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Don't have much on my mind this morning.
My muscles are stiff and my joints are sore.
And my coffee don't taste so good any more.
Sorry 'bout all that bitchin' and moanin' --
Off now for my daily walk.
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TRIVIA
The mask used by Michael Myers in the original Halloween was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
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HISTORICAL EVENT
Miss New Jersey, Suzette Charles, the first runner-up and also an African American, assumed Williams' tiara for the two months that remained of her reign.
Vanessa Williams rebounded from the Miss America scandal and went on to a successful entertainment career as an actress and recording artist, performing on Broadway as well as in movies and television and releasing a number of popular albums.
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WORD FOR TODAY
rasher
noun
- A thin slice of fried or broiled bacon or ham.
- A dish or an order of thin slices of fried or broiled bacon.
Rasher Of Cooked Bacon
A rasher of bacon was once defined as a single slice of bacon, but has now evolved into a serving of two or three slices of bacon.
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CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
(born July 23, 1961)
Woody Harrelson is an American actor whose breakout role came in the television sitcom Cheers as bartender Woody Boyd. Some notable film characters include basketball hustler Billy Hoyle in White Men Can't Jump, a crippled bowler in Kingpin, serial killer Mickey Knox in Natural Born Killers, magazine publisher Larry Flynt in The People vs. Larry Flynt, country singer Dusty in A Prairie Home Companion, bounty hunter Carson Wells in No Country for Old Men, zombie killer Tallahassee in Zombieland, blind piano player/meat salesman Ezra Turner in Seven Pounds, conspiracy nut Charlie Frost in 2012, a delusional man who believes he is a superhero named Defendor in Defendor, Cpt. Tony Stone in The Messenger, and Haymitch Abernathy in The Hunger Games.
(born July 23, 1973)
Monica Lewinsky is an American woman with whom United States President Bill Clinton admitted to having had an "improper relationship" while she worked at the White House in 1995 and 1996. The affair and its repercussions (which included Clinton's impeachment) became known as the Lewinsky scandal.
After the scandal subsided, Lewinsky put out a line of handbags under her name, became an advertising spokesperson for a diet plan, worked as a television personality, and moved to London and obtained a Master's degree in Psychology.
(born July 23, 1940)
Don Imus is an American radio host, humorist, landscape photographer, philanthropist and writer. His nationally syndicated talk show, Imus in the Morning, is broadcast throughout the United States by Cumulus Media Networks and simulcast on television by the Fox Business Network.
(born July 23, 1974)
Stephanie March is an American actress, best known for her portrayal of Alexandra Cabot on the television series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
--Mark Twain
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