February 6th - Today is the 37th day of the year, with only 328 days remaining in 2006.

February Flowers - Violet, Primrose
February Birthstone - Amethyst (Sincerity)

Super Bowl Game
Super Bowl XL was played in Detroit, Michigan on Feb. 5, 2006 at Ford Field with the AFC's Pittsburgh Steelers (21) and the NFC's Seattle Seahawks (10). Congratulations to both teams for their accomplishments this past year!


"Universal Time" (UT) which is sometimes referred to, now colloquially, as "Greenwich Mean Time" (GMT)
FIRST QUARTER - Feb 5   6:28 a.m.
FULL MOON - Feb 13   4:44 a.m.
LAST QUARTER - Feb 21   7:17 a.m.
NEW MOON - Feb 28   0:32 a.m.


From the Home Office in Wahoo, Nebraska, it's the Top Ten List for September 05, 1994
TOP TEN SIGNS YOUR TEAM WON'T BE GOING TO THE SUPER BOWL
10. Last year's mascot is this year's quarterback.
9. Players beaten by local teens in halftime "punt, pass & kick" competition.
8. Inner ear condition makes it impossible for starting halfback to stay between sidelines.
7. Just to be on the safe side, they often punt on first down.
6. They're constantly taking time-outs to consult with Robert Shapiro.
5. More players on smoking side of bench than non-smoking.
4. Whenever they manage to get a first down, they dump a bucket of Gatorade over the head coach.
3. Players constantly addressing each other as "girlfriend".
2. Starting fullback: Richard Simmons.
1. Instead of helmets, turbans.
©MMV, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.


ACTING -
1917 Zsa Zsa Gabor (Sári Gábor), Budapest Hungary, media personality (Moulin Rouge)
1922 Patrick Macnee, London England, actor (Jonathan Steed-Avengers)
1931 Rip Torn (Elmore Rual Torn), Temple TX, actor (Agent Z-Men in Black, The Larry Sanders Show)
1931 Mamie Van Doren, Rowena SD, actress/sex symbol (Francis Joins the WACS)
1939 Mike Farrell, St Paul MN, actor (BJ Honeycutt-MASH, Providence)
1943 Fabian (Fabiano Anthony Bonaparte), Philadelphia PA, teen idol (North to Alaska, The Longest Day)
1957 Kathy Ann Najimy, San Diego CA, actress (Peggy-King of the Hill (voice), Veronica’s Closet)
1958 Barry Miller, LA CA, actor (Fame, Peggy Sue Got Married)
1960 Megan Gallagher, Reading PA, actress (Hill Street Blues, China Beach)

ARTISTIC -
1940 Tom Brokaw, Webster SD, news anchor (NBC Nightly News 1982- )

HISTORIC -
1665 Anne Stuart, Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland (1702-14) [D: 08/01/1714]
1756 Aaron Burr, Jr., Newark NJ, (D-R), 3rd US Vice-President (1801-05), dueler [D: 09/14/1836]
1911 Ronald Reagan, Tampico, IL, actor (Bedtime for Bonzo)/40th President (R) (1981-89) [D: 06/05/2004]
1912 Eva Braun, Munich, Germany, mistress of Adolf Hitler [D: 04/30/45]

MUSIC -
1945 Bob Marley (Robert Nesta Marley), Jamaica, reggae vocalist (Bob Marley & Wailers-Roots Rock Reggae) [D: 05/11/81]
1950 Natalie Cole, LA CA, singer (Unforgettable, This Will Be (An Everlasting Love))
1962 W. Axl Rose (William Bailey), Lafayette IN, rocker (Guns & Roses-Sweet Child O' Mine)
1964 (Donald) Skip Ewing, Redlands CA, country vocalist/songwriter (Coast of Colorado)

SCIENCE -
1892 William Parry Murphy, Stoughton WI,physician (Nobel 1934 - treating macrocytic anaemia) [D: 10/09/87]
1913 Mary Leakey, London England, paleontologist (first skull of a fossil ape on Rusinga Island) [D: 12/09/96]

SPORTS -
1895 George Herman (Babe) Ruth, Baltimore MD, baseball great (Yankees) HoF 1936 [D: 08/16/48]


1778 In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France signaling official recognition of the new republic.
1862 Ulysses S. Grant gives the United States its first victory of the war, by capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee, known as the Battle of Fort Henry.
1869 Harper's Weekly publishes first picture of Uncle Sam with chin whiskers
1891 First great train robbery by Dalton Gang (Southern Pacific #17)
1899 Spanish-American War ends, peace treaty ratified by Senate
1933 20th Amendment goes into effect; Presidential term begins in Jan not March
1935 Board game "Monopoly" goes on sale for the 1st time
1959 Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments filed the first patent for an integrated circuit.
1971 First time a golf ball is hit on the Moon (by Alan Shepard)
1978 The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters in New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65 mph and snowfall of 4" an hour.
1987 No-smoking rules take effect in federal buildings
1998 Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, former teacher, who violated probation by seeing 14 year old father of her baby, sentenced to 7½ years
MORE EVENTS

SOURCE: Earth Calendar
ADMISSION DAY ** Feb. 6, 1788 - Massachusetts (6th State)
Bob Marley Day - Jamaica
New Zealand Day - New Zealand
Waitangi Day - New Zealand, Niue


SUPER BOWL
This guy Joe goes to the Super Bowl. His seat is in the nosebleed section, but that's OK - at least he's at the Super Bowl. So he starts looking around the stadium with his binoculars and sees a guy about 5 rows off the field on the 50 yard line with an empty seat beside him. This is driving Joe nuts, so finally, at half time, he goes down and asks the guy why he has a vacant seat in such a choice location.

The guy says, "My wife and I bought these seats a long time ago, but unfortunately, she passed away."

"Oh, I'm really sorry to hear that," Joe says, "But why didn't you give the ticket to another relative or a friend?"

The guy replies, "They're all at the funeral."


Football's not a matter of life and death ... it's more important than that. - Bill Shankly


YARD WORK: Football. (WordFoolery)

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