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TODAY IS: Old New Year’s Eve: While January 1st now marks the official celebration of New Year’s Day in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, some people still celebrate the occasion in accordance with the old Julian calendar.

TINY TANGO
There’s a new commuter car being pushed at the Detroit Auto Show. The Tango. It’s barely over a yard wide. At 39 inches, two Tangos can fit side-by-side in a single lane. It’s electric powered with one seat in front and one in back. George Clooney recently bought one at $108,000

GETTING SOME PARENTYING HELP
A father whose twin 9-year-old daughters were disrupting his driving pulled into a police station and asked an officer to help explain the dangers of hitting someone and pulling their hair while they are driving a car. The girls told the officer they “shoved” their dad because they wanted him to stop singing. Lesson learned.The officer wrote in a police report that the 9-year-olds “understood” the lesson. “The complainant was satisfied with the results.”

HONEST CABBIE
Mohammad “Mukal” Asadujjaman is a cabbie in NYC. When a passenger, Seventy-two-year-old Felicia Lettieri, of Italy, left her purse in a Manhattan taxi on Christmas Eve. It contained traveling money for her and six relatives. $21,000 ! He drove about 50 miles, to a Long Island address he’d found in the purse. No one was home, so he left his phone number, and later returned with the money. He didn’t even accept a reward.

GIMME THE LOBSTERS
MD. Gove Martin O’Malley and fellow Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick of Masschusetts had one of those friendly wagers over the outcome of the playoff game between the Baltimore Ravens and the New England Patriots, which the Ravens won 33-14 on Sunday. O’Malley promised Maryland crabcakes if the Ravens fell to the Patriots in the first-round playoff game. Patrick pledged lobsters if his team lost.In a YouTube video urging Patrick to honor the “gentlemanly bet,” O’Malley put on a fake Boston accent and said, “Hey Deval, send down the lob-stah.”

FACEBOOK FUGITIVE CAPTURED
Craig “Lazie” Lynch, escaped from prison in Britain 4 months ago. Ever since he had been taunting police with status updates on Facebook. Lynch, who was recaptured in Kent on Tuesday night, is due to appear in court later on today. Lynch — whose profile picture showed him raising his middle finger to the camera — notched up tens of thousands of “friends” from around the world.

These glorious insults are from an era before the English language
got boiled down to 4-letter words!

The exchange between Churchill & Lady Astor:
She said, “If you were my husband I’d give you poison.”
He said, “If you were my wife, I’d drink it.”

A member of Parliament to Disraeli: “Sir, you will either die on the
gallows or of some unspeakable disease.”
“That depends, Sir,” said Disraeli, “whether I embrace your policies
or your mistress.”

“He had delusions of adequacy.” – Walter Kerr

“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.” -
Winston Churchill

“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with
great pleasure.” Clarence Darrow

“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to
the dictionary.” – William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway).

USELESS TRIVIA

The 1959 film “The Diary of Anne Frank” ends with the saying, “In spite of everything, I still believe that people are good at heart.”

Bruce was the name of the mechanical shark in the 1975 hit movie “Jaws.”

Walt Disney provided the high-pitched voice of the mouse in the early Walt Disney films starring the animated Mickey Mouse.

Actor Anthony Quinn took out an unusual insurance policy in 1968 when he agreed to appear in the film “The Magus.” He shaved his head for the role and was insured against failing to grow back a healthy head of hair.

IMPOSSIBLE QUESTION:

Q: Last year pet owners in the U.S. spent more than 200 million dollars on something for their pets – what is it?

A: (pet) health insurance!
Congratulations to Ruth on winning today’s prize from Nicoll’s Cafe in Pine City!

TODAY IN HISTORY

1854 Anthony Foss patents the accordion
1863 Chenille manufacturing machine patented by William Canter, New York City NY
1863 Thomas Crapper pioneers one-piece pedestal flushing toilet
1906 1st radio set advertised (Telimco for $7.50 in Scientific American) claimed to receive signals up to one mile
1930 “Mickey Mouse” comic strip 1st appears
1957 Wham-O Company produces the 1st Frisbee
1964 The Beatles release “I Want To Hold Your Hand” in the United States.
1967 Rolling Stones appear on Ed Sullivan Show
1969 The Beatles’ “Yellow Submarine” soundtrack is released.
1969 Elvis Presley records “In The Ghetto” and “Suspicious Minds.” It was the first time he had recorded in Memphis since 1956.
1978 The Police begin recording their debut album.
1979 YMCA files libel suit against Village People’s YMCA song
1994 Tonya Harding’s bodyguard, Shawn Eric Eckardt & Derrick Brian Smith arrested & charged with conspiracy in attack of skater Nancy Kerrigan
1997 Debbie Reynolds receives a star on the Walk of Fame.
1998 NBC agrees to pay almost $13 million for each episode of the TV show “ER.” It was the highest amount ever paid for a TV show at the time.
2002 U.S. President George W. Bush faints after choking on a pretzel while watching a football game. He hits the floor and suffers a gash on his noggin.
2003 Nicole Kidman receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

BIRTHDAYS

Penelope Ann Miller -46
Patrick Dempsey -44
Richard Moll (Night Court: Bull)-67
Nicole Eggert (Baywatch: Summer)-38
Orlando Bloom-33
Julia Louis-Dreyfus-49