Today is Independence Day in Indonesia, a public holiday. Indonesia had been a Dutch colony for over 300 years when a group of revolutionaries declared independence on 17 August 1945. It took Indonesians four years of diplomacy and armed struggle before their independence was formally granted by Queen Juliana of the Netherlands.
SINES or something
Today is the birthday, in 1947, of Gary Talley, guitarist for the Box Tops.
Today is Proclamation Day in South Australia. The holiday celebrates the announcement of South Australia as a British province on 28 December 1836.
Adding some challenge to the job.
Some Bumper Stickers:
Bada Bing!
Eye doctor: Your results just came back. Me: Can I see them? Eye doctor: Probably not.
Pfft. The liquor store clerk just wished me a Merry Christmas. As if he wasn’t going to see me every day until then.
I really do love this time of year. The Christmas music, the twinkling lights, the woman in front of me at Costco who just told her husband, “We can give your cousin a pile of dog shit for all I care.”
When I get bored, I call in sick to places I don’t work. Tomorrow I’m getting written up at Walmart.
Before you marry someone, go sit in traffic with them for at least 2 hours.
Today is the birthday, in 1950, of Alex Chilton, lead singer of The Box Tops. Chilton was 16 when this song became an international hit.
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