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Post by ZandraJoi on Apr 15, 2021 8:13:44 GMT -5
"Is it a calculated risk to celebrate National Take A Wild Guess Day each year on April 15th? It might depend upon how you observe the day. Will you guess how many jelly beans are in a jar? Or will you be estimating your taxes? The day could be full of hunches and guesses depending on how you spend it. As a contestant in the game of life, sometimes our only option is to venture a guess at what’s around the corner. Our inklings or premonitions may never come to be. However, if the future keeps you awake at night worrying, it’s a good bet that worrying never paid a bill. Another good wager about worrying is that it costs you more in time and the space in your head than it will ever give back to you. But that’s just another estimate. The day challenges us to take a stab at making wild predictions. They may be way off or right on target. Sometimes we get better at guessing as we go, or we have a knack for it right away. No matter the case, it’s just a wild guess. Don’t take it seriously."
My notes: Anybody good at those counting jelly beans in a jar? I'm not lol Take this day as a reminder to just let loose. Try to tone down the things that are worrying you.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2021 16:15:59 GMT -5
Cool idea for a day.
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Post by ZandraJoi on Apr 15, 2022 8:08:52 GMT -5
"On April 15th, National Titanic Remembrance Day remembers the lives lost when the Titanic sank into the North Atlantic’s icy waters in 1912. We remember the more than 1,500 people who died that day. Known as the “the unsinkable ship,” the Titanic hit an iceberg at 11:40 pm on April 14, 1912, on her maiden voyage from England to New York City. Later, in the icy waters of the Atlantic Ocean, on April 15, the Titanic sank. Those who perished did so mainly due to an insufficient number of lifeboats onboard the ship.
Since that time, journalists, engineers, ocean explorers, historians, survivors, and descendants of those lost have been trying to piece together the events leading up to that night. Countless hours of documentation, salvage expeditions, and interviews all record the perspectives of those involved. Every angle and myth has been considered from the investors to the designers, the builders, and the sailers, right down to the communications and those left behind. And to this day, it still is a heartbreaking and mesmerizing story no matter where you begin."
My notes: It was just tragic what happened! Fortunately, people learned from these mistakes to put better safe-guards into place.
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Post by Bob on Apr 16, 2022 18:02:04 GMT -5
The Titanic is famous. I recommend watching documentaries on it.
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Post by ZandraJoi on Apr 15, 2023 7:12:36 GMT -5
"Benjamin Franklin may have overlooked one certainty in life: laundry. National Laundry Day on April 15th creates an opportunity to assess our laundry habits and teach our children to develop good ones. Humans have been doing laundry in numerous ways for as long as it has existed. One of the earliest ways was beating the dust and dirt out of our clothes and bedding with a stick or pounding the grime out against a rock in the river."
My notes: We have it easy for doing laundry. I honestly don't mind it. I also haven't used a dryer in 15 some years!
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Post by Steve on Apr 15, 2023 11:20:39 GMT -5
What's laundry?
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Post by spice on Apr 17, 2023 8:14:35 GMT -5
My parents had a Hoover washer/spin dry in one. Still had to hang the laundry out to dry though. We certainly have it easier than they did hundreds of years ago.
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Post by ZandraJoi on Apr 18, 2023 9:49:30 GMT -5
What's laundry? Well, see, you put dirty clothes in, shut the lid, & voila! out comes clean clothes My parents had a Hoover washer/spin dry in one. Still had to hang the laundry out to dry though. We certainly have it easier than they did hundreds of years ago. I agree! I've gotten used to hanging my clothes up. We even sold the dryer this house came with when we bought it; have more room now lol
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Post by ZandraJoi on Apr 15, 2024 8:32:44 GMT -5
"It's okay to make a mistake. Correcting mistakes since 1770, National Rubber Eraser Day on April 15th commemorates the date the invention first began making written errors disappear. Tablets of rubber (or wax) were used to erase lead or charcoal marks from paper before there were rubber erasers. Another option for the eraser was crustless bread. A Tokyo student said, "Bread erasers were used in place of rubber erasers, and so they would give them to us with no restriction on the amount. So we thought nothing of taking these and eating a firm part to at least slightly satisfy our hunger."" My notes: Do you remember these erasers? There are all different shapes & sizes. The colorful ones were more for decoration than actually working to erase! spice may like this topic as she had it in her Nostalgia Board on her forum.
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