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We were away for a week and had limited access to the internet. Here is sometime we missed posting about – July 28 – Today is Lasagna Day. I’m not going to lie to you – I don’t believe you can just whip up a lasagna together in a day. It’s going to take youContinue reading “Lasagna: the world’s most perfect food!”

We were away for a week and had limited access to the internet. Here is sometime we missed posting about – July 28 – Today is Milk Chocolate Day. American eat on average 12 lbs of chocolate per year; The Swiss on the other hand eat a little more than 26 lbs a year (thatContinue reading “What evil mind would celebrate it during the summer?”

We were away for a week and had limited access to the internet. Here is sometime we missed posting about – July 27, 1984 –Warner Bros. gift to an unsuspecting world, Purple Rain, starring Prince, premiered on this date. Morris Day apparently had a substance abuse problem throughout production, and was high during most ofContinue reading “Honey, I know, I know, I know times are changing”

We were away for a week and had limited access to the internet. Here is sometime we missed posting about – July 26, 1991 – Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman) was arrested in Florida, for exposing himself at the South Trail XXX Cinema on this date. For several years following the incident, Reubens lost hisContinue reading “Everyone goes to the movies”

We were away for a week and had limited access to the internet. Here is sometime we missed posting about – St. Christopher was once the patron saint of bachelors, travelers, transportation workers, protector against sudden death and toothaches. The Saint Christopher feast day, celebrated on July 25, was removed from the Roman Catholic calendarContinue reading “Another page from Butler’s Book of the Saints”

July 24, 1948 –… Crumbly Crunchies are the bestLook delicious on your vestServe them to unwanted guestsStuff the mattress with the rest…. A great Warner Bros. cartoon directed by Chuck Jones, Haredevil Hare, was released on this date. (It was the first appearance of Marvin the Martian, though he wasn’t named until decades later.) LookContinue reading “Well, yes, I have prepared a statement: GET ME OUTTA HERE!”

July 23, 1904 –At the turn of the last century, ice-cream men were a breed apart. It was hard work making ice-cream and the rewards were few. “You don’t choose ice cream,” they said, “ice cream chooses you.“ Well, Charles E. Menches was an ice-cream man. They say it ran in his veins. (They sayContinue reading “This beat the alternative”

July 23, 1885 –One of the most famous residents of West 122th Street and Riverside Drive made a most fateful decision on this date. He decided to give up the ghost. In 1881, Ulysses S. Grant, American general, the eighteenth President of the United States and famous horseback riding drunk, purchased a house in NewContinue reading “So that’s whose buried in Grant’s Tomb”

July 23, 1962 –Telstar relayed the first publicly transmitted, live, trans-Atlantic television program, featuring CBS’s Walter Cronkite and NBC’s Chet Huntley in New York, and the BBC’s Richard Dimbleby in Brussels. The first broadcast was intended to have been remarks by President John F. Kennedy, but the signal was acquired before the president was ready,Continue reading “The first trans-Atlantic broadcast”

July 22, 1934 –John Dillinger was shot dead outside Chicago’s Biograph Theatre, on this date in history. And one of the most bizarre urban legends was born. According to the rumor, J Edgar Hoover, pug ugly head of the FBI and notorious transvestite, rushes to Chicago to see the corpse, Dillinger, Public Enemy No. 1,Continue reading “We swear it’s not at a special exhibition near you”