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Today is: Work Naked Day…. Also…. Hula in the Coola Day Its February. And its cold. And its grey. But don’t let the winter doldrums get you down! Just get some moola and pack up your coola and get ready for the hula at your very own Luau party.

BIRTHDAYS

Garrett Morris (SNL)-73
Lisa Marie Presley-42
Pauly Shore-42
Sherman Hemsley -72
Michael C. Hall (Dexter)-39
Sherilyn Fenn (Gilmore Girls: Anna)-45

TODAY IN HISTORY

1709 British sailor Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being marooned on a desert island (Fernandez Island) for 5 years, his story is the inspiration for Daniel Defoe’s “Robinson Crusoe”
1898 1st auto insurance policy in US issued, by Travelers Insurance Company
1900 Eastman Kodak introduces the $1 Brownie box camera.
1959 Texas Instruments requests patent of IC (Integrated Circuit)
1964 Beatles’ “I Want to Hold Your Hand” 1st #1 hit & stays #1 for 7 weeks
1974 “Good Times” (spinoff from “Maude”) premieres on CBS TV
1975 “Laughter In The Rain” by Neil Sedaka peaks at No. 1.
1976 “Rich Man, Poor Man” mini-series premieres on ABC TV
1976 Sonny & Cher resume TV show, despite real-life divorce
1979 Patricia Hearst is released from a San Francisco prison for bank robbery
1982 “Late Night With David Letterman” debuts on NBC-TV
1986 Singer Diana Ross marries Norwegian businessman Arne Naess in Switzerland
1992 “Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me” by George Michael and Elton John peaks at No. 1.
1994 Jeff Gillooly pleads guilty in Portland, Oregon, for his role in the attack on Nancy Kerrigan.
2003 The space shuttle Columbia disintegrates above Texas, killing all seven astronauts.
2004 Justin Timberlake rips off Janet Jackson’s top in what became known as a “wardrobe malfunction” during the Super Bowl halftime show.

CHICKEN PLAYS CHICKEN
A black hen has been dodging cars, captors and coyotes for two months. Officials say the bird has been darting into traffic outside Glendale Community College since it was first reported Nov. 20. The chicken has drawn a growing crowd of photographers and journalists as animal control officers struggle to catch it.

INFLATABLE FIRE
An inflatable gorilla is being blamed for a Houston fire. The inflatable apparently cam untethered and floated to the ceiling of a nearby building landing on some lights which then started a fire.

FOR THE SAINTS
Thousands of men, wearing everything from miniskirts to formal gowns, paraded through the streets of New Orleans yesterday. It was to back their Saints, who’ll meet the Indianapolis Colts in the Super Bowl next Sunday. So why get dressed in drag? Well, a former sportscaster once said he’d march through the French Quarter in a dress if the Saints ever made it to the big game. Tommy Cooper wore a full-length black beaded sheath. He says yesterday’s parade was “the Saints and Mardi Gras rolled into one.”

AMBULANCE ATM
Austrian emergency officials are defending their use of money machines in ambulances, to demand payment before treatment. “During the ambulance ride, the crew started pushing buttons and then they said: ‘Sorry but we have to charge you 230 euros (320 dollars) now,’” said the 45-year-old holidaymaker from Berlin. “They were obviously very embarrassed.” Austrian emergency services defended the measure, saying it was often difficult to track down payment from foreign tourists once they had returned home.

ROBBER CALLS COPS
An alleged robber in San Diego called police when a man punched him in the face in a bid to stop the crime. Police responded to the scene Saturday near a trolley station after a 43-year-old man called them to report he had been assaulted. But when they got there, the officers determined the caller had been punched because a bystander had stepped in to break up an alleged attempt by the complainant to rob an 83-year-old victim.

DRIVING WHILE EATING
In Lowell, Massachusetts, a 59 year-old lumber truck driver was enjoying a small chili from Wendy’s. Unfortunately he was enjoying it while he was driving his rig down a residential street. Then he hit a bump which caused him to start choking on a mouthful of chili. Then he went unconscious. Then he slammed into somebody’s house.

USELESS TRIVIA

The Sioux word tonka means “great.” It was adopted in 1947 as the name of the toy company known for its sturdy toy trucks.

The word stentorian means “extremely loud.” It originated with Stentor, a Greek herald during the Trojan War, whose “voice of bronze” according to Homer’s “Iliad,” was as “loud as the cry of 50 other men.

The only two-syllable word in the English language with no true vowels is rhythm.

A ‘vog’ is a Hawaiian cousin of smog; it’s a fog caused when sulfuric volcanic fumes mix with oxygen.

The only word in the English language that both begins and ends with the letters ‘u-n-d’ is underground.

IMPOSSIBLE QUESTION:

Q: It’s predicted that more than a million of these will be purchased this year, however 62% of them will never be used – what?

A: Swim suits!

Congrats to Tom from Brook Park! He gets breakfast from Nicoll’s Cafe in PC!