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02/06/2024 HOW OLD ARE YOU?   1 comment

How old are you? It’s a valid question that most people ask about a stranger when discussing them with a third-party, “He’s about 20 years old.”. People who are in their 20’s think people in their 30’s are old while people in their 30’s think people in their 50’s are old. It’s all relative and silly but we do it all the time without really thinking about it. In my case I think anyone younger than 60 is just a stupid kid and that should show you how really stupid it is to judge a person by their age. Today’s post is going to list some interesting accomplishments by the age of the person doing them. Using age as way to judge someone is just ridiculous as these examples will show you.

At the Age of 1

Mary, of the House of Stewart, became Queen of Scotland.

Brooke Shields was selected as the Ivory Snow baby.

At the Age of 2

Judy Garland launches her stage career.

Isabella II ascends to the Spanish throne.

At the Age of 3

Albert Einstein speaks for the first time.

Alice Liddell first meets Charles Dodgson (pen name of Lewis Carol) who later used her as inspiration to write Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

At the Age of 4

Malcolm Little (who later changed his name to Malcolm X) watches as his family’s home was burned to the ground by members of the Ku Klux Klan.

Bob Hope emigrates from England to the United States

At the Age of 5

Devora Wilson, Mountain climber, scales a 4000-foot peak.

Christopher Robin Milne hears the first “Winnie the Pooh” story, with himself as the main character, made up by his father, A. A.

At the Age of 6

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart gives keyboard concerts across Europe.

Shirley Temple receives an honorary Oscar for her contribution to film.

Ron Howard stars as Opie in TV’s, The Andy Griffith Show.

At the Age of 7

Helen Keller, blind and deaf, master’s a vocabulary of 625 words.

Carol Brown, who travels more than an hour daily to attend a distantschool because as a black she is denied admission to the local all-white school, motivates her father to file a lawsuit, resulting in the landmark Brown V. Board of Education Supreme Court decision which finds public-schoolsegregation to be unconstitutional.

😉😉😉

My Credentials

Age 1 – Flung my full diaper at my mother.

Age 2 – Spoke my first word (Shit!)

Age 3 – Drew my first tree.

Age 4 – Threw up on my sister.

Age 5 – Drank my first drink of alcohol (bottle of perfume)

Age 6 – Ran away from school (police found me later)

MY PARENTS WERE SOOOO PROUD

07/13/2023 “FIRSTS”   1 comment

I’m not entirely sure why being “first” is so important to so many of us. Everyone wants to be “first” not just in sporting events, but damn near everything. I was the “first” kid in my family to go to college, and it gave my parents something they used to impress their friends. I was also the “first” in the family to drop out of college and join the Army. I sure didn’t get any kudos for that move. Today I decided to research some “firsts” not just from the United States but worldwide. This is also the “first” time I’ve written about “firsts” on this blog. Let me be the “first” to congratulate myself for that.

  • Barbra Streisand’s first performance was as a chocolate chip cookie.
  • The first song Bruce Springsteen ever learned to play on the guitar was The Rolling Stones, “It’s All Over Now.”
  • The first ready to eat breakfast cereal was Shredded Wheat in 1893 (it beat Kellogg’s Corn Flakes by just five years).
  • The first scientifically planned slimming diet was devised in 1862 by Dr. Harvey, an ear specialist, for an overweight undertaker. At that time dieting was initially something that only men did, and women didn’t start to do it until they stopped wearing figure-altering corsets.
  • The first dry cleaning was done in 1849 by a Monsieur Jolly-Bellin of France, who discovered the process by mistake when he upset a lamp over a newly laundered tablecloth and found that the part that was covered with alcohol from the lamp was cleaner than the rest.

  • Peter Sellers was the first male to ever be featured on the cover of Playboy.
  • Cuba Gooding Jr’s first job was as a dancer for Lionel Richie at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.
  • The world’s first traffic island was installed – at his own expense – by Colonel Pierrepoint outside his London club. It’s also ironic that he was later killed crossing over to it.
  • Courtney Cox was the first person on U.S. TV ever to use the word period in an ad for Tampax.
  • Gustav Mahler composed his first piece of music at the age of four, Sergei Prokofiev composed his first piece of music at age five, and Wolfgang Mozart was just eight when he composed his first symphony.

MAKE A LIST OF YOUR TEN “FIRSTS”