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TODAY IS: Name Your PC Day: You spend more time with it than you do with your significant other, so why not? Name your PC today

BIRTHDAYS

Estelle Parsons (Roseanne: Mom)-82
Sean Young-50
Richard Dawson-77
Jim Brickman-48
Dick Smothers-71
Joe Biden-67
Veronica Hamel -66
Judy Woodruff -63
Joe Walsh -62
Bo Derek-53
Cody Linley (Hannah Montana: Jake)-20

TODAY IN HISTORY

1620 Peregrine White born aboard the Mayflower. First English child born to the Pilgrims in the New World.
1866 Pierre Lalemont patents rotary crank bicycle
1888 William Bundy patents the timecard clock
1947 “Meet the Press” makes network TV debut on NBC
1976 George Harrison appears on Saturday Night Live
1977 Walter Payton (Bears) rushes for NFL-record 275 yards
1971 “Theme From Shaft” Isaac Hayes # 1.
1977 “The Goodbye Girl” opens.
1982 Drew Barrymore, 7, hosts “SNL” for the first time.
1983 100 million watch ABC-TV movie “The Day After,” about nuclear war
1984 Michael Jackson star on Walk of Fame.
1984 McDonald’s cooks its 50 billionth burger.
1994 David Crosby receives a liver transplant.
1995 Princess Diana admits she cheated on Prince Charles in a TV interview.
1997 Kenny G star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1998 Forty-six states embrace a $206 billion settlement with cigarette makers over health costs for treating sick smokers.

SCAREDY CATS
Zoo-keepers in China say their tigers have grown so tame that they’re frightened of the chickens they’re supposed to eat. One zoo keeper said: “I have been trying to interest them with live chickens but it was quite a funny scene. The tigers were so scared that they wouldn’t go near them. “One chicken passed out and the tigers did eventually approach it – but then it woke up again and squawked and they ran for their lives!” They’re enot looking at putting wild tigers in with the former circus tigers to teach them how to hunt.

DAUGHTER NAMED AFTER CAR
Tony Richardson and Smantha Smyth just had a baby. They were on the way to the Dorset, England hospital the other morning around 4:30 when they realized they weren’t going to make it. The baby was born in the back seat of Ms. Smyth’s Mom’s KIA. So they opted to name the little girl KIA instead of the pre-planned Tilley. Kia has now offered the couple a new Kia Carens – the same model baby Kia was born in worth $25,000. Michael Cole, managing director of Kia Motors, said: “All of us at Kia are delighted for Tony and Samantha and flattered that they have called their new baby Kia after she was born in granny’s Carens. “We would like to welcome Kia to the Kia family and wish her a wonderful life.”

HOME WRECKER
Michelle and Kevin McCarthy got the shock of their lives when they returned home to find a 90ft crane had cut their house in two. The crane was being used to pull up a 150 year old oak tree, which was too heavy causing the crane to topple into the center of their house basically slicing it in two. Nobody was in the house in Santa Rosa at the time and nobody was hurt – a dog in the garage was also unharmed.

BREAKING AND DECORATING
Police in Herscher, Ill., are looking for someone who broke into a home and left behind Christmas decorations. A woman and her kids left for the weekend and when they returned returned Monday morning, they found their place decked out for the holidays with ornaments and Christmas lights. Nothing was taken.

PUMPKIN SHORTAGE?
Yesterday we reported on an Eggo shortage….. Now, Nestle says heavy rain hurt its pumpkin harvest so there may be a shortage of its Libby’s pumpkin pie products through the holidays. The company is responsible for nearly all the canned pumpkin sold in the U.S.

SHHHHHH
Two suspects forced their way into a home in Indy and began ransacking the house. Police said that when a baby started crying, one of them warmed a bottle in a microwave oven and gave it to a child to feed the baby. An 18 year old was arrested after a tv viewer spotted him on a surveillance video. He’s being held on charges of burglary, robbery, criminal confinement and pointing a firearm.

RUNNING IN HEELS
The annual National Stiletto Championship, is taking place after office hours on an indoor track in the old stock exchange building in central Paris, tonight. 96 fashionista’s have entered. The winner will get $3000 in shows. The stillettos must be at least 3 inches high for the 180 yard race. 32 teams of 3 will compete. Volunteers from the Red Cross will be standing by in case of accident, but last year’s competition wound up without a single twisted ankle. There are teams with names like “Yes We Can”, “Sexpistols” and “Superwoman”.

SPEAK UP !
Police in Deltona, FL. say Carlie McDuffie, 24, walked into a Family Dollar store and told an employee to hand over money from the register in a quiet voice that the clerk either didn’t hear or didn’t understand. Carlie then repeated the request in the same hushed voice. Again the clerk didn’t get it, so Carlie said, “forget it” and left the store. That’s when the clerk realized what was going on and the cops tracked down the suspect.

USELESS TRIVIA

Dr. Joshua Pim of Great Britain entered and won the Wimbledon tennis tournament in 1893 using the named ‘Mr.X.’ He feared revealing his true identity would hurt his medical practice; therefore entered under the mystery name.

Gene Conley was the first professional athlete to win championship rings in two major sports. He pitched for the Milwaukee Braves team that won the 1957 World Series, and was on the Boston Celtic teams that won National Basketball Association championships in 1959, 1960, and 1961.

The state of Montana was the setting of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, where George Armstrong Custer made his infamous last stand. Five members (including Custer) were killed at that battle.