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Grab some spuds and a sharp knife or a cleaver and get to work. We need small strips for the fries. It will be 'Julliene Fries Day' You can make the work a little easier if you still have that Kitchen gadget you bought from the TV, many, many years ago and use twice. Come on now. You know the one that you only got after the 'but, wait there's more' pitch.
Some may want to consider 'Middle Child's Day', tomorrow.
Let us all consider how we can effect the lives of the youth around us. You can you know. Tomorrow will be 'International Youth Day'
hunt up those old 45,78 and 33 1/3 RPM records. Tomorrow will be 'National Vinyl Record Day'
You might also want to hunt up the ladders and the very long handled brushes for Dumbo's bath. Tomorrow will also be 'World Elephant Day'. And let's make a special effort to get behind those large ears. A few peanuts would be appreciated. And please leave your pet mouse at home.
If none of the above activities suit you, then perhaps you might like to play with the new gadget, as of August 12 1981, It will be 'IBM PC Day' Personally, I think they are a fad and won't last.
Stepping back on August 12:
In 1851, Isaac Singer was granted patent for his sewing machine.
In 1939, The Wizard of Oz movie musical premieres in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.
In 1960 - Echo 1A, NASA's first successful communications satellite, is launched. It is a balloon, signal reflecting, not transmitting, satellite.
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National Catfish Month, National Goat Cheese Month, National Peach Month, National Brownies at Brunch Month
August is:
August origin (from Wikipedia): Originally named Sextili (Latin), because it was the sixth month in the original ten-month Roman calendar: under Romulus in 753 BC, when March was the first month of the year.
"About 700 BC it became the eighth month when January and February were added to the year before March by King Numa Pompilius, who also gave it 29 days. Julius Caesar added two days when he created the Julian calendar in 45 BC giving it its modern length of 31 days. In 8 BC it was renamed in honor of Augustus
According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius, he chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the conquest of Egypt.
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If you couldn't afford 90 cents for a movie ticket, 50 years ago,
or your 45 RPM record player was broke, you might watch one of these shows on TV.
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