Thursday, October 23rd. Day 296 of 2025
It’s Croc Day. Footwear I will NEVER wear
It’s Slap Your Coworker Day ! Use Caution but don’t rule it out
1910: Blanche S. Scott became the first woman to make a public solo airplane flight in the United States
1929: The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged starting the stock-market crash that began the Great Depression
1973: President Nixon agreed to turn over the subpoenaed tapes concerning the Watergate affair
1991: Clarence Thomas is sworn in as US Supreme Court Justice
1993: Joe Carter of the Toronto Blue Jays became only the second player to end the World Series with a home run
1998: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat reach a breakthrough in a land-for-peace West Bank accord
2001: Apple Computer releases the iPod
2023: ‘Superfog’ conditions near New Orleans cause a motorway pile-up involving 158 vehicles, causing seven deaths
News:
Weather: Sunny and Windy. High in mid 60’s. NO BURNING ! If you do and get caught, I’ll announce it and you’ll be scorned (As you should)
Sports: Alexander Central Soccer takes down Freedom…AC Volleyball at North Iredell today in Rnd III State Playoffs…JV Football plays final home game vrs Freedom tonight…Coach Marshall says he proud of team despite record…Panther QB making progress with injured ankle…NFL Thursday night, Viking at Chargers (they should be in San Diego, don’t you agree ?)…Hornets win opener…Flagg says he was not so good in his first NBA game
Happy Birthday: Dwight Yoakam, Nancy Grace, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Doug Flutie, Al Leiter Sanjay Gupta, Ryan Reynolds, Emilia Clarke, Nick Bosa
Did you take a vacation this year ? https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/22/nearly-a-quarter-of-american-workers-didnt-take-any-of-their-vacation-days-this-year-says-new-survey.html
Word of the Day: tack room: – a room in or near a stable for storing saddles, harnesses, and other tack. “Everything was stored neatly in the tack room.”
Quote of the Day: “When turkeys mate they think of swans.”… Johnny Carson (Born this day in 1925)
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