A Festivus for the Rest of Us!
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Anwar Sadat
(25 Dec 1918 - 06 Oct 1981)
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12/23/20
- NNHS Newsletter A Festivus for the Rest of Us! |
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There can be hope only for a society which
acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.
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Anwar Sadat |
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Dear Friends and Schoolmates,
We return today to our observance of the totally ludicrous Seinfeld holiday of Festivus (revealed December 18, 1997):
BONUS #1 - The Story of Festivus
BONUS #2 - Festivus - The Airing of Grievances
BONUS #3 - Five Things You Should Know about Festivus
HOMEWORK:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festivus
http://www.msgr.ca/msgr-2/festivus%2010.htm
GRIEVANCES:
From
Me
('65) of NC -
12/23/17 - "Top Seven Irritating Hackneyed Phrases":
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In keeping
with the spirit of today's observances, I offer these seven phrases
guaranteed to send me right over the edge and quite possibly to throw
something: 1. "This video is going viral." - Surely there's a better way of expressing this, if only once in a while for the sake of variety. 2. "Give it up for..." - What's wrong with, "Let's have a round of applause for..."? 3. "Put your hands together for..." - Ditto 4. "... not a happy camper." - This was cute the first five times we heard it back in the 80's, but no longer. 5. "Been there, done that..." - Ditto 6. "Last, but not least..." - Pretty much defines trite 7. "Rule of thumb" - This is THE most offensive expression, as the origin of this phrase was to indicate that a stick used to beat one's wife could legally be no bigger around than her husband's thumb. Thank you for this
opportunity to vent. I shall now resume my usual lovable sweetie-pie
nature.
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THIS WEEK'S
BIRTHDAYS:
Happy
Festivus Birthday today
to
Tom Flax ('64) of VA AND
Joyce Lawrence Cahoon ('65) of VA
AND
Holly Hill Campbell (Hampton Roads Academy -
'72) of VA!
Happy
Christmas Eve Birthday tomorrow
to
James Gay ('57)
AND
Ann W. Hutcheson ('57)
AND
Malcolm Davis ('65) of
VA
AND
Sandye Jordan
Frost ('67) of NC!
Happy Birthday this week to:
25 -
The late
Patsy Bloxom Meider
(d.
10/09/20) ('57)
AND
Doug Dickinson ('69) of VA;
27 -
Gary Farnsworth ('58) of NV AND
Anita Morgan
Becker ('66) of VA;
28 - Bob Stalnaker ('63);
29 -
Jack Nelson ('54) of
Northern VA AND Roy Tate ('57)
AND Ginny Goolsby James ('63) AND
the late Kenny Lipscomb ('63)
(d.
04/20/15)
AND
Michael Artman ('66) of VA;
30 - William Gwynn ('57)
AND
the late
Ron Miller ('59)
(d.
07/29/14)
AND
Lucy Southall Propst ('63) of VA
AND
Carole Althaus Tanenhaus ('65) of
MD
AND
the late
Joyce Tedder Rossman ('68)
(d. 05/11/15)
AND
Sarah Stewart Vance ('69) of VA!
Many Happy Returns, One and All!
T
December 23, 1941 -
American forces on
Wake
Island surrendered to the
Japanese Imperial Army.
December 23, 1942 - Bob Hope agreed to entertain U.S.
airmen in Alaska. It was the first of the traditional Christmas shows.
December 23, 1948 - Former
Japanese premier Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese war leaders
convicted of war crimes by the
International Military Tribunal for the Far East were executed at
Sugamo Prison in
Tokyo. They
had been found guilty of crimes against humanity.
THIS DAY IN 1970:
| December 23, 1970 - The
North Tower of the
World Trade Center in
Manhattan,
New York, New York was topped out at 1,368 feet (417 m), making it
the tallest building in the world. December 23, 1970 - The Democratic Republic of the Congo officially became a one-party state. December 23, 1970 - Speed skater and sportscaster Catriona LeMay Doan was born Catriona Ann LeMay in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. December 23, 1970 - Football player Raymont Harris was born Raymont LaShawn Harris in Lorain, Ohio. December 23, 1970 - Singer-songwriter and guitarist Karine Polwart was born in Banknock, Stirlingshire, Scotland. December 23, 1970 - Actor Charles Ruggles (b. Charles Sherman Ruggles on 08 Feb 1886 in Los Angeles, California) died of cancer at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California at the age of 84. December 23, 1970 - The Prime Minister of Estonia in exile, Aleksander Warma (b. 22 June 1890 in Viinistu, Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire), died in Stockholm, Sweden at the age of 80. |
From
My Friend, Daniel, of UT - 12/22/14:
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I ask you, what can we possibly give to the Lord this Christmastime?
Considering all that He has done and is doing for us, there is something
that we might give Him in return. Christ's great gift to us was His life
and sacrifice. Should that not then be our small gift to Him-our lives
and sacrifices, not only now but in the future?
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Ezra Taft Benson |
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Thank
you, Joan!
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 Thanks,
John!
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From My Friend, Julie, of NC - 12/21/20, 9:57 AM:
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 Thanks,
Julie!
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It's
simple; if it jiggles, it's fat.
- Arnold
Schwarzenegger |
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