Today is Nametag Day

It’s a day for every adult to wear a nametag that says, "Hello, I'm ______", with your name written in the blank.  Don’t have one?  You can print this out:

History 101: March 10th, 1941 -The Brooklyn Dodgers announced that their players would wear batting helmets during the 1941 baseball season. General Manager Larry MacPhail predicted that all baseball players would soon be wearing the new devices. He was right.

Music History 101: March 10th, 1979 - at the Grand Ole Opry…the holy of holies of country music was rocked by a performance by a man who sang "Your Cheatin’ Heart" and "Tennessee Waltz," then cut loose with this "Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag." The applause was reported as "polite."  It was, of course, James Brown.

The 101 number one song of the day made a very big impression on somebody who would soon make a huge impression on the entire world.  The producer, Major Bill Smith liked the song as it was written with the exception of the guitar intro. He asked Delbert McClinton to play harmonica on the demo and everyone was pleased with the result. Later when the song was a hit, the band was touring in England and ran into an up and coming band. One of the members was struck by the harmonica intro and shortly thereafter he wrote a song with a similar sound. He was John Lennon, and the song was “Love Me Do.” The song that inspired it arrived at the top of the charts on March 10, 1962 for Bruce Channel – Hey! Baby

Other Stuff:

The Soggies have finally won: Cap’n Crunch is quietly sailing away.

Long slammed by health experts for its high sugar content – a single serving contains 12 grams – the cereal is no longer being actively marketed by Quaker or its parent company Pepsico. Cap’n Crunch was once the No. 1 breakfast cereal, but pressure from the White House and health activists is having an effect on how PepsiCo and other food companies peddle their products to kids. Sales of the cereal were down 6.8% in 2010. Last year, PepsiCo vowed to reduce added sugar per serving by 25% and saturated fat by 15% in its products over the next 10 years. Children cereals contain 85% more sugar, 65% less fiber and 60% more sodium when compared with adult cereals, according to the Rudd Center research. The average preschooler has viewed more than 500 television ads for such cereals.

An eBay user in North Carolina claims to be selling Dale Earnhardt’s last ride – the hearse used during his funeral in 2001.

The seller, who is only identified as “chmark1968,” has set an opening bid of $1.5 million for the 1996 Lincoln Town Car hearse, which “took Mr. Earnhardt from a Huntersville, N.C., funeral home to his final resting place,” according to the original listing. Earnhardt died after his No. 3 car slammed into a wall at 160 miles per hour during the last lap of the Daytona 500 in 2001. Earlier this year, Bill McKeithan, a collector in North Carolina, said he bought the hearse last year and then sold it during the Daytona 500 last month, the 10th anniversary of Earnhardt’s death. McKeithan got $8,800 but soon regretted his decision after considering its potential worth. As of yesterday morning, the gunmetal gray hearse had received no bids and the seller relisted it, removing Earnhardt’s name from the description. Now the listing (Item number: 160557179358) states: “This hearse over the years has serviced many funerals including a very famous NASCAR Driver in 2001.”

101 Gold Nugget of Knowledge: A Swedish bank robber forgot to cover his tracks and left three bottles of urine behind after hiding inside a bank vault in Copenhagen for three days. The 27-year-old man and his accomplice used the bottles to relieve themselves after sneaking into the vault on a Friday in May and remaining there until the bank opened again the following Monday. While inside, the bad guys emptied 140 safety deposit boxes of at least $500,000 in cash and jewelry. But prosecutor Frederik Larsen said yesterday they forgot to take the urine when they left, “so we were able to get their DNA samples from the bottles.” The evidence helped prosecutors win a 21-month prison sentence for the man on Tuesday. His accomplice is still at large and the loot hasn’t been recovered.