Your Morning Show Blog for March 2nd

Your Morning Show Blog for Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Today is Dr. Seuss Day. Theodor Seuss Geisel was born on March 2, 1904, in Springfield, Massachusetts. Today is Peace Corps Day, marking the corps's founding in 1961. (Observed on the first Tuesday in March).

The 101 number one song of the day was a long song that broke up a long partnership – of the two people who were responsible for its creation. The two had known each other since the sixth grade and there had always been an element of tension in their working relationship. But by the time they were working on today’s featured song, that tension had grown dramatically. While one of the partners wrote it, the other performed it as a solo on stage. The writer remembers sitting off to the side and resenting the great response the other would get while singing it. He said, “I’d be thinking, ‘that’s my song.’ In the earlier days when they were getting along, he said, ‘I’d never have felt that resentment.” While they’d reunite on stage from time to time, it would be the last time they’d record together. The song was number one on March 2, 1970. Paul wrote it, but the main singer was – Art. Simon and Garfunkel “Bridge Over Troubled Water”

A Chinese man claims to have survived for two years eating nothing but leaves and grass. Li Sanju, 50, of Niuwei village, Guangdong province, says he is perfectly happy with his unusual diet. He says he looks no different to other people in his village - but admits he does smell strongly of grass. "I watched a TV program which said a man can live more than 10 days without food but just water, so I thought I would try living on the natural things near my home," he said.

Initially, he would eat a small portion of rice with his grass and leaves but soon gave up even that. "I couldn't eat meat now," he said. "Anything greasy would make me sick. Someone bet me 10,000 yuan to eat a piece of pork, but I couldn't do it.

Here's one of the items we didn't get to today of items we didn’t get to today: Residents of a remote Australian desert town were shocked by a turn in the weather - when fish rained from the sky. Hundreds of small white fish, many still alive, fell over two days on Lajamanu in the Northern Territory. Weather experts believe the fish, spangled perch, were sucked up in a thunderstorm before being dumped over the tiny town which is 326 miles from the nearest river. Mark Kersemakers, senior forecaster at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, said: "It could have scooped the fish up to 40,000 to 50,000 feet in the air. "Once they get up into the system they are pretty much frozen. After some period they are released." Joe Ashley, 55, from Jabiru an outback town in the Northern Territory, said: "Usually fish are in the water now they are falling out of the sky what if anything bigger falls out of the sky next? "It could be crocodiles that would be real scary."