Ever wonder why Hello Kitty doesn’t have a mouth?
It’s because back in 1974, her Japanese and British co-creators wanted to convey that the now iconic Kitty speaks a global language of “love”, from her heart!
SOURCE: The most beautiful lil’ girl in the world!
Labor Day was originated by the American Federation of Labor of the late 1800s and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country.
Labor unions celebrated the first labor days in the United States. The first Labor Day parade was Sept. 5, 1882, in New York City. As the movement grew to several states across the country President Grover Cleveland entered the holiday into law in 1894.
The workers’ unions chose the first Monday in September because it was halfway between Independence Day and Thanksgiving.
All U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the territories observe Labor Day as a statutory holiday.
That’s Albuquerque native (and St. Pius X alum) Sean Kelly accordioning & strumming on the late 1990s hit “Kiss Me” with Sixpence None the Richer.
The song was featured on the teen drama series Dawson’s Creek, the movie She’s All That and played during the worldwide telecast of the wedding of England’s Prince Edward in 1999.
Bonus Strings: Is that Albuquerque born Freddie Prinze Jr.? And that’s Rachael Leigh Cook (stars of She’s All That)…who was just here for her first ABQ Comic Con.
Since I’m a little girl (that’s the east coast way to say it, so spare me your side eye), I always thought it would be “wicked cool” to have the gear of the losing team!
Back in those ancient days known as the nineteen-eighties, instantly erroneous merchandise made for the underscoring team was typically and promptly incinerated following a championship game.
Thankfully times have changed and so may all our minds rest just a little easier knowing that that substantial waste is no longer the standard.
To quote Steve Henson:
Somewhere in sweltering Zambia, a man wears a shirt that says the Chicago Bears won Super Bowl XLI. Somebody is trudging through a Nicaraguan rain forest wearing a cap that says the Vancouver Canucks won the 2011 Stanley Cup.
And soon somebody in Haiti or Armenia or Indonesia or Botswana will slip on a shirt or cap that declares the San Francisco 49rs the 2011 NFC Champs!
Now on to the BIG GAME, where you can bet some choice gear for both the New England Patriots and the New York Giants will be on hand; one stack bound for a haze of testosterone fueled, adrenaline pumped champagne showers and the other packed-up for shipment to humanitarian organizations to hand out in developing nations.
The iconic eleven season run of “Cheers” ranked dead last at the end of its first season on CBS.
“Truth is they had nothing to replace us with.” – Ted Danson
80′s classic Manic Monday, performed by the Bangles was written by PRINCE!
Night Ranger’s top five Billboard hit, Sister Christain was written by the band’s drummer Kelly Keagy for his younger sister Christy Keagy.
Shaken by the coming-of-age of his little sister, Kelly wrote the still iconic tune after Christy’s high school graduation in 1983.
WELCOME NIGHT RANGER, FOREIGNER, and JOURNEY to the Hard Rock Pavilion FRIDAY NIGHT!!!
Long before the term “paparazzi” hit the English language via the 1960 Italian movie La Dolce Vita, the three plane formation that flew the U.S. mission of the World War II bombing on Hiroshima Japan in 1945 consisted of the B-29 bomber Enola Gay, the blast measurement instrumentation aircraft The Great Artiste, and to photograph the explosion and effects of the bomb, Necessary Evil.
Labor Day was originated by the American Federation of Labor of the late 1800s and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country.
Labor unions celebrated the first labor days in the United States. The first Labor Day parade was Sept. 5, 1882, in New York City. As the movement grew to several states across the country President Grover Cleveland entered the holiday into law in 1894.
The workers’ unions chose the first Monday in September because it was halfway between Independence Day and Thanksgiving.
All U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the territories observe Labor Day as a statutory holiday.
Neptune’s atmosphere is made up of hydrogen, helium and methane. The methane in Neptune’s upper atmosphere absorbs the red light from the sun but reflects the blue light from the sun back into space. That is why Neptune appears that beautiful blue.
Thanks Debra
Thanks Mike Cee
Well knock me down with a golden, crispy french fry!
The Golden Arches’ commercial goodness that rings so true and near & dear to my carotid artery filled heart (not really, I hope), a spicy version of the jingle that entices the world over to that all American treasure boasts New Mexico’s golden, chameleon voice singing its praises!
That’s right the hottest version of the McDonald’s all time best jingle, “I’m lovin’ it!” is vocalized by New Mexico’s own James Douglas! You know him, he’s the front man of a lil’ local gone global band, the amazing, the mesmerizing, the one and only…THE JAMES DOUGLAS SHOW!!!
Listen to it HERE!
While middle-of-the-road in sleepiness, drunkeness, fitness & fatness, New Mexico is tops in least amount of personal tax burden, clean energy, national security, agriculture, adventure destination and ironically gay friendliness in the state capital where our unfriendly leader resides.
More tragic than that NM ranks low to DEAD LAST in job creation, gun violence, safety, education, poverty/hunger and child welfare.
Here are those rankings and the rest of what we found:
Sleepiest: Parade
Fittest Fattest: Calorielab
Drunkest:
Eater
Gay Friendly: Santa Fe Magazine
Clean Energy: The Street
Gold Panning: eHow
Worst Drivers: ABQ Biz Journal
Adventure Destination: Trusted Reviews
Job Creation: ABQ Biz Journal
Employment: Business Degrees NM
Personal Taxes: 24/7 Wall St.
Biz Tax: Santa Fe New Mexican
Tech. Pay: Electroiq
Edu:
News Channel 10
SAT/ACT: Edu. Colleges.com
Early Edu: NM Voices
Oil & Gas: New Mexico Independent
Hunger:
Clearly New Mexico
Health: NM Health.org
Diversity: NY Times
Internet Use: CAAS NM
Violence: Legal Community Against Violence
Safety: Ask.com
Best Performing Cities: Picacho Mountain.com
National Security: Washington Post
Agriculture:
NM Dept. of Agriculture
Economy:
Fizber
Identity Theft:
Microbilt
Hint – Crackdown on crackheads
Manufacturing: Foorum NM
Indian Owned Business: Bloomberg
Child Welfare: NCWWI Report
Edu Spending: Rio Grande Foundation Report
Happiness: Live Science
Depression: Mental Health America
Pro Athletes: Players From.com
Fame:
Wikipedia
Biz Ranks: Foorum NM
Opinion: Yahoo! Answers
Scottish inventor, John Shepherd-Barron, originator of the ATM and the concept of a personal identification number first intended a six-digit numeric code for what is now the universal practice of a PIN. His wife however preferred four digits, which became the most commonly used length.
Roll over orange – Ounce for ounce, onion has more vitamin C than almost anything we commonly eat.
A genuine, high quality strand of pearls is hand knotted between each and every individual gem to prevent contact damage and to keep the entire string from falling away in case of a break in the strand.
“The word pearl has become a metaphor for something very rare, fine, admirable, and valuable.”
RIP Barbara Billingsley
The voice of Charlotte in the iconic 1973 animated movie Charlotte’s Web based on the novel by E.B. White was that of the fabulous Debbie Reynolds (“Princess Leia’s” mom yo!)
Tears of emotion have a different chemical composition than basel (lubricant) or reflex tears.
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
Tonsil Stones (Tonsilloliths) are whitish/yellow, foul-smelling globs of hardened mucus and bacteria that regularly form in the ridges and divots of our tonsils. They are not usually harmful and spontaenously work themselves loose and can easily be coughed-up or swallowed without being noticed.
There are twenty-one letters in the Italian alphabet. There is no J, K, W, X or Y.
For Dominic
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