I dropped into this thread having misread the topic as "Happy Bannock Book Week". Imagine my disappointment.
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You might as well create a "banned movie week", with a list of movies that are shown at local theaters that are R (or avbove) rated, restricting the age of young children from viewing. Extend that to banned elections, you have to be a certain age to vote and to drive a car, buy a beer, and any number of other activities that are restricted from children below certain ages. Why are certain adult theme books any different?
Banned Book Week is an actual thing. Since I started the mostly off-topic Happy Day notices, I'm sympathetic to posts that point out a different celebration "day" or "week". However, to collect all these narrow focused off-topics into one place, I am going to merge this thread into the existing Happy National . . . Day thread without otherwise editing anything.
Today, books are banned in some places or by some vendors for partisan political or cultural reasons. We can point that out, but discussing, debating or arguing about those reasons is not the purpose of this site. Please keep that in mind.
Today, books are banned in some places or by some vendors for partisan political or cultural reasons. We can point that out, but discussing, debating or arguing about those reasons is not the purpose of this site. Please keep that in mind.
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I had it firmly in mind, Glenn, as it seems did yellowcanoe. Thanks for the admonition. A few minutes ago I googled “Fahrenheit 451,” a book and movie centred around book bans and burnings. Such bans have been around for a very long time.
Books are banned for a variety of reasons
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Took me most of the day to find where you moved my post to.
BANNED BOOKS WEEK has little or nothing to do with Happy National………Day.
BANNED BOOKS WEEK has little or nothing to do with Happy National………Day.
Do you know that Fahrenheit 451 was a dystopian novel written by Bradbury during the Second Red Scare and the McCarthy Era, who was inspired by the book burnings in Nazi Germany. Note that it took place in Nazi Germany. Those who want America to move toward Nazi-like socialist society may have such a book list. No one has yet listed a title of any book that is totally banned to everyone in the USA.
Today's "day" is the birthday of motorcycle stuntman Evel Knievel (1938-2007).
On a business trip to the East Bay area of California sometime in the late '70s, I wandered into the hotel bar to have a beer. The only other person at the bar was Evel Knievel. I recognized him instantly because I vividly recalled his injurious jump over the fountain at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas with a motorcycle on New Years Eve, 1967, and his failed skycyle attempt to jump across the Snake River Canyon in Idaho in 1974. Both of those attempts had been televised with much hype and made Knievel famous. I thought about him again when I crossed the Snake River in 2004 with my outrigger canoe.
On a business trip to the East Bay area of California sometime in the late '70s, I wandered into the hotel bar to have a beer. The only other person at the bar was Evel Knievel. I recognized him instantly because I vividly recalled his injurious jump over the fountain at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas with a motorcycle on New Years Eve, 1967, and his failed skycyle attempt to jump across the Snake River Canyon in Idaho in 1974. Both of those attempts had been televised with much hype and made Knievel famous. I thought about him again when I crossed the Snake River in 2004 with my outrigger canoe.
Founding of Harvard today, but the more important historical event was that I met Maggie 57 years ago in Demyan's Hofbrau in Staten Island, New York. Harvard was eight years later.
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Missed a chance to wish Grace Slick a Happy 84 Birthday yesterday.
There's a birthday cake emoji on today's Halloween notice for a reason. He's not a psychedelic rock queen, but has been loopy on an airplane though not a starship.
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That was very subtle on your part, Glenn. Great recovery!
I do a lot of subtle things with the emojis, and the old guy coincidentally needed someone to give him a birthday cake on Halloween. I'll take birthday requests under advisement, but I only recognize deceased persons. Since Grace is still with us and "somebody to love", it would be premature to officially recognize her. But her fans in the forest certainly can in this thread.
Everyone please pay attention to the daily notice bar tomorrow. Important.
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Glenn,
I have been trying to understand, but I don’t know what you mean by he has been “loopy” on a (Jefferson) airplane, though not a (Jefferson) starship.
I celebrated Samhain in a mild modern way, sitting on our sons porch doling out handfuls of candy, complimenting kids on their crazy costumes. During lulls in the waves of ghouls and princesses pouring up the sidewalk I retired to the couch and sipped mulled cider, with a splash of Scotch my son had brought back for me on a recent business/pleasure trip to Scotland.
Snow flurries danced beneath the shrouded streetlights as the crowds tapered off. We retreated to the warm kitchen to tea and cake. Two toddler trick or treaters in our company grew tired, the bumble bee and ladybug both were up past their bedtime, so off to bed they went.
Another old year is drawing to a close and a new one is one the way. Sláinte !
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Snow flurries danced beneath the shrouded streetlights as the crowds tapered off. We retreated to the warm kitchen to tea and cake. Two toddler trick or treaters in our company grew tired, the bumble bee and ladybug both were up past their bedtime, so off to bed they went.
Another old year is drawing to a close and a new one is one the way. Sláinte !
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I'd rather be subtle but I don't want you to be pained. I put a birthday cake emoji on the Halloween daily notice because someone HERE was born on Halloween. That person, when he drank booze 45 years ago, once got loopy on saki when flying on a tedious airplane flight from Tokyo to NY. But he was never on a starship. How would I know these intimate details? Sorry, Halloween's over, so I can't say until next year, plus I have a more important announcement to make for November 1.
Emoji chromo-schizophrenia.
Today, for the birthday of Baseball Hall of Famer Stan Musial, I selected a red bird emoji because he was on the St. Louis Cardinals his entire career. That was on a Windows computer. However, I see on my Android phone the emoji is rendered as a blue bird, which might confuse young'uns into thinking The Man played for the Toronto Blue Jays. Good thing there are no young'uns on this site.
What's worrisome is that Android is Google and Google KNOWS EVERYTHING. Maybe I'm wrong about which bird team Stan Musial played for, since I haven't followed baseball since the 1970s. Perhaps @snapper, who lives 10 miles from the Baseball Hall of Fame, could drop in there some iced-out day to check out Musial's uniform.
Today, for the birthday of Baseball Hall of Famer Stan Musial, I selected a red bird emoji because he was on the St. Louis Cardinals his entire career. That was on a Windows computer. However, I see on my Android phone the emoji is rendered as a blue bird, which might confuse young'uns into thinking The Man played for the Toronto Blue Jays. Good thing there are no young'uns on this site.
What's worrisome is that Android is Google and Google KNOWS EVERYTHING. Maybe I'm wrong about which bird team Stan Musial played for, since I haven't followed baseball since the 1970s. Perhaps @snapper, who lives 10 miles from the Baseball Hall of Fame, could drop in there some iced-out day to check out Musial's uniform.
mhmmm ... on this picture he had a shirt with some red bird on
picture is from wikiwand:
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picture is from wikiwand:
Wikiwand - Stan Musial
Stanley Frank Musial , nicknamed "Stan the Man", was an American baseball outfielder and first baseman. Widely considered to be one of the greatest and most consistent hitters in baseball history, Musial spent 22 seasons in Major League Baseball , playing for the St. Louis Cardinals, from 1941...
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@Glenn MacGrady - I can assure you, the HOF has Stan Musial as a Cardinal; and only as a Cardinal. I used to spend a lot of time at the Hall each spring as the college I worked for sponsored Elderhostel classes there. Got to enter the inner sanctum and handle some of the Hall's mementos while accompanying the instructors on their rounds. Although I do still enjoy a good baseball game, even the non-fans enjoyed that part of the class.
That's all for now. Take care, have a wonderful Thanksgiving one and all and until next time...be well.
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That's all for now. Take care, have a wonderful Thanksgiving one and all and until next time...be well.
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I was intrigued by today’s headline, Glenn, and googled Schrodinger’s Cat. Good thing I never pursued quantum theory, as even when carefully explained to me, I confess that I do not have the patience or intellectual skill to comprehend. Thanks for revealing that.
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