January 27th - Today is the 27th day of the year, with only 338 days remaining in 2006.

Electric Light Patent Day
In 1880, Thomas A. Edison received a patent for the electric incandescent light. He invented the first successful light bulb on October 21, 1879.


"Universal Time" (UT) which is sometimes referred to, now colloquially, as "Greenwich Mean Time" (GMT)
LAST QUARTER - Jan 22   3:14 p.m.
NEW MOON - Jan 29   2:15 p.m.
FIRST QUARTER - Feb 5   6:28 a.m.
FULL MOON - Feb 13   4:44 a.m.


HOW MANY OF YOUR SIGN DOES IT TAKE TO CHANGE A LIGHT BULB?
ARIES: Just one. You want to make something of it?
TAURUS: One, but just "try" to convince them.
GEMINI: Two, but the job never gets done. They just keep arguing about who is supposed to do it and how it's supposed to be done!
CANCER: Just one. But it takes a therapist three years to help them through the grief process.
LEO: Leos don't change light bulbs, although sometimes their agent will get a Virgo to do the job for them while they're out.
VIRGO: Approximately 1.0000000 with an error of +/- 1 millionth.
LIBRA: Er, two. Or maybe one. No - on second thought, make that two. Is that okay with you?
SCORPIO: That information is strictly secret and shared only with the Enlightened Ones in the Star Chamber of the Ancient Hierarchical Order.
SAGITTARIUS: The sun is shining, the day is young and we've got our whole lives ahead of us and you're inside worrying about a stupid light bulb?
CAPRICORN: I don't waste my time with these childish jokes.
AQUARIUS: Well, you have to remember that everything is energy, so...
PISCES: Light bulb? What light bulb?


ACTING -
1921 Donna Reed (Donna Belle Mullenger), Denison IA, actress (From Here to Eternity, Wonderful Life) [D: 01/14/86]
1924 Sabu (Dastagir), Mysore India, actor (Elephant Boy, Drum) [D: 12/02/63]
1936 Troy Donahue, NYC, actor/teen idol (Surfside Six, Hawaiian Eye) [D: 09/02/2001]
1956 Mimi Rogers (Miriam Spickler), Coral Gables FL, actress (Someone to Watch Over Me)
1964 Bridget Fonda, LA CA, actress (Scandal, Single White Female)
1971 Fann Wong, Singapore, actress (Shanghai Knights)

ARTISTIC -
1832 Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), Cheshire England, author (Alice in Wonderland) [D: 01/14/1898]
1908 William Randolph Hearst Jr, editor-in-chief (Hearst Publishing) Pulitzer 1955 [D: 05/14/93]
1957 Frank Miller, Olney MD, comic book writer/artist (The Elektra Saga, The Dark Knight Returns)

HISTORIC -
1850 Samuel Gompers, London England, first president-American Federation of Labor [D: 12/13/24]
1850 Captain Edward John Smith, Hanley England, captain of the RMS Titanic when it sank [D: 04/15/1912]
1900 Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, USN, Poland, "Father of the Nuclear Navy" [D: 07/08/86]
1945 Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, Belfast Ireland, North Irish peace activist (Nobel 1976)

MUSIC -
1756 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austria, musical prodigy/composer (Figaro) [D: 12/05/1791]
1885 Jerome Kern, NY NY, song writer (Way You Look Tonight, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes) [D: 11/11/45]
1918 "Skitch" (Lyle Russell Cedric) Henderson, Halstad MN, orchestra leader (Tonight Show)
1919 David Seville (Ross Bagdasarian), Fresno CA, (Alvin & Chipmunks) [D: 01/16/72]
1944 Nicholas Berkeley ('Nick') Mason, Birmingham England, drummer (Pink Floyd-The Wall)

SCIENCE -
1834 Dmitri Mendeleev, Tobolsk Siberia, chemist (created Periodic Table of the Elements)
1903 John Eccles, Melbourne Australia, physiologist/neurologist, Nobel 1963 [D: 05/02/97]
1940 Brian T O'Leary, Boston MA, astronaut/metaphysician

SPORTS -
1959 Anthony Cris Collinsworth, Dayton OH, NFL wide receiver (Bengals) 3 Pro Bowls/2 Super Bowls


1785 First US state university chartered, Athens GA.
1825 US Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears."
1888 In Washington, DC the National Geographic Society is founded.
1918 "Tarzan of the Apes", first Tarzan film, premieres at Broadway Theater.
1927 Harlem Globetrotters play their first game.
1951 126 Nuclear tests at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flats.
1961 "Sing Along with Mitch" [Miller] premieres on NBC TV.
1967 Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of the Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center.
1967 More than 60 nations sign the Outer Space Treaty banning nuclear weapons in space.
1973 US and Vietnam sign cease-fire, ending longest US war and military draft.
1984 Michael Jackson is burned during filming for Pepsi commercial.
1996 15 day old Siamese twins separated - Sarah Morales survives, Sarahi dies.
MORE EVENTS

SOURCE: Earth Calendar
Feast of St. Sava - Serbia & Montenegro
National Activity Professionals Day - United States of America
Vietnam Day - Vietnam
WWII Genocide Memorial Day - Germany, United Kingdom of Great - Britain and Northern Ireland


THE LIGHT BULB QUESTION
Q: How many women with PMS does it take to change a light bulb?
A: One. Only ONE!! And do you know WHY? Because no one else in this house knows HOW to change a light bulb! They don't even know the bulb is BURNED OUT! They would sit in the dark for THREE DAYS before they figured it out. And once they figured it out they wouldn't be able to find the light bulbs despite the fact that they've been in the SAME CUPBOARD for the past 17 YEARS! But if they did, by some miracle, actually find them, 2 DAYS LATER the chair they dragged to stand on to change the STUPID light bulb would STILL BE IN THE SAME SPOT!! AND UNDERNEATH IT WOULD BE THE WRAPPER THE STUPID @*!#$% LIGHT BULBS CAME IN! WHY? BECAUSE NO ONE EVER CARRIES OUT THE GARBAGE!! IT'S A WONDER WE HAVEN'T ALL SUFFOCATED FROM THE PILES OF GARBAGE THAT ARE 12 FEET DEEP THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE HOUSE. THE HOUSE!! IT WOULD TAKE AN ARMY TO CLEAN THIS %23@*$!%23@! ...

I'm sorry .. what did you ask me???


And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said he would have to wait until Thursday to be connected. - Spike Milligan


LIGHTHOUSE: Flare weather friend. (WordFoolery)

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