Jest-A-Day Journal - February 26, 2006

February 26th - Today is the 57th day of the year, with only 308 days remaining in 2006.
February Flowers - Violet, Primrose
February Birthstone - Amethyst (Sincerity)

Blue Jeans Day
Honoring the birthday of Levi Strauss, who created the world's first blue jeans! Born Loeb Strauss in Buttenheim in Franconia, German Confederation. Died Sept 26, 1902.

"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.

CHILDHOOD IS OVER ... YOU'RE AN ADULT
- You actually eat breakfast foods at breakfast time.
- Grocery lists are longer than macaroni and cheese, diet Pepsi and Ding Dongs.
- Over 90% of the time you spend in front of a computer is for real work.
- You go from 130 days of vacation time to 10.
- Jeans and a sweater no longer qualify as 'dressed up.'
- You don't know what time Taco Bell closes anymore.
- Your car insurance goes down and your car payments go up.
- You feed your dog Science Diet instead of McDonald's.
- Sleeping on the couch makes your back hurt.
- You no longer take naps from noon to 6 p.m.

ACTING -

1887	William Frawley, Burlington IA, actor (Fred Mertz-I Love Lucy, My Three Sons) [D: 03/03/66]
1916	Jackie Gleason, Brooklyn NY, comedian (Ralph Kramden-Honeymooners) [D: 06/24/87]
1920	Tony Randall [Leonard Rosenberg], Tulsa OK, actor (Felix-Odd Couple, Love Sidney) [D: 05/17/2004]
1921	Betty Hutton (Elizabeth Thornburg), Battle Creek MI, actress (Annie Get Your Gun)
1927	Tom Kennedy, Louisville KY, quiz host (You Don't Say, Name That Tune)
1943	Bill Duke, Poughkeepsie NY, actor (Action Jackson, X-Men 3)/director (Hill Street Blues, Miami Vice)
1962	Greg Germann, Houston TX, actor (Richard Fish-Ally McBeal, War Games)

ARTISTIC -

1802

Victor Hugo, Besançon France, author (Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables) [D: 05/22/1885]

HISTORIC -

1846	William F "Buffalo Bill" Cody, Davenport IA, Wild West Show [D: 01/10/1917]
1852	John Harvey Kellogg, surgeon, Tyrone NY, inspired corn flake cereal industry [D: 12/14/43]

MUSIC -

1928	Antoine "Fats" Domino, New Orleans LA, rhythm & blues pianist/singer (Blueberry Hill) Rock and Roll HoF 1986
1932	Johnny Cash, Kingsland AR, country singer (I Walk The Line, Boy Named Sue) [D: 09/12/2003]
1945	Mitch Ryder (William S. Levise Jr.), Hamtramck MI, rocker (Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels-Devil With the Blue Dress)
1954	Michael Bolton, New Haven CT, rock vocalist/musician (How Am I Supposed To Live Without You)

SCIENCE -

1842	Camille Flammarion, Haute-Marne France, Mars researcher and popularized astronomy [D: 06/03/25]
1866	Herbert Henry Dow, Belleville Ontario, pioneer in US chemical industry (Dow Chemical) [D: 10/16/30]

SPORTS -

1887

Grover Cleveland Alexander, Elba NE, baseball pitcher (Phillies, Cubs, Cardinals) HoF '38 [D: 11/04/50]

1870	First NYC subway line opens (pneumatic powered).
1919	An act of the U.S. Congress establishes most of the Grand Canyon as a United States National Park.
1930	First red and green traffic lights installed (Manhattan NYC).
1933	Golden Gate Bridge ground-breaking ceremony held at Crissy Field.
1936	Hitler introduces Ferdinand Porsche's "Volkswagen".
1952	United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces that his nation has an atomic bomb.
1954	Michigan Representative Ruth Thompson (R) introduces legislation to ban mailing "obscene, lewd, lascivious or filthy" phonograph (rock & roll) records.
1971	Secretary-General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day.
1973	Triple Crown horse Secretariat bought for a record $5.7m.
1987	NBA's Michael Jordan's 58 points is a Chicago Bull record.
1991	Tim Berners-Lee introduces WorldWideWeb, the first web browser.
1993	In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center goes off, killing 6 and injuring over a thousand.

MORE EVENTS

SOURCE: Earth Calendar
Fastelavn - Denmark
Liberation Day - Kuwait
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Mahashivratri (Great Shiva Night) - Hinduism

MIRROR, MIRROR
Mirror, mirror on the wall,
Do you have to tell it all?
Where do you get the glaring right
To make my clothes look just too tight?
I think I'm fine but I can see
you won't cooperate with me;
The way you let the shadows play,
You'd think my hair was getting grey
What's that, you say? A double chin?
No, that's the way the light comes in;
If you persist in peering so,
You'll confiscate my facial glow,
And then if you're not hanging straight,
You'll tell me next I'm gaining weight;
I'm really quite upset with you,
For giving this distorted view;
I hate you being smug and wise...
O, look what's happened to my thighs!
I warn you now, O mirrored wall,
Since we're not on speaking terms at all,
If I look like this in my new jeans,
You'll find yourself in smithereens!!

"I am not a violent person. I am a product of the Flower Power '60s. I have actually worn bell-bottomed jeans." - Dave Barry

JEANS: Lower half of the international uniform of youth, the upper half being the zits. (Internet Source)

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