Day Brightener – Tee Shirt Humor – Definitely Not All PC
New Year’s Day Brightener – Quotes to Inspire Your New Year’s Resolution
Begin as you mean to go on.
Charles H. Spurgeon
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
Jane Goodall
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Plato
First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not.
Octavia E. Butler
Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented.
Maya Angelou
If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one!
Dolly Parton
Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.
Brad Paisley
Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.
Mary Oliver
A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it.
Walt Disney
Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.”
Mary Anne Radmacher
You can get excited about the future. The past won’t mind.
Hillary DePiano
Day Brightener – Some Puns That Should Tickle Your Funny Bone
You can’t blame anyone else if you fall in your driveway. It’s your own asphalt.
-I’ve started telling everyone about the benefits of eating dried grapes. It’s all about raisin awareness.
-I’ve started investing in stocks: beef, vegetable, chicken. One day I hope to be a bouillianaire.
-If you boil a funny bone, it becomes a laughing stock. Now that’s humerus.
-I accidentally rubbed ketchup in my eyes. Now I have Heinz sight.
-Did you know muffins spelled backwards is what you do when you take them out of the oven?
-Scientifically, a raven has 17 primary wing feathers, the big ones at the end of the wing. They are called pinion feathers. A crow has 16. So, the difference between a raven and a crow is only a matter of a pinion.
-I was walking in the jungle and saw a lizard on his hind legs telling jokes. I turned to a local tribal leader and said, “That lizard is really funny!” The leader replied, “That’s not a lizard. He’s a stand-up chameleon.
-I tried to come up with a carpentry pun that woodwork. I thought I nailed it but nobody saw it.
-Singing in the shower is fine until you get soap in your mouth. Then it’s a soap opera.
-The Black-Eyed Peas can sing us a song …But the chick peas can only hummus one.
-Then there was the time Fruit of the Loom took Hanes to court… It was a brief case.
-How much does a chimney cost? Nothing, it’s on the house.
-My friend said she wouldn’t eat cow’s tongue because it came out of a cow’s mouth. I gave her an egg.
-Once upon a time there was a King who was only 12 inches tall. He was a terrible King but he made a great ruler.
-Ran out of toilet paper and now using lettuce leaves. Today was just the tip of the iceberg, and tomorrow romaines to be seen.
-My friend Jack says he can communicate with vegetables. That’s right…Jack and the beans talk.
-I want to tell you about a girl who only eats plants. You probably have not heard of herbivore.
-I was struggling to understand how lightning works … And then it struck me.
-Six cows were smoking joints and playing poker. That’s right. The steaks were pretty high.
-I went to the paint store to get thinner. It didn’t work.
-You can’t blame anyone else if you fall in your driveway. It’s your own asphalt.
-I’ve started telling everyone about the benefits of eating dried grapes. It’s all about raisin awareness.
-I’ve started investing in stocks: beef, vegetable, chicken. One day I hope to be a bouillianaire.
-If you boil a funny bone, it becomes a laughing stock. Now that’s humerus.
-I accidentally rubbed ketchup in my eyes. Now I have Heinz sight.
-Did you know muffins spelled backwards is what you do when you take them out of the oven?
-Scientifically, a raven has 17 primary wing feathers, the big ones at the end of the wing. They are called pinion feathers. A crow has 16. So, the difference between a raven and a crow is only a matter of a pinion.
-I was walking in the jungle and saw a lizard on his hind legs telling jokes. I turned to a local tribal leader and said, “That lizard is really funny!” The leader replied, “That’s not a lizard. He’s a stand-up chameleon.
-I tried to come up with a carpentry pun that woodwork. I thought I nailed it but nobody saw it.
-Singing in the shower is fine until you get soap in your mouth. Then it’s a soap opera.
-The Black-Eyed Peas can sing us a song …But the chick peas can only hummus one.
-Then there was the time Fruit of the Loom took Hanes to court… It was a brief case.
-How much does a chimney cost? Nothing, it’s on the house.
-My friend said she wouldn’t eat cow’s tongue because it came out of a cow’s mouth. I gave her an egg.
-Once upon a time there was a King who was only 12 inches tall. He was a terrible King but he made a great ruler.
-Ran out of toilet paper and now using lettuce leaves. Today was just the tip of the iceberg, and tomorrow romaines to be seen.
-My friend Jack says he can communicate with vegetables. That’s right…Jack and the beans talk.
-I want to tell you about a girl who only eats plants. You probably have not heard of herbivore.
-I was struggling to understand how lightning works … And then it struck me.
-Six cows were smoking joints and playing poker. That’s right. The steaks were pretty high.
-I went to the paint store to get thinner. It didn’t work.
Day Brightener – Remembering
Me too, that was the good old days.
A man grabbing a bite at a San Francisco diner and using the counter’s Buckley Music System selectors connected to a central jukebox, 1941.
The chart shown here is only ONE day of the week. This report also breaks down six more days, but because this is facebook and not a magazine article, I’m showing one day.*** Cost of feeding 4218 prisoners in Missouri for one day in 1932. (The rest of the week follows this chart.)
From, “Report of the Department of Penal Institutions 1931-32.”
Elevator operators at Marshall Field’s department store in Chicago, 1947. Dressed in their crisp, tailored uniforms with matching jackets and skirts, they represented the elegance and professionalism expected of the store’s staff. These women not only operated the elevators but also greeted customers, announced the floors, and often provided directions or assistance, making them an integral part of the shopping experience.
Jack Benny (violin), Fred MacMurray (sax), Tony Martin (clarinet), Dick Powell (flugelhorn), Kirk Douglas (banjo), and Dan Dailey (drums).. ( Jack Benny Show, 1954.)
Menu from the Commander Hotel. Ocean City, Maryland in 1963.
IBM Computer, 1960s
By 1967, the IBM System/360 had transformed the workplace. In humming computer rooms filled with blinking lights and whirring tape reels, women and men worked side by side, typing commands into bulky terminals. These machines, once the size of entire rooms, processed payrolls, airline reservations, and even space program data. For many, it was the first glimpse of a digital future — a world where information could be stored, retrieved, and analyzed faster than any human mind. The IBM computer was not just a machine; it was the dawn of the information age. #fblifestyle #TechHistory #1960sInnovation #MainframeEra
On Armistice Day in 1940, a blizzard, with 16.2 inches of snow and wind of 30 to 60 miles per hour, closed down all activities. People could not get to work, the streetcars couldn’t run, and people who were at work couldn’t get home. Many had to work an extra shift. They then, of course, got an extra day off, called “Snow Day”. The City Hall sheltered some, about 20 stayed over night in the Schwartz Motor Company garage and many homes offered overnight stays. People will always remember this blizzard because it hit so suddenly with a sudden drop in temperature. In Minnesota 59 people died, including many hunters in shirt sleeves and light jackets who froze in their duck blinds.
Menu from Café Safran. 1913.
From the New York Public Library
From the New York Public Library
car stuck in a pothole on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis in 1965
Photo courtesy of Hennepin County Library
Approximately 1923 MNHS
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