SUNDAY FUNDAY - JANUARY 15, 2023

SUNDAY FUNDAY - JANUARY 15, 2023

(Photography by my college roommate, Gary McDowell)

WARM-UP 

Here we are - already in the second week of January 2023.

Did you make some resolutions?  I am actually still working on some relating to LOVE WINS.  (In addition to losing the 15 pounds I added between the first of November to the first of January!!)

The orchestra is back in rehearsal with some music that is new to me.  There is the music from the movie, “Frozen”, “Pirates of the Caribbean”, and “Lion King”.   Plus “Night on Bald Mountain” and Star Wars.  

College Football ended last Monday night with Georgia hammering TCU.  On Sunday, January 8th, South Dakota State beat North Dakota State for the NCAA Division Football Championship Subdivision.  (I mention that as both of my children are graduates of South Dakota State University!!!  I taught at Dakota State University - and my children didn’t want to attend college where Dad taught!!! There generally isn’t much that South Dakotans can cheer about!!!).

Professional Football goes on now until the Super Bowl on February 12, 2023.  

Probably none of my friends follows College Hockey, but Quinnipiac’s Men’s Hockey Team is ranked #1 Nationally in the latest USCHO Division I men’s poll, and the Quinnipiac Women’s Hockey Team is ranked #4 in the women’s Division 1 poll.  You haven’t known me long if you haven’t heard me tell you that I played in the NCAA Frozen Four Division One National Championship Game in 2013 between Quinnipiac and Yale..  (But, I wasn’t on the ice!!  I was up in the second balcony with the pep band as the pep band advisor!!!)  That same year I also played in the NCAA Division 1 Women’s basketball tournament (Quinnipiac lost in the first round)

Talking about Quinnipiac Hockey, the former president of Quinnipiac University would tell people we were in the same league as Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, Princeton, Cornell, and others (the same Hockey league).  And, last weekend, the Quinnipiac Women’s Hockey team beat the Harvard women’s hockey team in Fenway Park - the legendary home of the Boston Red Sox (outside).  

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Some religious fun:

Who was the fastest runner in the bible?

Adam because he was the first in the human race.

What did Adam say on the 24th of December?

It’s Christmas, Eve!

What kind of car did the disciples drive?

A Honda, because the Bible says they were all in one Accord.

(An older version was “God drove them out in a (Plymouth) Fury”

Who was the greatest financier in the Bible?

Noah – was floating his stock while the rest of the world was in liquidation.

Who was known as a mathematician in the bible?

Moses – he wrote the book of numbers.

Who does the Bible say should make the tea?

He brews.

Why didn’t they play cards on the ark?

Noah was standing on the deck.

Who was the greatest comedian in the Bible?

Samson – he brought the house down.

How long did Cain hate his brother?

As long as he was Able.

What was Boaz like before he got married?

He was Ruth-less.

Why was everyone so poor in biblical times?

Because there was only one Job.

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Top Songs for the Week ending January 14, 1967

1 I’M A BELIEVER –•– The Monkees 

2 SNOOPY VS. THE RED BARON –•– The Royal Guardsmen

3 TELL IT LIKE IT IS –•– Aaron Neville 

4 GOOD THING –•– Paul Revere and the Raiders

5 SUGAR TOWN –•– Nancy Sinatra 

6 WORDS OF LOVE –•– The Mamas and the Papas 

7 STANDING IN THE SHADOWS OF LOVE –•– The Four Tops

8 WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL –•– The New Vaudeville Band 

9 THAT’S LIFE –•– Frank Sinatra 

10 GEORGY GIRL –•– The Seekers 

I find it interesting to see that both Frank and Nancy Sinatra had top ten hits this week.  

The Monkees were a commercial made-up group - but had some great hits, as did some of the others in the list from this week in January 1967.

(This week in 1967, I was a sophomore at Winona State.  I can’t remember anything particularly significant from this week.  My roommate was Gary McDowell - lead trumpet in the College Band, and I was lead tuba player!!  We were in the same fraternity.  I was in the Student Senate.  We were making our plans to change the world!! We lived in Prentiss-Lucas residence hall (aka - “dorm”) on the top floor.  From our window we could see Sugar Loaf “mountain”, and the student union.)

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SOME WEIRD US GEOGRAPHY

In terms of state capitals, Boston and Austin are the only two American State Capitals that rhyme

If you lived in Stamford, Connecticut, and went directly North, West, South, or East, you would end up in New York!!!  (Going east is the strange one, but you would cross Long Island Sound and hit near the end of Long Island New York)

Alaska is the country’s westernmost AND easternmost state (some of the Aleutian Islands are in the Eastern Hemisphere!!!)

Some of the skyscrapers in New York City have their own zip codes. 

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WRAP-UP

It’s been a great January in Central Texas.  We’ve had 70-degree temperatures and even some low 80s.  We did have about four days around Christmas that were very cold, and I anticipate we’ll get some cold weather again.  My garden is doing well.  I’ve had salad for many days with kale and Swiss Chard.  (My spinach didn’t do much). 

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LOVE WINS

KAREN ANNE WHITE, ©, JANUARY 11, 2023