November's Daze

[nacktman]

Here's to the days we celebrate in November:

01 Fig Day
02 Plan your Epitaph Day
03 Sadie Hawkens Day
04 National Chicken Lady Day
05 Fall Ball Day
06 International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict
07 Election Day
08 Cook Something Bold and Pungent Day
09 Vietnam Veteran's Memorial Day
10 Marine Corps Birthday
11 Veteran's Day
12 I Need A Patch For That Day
13 World Kindness Day
14 Loosen Up, Lighten Up Day
15 Great American Smokeout
16 International Day for Tolerance
17 Homemade Bread Day
18 Mickey Mouse Day
19 Have A Bad Day Day
20 Name Your PC Day
21 Pumpkin Pie Day
22 Turkey Day
23 Buy Nothing Day
24 International Aura Awarness Day
25 Alascattalo Day
26 Have A Conversation Day
27 Rockefeller Center Xmas Tree Lighting Day
28 World Traveler's Day
29 Bearskin Rug Day
30 Stay Home Because You're Well Day

[Nu]

Thanks, nacktman:

These posts are always interesting.

I think I will miss dinner on the 8th.

[usmc1]

Since today is Epitaph day:

Here's a link to some of the great epitaphs

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Epitaphs

Some of my favs....

From Kipling for fallen warriors of WWI – appropriate for all fallen warriors of all lands in all of man’s foolish wars unto this day!

"From little towns in a far land we came
To save our honour and a world aflame.
By little towns in a far land we sleep
And trust the world we won for you to keep."

Infant in Vermont

"Here lies our darling baby boy
He never cries or hollers
He lived for one and twenty days
And cost us forty dollars."

"Here lies George Johnson
Hanged by mistake, 1882
He was right
We was wrong
But we strung him up
And now he's gone"

Harry Edsel Smith (unknown) - 1903-1942
"Looked up the elevator shaft
To see
If the car was on the way down.
It was."

All of which makes me think of my alltime favorite tombstone. It adorns a dead child's grave in Hayward, California.

A weeping angel, with wings unfurled and bowed head with arms grasping the child's tombstone.

[tinner666]

Well, I can help Nov 8th. if you need any sauce to spice up your meal. I even have the Source if you're totally nuts!

[Bob S.]

Nov. 9-10 also represents the 68th anniversary of what was then known as Kristallnacht, a time when the anti-semitism of 1938 Germany and Austria exploded in violence and destruction in the overnight hours.

Read more at wikipedia.

Bob S.

[usmc1]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHESTY PULLER WHERE EVER YOU ARE!

On this day in 1775, the Marine Corps was formed by an act of Congress and recruiting began immediately in Philadelphia at Tun Tavern, a combination slop chute and brothel.

It is said with some truth, that good marines have never been far from either one since.

[hm0504]

And on next February 27, Marines and their history buffs can mark the 470th anniversary of Marines world history



(I guess there has been a slight change in uniform style since 1537!)

More info here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marines

[missouriboy]

quote:

...there has been a slight change in uniform style since 1537...

ESPECIALLY the choice of weapon in the right hand... LOL!