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12/12 - National Ding-A-Ling Day [1]
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Date: 2022-12-12
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It's National Ding-a-Ling Day... I ain't touching it.
What else is there? Festival of Unmentionable Thoughts? Not sure about that either, in our perpetual and seemingly increasingly censorious society that could contain vastly more than multitudes. Once mostly matters prurient or heretical from a religious perspective it now includes damn near anything and everything, especially politics, economics and sociology. There are venues where anything arguably controversial is blocked, you know, like somebody's sig line that says "Peace, y'all" or somesuch.
How about 12 by 12 works out to 144 which is a gross which free associates to "the dozens" which, for those of a reasonable antiquity calls to mind stuff needing one of those CAUTION; NOT FOR THE UNDULY SENSITIVE type warnings:
x YouTube Video
x YouTube Video
OTOH mebbe da kine Sound Check Day
x YouTube Video
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On this day in history:
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1098 -- Crusaders of the 1st Crusade massacred the inhabitants of Ma'arrat al-Numan and then ate them.
1897 -- Brazil's first planned city was founded.
1901 -- Marconi received the first transatlantic radio signal
1917 -- Boys Town, a home for "wayward" boys, was founded in Nebraska.
1948 -- Fourteen Scots Guards slaughtered 24 unarmed Malayan civilians & burned their village
1963 -- Kenya gained its independence
1964 -- Jomo Kenyatta became the first President of Kenya.
1991 -- The Russian Federation became independent of the USSR.
2000 -- The Supremes released the Bush v. Gore decision
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Some people who were born on this day:
“That which is not just is not law.”
~~ William Lloyd Garrison
1745 -- John Jay, jurist and politician
1805 -- William Lloyd Garrison, journalist and activist, founder of The Liberator
1806 – Stand Watie, Cherokee principal chief, signed Treaty of New Echota
1821 -- Gustave Flaubert, author and playwright
1863 -- Edvard Munch, painter and illustrator
1881 – Louise Thuliez, school teacher, author, World War I and II resistance fighter
1915 -- Frank Sinatra, singer, actor, and producer
1918 -- Joe Williams, singer and pianist (not Big Joe Williams)
1923 – Bob Dorough, musician, composer, and producer
1927 – Robert Noyce, inventor and businessman, co-founded the Intel Corporation
1928 – Helen Frankenthaler, painter and academic
1929 – Toshiko Akiyoshi, pianist and composer
1938 -- Connie Francis, singer and actress
1940 -- Dionne Warwick, singer
1943 -- Grover Washington, Jr., singer, songwriter, saxophonist, and producer
1944 -- Rob Tyner, singer, songwriter and bass player
1945 -- Tony Williams, drummer, composer, and producer
1953 -- Bruce Kulick, guitarist and songwriter
1957 -- Sheila E., singer, songwriter, drummer, and actress
1972 -- Hank Williams III, singer, songwriter and guitarist
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Some people who died on this day:
There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.
~~ Joseph Heller
1889 -- Robert Browning, poet and playwright
1921 -- Henrietta Swan Leavitt, astronomer and academic, made Cepheid variables into standard candles
1951 -- Mildred Bailey, singer
1985 -- Ian Stewart, keyboard player and manager, co-founder of The Rolling Stones
1987 -- Enrique Jorrin, violinist and composer, cha cha dude
1996 -- Vance Packard, journalist, author, and critic
1999 -- Joseph Heller, novelist, short story writer, and playwright
2002 – Dee Brown, historian and author, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
2006 – Alan Shugart, engineer and businessman, co-founded Seagate Technology
2007 -- Ike Turner, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer
2020 – John le Carré, author
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Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
Festival of Unmentionable Thoughts
International Sound Check Day
Green Monday
National Ding-a-Ling Day
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Today's Tunes
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Ding-a-ling Day
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x YouTube Video
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Home for so-called "wayward" boys
x YouTube Video
Frank Sinatra
x YouTube Video
Joe Williams
x YouTube Video
Bob Dorough
x YouTube Video
Toshiko Akiyoshi
x YouTube Video
Connie Francis
x YouTube Video
Dionne Warwick
x YouTube Video
Grover Washington, Jr.
x YouTube Video
Rob Tyner
x YouTube Video
Tony Williams
x YouTube Video
Bruce Kulick
x YouTube Video
Shiela E.
x YouTube Video
Hank Williams III
x YouTube Video
Mildred Bailey
x YouTube Video
Ian Stewart
x YouTube Video
Enrique Jorrin
x YouTube Video
Ike Turner
x YouTube Video
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Bonus tune(s):
Tony Williams with Miles Davis Quintet
x YouTube Video
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Ok, it's an open thread, so it's up to you folks now. So what's on your mind?
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