Barthelemy Boganda, founder of the pro-independence Social Evolution Movement of Black Africa, became the first Central African to be elected to the French parliament.

The French constitutional referendum of September 1958 dissolved the French Equatorial Africa, and on December 1st of the same year the Assembly declared the birth of the autonomous Central African Republic.

Boganda died in 1959, and just one later on August 13th 1960, Ubangi-Shari gained its independence becoming the Central African Republic, with David Dacko, nephew of Boganda, as its president.

Uh oh…

BADA BING!!!!!

Cyclists repeatedly fail Captcha tests after failing to identify images with traffic lights.

I live in constant fear of being asked to share a ‘fun fact about me’.

Chicken lips went to HR and complained. Now we can’t use nicknames at work anymore.

One minute you’re young and having fun, and the next, you’re putting on your glasses to hear better.

My body’s ‘check engine light’ is on, but I’m still driving it around like, ‘nah, it’ll be okay’.

I have a mental illness that makes me think that people will change their minds if I present them with the correct facts and data.

Life is short. Make sure you spend as much time as possible on the internet arguing with strangers.

People at the front door: Have you found Jesus? Resident: WTF, you lost him again?! Next time use bigger nails!

Tim Walz is the guy who mows your lawn when you break your leg. JD Vance is the guy who reports your overgrown lawn to the HOA.

Don’t block all of your haters. Leave one or two so they can report back to headquarters.

Do you think Pavlov thought about feeding his dog every time he heard a bell ring?

I didn’t mean to gain all this weight. It happened by snaccident.

On this day in 1964, The Supremes recorded ‘Baby Love’, written and produced by Motown’s main production team Holland–Dozier–Holland, the song went on to be the group’s first UK No.1 and second US chart-topper. It was also the second of five Supremes songs in a row to go to No.1 in the United States. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_y6nFjoVp4

Aug

2024

MONDAY…’nuf said

Today is Victory Day, a public holiday in Rhode Island, observed on the second Monday of August. It commemorates the end of second world war when Japan’s surrender was announced on August 14th 1945.

Days after the US dropped atomic bombs on two Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Imperial Japan surrendered bringing World War II to an end. The announcement of the surrender was made by the Japanese in the afternoon of August 15th 1945, though due to time differences it was received when it was still August 14th in the US. The official surrender ceremony took place on September 2nd 1945 on the deck of the battleship USS Missouri.

In 1946, President Harry S. Truman declared 14th August as Victory Day. Victory Day was established in Rhode Island by lawmakers in the spring of 1948, three years after World War II ended when the General Assembly passed a bill sponsored by Rep. Richard Windsor, a long-serving East Providence Republican.

New York observed V-J Day a few times in the late 1940s, and in 1949, Arkansas adopted a new state holiday – “World War II Memorial Day”. Arkansas dropped this holiday in 1955, leaving Rhode Island as the only state that marks the end of World War II with a legal holiday.

Rhode Island’s continuation of this holiday is said to have been reinforced due to the high number of veterans who retired to the state. Indeed, residents of the state suffered a higher proportion of war deaths than nearly any other state. It is also a state with strong union representation, so once a holiday made it onto the state list it is difficult to drop it.

Today is the birthday, in 1949, of Mark Knopfler British songwriter, guitarist, singer with Dire Straits who had the 1985 US No.1 single ‘Money For Nothing’, the 1986 UK No.2 single ‘Walk Of Life’, and the 1985 world-wide No.1 album Brothers In Arms. Knopfler has recorded and performed with many prominent musicians, including Chet Atkins, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Bryan Ferry, Emmylou Harris, Van Morrison, Steely Dan, Sting, and James Taylor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTP2RUD_cL0

Aug

2024

2s DAY

Today is Independence Day, a public holiday in Bolivia. Known in Spanish as ‘Dia de la Patria’, this is Bolivia’s National Day and marks the signing of the Declaration of Independence on August 6th 1825.

On May 25th 1809, the Chuquisaca (modern-day Sucre) Revolution was the first popular uprising in Latin America and is known in Bolivia as ‘Primer grito libertario’ (the first shout of freedom). This led to the Bolivian War of Independence which would last for 16 years. Eventually, the Colonial forces were defeated and Bolivian independence was proclaimed on August 6th 1825.

To honor the role of the Venezuelan resistance leader Simón Bolívar in leading the fight for independence, Charcas was renamed Bolivia. Interestingly it is said that when deciding what path Charcas should take after independence from Spain, Bolívar favoured a union with Peru and that naming Bolivia after him was a way to get him to accept creating a newly independent country.

Bolivia’s flag features its coat of arms emblazoned on three horizontal bands of red, yellow, and green, representing the nation’s fight for independence, vast mineral resources, and wealth of agriculture and landscapes, respectively.

The coat of arms further symbolizes Bolivia’s natural landscape with a depiction of the sun rising adjacent to Mount Potosi, the peak that towers over La Paz.

Huanya Potosi

A photo?????

BADA BING!!!

I hate it when people ask me if I did anything exciting over the weekend…like I’m over here skydiving. I’m old. I went to Costco, did some laundry, ate too much food, and took a nap.

A huge part of marriage is asking the other person if they have “any thoughts on dinner?” every day for the rest of your life.

JD Vance’s couch is polling higher than JD Vance right now. Also, JD Vance is probably polling his couch right now.

A friend who has worked in Chicago his entire life tells me it’s not that violent. His job is tail gunner on a school bus.

Barbie: My product was first launched in Japan. Oppenheimer: Mine too.

I was born a male and identify as a male. But according to Stouffer’s lasagna, I’m a family of four.

I prefer Christians who get upset about poverty, racism, war, and injustice rather than art they don’t understand.

Apparently, the wound on his ear healed. I’m still waiting for the hole under his nose to close up.

New book: Everything I don’t like is THE DEVIL! The emotional Bible thumpers guide to the 2024 Olympics opening.

The greatest difference between a man and a woman is the meaning of “What an ass”.

I wish I had enough money to discover that it doesn’t make me happy.

Driving by myself is exhausting because I have to be the lead singer, the backup singers, the dancers, etc.

Elon now says he is punishing people who use the term ‘weird’ to disparage supporters of OrangeMan. BWAHAHAHAHAHA

I showed my blog to my psychiatrist and she wants to talk to all of you.

Never baptize a cat. Apparently, they don’t like it when you try to save their soul. Trust me.

I did a push-up today. Well, actually I fell down. But I had to use my arms to get up So… you know, close enough.

He was White and then all of a sudden he became Orange. Someone should look into that.

On this day in 1974, ABBA scored their first US top 10 hit when ‘Waterloo’ went to No.6. ‘Waterloo’ was written specifically to be entered into the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest, after the group finished third with ‘Ring Ring’ the previous year in the Swedish pre-selection contest. The original title of the song was ‘Honey Pie’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XJBNJ2wq0Y

Aug

2024

Uh oh…MONDAY is back!

Emancipation Day is observed today in many Caribbean countries. This holiday marks the end of slavery in the British Empire.

The British like other colonial powers had allowed the widespread practice of slavery to take place during the time of expansion to the new world. In 1772, the ruling in the case of Somerset v Stewart determined that slavery was unsupported by the common law in England and Wales. While the ruling was not clear on the situation in other parts of the Empire, this case was seen as a key turning point in the change towards emancipation.

Slavery was finally abolished throughout the British Empire by the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, which came into effect on August 1st 1834. The territories controlled at that time by the East India Company, Ceylon (modern-day Sri Lanka) and St. Helen’s were excluded. Slavery was not abolished in these regions until 1843.

While the emancipation officially occurred on August 1, many countries celebrate it on the first Monday of August (today!).

There were some groups of people already living in freedom before Emancipation. Most of them were former soldiers. The Merikins were one of them. They were ex-slaves of the American south who were part of the British army in 1812. For helping fight against the former colonies, they were rewarded with their freedom and land in the Princes Town and Moruga area on Trinidad. Africa-born soldiers who also served in the West India Regiment also had their freedom and land as rewards.