Founded : December 2000 Created By : Esther Aquino and Joseph Garcia
DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF ESPERANZA AQUINO
Founded : December 2000 Created By : Esther Aquino and Joseph Garcia
DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF ESPERANZA AQUINO
June 2nd, 2005
In Today's Edition
You know you are getting old when you can laugh, cough, sneeze and pee all at the same time.
Born on June 2nd
Joel Tobeck (1971)
Jerry Mathers (1948)
Marvin Hamlisch (1944)
Stacy Keach (1941)
Sally Kellerman (1937)
Johnny Weissmuller (1904)
Hedda Hopper (1890)
Sir Edward Elgar (1857)
Born on June 3rd
Nekia Daste
Nair my Dog
My neighbor found out that her dog could hardly hear, so she took it to the
veterinarian. He found out that the problem was hair in its ears so he cleaned
both of its ears out and the dog could hear fine. The vet told the lady if she
wanted to keep this from reoccurring, she should go to the store and get some
"Nair" hair remover and rub it in its ears once a month.The lady goes to the drug store and gets some "Nair" hair remover.
At the register the druggist tells her, "If you're going to use this under your arms, don't use deodorant for a few days.
"The lady says, "I'm not using it under my arms."
The druggist says, "Oh. Well, if you're using it on your legs, don't shave for a couple of days."
The lady says "I'm not using it on my legs either. If you must know, I'm using it on my schnauzer."
"Oh I see" said the doctor. "In that case stay off your bicycle for a few days".
Today's useless fact - How did Thousand Island Dressing get its name?
With a toss of lettuce and a sprinkling of croutons, we went to Condiments category to answer your question. This slightly sweet, chunky salad dressing got its name from the Thousand Islands area of upstate New York. The region is filled with about 1,800 islands and stretches along the St. Lawrence River to Lake Ontario, reaching into both the U.S. and Canada. In the 1870s, vacationers discovered the area and began building summer homes and hotels.
In the early 20th century, Sophia LaLonde of Clayton, N.Y., served the dressing at dinner for guests of her husband, who was a popular fishing guide. One of the dinner guests was leading actress May Irwin. It was Irwin who christened the dressing with the Thousand Island name, and the dressing was served by Irwin's request at the Herald Hotel in Clayton. The actress also introduced the dressing to the wider world when she gave LaLonde's recipe to the owner of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City.
Thousand Island Dressing is a variation on the so-called Russian dressing popular around the time, which consisted of a yogurt base with chili sauce or ketchup added for flavor. Early Thousand Island recipes used mayonnaise instead of yogurt and added pickle relish, chives, and sometimes chopped hard-boiled eggs. In the 1950s, Thousand Island Dressing made of mayo, ketchup, and pickle relish became a standard condiment, used on sandwiches and salads alike.
The Buzzword For June 2nd
abbreviate \uh-BREE-vee-ayt\ verb
What does it mean?
: to make briefer : shorten; especially : to reduce (as a
word) to a shorter form intended to stand for the whole
How do you use it?
To abbreviate "sealed with a kiss," Deborah wrote "SWAK" on
the back of the envelope for the birthday card she was
sending to Brad.
Are you a word wiz?
Which word do you think is related to "abbreviate"?
A. affiliate
B. abridge
C. adjust
D. abrupt
Answer:
In brief, the correct answer is B. "Abbreviate" and "abridge"
both mean "to make shorter," so it probably will come as no
surprise that both derive from the Latin verb "brevis,"
meaning "short." "Abbreviate" first appeared in print in
English in the 15th century. It comes from Latin
"abbreviatus," a form of "abbreviare," which in turn can be
traced back to "brevis." "Abridge," which appeared a century
earlier, also comes from "abbreviare," arriving in English via
Anglo-French (the French language used in medieval England).
Another relative you should briefly note: "brevis" is also the
ancestor of the English word "brief."
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Horse Box
That's all for this week. See you Monday.
The following is what appeared in Wednesday's edition.
In Today's Edition
There are three ways to get things done:
1) do it yourself
2) hire someone to do it
3) forbid your kids to do it
Born on June 1st
Danny Zavatsky (1982)
Alanis Morissette (1974)
Rene Auberjonois (1940)
Morgan Freeman (1937)
Pat Boone (1934)
Edward Woodward (1930)
Bob Monkhouse (1928)
Andy Griffith (1926)
Marilyn Monroe (1926)
Nelson Riddle (1921)
Happy 3rd Anniversary to Erika & Dylan Aquino
Rabbi's Advice
A Man goes to see the Rabbi.
"Rabbi, something terrible is happening and I have to talk to you about it."
The Rabbi asked, "What's wrong?"
The man replied, "My wife is poisoning me."
The Rabbi, very surprised by this, asks, "How can that be?"
The man then pleads, "I'm telling you, I'm certain she's poisoning me,
what should I do?"
The Rabbi then offers, "Tell you what. Let me talk to her, I'll see what
I can find out and I'll let you know."
A week later the Rabbi calls the man and says, "Well, I spoke to your
wife. I spoke to her on the phone for three hours. You want my advice?"
The man anxiously says, "Yes."
"Take the poison," says the Rabbi.
Today's useless fact - Does Michael Jackson still own the publishing rights to the Beatles song catalog?
With a little help from the links in the Beatles category. we found the answer to your question. Back in 1963, the Beatles gave their publishing rights to Northern Songs, a company created by their manager, Brian Epstein, and a music publisher, Dick James. Northern Songs went public in 1965, and John Lennon and Paul McCartney each had 15% of the company's shares, while Dick James and the company's chairman, Charles Silver, held a controlling 37.5% of shares. In 1969, James and Silver sold Northern Songs and its assets to the Associated Television Corporation (ATV).
In 1985, ATV's music catalog was sold, and Michael Jackson was the high bidder. Jacko paid a reported $47 million for the publishing rights to somewhere between 159 to 260 Beatles songs. A decade later, Jackson and Sony merged their music publishing businesses. Since 1995, Jackson and Sony/ATV Music Publishing have jointly owned most of the Beatles songs.
While the Jackson-Sony collection includes practically all of the Beatles' greatest hits, they don't have every little thing. Paul McCartney bought the rights to "Love Me Do," "Please, Please Me," "P.S. I Love You," and "Tell Me Why." Northern Songs never owned these early tunes, so they weren't included in the ATV deal.
In the past few years, the media has speculated that Jacko may need to sell the Beatles' rights to pay for his extravagant lifestyle and mounting legal costs. Sony reports that Jackson used his half of the Beatles' catalog as collateral for a loan from the music company. If Jackson defaults on the loan, Sony has the right to buy his share. In 2001, Jackson stated: "The Beatles catalogue is not for sale, has not been for sale and will never be for sale." But who knows? Maybe he'll try to take a sad song and make it better by cashing in.
The Buzzword For June 1st
pant \PANT\ noun
What does it mean?
1 : an outer garment extending from the waist to the ankle and
covering each leg separately: trousers -- usually used in
plural
2 plural : underpants; especially : pantie
How do you use it?
Since average-length pants are too long for her, Adrienne
always looks for the words "short" or "petite" on the label.
Are you a word wiz?
The origin of "pant" takes us back to a certain line of work.
In what line of work do you think "pant" got its start?
A. herding
B. weaving
C. fishing
D. acting
Answer:
Bravo if you picked D. Several hundred years ago, a form of
comic entertainment that started in Italy became popular
throughout Europe. It featured a play with a standard set of
humorous characters. One of these characters was a
bad-tempered old man called Pantalone. Pantalone's costume
included a combination of tight-fitting trousers and
stockings, which were later replaced by longer trousers. The
longer trousers became fashionable in England in the latter
half of the 17th century, and became known as "pantaloons,"
after Pantalone. The usual term now, however, is "pants,"
which is a short way of saying "pantaloons."
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The following is what appeared in Tuesday's edition.
In Today's Edition
"To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter." ~Euripides
Born on May 31st
Brooke Shields (1965)
Lea Thompson (1961)
Gregory Harrison (1950)
John Bonham (1948)
Sharon Gless (1943)
Joe Namath (1943)
Johnny Paycheck (1941)
Peter Yarrow (1938)
Clint Eastwood (1930)
Denholm Elliott (1922)
Don Ameche (1908)
Norman Vincent Peale (1898)
Fred Allen (1894)
Walt Whitman (1819)
Danielle Layla Aquino (1983)
Not So Dumb After All
There was a blonde who found herself sitting next to a Lawyer on an airplane. The lawyer just kept bugging the blonde wanting her to play a game of intelligence. Finally, the lawyer offered her 10 to 1 odds, and said every time the blonde could not answer one of his questions, she owed him $5.00, but every time he could not answer hers, he'd give her $50.00. The lawyer figured he could not lose, and the blonde reluctantly accepted.
The lawyer first asked, "What is the distance between the Earth and the nearest star?"
Without saying a word the blonde handed him $5.00. then the blonde asked, "What goes up a hill with 3 legs and comes back down the hill with 4 legs?"
Well, the lawyer looked puzzled. He took several hours, looking up everything he could on his laptop and even placing numerous air-to-ground phone calls trying to find the answer. Finally, angry and frustrated, he gave up and paid the blonde $50.00
The blonde put the $50 into her purse without comment, but the lawyer insisted, "Well, what is the answer to your question?"
Without saying a word, the blonde handed him $5.
Today's useless fact - How long does it take an oyster to make a pearl?
We dove deep into the Pearls category and searched the oceans blue to discover that pearl-making is a pretty involved process. How long it takes depends upon how big of a pearl you want.
Any mollusk with a shell can create a pearl. In fact, the same materials that create the animal's shell go into the pearl itself. Contrary to popular opinion, it's not always an irritating grain of sand that prods an oyster into making a pearl. More likely, a stray food particle gets stuck under the shell.
The mollusk coats the irritant with layers of aragonite and conchiolin, and the composite material is called nacre. That is what gives pearls their luster. At least one species of oyster can secrete nacre over an irritant at a rate of about 0.1mm to 0.2mm per year.
But mollusks rarely create pearls naturally -- only one out of 10,000 animals will produce a pearl in the wild. Since the 1930s, the vast majority of pearls have been created with the help of humans. Cultured pearls are created by surgically implanting a bead or piece of shell into a mature oyster. The bead or shell becomes the irritant around which the oyster naturally forms layers of nacre. The bigger the irritant, the bigger the final pearl.
Successfully implanted oysters are returned to the ocean or a lake to grow the pearls. The pearls are harvested anywhere from one to three years after implantation, depending on conditions in the pearl farm and the size of the pearls desired.
The Buzzword For May 31st
al dente \ahl-DEN-tay\ adjective
What does it mean?
: cooked just enough to retain a somewhat firm texture
How do you use it?
To make a good pasta primavera, both the pasta and the
vegetables should be cooked only until they are al dente.
Are you a word wiz?
"Al dente" comes to us from Italian. "Al dente" is used the
same way in Italian that it's used in English, but what do
you think the literal translation of Italian "al dente" is?
A. as a bone
B. to the tooth
C. with a bite
D. for the tail
Answer:
We hope you took a bite at B! "Al dente" literally means "to
the tooth" because a food that has been cooked until it is al
dente resists a little under your teeth, unlike something that
is cooked until it is soft. "Al dente" has the same Latin root
as a number of English words having to do with teeth.
"Dental," "dentist," and "denture" all come from the Latin
word "dent" meaning "tooth." A more surprising "dent" word is
"dandelion." The name of this flower comes from Anglo-French
"dent de lion," which literally means "lion's tooth."
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The following is what appeared in Monday's edition.
Here's the information for Dennis Roman's funeral May 31st, 2005
9am Gathering at Stanley Dickey Mortuary
8030 Mango Ave.
Fontana, CA.
Phone: (909) 822-2285
10am Memorial Service at same place
1pm Brief graveside service
Oak Park Cemetery
410 Sycamore Ave
Claremont, CA
Phone: (909) 399-5487
Born on May 30th
Wynonna Judd (1964)
Meredith MacRae (1945)
Michael J. Pollard (1939)
Keir Dullea (1936)
Benny Goodman (1909)
Mel Blanc (1908)
May 28th
Happy Belated 23rd Anniversary to Larry and Roni Aquino
Good News & Bad News
"There's good news and bad news," the divorce lawyer told his client.
"I could sure use some good news," sighed the client. "What is it?"
"Your wife isn't demanding that your future inheritances be included in the settlement."
"And the bad news?"
"After the divorce, she's marrying your father."
Today's useless fact - Where does couscous come from?
Although we've enjoyed couscous on many occasions, we never knew exactly what we were eating. However, when looking for the answer to the question, we realized you might be asking what country the dish comes from. That's why we decided to answer both questions.
From LUKOL Cooking Directory we learned that couscous, a staple of North African cuisine, is granular semolina, the main ingredient in pasta. The term couscous also refers to the famous Maghreb dish in which semolina or cracked wheat is steamed in the perforated top part of a special pot (called a couscoussiure), while chunks of meat (usually lamb or chicken), various vegetables, chickpeas, and raisins simmer in the bottom part. The cooked semolina is heaped onto a platter, with the meats and vegetables placed on top.
We also discovered that couscous varies from country to country - Moroccans often include saffron, Algerians like to add tomatoes, and Tunisians spice up theirs with flavorful hot-pepper Harisa sauce.
The Buzzword For May 30th
complement \KAHM-pluh-munt\ verb
What does it mean?
: to form or be something that fills up or completes
(something else)
How do you use it?
All the bride needed was the perfect pair of shoes to
complement her gown and veil.
Are you a word wiz?
"Complement" is sometimes confused with "compliment," a noun
that means an expression of admiration, and a verb that means
to give such an expression of admiration to. Which of the
sentences below correctly uses our Buzzword "complement"?
A. She politely paid him a complement.
B. I meant to complement Mom on her delicious dinner.
C. Example sentences are meant to complement your understanding
of the word.
D. Please send my warmest complements to the Senator as she
begins her new term of office.
Answer:
Our compliments if you chose C! Answers A, B, and D use
"complement" when they should use "compliment." (Answer D is
an example of the use of "compliment" to mean the same as
"regards" or "best wishes.") Though they look and sound
similar, "compliment" and "complement" have different
histories. "Compliment" comes from a Spanish verb that means
"to be courteous," and "complement" (which also has a
corresponding noun) comes from a Latin verb that means "to
fill up." To keep them straight remember that "complement"
means "to complete," and that both "complement" and
"complete" feature two E's and no I's.
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