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
September 29th, 2005
In Today's Edition
"the good news is that i make a pretty good looking girl.
the bad news is that i look better than all my sisters!" ~ Larry Aquino 9/28/05
Great and funny message Larry. And you know what? You're right on both counts. I'll see you and Roni on Friday.
I hope everybody has a great and safe weekend. Remember who loves you.
Born on September 29th
Actor Steve Forrest is 81.
Actress Anita Ekberg is 74.
Singer Jerry Lee Lewis is 70.
Actor Ian McShane is 63.
Guitarist Mike Pinera of Iron Butterfly is 57.
Singer-guitarist Mark Farner of Grand Funk Railroad is 57.
TV personality Bryant Gumbel is 57.
Singer Suzzy Roche of The Roches is 49.
Comedian-actor Andrew Dice Clay is 47.
Singer-bassist Les Claypool of Primus is 42.
Actress Jill Whelan (Love Boat) is 39.
Singer Devante Swing of Jodeci is 36.
Actress Emily Lloyd is 35.
Actress Natasha Gregson Wagner is 35.
Actress Rachel Cronin (Ed) is 34.
Tempted
The poor country pastor was livid when he confronted his wife with the receipt for a $250 dress she had bought. "How could you do this!" he exclaimed.
"I don't know," she wailed, "I was standing in the store looking at the dress. Then I found myself trying it on. It was like the Devil was whispering to me, 'Gee, you look great in that dress. You should buy it.'"
"Well," the pastor persisted, "You know how to deal with him! Just tell him, "Get behind me, Satan!"
"I did," replied his wife, "but then he said "It looks great from back here, too!"
Today's useless fact - Does chocolate actually cause acne?
This is a vicious lie, possibly spread by the fruit-and-vegetable industry and abetted by their allies in the vanilla lobby. According to the links in the Acne category and Chocolate category, there is no evidence of any chocolate-in, pimples-out reaction. In fact, two separate studies have purportedly disproved the link.
One reason for the chocolate-acne myth is the rumored connection between the high-fat content of chocolate and the fatty oil called sebum. Sebum blocks skin ducts and causes acne, or "zits" if you want to get clinical. However, in reality, sebum has nothing at all to do with chocolate.
But wait chocolate lovers, there's more good news. Dark chocolate contains flavenoids, an antioxidant known to lower cholesterol. So it's possible eating a certain amount will reduce your risk for heart disease. And as if that weren't enough, Dr. Koop has the scoop on an Italian researcher who has claimed a link exists between eating chocolate and sexual fulfillment.
Now, no one's suggesting you eat too much chocolate. But let's review: doesn't cause acne, may be good for the heart, possibly increases sexual satisfaction. C'mon, broccoli, what have you got to say now?
The Buzzword for September 29th
debonair \deb-uh-NAIR\ adjective
What does it mean?
: gracefully charming
How do you use it?
Grandma described her brother as a handsome and debonair bachelor
who charmed everyone he met.
Are you a word wiz?
The word "debonair" traces to the three words "de bon aire." What
do you think "de bon aire" means?
A. of good nature
B. not very old
C. in excellent health
D. with perfect manners
Answer:
In Anglo-French (the French language spoken in medieval England),
someone who was genteel and well-brought-up was described as
"deboneire." The term was formed through the combination of the
three Anglo-French words "de bon aire," which mean literally "of
good nature." When "deboneire" was borrowed into English as
"debonere" in the 13th century, it basically meant "courteous,"
a sense that is now pretty much obsolete. The word eventually
developed its current meaning which incorporates charm, polish,
and worldliness. "Debonair" often also suggests a carefree
attitude and is usually used in reference to men.
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Flower
That's all for this week. Have a super weekend.
The following is what appeared in Wednesday's edition.
In Today's Edition
Hurricane Rita, is about the 9th hurricane out this season. Maybe this wasn't the time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance. ~ Jay Leno
Born on September 28th
Actor William Windom (Murder, She Wrote) is 82.
Actor Arnold Stang is 81.
Blues singer Koko Taylor is 77.
Actress Brigitte Bardot is 71.
Singer Ben E. King is 67.
Actor Joel Higgins (Silver Spoons) is 62.
Actor Jeffrey Jones is 59.
Writer-director-actor John Sayles is 55.
Actress Sylvia Kristel (Emmanuelle, Private Lessons) is 53.
Actress-comedian Janeane Garofalo is 41.
Country singer Matt King is 39.
Actress Mira Sorvino is 38.
TV personality Moon Zappa is 38.
Singer Sean Levert of Levert is 37.
Actress Naomi Watts is 37.
Country singer Mandy Barnett is 30.
Actress Hilary Duff is 18.
New Denomination
After the miraculous landing of the stricken Jet Blue plane at Los Angeles, reporters interviewed the passengers.
The first one they talked to was a rabbi. "Your name, sir?"
"I am Rabbi Jacob Schwartz from Santa Monica"
"How did you feel when you became aware of the plane's problems?" the reporter asked.
"Well, I was a bit apprehensive, but I put my faith in God, and we were spared," he said.
The next person off the plane was wearing a collar. The reporter also asked him his name,
"Father Daniel McCurdy of the Los Angeles Archdiocese"
"And how did you feel as the plane circled about for three hours?"
"To be perfectly honest, I was pretty nervous about it, but I offered my prayers to the Lord, and He answered them."
The next person off the plane also was wearing a collar. "Your name, father?
"My name is William Jackson."
"Are you also with the LA Archdiocese?"
"No, I am an Ecopalian."
The reporter said, "Ecopalian??? I have never heard of that denomination"
"Coming down on that plane just scared the piss out of me."
Today's useless fact - How did the term "eighty-six" come to refer to cutting an item?
There are well over 86 possible origins for the phrase "eighty- six." The term, used to describe anything that's been cut or cancelled, has been traced to American restaurants and bars in the late 1920s and early '30s. The Word Origins category offers the following explanations:
* 86 Bedford Street was the street address for Chumley's, a rowdy New York speakeasy that often forcibly ejected, or "eighty- sixed," drunk and disorderly patrons.
* While most bars served 100-proof alcohol, troublesome clients were often served the "watered down" 86-proof booze.
* A popular menu item was number 86, and so was often out.
* A very popular New York restaurant only had 85 tables.
* An early New York streetcar line ran from 14th street to -- you guessed it -- 86th Street. Conductors would call out "Eighty six! End of the line!"
* In the British merchant marines, crews were held to 85, so the 86th man was left behind.
The Oxford English Dictionary suggests that "eighty-six" is rhyming slang for "nix."
The Buzzword for September 28th
dwindle \DWIN-dul\ verb
What does it mean?
: to make or become less
How do you use it?
After the defeat by the visiting team, we saw our lead in the
standings dwindle to one game.
Are you a word wiz?
Which one of these words do you think is a synonym of "dwindle"?
A. overcome
B. disappoint
C. provide
D. diminish
Answer:
Let's hear it for D. "Dwindle" implies a gradual lessening of
something and applies to things growing visibly smaller. ("The
size of the speaker's audience gradually dwindled.") "Diminish"
emphasizes a noticeable loss and implies a subtraction from a
total. ("Our dog's sense of smell diminished with age.") Another
synonym, "decrease," suggests a progressive decline in size,
amount, numbers, or intensity. ("The researcher slowly decreased
the amount of weight.") "Lessen," meanwhile, implies a decline in
amount rather than number. ("The young couple tried to lessen
their debt.") Lastly, "abate" indicates a reducing of something
oppressive or excessive in force or amount. ("After several
scorching days, the heat abated.")
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The following is what appeared in Tuesday's edition.
In Today's Edition
Mastectomy Bill in Congress
Breast Cancer Hospitalization Bill - Important legislation for all women.
There's a bill called the Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act which will require insurance companies to cover a minimum 48-hour hospital stay for patients undergoing a mastectomy.
It's about eliminating the "drive-through mastectomy" where women are forced to go home hours after surgery against the wishes of their doctor, still groggy from anesthesia and sometimes with drainage tubes still attached.
Lifetime Television has put this bill on their web page with a petition drive to show your support. Last year over half the House signed on. PLEASE!! Sign the petition by clicking on the web site below. You only need to give your name and zip code to have your voice heard!
http://www.lifetimetv.com/health/breast_mastectomy_pledge.html
Please inform everyone you know about this bill and petition. If there was ever a time when our voices and choices should be heard, this is one of those times.
Can you spare a minute of your time for a worthy cause?
Born on September 27th
Actress Jayne Meadows is 85.
Director Arthur Penn is 83.
Actress Sada Thompson is 76.
Actor Wilford Brimley is 71.
Producer Don Cornelius (Soul Train) is 69.
Singer-guitarist Randy Bachman of Bachman-Turner Overdrive is 62.
Actress Liz Torres is 58.
Actor A Martinez is 57.
Sax player Greg Ham of Men at Work is 52.
Singer-actor-director Shaun Cassidy is 47.
Singer-guitarist Stephan Jenkins of Third Eye Blind is 41.
Actor Patrick Muldoon (Melrose Place) is 37.
Singer Mark Calderon of Color Me Badd is 35.
Actress Gwyneth Paltrow is 33.
Singer Brad Arnold of 3 Doors Down is 27.
Rapper Lil' Wayne is 23.
Singer Avril Lavigne is 21.
Golf Leprechaun
A golfer was way behind in the championship game when he
hit his ball into the rough. Bending down to retrieve it, he came
face to face with a leprechaun. "Want some help with your
game?" the leprechaun asks.
"Gee, that would be great!""Okay," says the leprechaun.
"But for every time I help you, you'll lose one year of your
sex life." The golfer agreed and eventually he won the game.
Getting into his car later, he found the leprechaun sitting
on his dashboard with a pad and pencil. "I helped you ten
times," the leprechaun says. That's a total of ten years.
Now what's your name?
"Father O'Malley," came the reply.
Today's useless fact - Which is the correct dollar sign - a capital S with two vertical marks or with a single vertical line?
Both are used. There is a theory that the sign was originally made by superimposing a U over the S - combining the initials of the newly formed United States. That, obviously, would result in a double line through the S. However, there seems to be no doubt that the dollar and its appearance were both strongly influenced by the Spanish peso, which we call "piece of eight" because it carried the figure 8. President Jefferson, strongly anti-British, wanted to be sure that the infant United States used a unit of currency as far removed from the British pound as possible. So he wrote, in 1782, that our basic unit should be the Spanish dollar (peso), "a known coin and most familiar to the minds of the people... already adopted from South to North and therefore happily offers itself as a unit already introduced."
The first dollars were not actually minted until 1794. It seems likely that the dollar sign evolved from a desire to retain the general appearance of the piece of eight, with the two vertical bars added to prevent actual confusion between the Spanish dollar (as the peso was widely called) and the American. Be that as it may, the single line is now standard with the U.S. government, as shown in the "Style Book of the Government Printing Office".
The Buzzword for September 27th
watershed \WAW-ter-shed\ verb
What does it mean?
1 : a dividing ridge (as a mountain range) separating one
drainage area from others
2 : the area that drains into a river or lake
How do you use it?
Science students will be participating in a river watershed
cleanup this fall, which means they'll be picking up anything
that doesn't belong in the streams that feed into the river,
like bottles and other trash.
Are you a word wiz?
"Watershed" has come to have another meaning in addition to the two
we've already told you about. Which of these do you think it is?
A. a sudden change in feeling, opinion, or action : caprice
B. a person of great wealth or importance : nabob
C. a crucial dividing point, line, or factor : turning point
D. a definite but not decisive attraction or tendency : leaning
Answer:
If C struck you as the crucial answer, you picked well! The word
"watershed" had to do with geography when it first was used in the early
1800s. Later, however, it came to refer to a crucial dividing point,
line, or factor, also called a "turning point," as in "The invention of the
printing press was a watershed in the history of books." Perhaps
because of their metaphoric qualities, many words for geographic features
have gained extended meanings. Some examples in addition to "watershed"
are "mountain" ("a mountain of mail"), "river" ("drank rivers of
coffee"), and "desert" ("lost in a desert of doubt").
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The following is what appeared in Monday's edition.
In Today's Edition
On this day in 1969, the Beatles released Abbey Road, their last recorded album (Let It Be, though recorded earlier than Abbey Road, was released in 1970). All of the songs on Abbey Road still stand strong even today 36 years later. Songs such as Here Comes The Sun, Something, Oh! Darling, You Never Give Me Your Money, She Came In Through The Bathroom Window and my favorite, Golden Slumbers have stood the test of time and are still getting plenty of airplay all over the world.
Born on September 26th
Fitness expert Jack LaLanne is 91.
Actor Philip Bosco is 75.
Country singer David Frizzell is 64.
Actor Kent McCord is 63.
Television host Anne Robinson is 61.
Singer Bryan Ferry is 60.
Former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christie Whitman is 59.
Singer Lynn Anderson is 58.
Singer Olivia Newton-John is 57.
Actress Mary Beth Hurt is 57.
Actor James Keane is 53.
Rock singer-musician Cesar Rosas (Los Lobos) is 51.
Country singer Carlene Carter is 50.
Actress Linda Hamilton is 49.
Country singer Doug Supernaw is 45.
Recording executive Andre Harrell is 45.
Actress Melissa Sue Anderson is 43.
Actor Patrick Bristow is 43.
Rock musician Al Pitrelli is 43.
Singer Tracey Thorn (Everything But The Girl) is 43.
Weather reporter Jillian Barberie is 39.
Actor Jim Caviezel is 37.
Singer Shawn Stockman (Boyz II Men) is 33.
Jazz musician Nicholas Payton is 32.
Actor Mark Famiglietti is 26.
Singer-actress Christina Milian is 24.
Tennis player Serena Williams is 24.
Joseph Edwin Garcia
Moles
There was a mamma mole, a papa mole, and a baby mole. They lived in a hole outside of a farm house out in the country.
One morning, the papa mole reached his head out of the hole and said, "Mmmmm, I smell sausage."
The mama mole reached her head outside of the hole and said, "Mmmmm, I smell pancakes."
As the baby mole repeatedly tried to stick his head out of the hole to get a whiff, he became frustrated because the two bigger moles were in the way.
Unable to take it any longer, the baby mole mumbled, "The only thing I can smell is molasses."
The Boys of Summer
Today's useless fact - What are the 10 most dangerous jobs?
According to the Careers category and U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, timber cutters have the most perilous profession in the country, with roughly 118 fatalities per 100,000 workers.
The rest of the list goes as follows: fishers, pilots and navigators, structural metal workers, driver-sales workers, roofers, electrical power installers, farm occupations, construction laborers, and truck drivers. Pizza deliverers fall under the driver-sales workers category, so remember to tip big.
Every job has its downsides. Fishers (71 fatalities per 100,000) usually die by drowning, though many fall prey to huge pieces of equipment. In many of these professions, commission-based employment and crushing schedules are often to blame for accidents caused by sleep deprivation.
The Buzzword for September 26th
plague \PLAYG\ verb
What does it mean?
1 : to afflict with or as if with disease or evil
2 : to cause worry or distress to
How do you use it?
My little sister plagues me incessantly by taking my things
without asking.
Are you a word wiz?
The verb "plague" comes from the earlier noun "plague," meaning "a
disastrous evil," "an epidemic disease," or "a nuisance." Which of these
root words do you think is the source of "plague"?
A. Latin "plaga," meaning "a blow or strike"
B. Old English "pluccian," meaning "to pull or pick off or out"
C. Greek "plagios," meaning "sideways"
D. Middle Dutch "placken," meaning "to piece or patch"
Answer:
Don't be plagued by worry: the answer is A. When "plague" was
first used in English in the 1300s, it could refer to a simple
stroke or wound. Or it could mean not just any strike or blow,
but a huge one, a calamity. It was the calamity sense that
stayed with us. As history wore on, "plague" came to be
associated with swarms of insects and epidemic diseases. But it
also softened to refer to nothing more than a nuisance. The verb
"plague" took on the same calamitous meanings as the noun, but it too
softened in time. It is now used commonly to mean simply "to distress."
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