Boomer's Buzz: Saturday, March 8, 2008

Posted March 8, 2008, 4:27 am by Growing Bolder


Today is Saturday, March 8, 2008. There are 298 days left in the year and 240 days left until Election Day.
B-Block:
Sharp Drop in Jobs Adds to Grim Picture of U.S. Economy (NY Times)
Ex-UK Prime Minister Thatcher Stable in Hospital (CNN)
O.J. Simpson Trial Delayed to September (AP)

By The Numbers: Here at GB we have not one but two "grammar girls." In their honor:
Top Ten Grammar Myths (grammargirl)

Pic of the Day:
In Honor of Bike Week: Worst Tattoos Ever

Video of The Day:
Danny McBride teaches high school in soon-to-be-released (March 21) "Drillbit Taylor"


Today's GB Birthdays:
Happy birthday to GB members Mary Kimbrell and Bob Lissit! Click their names to send them a birthday greeting!

Today's Celebrity Birthdays:
Actress Sue Ane Langdon is 72. Baseball player and author Jim Bouton is 69. Singer Micky Dolenz of The Monkees is 63. The Eagles' Randy Meisner is 62. Singer Peggy March is 60. Rock singer Gary Numan is 50. Actress Camryn Manheim ("The Practice") is 47.

On This Date:
In 1930: William Howard Taft, the 27th president and a former chief justice of the United States, dies in Washington, D.C., at age 72.

In 1971: Joe Frazier takes the undisputed world heavyweight boxing champion after winning a unanimous 15-round decision over Muhammad Ali at Madison Square Garden in New York.

In 1973: Paul McCartney is caught doing a different kind of gardening and pleads guilty to charges of growing marijuana outside his Scottish countryside farm. He is fined $240. Paul says that a fan gave him the seeds and he didn't know what they would grow.

In 1975: Olivia Newton-John's "Have You Never Been Mellow" becomes her second Billboard No. 1 record. She will go on to have three more.

In 1999: Baseball Hall of Famer and Marilyn Monroe's ex-husband Joe DiMaggio dies at age 84. Did you know that Monroe had six toes? This guy did.

Today's Thought:
"I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature."
-- John D. Rockefeller



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