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• DaddysKat 3,554 Posts

  Tue, Apr 1 2014 10:53 AM

  1 April,

  Tributes today:

  • Not too well known singer from Jamaica ... Jimmy Cliff is 66 today.
  • Lady Antebellum singer (and dissed on American Idol), Hillary Scott is 28 today

  Notables:

  • NBA guard Mark Jackson is 49.

  Actors/Actresses:

  • Debbie Reynolds is 82 today
  • Ali MacGraw is 75
  • Jessica Collins is 43
  • Gordon Jump (1932 - 2003)

  My first tribute goes out to Lady Antebellum's Hillary Scott ... great singer and songwriter.  Here's a song from her recent Album:

   

  My second goes out to Jimmy Cliff ... I love this rendition:

   

  Have a bright, sun-shiny day everyone!

• DaddysKat 3,554 Posts

  Tue, Apr 1 2014 11:02 AM

  SweetiePie:

  question: is it April Fool's Day, April Fools' Day or April Fools Day?

  Are you sayin' it ain't "All Fools' Day?"  lol.

  I recall it having something to do with the introduction of The Gregorian Calendar.  Am I mistaken?

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Tue, Apr 1 2014 11:54 AM

  DaddysKat:

  SweetiePie:

  question: is it April Fool's Day, April Fools' Day or April Fools Day?

  Are you sayin' it ain't "All Fools' Day?"  lol.

  I recall it having something to do with the introduction of The Gregorian Calendar.  Am I mistaken?

   

  Nobody seems to know exactly. But you may have the best take, Kat, called the Calendar Change Theory. Holding that those who clung to the spring as the start of the New Year rather than Jan 1 were considered fools and teased every April 1. Then we also have the Hilaria Theory and the Noah Theory. Since Jan 1 is my BD, I run with that one.

  also...gotta dig Lady A...Thanks 

• andyson 6,415 Posts

  Tue, Apr 1 2014 12:14 PM

  All Fools' Day is printed on my old-school wall calendar.  No foolin'!

• DaddysKat 3,554 Posts

  Tue, Apr 1 2014 1:32 PM

  I also heard it's bad luck to play a practical joke after the morning hours ... and there's something about young fish somewhere ... anyone able to shed some light on these stories?

  One more  .... the "Kick Me" sign placed on the back of someone was first done as an April Fools' prank.  Fact or fiction?

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Tue, Apr 1 2014 1:55 PM

  DaddysKat:

  something about young fish somewhere ...

  Well, it depends upon the fish and the hygene

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Wed, Apr 2 2014 7:44 AM

  April 2

  1948 - Marlene Floyd, LPGA

  1961 - Cindy Mackey, LPGA

  1976 - Rory Sabbatini, South African golfer

   742 - Charlemagne, 1st Holly Roman Emperor

  1618 - Francesco Grimaldi, (light defraction)

  1725 - Giacamo Casanova, Venice; writer, adventurer & famous lover

  1805 - Hans Christian Anderson, Denmark; author of 150 fairy tales

  1875 - Walter Chrysler, Wamage, Kansas; founder of car co. Chrysler

  1891 - Max Ernst, German painter/sculptor; founded surrealism

  1941 - Leon Russell, my Father's 1st and only childhood guitar teacher

  and

  in 1513, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon and his expedition landed in present-day Florida (some historians say April 3, I say who cares?)

  find lots of fun...bye

   

• DaddysKat 3,554 Posts

  Wed, Apr 2 2014 10:59 AM

  2 April

  Notables:

   

  • Singer/Songwriter Marvin Gaye (1939 - 1984) 
  • MLB Hall of Fame Pitcher Don Sutton is 69  
  • Actor Buddy Ebsen (1908 - 2003) ... most famous for his roll in "The Beverly Hillbillies"

   

  Musicians:

   

  • singer Emmylou Harris is 67
  • CW Singer Billy Dean is 52

   

  Actors/Actresses:

   

  • Christopher Meloni is 53
  • Clark Gregg is 52
  • Roselyn Sanchez is 41
  • Alec Guinnes (1914 - 2000)
  • Ron Horshack Palillo (1949 - 2012)
  • Pamela Reed is 65
  • Director Donald Petrie is 60

   

  Notables ...

  first off, Don Sutton ... Dodger Blue through and through ... 324 Wins ... joins Roger Clemens in the 300 win club!

  Buddy Ebsen ... who can't finish this song ... "Come and listen to my story 'bout a man named Jed ..."??? 

  Finally ... on the night before his 45th birthday, Marvin Gaye Jr. was shot and killed by his father ... he was an extremely good song writer for his era ... here's one of his #1 hits:

  Have a wonderful day all!

   

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Thu, Apr 3 2014 7:49 AM

  April 3

  1937 - Sandy Spuzich, LPGA

  1151 - Igor Svyataslavich, Ukrainian Prince

  1245 - Philips III, The Stout, King of France

  1367 - Henry IV, Bolingbroke Lincolnshire, King of England

  1720 - Elia van Vilnius [Elijahv ben Salonio], Latvian rabbi

  pause...interesting names, no?

  1783 - Washington Irving, inventor of Icabod

  1823 - William Macy "Boss" Tweed

  1866 - J.B.M. Hertzog, South African Premier

  1893 - Leslie Howard, the one Scarlett wanted

  1898 - Henry Luce, publisher, Time-Fortune-Life

  see-ya 

• DaddysKat 3,554 Posts

  Thu, Apr 3 2014 10:33 AM

  3 April:

  Tribute:

            Actress/Singer Doris Day is 90 today

  Notables:

  • Scientist Jane Goodall is 80
  • Singer Tony Orlando is 70
  • Singer/Songwriter Don Gibson (1928 - 2003)
  • Singer Wayne Newton is 72
  • Singer Kelly Price is 41
  • Singer Leona Lewis is 29

  Actors/Actresses:

  • Eddie Murphy is 53
  • Leigh-Allyn Baker is 42
  • Amanda Bynes is 28
  • Cobie Smulders is 32
  • Alec Baldwin is 56
  • Marlon Brando (1924 - 2004)
  • Adam Scott is 41
  • eric Braeden is 73

  Today's tribute ...

  I found it quite difficult to pick 'just one'.  I loved Doris in Calamity Jane, and her rendition of "Secret Love" is difficult to beat.  I chose this song instead ... from Alfred Hitchcock's "The Man who Knew Too Much" ...

  Tootles everyone!