February 23rd - Today is the 54th day of the year, with only 311 days remaining in 2006.

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

Easy Divorce Day
In 1915, Nevada passed a divorce law that made divorce possible after only 6 months of residency. It was the first easy divorce law in the United States.


"Universal Time" (UT) which is sometimes referred to, now colloquially, as "Greenwich Mean Time" (GMT)
LAST QUARTER - Feb 21   7:17 a.m.
NEW MOON - Feb 28   0:32 a.m.
FIRST QUARTER - Mar 6   8:15 p.m.
FULL MOON - Mar 14   11:35 p.m.


TAGLINES (http://taglinesgalore.com)
- Bad: Your wife wants a divorce. Worse: She's a lawyer.
- Bachelor: A guy who has cheated a woman out of a divorce.
- Divorce: The past tense of marriage.
- Divorce: Transition from a duet to a duel.
- Divorce Barbie: Comes with ALL of Ken's stuff!
- His wife got rid of 235 pounds of ugly fat ... she divorced him.
- Is poisoned coffee grounds for divorce?
- Love is Grand! (Divorce is about twenty grand)
- She's a great housekeeper. She gets divorced. She keeps the house.
- Some people never marry because they do not believe in divorce.
- The only grounds for divorce in California are marriage.
- You have only to mumble a few words in church to get married and few words in your sleep to get divorced


ACTING -
1940 Peter Fonda, NY NY, actor (Easy Rider, Wild Angels, Ulee's Gold)
1951 Patricia Richardson, Bethesda MD, actress (Home Improvement, Double Trouble)
1994 Hannah Dakota Fanning, Conyers GA, actress (War of the Worlds, Dreamer)

ARTISTIC -
1883 Victor Fleming, Pasadena CA, director (Wizard of Oz, Gone With Wind) [D: 01/06/49]
1938 Sylvia Chase, Northfield MN, newscaster (ABC Weekend News, 20/20)
1944 John Sandford, Cedar Rapids IA, Pulitzer Prize journalist/novelist (Life on the Land)

HISTORIC -
1904 William L Shirer, historian (Rise and Fall of Third Reich) [D: 12/28/93]
1803 John Augustus Sutter, Kandern Germany, California gold rush fame (Sutter Mill) [D: 06/18/1880]
1965 Michael Saul Dell, Houston TX, founder of Dell Inc

MUSIC -
1685 George Frideric Händel, Halle Saxony, organist/baroque composer (Messiah) [D: 04/14/1759]
1944 Mike Maxfield, England, rocker/lead guitar (Billy J Kramer with The Dakotas-Little Children)
1944 Johnny Winter [John Dawson], Beaumont TX, guitarist (Silver Train)
1949 Larry Demps, Detroit MI, R&B vocalist (Sensations/Dramatics-Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get)
1952 Brad Whitford, Reading MA, guitarist (Aerosmith-Last Child)
1955 Howard Jones, Southampton England, singer/songwriter (Like To Get To Know You Well)

SCIENCE -
1879 Agnes Arber, London England, biologist/philosopher (herbalism) [D: 03/22/60[
1924 Allan Cormack, Johannesburg South Africa, physicist (Nobel '79-CAT Scanning) [D: 05/07/98]
1942 Colin Sanders, England, computer engineer (Solid State Logic)
1949 Marc Garneau, Québec City Canada, Captain/PhD/astronaut (STS 13, 77) first Canadian in space

SPORTS -
1865 Barney Dreyfuss, Freiburg Germany, baseball owner (Pittsburgh Pirates) creation World Series [D: 02/05/32]
1929 Elston Howard, St Louis MO, catcher (Yankee) 1963 AL MVP/All-Star '57-'65
1951 Edward "Too Tall" Jones, Jackson TN, NFL defensive end (Cowboys) 3 Super Bowls


1455 Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed from movable type.
1792 Humane Society of Massachusetts incorporated (erected life-saving stations for distressed mariners).
1821 College of Apothecaries organized in Philadelphia; first US pharmacy college.
1836 The Siege of the Alamo begins in San Antonio, Texas.
1896 Tootsie Roll introduced by Leo Hirshfield.
1904 For $10 million the United States gains control of the Panama Canal Zone.
1927 President Coolidge creates the Federal Radio Commission (later renamed the Federal Communications Commission) begins to regulate the use of radio frequencies.
1934 Casey Stengel becomes manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1940 Walt Disney's animated movie "Pinocchio", released.
1954 The first mass vaccination of children against polio begins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1968 Wilt Chamberlain becomes first NBA'er to score 25,000 points
1997 A large fire occurs in the Russian Space station, Mir.
MORE EVENTS

SOURCE: Earth Calendar
Army Day - Tajikistan
Defender of the State Day - Russia
National Day - Brunei Darussalam
Republic Day - Guyana


REVENGE
After 17 years of marriage, a man dumped his wife for a younger woman. The downtown luxury apartment was in his name and he wanted to remain there with his new love so he asked the wife to move out and then he would buy her another place. The wife agreed to this, but asked that she be given three days on her own there, to pack up her things.

While he was gone, the first day she lovingly put her personal belongings into boxes and crates and suitcases.

On the second day, she had the movers come and collect her things.

On the third day, she sat down for the last time at their candlelit dining table, soft music playing in the background, and feasted on a pound of shrimp and a bottle of Chardonnay. When she had finished, she went into each room and deposited a few of the resulting shrimp shells into the hollow of the curtain rods. She then cleaned up the kitchen and left.

The husband came back, with his new girl, and all was bliss for the first few days. Then it started; slowly but surely. Clueless, the man could not explain why the place smelled so bad. They tried everything; cleaned and mopped and aired the place out. Vents were checked for dead rodents, carpets were steam cleaned, air fresheners were hung everywhere. Exterminators were brought in, the carpets were replaced, and on it went. Finally, they could take it no more and decided to move. The moving company arrived and did a very professional packing job, taking everything to their new home ...

...including the curtain rods.


It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones! - Richard Jeni


DIVORCE DECREE: Split decision. (WordFoolery)

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