Today is...

[IceWizard]

Sunday 13 Nov 2016



World Kindness Day



Kindness Day isn’t just about adopting all the children from your local orphanage – it’s about the little gestures of kindness too.

Helping others can restore a sense of humanity, not to mention giving you that warm fuzzy glow inside.

Kindness Day was born when a collection of humanitarian groups came together on November 13, 1997 and made a “Declaration of Kindness”. Likewise, on Kindness Day everyone is encouraged to make a similar declaration.Donating books, food or clothes to your local community is a great way to celebrate.

However, pledging to commit just one act of kindness is no less worthwhile: hold the door open for a stranger, compliment your neighbour on their collection of garden gnomes, let your partner have control of the TV remote for the evening.

However you decide to celebrate remember that the best thing about Kindness Day is that it doesn’t cost a thing!



And



International Tongue Twister Day

“He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.”
― Stephen King

It It’s an elegant dance, or a fumbling ungainly stumble through a linguistic waltz. Whether you’re discussing Peter Piper picking a peck of pickled peppers” or the vagaries chirped out by “A quick witted cricket critic”, International Tongue Twister Day encourages you to give your tongue a work out and challenge your friends to the most convoluted and difficult tongue twisters of the year.

How many knots will you tie YOUR tongue into this year?

History of International Tongue Twister Day

Speaking of that old dastardly pickled pepper picker, it turns out that dear old Peter Piper was actually a real person, someone from our histories who was renowned for his taste in delicious spices and became immortalized as a result.

He was quite the character when you all things were taken in, he was French and dastardly, so that paints an image right there. He’s also one-armed, and a horticulturist, which must make planting tricky from time to time.

To wrap it all up? His favorite way of getting seeds for planting his spices was at the tip of a sword and the roar of cannonball. Yep, you got it, he was also a pirate. When he got his hands on some nutmeg he got his rhyme “Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers”

So which tongue twister is the most difficult?

In the English language, the Guinness Book of World Records professes that to be

“The sixth sick sheikh’s sixth sheep’s sick.”

Trust us, one try at that and you’ll be having your tongue tied up in knots for a week, or at the very least sound like a snake with a lisp.

We know, it’s pretty awful.

"I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop. Where she sits she shines, and where she shines she sits."

"I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit. Upon that slitted, sheet I sit"

"Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?"

"Six sick hicks nick six slick bricks with picks and sticks."

"I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch wishes, I won't wish the wish you wish to wish."

"There was a fisherman named Fisher
Who fished for some fish in a fissure.
Till a fish with a grin,
pulled the fisherman in.
Now they're fishing the fissure for Fisher.'

"11 was a racehorse,
22 was 12,
1111 race,
22112.

Wunwun was a racehorse,
Tutu was one too.
Wunwun won one race,
Tutu won one too."

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November 13 Birthdays


Jimmy Kimmel - 49



Whoopi Goldberg - 61



Joe Mantegna - 69



Garry Marshall - (1934-2016)



Robert Louis Stevenson - (1850-1894)



Chris Noth - 62






November 13th

1992: Elton John performed his first concert in Mexico at the Estadio Azteca stadium in Mexico City before an audience of 90,000.

1992: Ronnie Bond, original drummer for The Troggs died in Winchester, Hampshire, U.K. He was 49 years old.

1992: Crue Ball a pinball video game based around Motley Crue and featured three songs by Motley Crue (“Dr. Feelgood”, “Live Wire” and “Home Sweet Home”) was released for the Sega Genesis video game system.

1990: Rod Stewart was sued by Patricia Boughton for allegedly kicking a soccer ball into the audience at a concert in Clarkston, MI that ruptured a tendon in her middle finger and as a result, the injury made sex between her and her husband difficult. Boughton would later receive a $17,000 settlement.

1976: Peter Frampton peaked at number ten on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart with “Do You Feel Like We Do” making it Frampton’s second top ten single in the U.S.

1974: An imposter posing as Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore crashed a borrowed Porsche in Iowa City. The real Blackmore was onstage in San Francisco.

1971: Santana reached the top of the Billboard 200 Album Chart for the second time with Santana III which spent five weeks at number one. Santana didn’t return to the top of the album chart again until 1999 with Supernatural.

1968: Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones bought the Cotchford Farm estate in Sussex, U.K. It was the estate where A.A. Milne wrote Winnie the Pooh.

1968: Yellow Submarine the animated movie based on the music of The Beatles premiered in the U.S.



Birthdays:

Roger Steen - Guitarist for The Tubes born in 1949

Aldo Nova born in 1956