Happy Blog-O-Versary!

Has it been a whole year already?!?!  To coin a new phrase, time sure flies when you're having fun!  I started out as so very anti-technology.  A year ago, I had a dated cell phone and wondered why anyone would want to be on Facebook.  Now I have an only-slightly dated cell phone on which I check Facebook more often than is necessary and/or healthy.  A year ago, I followed no blogs and spent little-to-no time on the computer.  Now I follow about one hundred blogs and scold myself for spending too much time gazing at a screen.  It took a little goading from my brother to get me to start my own blog because he thought I had something to offer the blogosphere; I must say that I am truly grateful for his goading.  Maintaining a blog can be challenging, but in all honesty, it is very rewarding when one realizes that people are actually reading, and maybe even enjoying, the stories of silly things, crazy places, and oddball characters which one documents.

It's a wacky tacky anniversary.
Happy dogs for happy blogs!
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So, to myself and anyone out there reading, I say, HAPPY BLOG-O-VERSARY!  To celebrate the date, January 18, here are some great moments in wacky tacky history.

On this day in history:

1896
The X-Ray machine debuts as a tourist attraction in New York City.
The X-Ray Specs came later.
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1904
Cary Grant entered the world as Archibald Leach
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1913
Danny Kaye was born.
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1944
The first jazz concert is held at New York's Metropolitan Opera House.
Luminaries include Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton & Louis Armstrong
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1946 

Tex Ritter's "You Will Have to Pay" is a chart topper.

1950
The Federal tax on oleo is repealed!
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1992
Nature Boy Ric Flair becomes WWF Champion
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I hope that this year we're able to bring you even more wacky tacky adventures.  It's a big place, and we've only just begun to explore all the wacky tacky that this wide world has to offer.  Until then, please help us celebrate our first Blog-O-Versary with these anniversary songs.

"The Anniversary Song" (1960)

Connie Francis

"Anniversary Waltz"

I Love Lucy - "Hollywood Anniversary"

original air date April 4, 1955

And with you, you wacky tacky turkey necks, may I always dance the anniversary waltz!

Cheers!

Mr. Tiny