Forums

Happy Birthday

• DaddysKat 3,554 Posts

  Tue, Aug 19 2014 9:49 AM

  19 August,

  I'm going to add a bit to my usual post.  There are several names I pass by because I can't find a decent video to share.  But instead of passing them by, I'll put a new section to my post called ...

  Picks without Flicks ...

  Today, we'll start off with former U.S. President, Bill Clinton, who turns 68 today.  Next, actor John Stamos is 51 and actor Matthew Perry is 45.

  Author of the New York Times Best Seller novel Divergent and Insurgent, Veronica Roth is 26.  Lead actress in the TV Series, The Closer ... Kyra Sedgwick is 49 today.  

  Any Trekkies out there?  Gene Roddenberry (1921 - 1991) was born on the 19th.  Also, #1 (Will, Riker, Commander William T. Riker) from TNG ... Jonathan Frakes is 62.

  Actor Peter Gallagher is 59, actor Gerald Mcraney is 67 and actor Adam Arkin is 58.

  Last but not least, retired actor and US Senator, Fred Thompson is 72 today.

  My Picks with flicks ...

  Singer Christina Perri is 28 today ...

  Bassist John Deacon is 63 today ... he wrote this song and played with this band ...

  To celebrate Gene Roddenberry's work, for my fellow Trekkie fans ...

  And singer Ian Gillian is 69 today ... he was the lead singer in this band ...

  Singer Lee Ann Womack is 48 today ...

  Country singer Clay Walker is 45 today ...

  and wrapping the flicks up for today, singer Joey Tempest is 51.  He's the lead singer of this band ...

  Have a beautiful Tuesday day everyone!

   

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Wed, Aug 20 2014 8:25 AM

  DaddysKat:

  Singer Lee Ann Womack

  Wonderful addition by Miss Kat - such a moving & beautiful song !

  August 20

  1637 - Cornelius Van Aerssen ~ Dutch Govenor & co-owner of Surinam

  1833 - Benjamin Harrison ~ 23rd President of USA

  1896 - H.P. Lovecraft ~ Horror Writer

  ~ Bye the Bye ~

    636 ~ Battle at Yarmuk - Moslems beat Byzantines...final score not reported

  1191 ~ Crusader King Richard I kills 3,000 muslim prisoners at Akko. And the bad news  is ?

  1619 ~ !st Black Slaves brought by Dutch to Jamestown colony

  1741 ~ Alaska discovered by Danish explorer Vitus Bering

  1781 ~ General Washington begins to move his troops south for a showdown with Charles Cornwallis....I love George

  1856 ~ Wilberforce University forms in Ohio

  1882 ~ Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" opens in Moscow

  and lastly, one year ago yesterday, the fantastic jazz pianist, Marian McPartland passed away at 96...I would love for Kat to find something of her to share...

  ~ Peace ~ 

   

• DaddysKat 3,554 Posts

  Wed, Aug 20 2014 11:46 AM

  20 August ...

  Picks without flicks:

  Actor Andrew Garfield is 31 today.  Actor Sylvester Mccoy is 71.  Today show host Al Roker turns 60 today.  

  A simply wonderful actress, Meghan Ory is 32 today.  Also, boxing promoter of Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson ... Don King is 83.  Journalist Connie Chung is 68 ... and Aussie born actor John Noble is 66 today.

  Actor Don Stark is 60 today.  Director David O. Russell is 56; actor Ray Wise is 67; and actor Colin Cunningham is 48.

  Wrapping up my picks without flicks, bestselling author Jacqueline Susann (1918 - 1974) was born on 20 August.  She wrote the novel "Valley of the Dolls".

  Picks with flicks ...

  We'll get started with a young singer and actress named Demi Lovato.  She's 22 today ...

  Next up, actress Amy Adams is 40 today.  I totally loved her in this movie ...

  And then there's this guy who eventually got the "Led" out ... Robert Plant is 66 today ...

  (anyone stationed near this little town?)

  And this great composer was also born on 20 August ... Isaac Hayes (1942 - 2008).  I love his voice ... sexy ... like Al Green ...

  Then there's this guy ... way before my time ... Country singer Jim Reeves (1923 - 1964)

  (I do love the really old tunes!)

  I'm proud to present this wonderful English comedian ... Joe Pasquale is 53 today.  I hope you enjoy him as much as I do ...

  And my last pick with a flick goes to this English singer/songwriter ... Jamie Cullum, who's 35 today.  I really love this tune (and the movie it goes with) ...

  Hope everyone a wonderful HUMP day!

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Thu, Aug 21 2014 9:08 AM

  DaddysKat:

  And my last pick with a flick goes to this English singer/songwriter ... Jamie Cullum, who's 35 today.  I really love this tune (

   

  Thank You, Thank you, Thank you ! W0W!! I just dig Jamie Cullum and everything he creates! He doesnt give a hoot...he just rolls!

  August 21

  1165 - Philip II Augustus ~ 1st Great Capetian King of France

  1535 - Shimazu Yoshihiro ~ Great Japanese Samurai and Warlord

  1643 - Afonso VI ~ King of Portugal....who was coincidently mentally ill..oh goody

  1660 - Hubert Gautier ~ wrote 1st book on bridge building

  1754 - Banastre Tarleton ~ The General Cornwallis "go to" guy for: no questions asked, no quarter given, "get'er'done, blood thirsty, ruthless Dragoon style assignments. Best known for the assault upon "Montecello" to capture (capture? ha...kill) Thomas Jefferson. Then "Govenor Jefferson" , spotted the group, calmly mounted his horse, and departed Montecello with 5 minutes to spare. The portrait of Tarleton is interesting, showing to me what looks more like a "dandified fruit-cake" than a "Monster" and "high end Gentleman of London Society"

  1798 - Jules Michelet ~ French Historian of note

  1884 - Chandler Egan ~ Early golf pioneer from Oregon. An outstanding Amateur of his day with impeccable credentials, most notably in Golf course design and development with over a dozen still operating courses in that beautiful state.

  ~ Bye the Bye ~

  1192 ~ Minamoto Yoritomo becomes de facto ruler of Japan

  1680 ~ Pueblo Indians take possession of Santa Fe from the Spanish

  1772 ~ King Gustav III completes his coup d'etat and installs himself as Sweden's enlightened despot

  1858 ~ 1st Lincoln-Douglas debate

  1864 ~ Battle at Globe Tavern, Virginia....2,500 casualties...talk about a bar brawl

  1878 ~ American Bar Association organizes...bout time

  1897 ~ Oldsmobile begins

  ~ Happiness is C00L ~ 

• DaddysKat 3,554 Posts

  Thu, Aug 21 2014 11:39 AM

  21 August,

  Picks without flicks ...

  World record holding sprinter Usain Bolt is 28 today (now if only he could catch a football and had a desire to live and work his home games in the Bay area).  Guitarist Jake Pitts is 29 today.  And actress Hayden Panettiere is 25.

  Moving right along, actress Loretta Devine is 65; actress Kim Cattrall is 58 and the creator of Spongebob-Squarepants, Stephen Hillenburg, is 53 today.

  Next up, songwriter Joe Strummer (1952 - 2002) was born on the Leo/Virgo cusp ... so was the MLB Cardinals sportscaster Jack Buck (1924 - 2002).

  The author of several children's books, X. J. Kennedy, who's 85 today.  Canadian born actress, Carrie Anne Moss is 47; and that actor from the 60's with the extremely big hair ... Clarence Williams III is 75 (name that show!).  My final pick is writer and movie actor, Melvin Van Peebles, who is 82.

  Picks with flicks ...

  So my prayer for the upcoming NBA season ... "Dear God, could you give the LA Lakers a center like my first pick with flicks ... no hurry, just before November, 2014 please ...".  If you ever go to Staples Center in Los Angeles, you'll see jersey #13 hanging on the wall (along with several other notables).  He started on the East Coast, but soon found himself playing and retiring under the Purple and Gold.  Wilt Chamberlain (1936 - 1999) ... the center with that sweet "finger roll" ...

  When most people hear the name Kenny Rogers (76), they think of "The Gambler" ... me ... this song always comes to mind ...

  And for some new country blood ... fellow FYP Kacey Musgraves is 26 today ...

  A little more new FYP tunes ... Jacqueline Emerson is 20 today ...

  Stuck in the middle of FYP and FOP is this country singer ... Johnny Reid is 39 today ...

  And this amazing FOP guitarist is 75 today ... here's James Burton playing with the "fat Elvis" ...

  Swinging our way back to the FYPs again ... Alizèe is 29 today ...

  Finally, someone whose music will never get old ... at least for me.  The immortal tunes of Count Bassie (1904 - 1984) ...

  Have a wonderful S.H.I.T. day everyone!

   

• cappy11 1,173 Posts

  Thu, Aug 21 2014 12:47 PM

  Hey Kat,

  Takes a shot at Clarence Williams III is 75 (name that show!).   Mod Squad ?

• DaddysKat 3,554 Posts

  Thu, Aug 21 2014 1:09 PM

  cappy11:

  Hey Cat,

  Takes a shot at Clarence Williams III is 75 (name that show!).   Mod Squad ?

  Yep ... that's the one.  It ran from 1968 - 1973.

  

  Clarence sure had big hair back in the day ... "Big" ... an adjective usually not used to describe one's hair!  lol.

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Fri, Aug 22 2014 9:45 AM

  DaddysKat:

  cappy11:

  Hey Cat,

  Takes a shot at Clarence Williams III is 75 (name that show!).   Mod Squad ?

  Yep ... that's the one.  It ran from 1968 - 1973.

  

  Clarence sure had big hair back in the day ... "Big" ... an adjective usually not used to describe one's hair!  lol.

  Oh My ! Just look at them...it's as if they are watching the "Three Stooges"...the same as watching the "Mod Squad"

  August 22

  1530 - Bartolomeo Spontone ~ Composer...who can forget that catchy tune "la beepa - la bopa - la boopa" ?

  1760 - Leo XII ~ Pope

  1822 - Virginia Poe ~ wife of Edgar A....can you imagine those two "makin' bacon" ? Ha

  1854 - Milan I ~ King of Serbia

  1868 - Willis Rodney Whitney ~ Founder of General Electric (not related to Eli who said " Keep your hands off my cotton pickin' gin"

  1893 - Dorothy Parker ~ Short Story Writer ( not related to Dorothy Gale of "Oz" fame, played so well by....

  ~ Bye the Bye ~

    565 ~ St. Columbia reported seeing a monster in Loch Ness

  1454 ~ Jews are expelled from Brunn Moravia by order of King Ladislaus

  1485 ~ Battle of Bosworth - Henry Tudor's forces defeat & kill King Richard III and will end the "War of the Roses"

  1614 ~ Trades people chase & plunder Jews out of ghetto in Frankfort

  1762 ~ Ann Franklin becomes 1st female newspaper editor of "Mercury" in Newport, RI

  1775 ~ King George III proclaims colonies to be in open rebellion..."oh good guess, Georgie" incidently, more "goodies" are coming...

  1851 ~ "GOLD FIELDS DISCOVERED IN AUSTRALIA !"

  ~ So we are "Back to Good" I hope....hint to Kat's music eye  

   

• DaddysKat 3,554 Posts

  Fri, Aug 22 2014 10:58 AM

  22 August,

  Picks without flicks ...

  Actress Kristen Wiig is 41 today; and actor Ty Burrell is 47.  A couple young FYPs celebrate their birthdays today ... Dakota Goyo turns 15 and Lulu Antariksa is 19.

  Those of you that have enjoyed The Food Network know this chef ... Giada De Laurentis is celebrating her 44th birthday today.  And Hobbit lovers will know this actor ... Richard Armitage is 43.  Backstreet Boys fans may recognize this guy ... Howie Dorough is 41 today.

  Many FOPs out there will remember these two actresses ... Valerie Harper (played Rhoda) turns 75 today, and Cindy Williams (played Shirley Feeney) is 67.

  Author Ray Bradbury was born on 22 August in 1920.  This brings up the trivia question ... at what temperature does paper catch fire (in Fahrenheit)?

  US Sports addicts will recognize these two names ... NFL coach Bill Parcells is 73, and MLB allstar Carl Yastrzemski is 75.

  And James Bond fans may recognize this actress ... she played the part of Pùssy Galore in the movie Goldfinger.  Honor Blackman is 89 today.

  Picks with Flicks ...

  British comedian James Carden is 36 today ...

  Singer Tori Amos is 51 ...

  The lead singer for Alice in Chains, Layne Staley was born on 22 August (1967 - 2002) ...

  And this great blues singer and guitarist was born on the 22nd as well.  John Lee Hooker (1917 - 2001) ...

  Roland Orzabal is 53 today ...

  And for those of you FOPs that got married years ago and are still with that same spouse after all these years, here's a song for you and your long-time love  (ladies ... he put up with your cycles and guys, she's dealt with your snoring and multiple runs to the hardware store to repair a leaky faucet all these years.  Seems like you're the lucky ones IMO ... there's got to be something there other than good looks!)  

  Singer Collin Raye, is 54 today ...

   

  Whether you call it TGIF or P.O.E.T.S. day, have a pleasant Friday and wonderful weekend everyone!

   

   

• Ducati916 1,116 Posts

  Fri, Aug 22 2014 1:53 PM

  Thanks DaddysKat...today happens to be mine...Some of the ones above I was aware of...some not...so thanks for the enlightenment. Of the one listed, I was a huge fan of Layne Staley....loved the band and his voice was perfect for the music.