February 8th - Today is the 39th day of the year, with only 326 days remaining in 2006.

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

Grammy Awards
The Grammy Awards (originally the Gramophone Awards), presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry. Grammys (last of what are considered the "big three" music awards shows, including the BMA and AMA shows) are considered the approximate equivalent to the Oscars, in the music world. The 48th Grammy Award will be held tonight, February 8, 2006.


"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.


REVIVED SONGS
Some of our old favorites have been re-released. The following songs are on a new album called, BaDedicated to aging by: Boomers Turn Gray: Re-heated Oldies.

You Can't Always Pee When You Want
Fifty Ways to Lose Your Liver
You're So Varicose Vein
How Can You Mend a Broken Hip
The First Time Ever I Forgot Your Face
I Can't See Clearly Now
Papa's Got a Kidney Stone
These Boots Are Made For Bunions
Denture Queen
You Make Me Feel Like Napping
Once, Twice, Three Trips to the Bathroom
A Whiter Shade of Hair
I Get a Little Help From Depends
Rikki Don't Lose That Clapper
Bad Prune Arising
I Heard It Through the Grape Nuts
Talkin' 'Bout My Medication
Bald Thing


ACTING -
1921 Lana Turner (Julia Jean Turner), Wallace ID, actress (Peyton Place, Imitation of Life) [D: 06/29/95]
1925 Jack Lemmon, Newton MA, actor (Days of Wine & Roses, Missing) [D: 06/27/2001]
1926 Audrey Meadows, Wuchang China, actress (Alice-Honeymooners) [D: 02/03/96]
1931 James Dean, Marion IN, stage/film actor (Giant, Rebel Without a Cause) [D: 09/30/55]
1941 Nick Nolte, Omaha NE, model/actor/producer (Lorenzo's Oil, 48 Hours, North Dallas 40)
1942 Robert Klein, NY NY, comedian/actor (Two Weeks Notice, I'm with Lucy)
1949 Brooke Adams, NY NY, actress (Invasion of the Body Snatchers)
1952 Mary Steenburgen, Newport AR, actress (Elf, Joan of Arcadia)
1968 Gary Coleman, Zion IL, actor (Arnold-Diff'rent Strokes)
1974 Seth Green, Philadelphia PA, actor ("Oz"-Buffy, Without a Paddle)

ARTISTIC -
1828 Jules Verne, Nantes France, pioneered sci-fi (From the Earth to the Moon) [D: 03/24/05]
1911 Elizabeth Bishop, Worcester MA, poet (North & South)/Pulitzer Prize (1956) [D: 10/06/79]
1940 Edward James "Ted" Koppel, Lancashire England, journalist/former anchorman (ABC's Nightline)
1955 John Grisham, Jonesboro AR, author (The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client)

HISTORIC -
1820 William Tecumseh Sherman, Lancaster OH, Confederate general [D: 02/14/1891]

MUSIC -
1911 Big Joe Turner, Kansas City MO, "the Boss of the Blues" (Shake, Rattle and Roll) [D: 11/24/85]
1932 John Williams, Floral Park NY, film score composer (45 Academy Award nominations/5 Oscar winners)
1942 Terry Melcher, NYC, musician/record producer (Rip Chords-Hey Little Cobra) [D: 11/19/2004
1950 Dan Seals, McCamey TX, vocalist (England Dan & John Ford Coley-Nights Are Forever Without You)
1961 Vince Neil (Wharton), Hollywood CA, rock vocalist (Mötley Crüe-Girls Girls Girls)

SCIENCE -
1906 Chester F Carlson, Seattle WA, physicist/inventor, electrophotography (Xerox) [D: 09/19/68]

SPORTS -
1955 Jim "the Anvil" Neidhart, Tampa FL, wrestler (WWF/WCW/NJPW/CWFI/Calgary)


1692 A doctor in Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony declares that three teenaged girls are under domination of Satan, leading to the Salem witch trials.
1837 Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate.
1887 Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
1896 Western Conference forms of Midwestern U, later renamed Big 10 Conference.
1910 The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
1918 "Stars and Stripes", weekly US armed forces newspaper, first published.
1926 Walt Disney Studios is formed.
1969 The last weekly issue of the Saturday Evening Post hits magazine stands.
1969 Meteorite weighing over 1 ton falls in Chihuahua, Mexico.
1974 After 84 days in space, the crew of the temporary American space station Skylab return to Earth.
1983 Wayne Gretzky sets NHL all star record of 4 goals in 1 period.
1996 The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.
MORE EVENTS

SOURCE: Earth Calendar
Ashoura - Pakistan
Boy Scout Day - United States of America
Culture Day - Slovenia
Revolution Anniversary - Iraq
Youth Day - Congo (Republic of)
Prešeren's Day (Culture Day) - Slovenia


ENTERTAINER'S DEATH
It is always sad to have to send you a message like this. Today there is a great mourning in the entertainment world. The man who wrote the song "Hokey Pokey" died today. The really horrible thing about his death is they could not keep him in his casket. They put his left leg in and - well, you know the rest.


"When I need a little free advice about Saddam Hussein, I turn to country music." - George H. W. Bush (1991)


WASTE BAND: Recycles music. (WordFoolery)

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