Founded : December 2000 Created By : Esther Aquino and Joseph Garcia
Editor : A.B. Aquino
DEDICATED TO THE LOVING MEMORY OF ESPERANZA AQUINO
Founded : December 2000 Created By : Esther Aquino and Joseph Garcia
Editor : A.B. Aquino
DEDICATED TO THE LOVING MEMORY OF ESPERANZA AQUINO
November 3rd, 2005
In Today's Edition
I hope you all had a great week and that your upcoming weekend is even more super. Take care.
We've got a couple of "Hillbilly" mugs left so I think we'll run a contest for them on Monday. Tune in Monday for all the details. Ciao.
Born on November 3rd
Actor-dancer Ken Berry is 72.
Singer Lulu is 57.
Actor Mike Evans (The Jeffersons) is 56.
Actress-comedian Roseanne Barr is 53.
Actress Kathy Kinney (The Drew Carey Show) is 52.
Actress Kate Capshaw is 52.
Comedian Dennis Miller is 52.
Singer Adam Ant is 51 .
THINGS MOMS WOULD NEVER SAY
"How on earth can you see the TV sitting so far back?"
"Yeah, I used to skip school a lot, too"
"Just leave all the lights on...it makes the house look more cheery"
"Let me smell that shirt -- Yeah, it's good for another week"
"Go ahead and keep that stray dog, honey. I'll be glad to feed and walk him every day"
"Well, if Timmy's mom says it's OK, that's good enough for me."
"The curfew is just a general time to shoot for. It's not like I'm running a prison around here."
"I don't have a tissue with me...just use your sleeve"
"Don't bother wearing a jacket - the wind-chill is bound to improve."
Today's useless fact - Does eating burnt material cause cancer?
According to the links in the Cancer Facts category, smoking and barbecuing foods so that they are slightly burnt on the outside causes chemicals called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons to form. These chemicals are known to help cause cancer.
So in theory barbecuing or cooking over a high heat could increase the cancer risk.
It’s not conclusive if burnt food causes cancer, yet at the same time burnt organic matter is known to be carcinogenic.
Hydrocarbons are everywhere so the contribution to cancer by a small amount of burnt food would be very minimal.
The Buzzword for November 3rd
candy \KAN-dee\ noun
What does it mean?
: a sweet made of sugar often with flavoring and filling
How do you use it?
Gracie likes peanut brittle and jelly beans, but her favorite
candy by far is a chocolate bar.
Are you a word wiz?
By now you're probably reaching the end of your stash of
Halloween candy. Before you eat that last piece, tell us which
language you think the word "candy" comes from.
A. Latin
B. Arabic
C. French
D. Chinese
Answer:
If you chose B, you made a sweet choice. "Candy" traces to the
Arabic word "qand," meaning "crystallized sugar." French
speakers adopted "qand" to form "candi." They combined "candi"
with "sucre," meaning "sugar," to form "sucre candi," meaning
"sugar candy." English speakers adopted the French term as
"sugre candy" and later shortened it to "candy." "Candy" isn't
the only tasty word that comes to us from Arabic. The words
"sherbet" and "syrup" also have their roots in Arabic. Arabic
also plays a role in the history of "sugar," which traces
ultimately back to the ancient language of Sanskrit.
Today's Jigsaw Puzzle
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Regatta
That's all for now. Have a super weekend.
The following is what appeared in Wednesday's edition.
In Today's Edition
I know that Barbara sent this to a lot of you but it bears repeating so excuse me if I post it here. I think this is a good idea and would help in cases of emergency.
What is Ice?
Paramedics will turn to a victim's cell phone for clues to that person's identity. You can make their job much easier with a simple idea that they are trying to get everyone to adopt, "ICE"
.ICE STANDS FOR In Case Of Emergency.
If you add an entry in the contacts list in your cell phone under "ICE", with the name and phone number of the personnel that the emergency services should call on your behalf, you can save them a lot of time and have your loved ones contacted quickly.
It only takes a few moments of your time to do.
Paramedics know what ICE means and they look for it immediately.
ICE your cell phone NOW!
Born on November 2nd
Country singer Charlie Walker is 79.
Singer Earl Speedo Carroll of The Cadillacs and The Coasters is 68.
Singer Jay Black of Jay and the Americans is 67.
Actress Stefanie Powers is 63.
Keyboardist Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake and Palmer is 61.
Drummer Carter Beauford of the Dave Matthews Band is 48.
Singer k.d. lang is 44.
Bassist Bobby Dall of Poison is 42.
Actor David Schwimmer is 39.
Singer Alvin Chea of Take 6 is 38.
Singer-guitarist John Hampson of Nine Days is 34.
Rapper Nelly is 31.
Rapper Prodigy of Mobb Deep is 31.
The following were some comments made in the year 1957:
(1) "I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, its going to be impossible to buy a weeks groceries for $20.00."
(2) "Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long when $5,000 will only buy a used one."
(3) "If cigarettes keep going up in price, I'm going to quit. A quarter a pack is ridiculous."
(4) "Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging a dime just to mail a letter?"
(5) "If they raise the minimum wage to $1, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store."
(6) "When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 29 cents a gallon. Guess we'd be better off leaving the car in the garage."
(7) "Kids today are impossible. Those ducktail hair cuts make it impossible to stay groomed. Next thing you know, boys will be wearing their hair as long as the girls."
(8) "I'm afraid to send my kids to the movies any more. Ever since they let Clark Gable get by with saying 'damn' in 'Gone With The Wind,' it seems every new movie has either 'hell' or 'damn' in it."
(9) "I read the other day where some scientist thinks it's possible to put a man on the moon by the end of the century. They even have some fellows they call astronauts preparing for it down in Texas."
(10) "Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for $75,000 a year just to play ball? It wouldn't surprise me if someday that they will be making more than the President."
(11) "I never thought I'd see the day all our kitchen appliances would be electric. They are even making electric typewriters now."
(12) "It's too bad things are so tough nowadays. I see where a few married women are having to work to make ends meet. "
(13) "It won't be long before young couples are going to have to hire someone to watch their kids so they can both work."
(14) "No one can afford to be sick any more, $35.00 a day in the hospital is too rich for my blood."
(15) "I'm just afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a whole lot of foreign business."
(16) "Thank goodness I won't live to see the day when the Government takes half our income in taxes. I sometimes wonder if we are electing the best people to Congress."
(17) "The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but I seriously doubt they will ever catch on."
(18) "I guess taking a vacation is out of the question now days. It costs nearly $15.00 a night to stay in a hotel."
Today's useless fact - What's the point of giving someone two life sentences?
We visited the links in the Legal Info category to answer your question. First, "life" doesn't necessarily mean until they die. For example, in California, a punishment that's listed as "life" means they're eligible for parole in 7 years. Only if the sentence is "life without the possibility of parole" will it actually mean they spend the rest of their life in prison.
Second, a separate sentence for each crime can give some closure to each victim or victim's family. They can know that the defendant got a life sentence for the crime against their loved one and the bad guy didn't get a "free" crime.
Finally - and this one is especially true if the defendant gets two (or more) life terms in cases arising in multiple jurisdictions or in multiple cases. Suppose a "life" case was overturned in the appellate court. Without a second sentence in place for the defendant to serve, technically he could be released unless he was being held pending trial on another case. Because appeals can take a while to sort through, it could be better from the prosecution's standpoint to try and get another life sentence while the evidence is still fresh, witness' memories haven't faded, etc. Otherwise, they would have to scramble to prosecute a guy years later when they thought "why bother - he's doing life" on another case.
The Buzzword for November 2nd
trophy \TROH-fee\ noun
What does it mean?
1 : something taken from the enemy in victory or conquest
especially when kept and displayed as proof of one's bravery or
victory
2 : something given in recognition of a victory or as an
award for an achievement
How do you use it?
Our debate team won a first place trophy, which now sits in the
school's awards case.
Are you a word wiz?
"Trophy" goes back to the Greek word "tropaion." If you were a
Greek when that word was first being used, where would you have
been most likely to see a "tropaion"?
A. on a temple altar
B. outside a ruler's palace
C. on the steps of the senate
D. on a battlefield
Answer:
D takes the prize. After a victory, ancient Greek warriors often hung
captured enemy weapons and armor from a stake or tree
somewhere on the battlefield, ideally at the spot where the
enemy had first turned in retreat. The Greek name for such a
memorial was "tropaion," ultimately from "trope," meaning "turn"
or "rout." Eventually, "tropaion" was applied to permanent
victory memorials of stone or bronze erected in any public
place. The Romans borrowed the custom and Latinized the word to
"tropaeum" and later "trophaeum." In the 1500s, English acquired
the word through French as "trophe." "Trophy" now applies to
anything displayed as a reminder of success.
Today's Jigsaw Puzzle
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That's all for today. Tune in tomorrow for more stuff.
The following is what appeared in Tuesday's edition.
In Today's Edition
Herr Shawn Jakob Aquino has made another entry in his blog. Check it out. Just click on the links button above and it'll take you there.
On the serious side. I found a website that'll tell you if you have registered sex offenders living in your area.
Go to this link and near the bottom left, it has a "Click Here" button... click on it and enter your address...it will show a "house", that's yours... all the little colored boxes are Sex Offenders... click on them and you get the name and address of the person along with his crime... pretty amazing and scary...it shows you where they live in proximity to your home and the local schools. It's very detailed according to type of offense.
Born on November 1st
Actress Barbara Bosson (Murder One, Hill Street Blues) is 66.
Actor Robert Foxworth (Falcon Crest) is 64.
Hustler publisher Larry Flynt is 63.
Actress Marcia Wallace is 63.
Singer Lyle Lovett is 48.
Bassist Eddie MacDonald of The Alarm is 46.
Singer Anthony Kiedis of Red Hot Chili Peppers is 43.
Singer-keyboardist Mags Furuholmen of A-ha is 43.
Drummer Rick Allen of Def Leppard is 42.
Country singer Big Kenny of Big and Rich is 42.
Rapper Willie D of the Geto Boys is 39.
Singer Sophie B. Hawkins is 38.
Actress Toni Collette is 33.
Actress Jenny McCarthy is 33.
Double Meanings
1. THINGY (thing-ee) n.
Female...... Any part under a car's hood.
Male..... The strap fastener on a woman's bra.
2. VULNERABLE (vul-ne-ra-bel) adj.
Female.... Fully opening up one's self emotionally to another.
Male.... Playing football without a cup.
3. COMMUNICATION (ko-myoo-ni-kay-shon) n.
Female... The open sharing of thoughts and feelings with one's partner.
Male... Leaving a note before taking off on a fishing trip with the boys.
4. COMMITMENT (ko-mit-ment) n.
Female.... A desire to get married and raise a family.
Male...... Trying not to hit on other women while out with this one.
5. ENTERTAINMENT (en-ter-tayn-ment) n.
Female.... A good movie, concert, play or book.
Male...... Anything that can be done while drinking beer.
6. FLATULENCE (flach-u-lens) n.
Female.... An embarrassing byproduct of indigestion.
Male..... A source of entertainment, self-expression, male bonding.
Today's useless fact - Where does the word "arena" come from?
It was passed down to us from the ancient Romans. To sop up the endlessly flowing blood, the staging area of an ancient Roman arena was made of wood but covered with sand. "Sand" is "harena" in Latin, from which the word "arena" was spawned. Underneath the wood and "harena" was a dark, noisy labyrinth filled with the stench and noise of prisoners, gladiators, and wild animals, who could "magically" enter the arena by way of a series of trapdoors.
The Buzzword for November 1st
capillary \KAP-uh-lair-ee\ noun
What does it mean?
: a capillary tube; especially : any of the tiny blood
vessels connecting the small arteries and veins
How do you use it?
In science class we learned that capillaries are only big
enough for red blood cells to pass through in single file.
Are you a word wiz?
"Capillary" traces back to the Latin word "capillus." What do
you think "capillus" means?
A. cape
B. pill
C. hair
D. tube
Answer:
If answer C got your blood flowing, you guessed that
"capillus" means hair. Capillaries are long, tiny tubes, so
they look a bit like hair. The similarity stops there, though.
Another "capillus" word that names something that only
resembles hair in appearance is "capellini." "Capellini," also
called "angel-hair pasta," is pasta made in long thin strings
that are smaller in diameter than vermicelli, which in turn is
smaller than spaghetti.
Today's Jigsaw Puzzle
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That's all for today. Tune in tomorrow for more stuff.
The following is what appeared in Monday's edition.
In Today's Edition
I'd like to thank Neen for filling in for me while I was on hiatus. I checked in on the website a couple of times last week and it looked like she had been doing this all her life. Just like riding a bike. Great job Neen.
I'd also like to thank all of you who sent me birthday wishes by e-mail and via the messageboard here. You can't even imagine how much those little words meant to an old geezer like me.
And thank you Renee and Nell for making it possible to see the Eagles in concert last weekend. I had a super time.
I really like that picture you did of me Neen but the tiger skin needed to be just a tad bigger. Thanks again.
I didn't find out till after the fact but Lisa Garcia's birthday was October 26th. I'm sure Neen would have posted it here if she knew.
I tried to get a photo of Lisa but as you all know, she and Jeff are pretty busy these days. I just barely managed to snap a picture of her on her way to one of her many appointments.
Born on October 31st
Actor Ron Rifkin (Alias) is 66.
Actor David Ogden Stiers is 63.
Actress Sally Kirkland is 61.
Singer Kinky Friedman is 61.
Director Peter Jackson is 44.
Drummer Larry Mullen of U2 is 44.
Guitarist Johnny Marr (The Smiths) is 42.
Actor Dermot Mulroney is 42.
Drummer Mikkey Dee of Motorhead is 42.
Country singer Darryl Worley is 41.
Actor Rob Schneider is 41.
Guitarist Adrock of the Beastie Boys is 39.
Musician Adam Schelsinger of Fountains of Wayne is 38.
Musician Rob Van Winkle (Vanilla Ice) is 37.
Singer Linn Berggren of Ace of Base is 35.
Actor Eddie Kaye Thomas (American Pie) is 25.
Kayak
A young man was crossing the arctic in his kayak when the weather changed and he became very cold. To prevent freezing to death, he built a fire in the bottom of his kayak to stay warm. Unfortunately, the fire burned a hole in the bottom of his kayak and it sank.
The moral of the story is, "You can't have your kayak and heat it too!"
Today's useless fact - What is the proper way to make a toast at a wedding?
The Etiquette category offers a few concrete tips:
1) Keep it simple. Avoid highfalutin language.
2) Keep it short. A few heartfelt sentences should do the trick.
3) Keep it sincere. Personal experience counts for a lot.
4) Don't wing it. Spend a little time preparing beforehand.
5) Finish strong. Announce "Cheers!" to let everyone know it's time to drink.
One no-no is to make negative remarks about someone's appearance or personality. For instance, calling the groom a "womanizer" (kidding or not) is not a good way to commemorate the day.
The Buzzword for October 31st
quoth \KWOHTH\ verb
What does it mean?
: said
How do you use it?
'Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly
shore ?-
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian
shore!'
Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.'
Are you a word wiz?
If you're not too spooked, please tell us which author you
think is the source of the ghastly quotation we?ve used as
our example sentence.
A. Mary Shelley
B. Charles Dickens
C. Edgar Allan Poe
D. Alfred Hitchcock
Answer:
Edgar Allan Poe's famous poem "The Raven" features an
ominous black bird that visits the narrator and haunts him
with memories of a lost love, though speaking only the word
"nevermore." Poe's use of "quoth" to indicate the bird's
utterances might well be the most well-known use of the word
in literature, but it was not the earliest use. "Quoth" is a
surviving remnant of the Old English verb "cwethan," meaning
"to say," and traces all the way back to the 1200s. It still
retains some of its Old English characteristics, too: it
always comes before the subject, just as in Old English,
and it is only used in the first and third persons.
Today's Jigsaw Puzzle
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That's all for today. Tune in tomorrow for more stuff.
