Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day

Some uses for your ‘Bubble Wrap’ on Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day. (other than stress relief)

Didn’t know this – but apparently Bubble Wrap makes a great beer coozie. It has very good insulation qualities.

-Plus you can then ‘pop’ your beer can against your forehead.

Bubble Wrap is also a great flotation device. Take a roll with you next time you go boating.

-Of course your boat sinks…you jump into the water with your Bubble Wrap…

and subsequently pop yourself until you drown.

Sealed Air – the company that makes Bubble Wrap makes enough each year to circle the globe several times.

-Which would come in handy if we’re ever hit by an asteroid!!

It is also “National Flirt A Little Bit Day.”

1933 The first episode of the “Lone Ranger” radio program is broadcast on a station in Detroit.

The latest version is being filmed here in New Mexico with Johnny Depp as Tonto -

We’re not buying the facial hair.  Sorry Johnny, that has to go.

1969 The Fab Four gave their last public performance - on the roof of Apple Studios. It was filmed for the movie "Let It Be."

The

was the result of two of the writer’s favorite words. He put them together and had a title but that was all. But what eventually developed was their very own sound.  This would be the second charttopper for a guy who’d been writing songs since he was eight years old. His first number one song had been recorded years before it charted and when a Pittsburgh DJ found on a shelf and put it on the turntable, it became an instant regional hit, and then went national before going all the way to the top. It’s writer was as surprised as anyone when it did become a hit and said afterward, “I don’t think there’s anything scarier than having a number one record and not knowing why. It was a complete fluke.” But he was able to follow it up with several hits with the help of producers Bo Gentry and Ritchie Cordell. But in 1968, they parted company and today’s featured artist was searching for a distinctive sound that would define his music. He believed he’d found it with the song that developed from those two words and that song was number one for Tommy James on January 30th, 1969 the two words were “Crimson & Clover”