…marking the first performance of the Ringling Brothers Circus on this day in 1884.
It was formed by four brothers from Baraboo, Wisconsin.
So we got to talking…in case you ever found yourself writing a poem about caribou, you’d have something to rhyme with it. And guess what? Carol wrote us a poem –
There once was a lonesome male caribou Who lived all alone in a little zoo. He met a doe named Ved
And so quickly they wed
And now live together in Baraboo!
Okay, it’s not exactly Shakespeare but thanks Carol.
The 101 number one song of the day was recorded by a “one hit wonder” who became a preacher at the tender age of seven years old. James McCleese was born in Harlem but his parents moved to a farm in rural North Carolina shortly after his birth. He grew up listening to circuit riding preachers and his natural showmanship led to his moving into the pulpit at that very young age. It was a natural progression to singing gospel music and he began touring the country with a group called the Nightingales. But rock and roll soon took hold and he was hooked. His one big claim to fame would never earn an award from feminist groups but it arrived at number one this week in May, 1963 and by this time he had a new last name: Soul- Jimmy Soul “If You Wanna Be Happy.”
You know us – when monkey news breaks out – we break in! The National Center for Public Policy Research has now hired a hurricane predicting chimpanzee – which they say will be more accurate than the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s prediction. They noted that NOAA has been wrong in their predictions in eight of the last eleven years. The chimp is called Dr. Hansimian – and he predicts a low of six hurricanes and a high of eight.
A journalist in Australia has spent nine years scouring newspapers and websites from around the world to find the worst journalistic clichés. The number one over-used phrase is ‘at the end of the day’. He says in the past 18-months – that phrase has appeared in 21,000 stories around the globe. Other over-used clichés include – ‘about face’, ‘unsung heroes’ and ‘outpouring of support.’
When you were a child…and your mother kissed your boo-boos….it really worked, medically speaking. Scientists now say a doting, soothing mother reduces stress later in your adult life by triggering hormones that lead to immune reactions. Adults that had loving, boo-boo kissing mothers as children…tend to be healthier as adults.
This one’s going to hurt. Scientists are now claiming hot dogs, bacon, sausage and lunch meat all increase your risk of heart disease by 42%. They say eating processed meat also raises your risk of developing Type 2 diabetes by 19%. -Probably a bad idea now…but we’ve been working on a bacon-flavored sausage.
New research out of Australia says men tell more lies than women. Their research indicated the average man tells three lies a day…for a total of 1,092 lies a year. In contrast, women average only two lies a day…or 728 a year. Men’s number one lie tends to be about their vices, like drinking. A woman’s number one lie is when she says, ‘There’s nothing wrong. I’m fine.’
-You know why women don’t lie as much, don’t you? Because men don’t ask women if our pants make us look fat.
And one final note – this might come in handy today at 4:15: What is a female fox called?
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