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TODAY IS: Have a bad day day: If it burns you up to constantly be told to “Have a nice day!”, today is your respite from these cheery-minded folks. Today, you can proudly and grouchily declare, “No thanks! But you have a bad day!”

BIRTHDAYS

Alan Young (Mr. Ed: Wilbur Post)-90
Eileen Collins-53
Larry King-76
Dick Cavett -73
Allison Janney -50
Ted Turner-71
Meg Ryan-48
Jodie Foster-47
Dan Haggerty (Grizzly Adams)-68
Calvin Klein -67
Ahmad Rashad (Sportscaster)-60
Kathleen Quinlan -55
Kerri Strug-32

TODAY IN HISTORY

1493 Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico, on his 2nd voyage
1863 Lincoln delivers his address in Gettysburg; “4 score & 7 years…”
1954 The first automatic toll collection machine goes into operation at the Union Toll Plaza on New Jersey’s Garden State Parkway.
1959 Ford cancels the Edsel
1979 Chuck Berry released from prison on income tax evasion
1980 CBS TV bans Calvin Klein’s jeans ad featuring Brooke Shields
1988 LA Law’s Corbin Bernsen marries actress Amanda Pays
1990 Milli Vanilli is stripped of their Grammy Award.
1996 Pamela Anderson Lee files for divorce from Tommy Lee. They soon reconcile, split, reconcile, split…
2002 “Up!” album by Shania Twain is released.
2003 Michael Jackson is ordered to surrender to police to face multiple charges of child molestation.
2004 Tim Allen star Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2005 Christina Aguilera marries music executive Jordan Bratman.
2006 Nintendo’s Wii released.

BAD BEAR
Incline Village, Nev. are on the prowl for a particularly bad bear. The 700 pound bruin has broken into 40-50 garages this year causing an estimated $70,000 in damage. “The deputies up there all say he’s the biggest bear they’ve ever seen,” said Carl Lackey, a biologist and bear expert with the Nevada Department of Wildlife. It has broken into one home several times. The owner of the bear’s favorite home shot it with a .44 magnum handgun this year when he confronted it on a staircase. The bullet struck the animal in the head but only bounced off its skull.

$2 ROBBERIES
Chicago police have arrested a man accused of 4 different robberies. The man, in a bright orange jacket robbed 4 different people. No weapon was shown, but all he made off with from the 4 victims was $2 total. Police found our orange jacketed marauder who was positively identified by the victims. All two bucks was also recovered.

MOMMY’S HAVING A BABY
Bobbye Favazza went into labor on the family’s living room couch in Olive Branch, Miss. Fortunately she had help for her quick delivery. Her 2 year old toddler, Jeremiha Taylor, who got her a towel and caught the baby before firefighters arrived to cut the umbilical cord. Ms. Favazza gave birth to a 7-pound, 4-ounce baby boy, Kamron Taylor.

POSTAL MALFEASANCE
Here’s when you know you have a drinking problem. A Marion, Iowa postal worker was found sitting on the kitchen floor of 95-year-old woman’s house, eating leftover noodles from her refrigerator. The apparently intoxicated worker apparently entered the home through an unlocked front door. She was in uniform and had mail and a mail-carrying bag with her.

POT-POLICE
The LAPD didn’t have to go far to bust an indoor pot farm. Authorities say officers could smell pot in the station’s parking lot of the Topanga police station. It ended up they had a marijuana growing operation right next door. The operation included lights, automated irrigation and a ventilation system. The pot farmers had been growing the illegal weed for at least eight months.

TURNPIKE TURKEY-UPDATE
The gobbler who’d been causing problems on the NJ turnpike has been caught. “Tammy the Turnpike Turkey,” has been trotting around toll booths at the 14B interchange in Jersey City since August. Increasing complaints from motorists about the traffic dodging turkey had authorities step up their efforts to catch the traffic hazard with drumsticks. The offending poultry will go to live at the Popcorn Zoo in Lacey Township.

EGGO SHORTAGE !
Kellogs has annonce that consumers can expect an Eggo shrtage into next summer. The company’s Atlanta plant was shut down for an undisclosed period by a September storm that dumped historic amounts of rain in the area. Meanwhile, several production lines at its largest bakery in Rossville, Tenn. are closed indefinitely for repairs. The crisis in Eggo production has even led to widespread Facebook and Twitter desperation.

RIGHT TO DRY
Carin Froelich says she’s eceived two anonymous notes from neighbors saying they did not want to see her underwear flapping in the breeze. The SE Penn. woman is fighting for her right to dry her clothes the old fashioned way, on a clothesline. Carin says her actions annoy local officials who have asked her to stop. “They said it made the place look like trailer trash,” she said, in her yard across the street from a row of neat, suburban houses. “They said they didn’t want to look at my ‘unmentionables.’”

USELESS TRIVIA

Jules Leotard performed the first flying trapeze act in 1859 with the Cirque Napoleon in France . His ability to turn a somersault (while wearing a stretchy one-piece athletic suit, or “leotard,” of his invention) in mid-air inspired the song “The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze.”

Sesame Street debuted on TV in 1969, featuring the Jim Henson Muppets, including Kermit the Frog and Big Bird. It is now the longest-running children’s television series and holds the record for most Emmy wins by a television series!