May 1st is May Day! Laugh, Dance and Sing, it’s May Day! Celebrate Springtime!
May Day is a holiday of traditional festivities celebrating springtime fertility. May Day celebrations usually include crowning a May Queen and dancing around a Maypole.
May Day has been celebrated in Ireland since pagan times as the Feast of Beltane.
Coo-Coo-Ca-Choo!
The Dude:
It’s all a goddamn fake, man!
It’s like Lenin said: You look for the person who will benefit, and, uh, uh, you know…
Donny: “I am the walrus”?
The Dude: You know what I’m trying to say?
Donny: “I am the walrus”
Walter Sobchak: That fucking bitch!
The Dude: Oh yeah!
Donny: “I am the walrus”
Walter Sobchak: That’s ex– SHUT THE F*CK UP DONNY!
V.I. Lenin! Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov!
Donny:
(to The Dude) What the f*ck is he talking about?
May Day is an international public holiday celebrated specifically as “Labour Day” or “International Workers’ Day” around the world.
In 1904 the International Socialist Conference in Amsterdam, the Sixth Conference of the Second International, called on “all Social Democratic Party organisations and trade unions of all countries to demonstrate energetically on the First of May for the legal establishment of the 8-hour day, for the class demands of the proletariat, and for universal peace.” The date was chosen for “International Workers’ Day” to commemorate the Haymarket affair in Chicago on May 4, 1886. May Day has always been a day for demonstrations by various socialist, communist and anarchist groups since the Second International.
May Day is one of the most important holidays in the People’s Republic of China, North Korea, Cuba and Russia. May Day celebrations usually include large parades with displays of military strength.
Earth (AKA “the World” or “the Globe”) is the third planet from the Sun and is the birthplace of humanity and the cradle of human civilization.
‘s Earth Day Doodle!
Earth is approximately 4.6 billion years old. The oldest known rocks are about 4 billion years old (rocks older than 3 billion years are rare) and the oldest fossils of living organisms are less than 3.9 billion years old. With a radius of 3,959 miles, Earth is the biggest of the known terrestrial planets, and the fifth largest in our solar system.
Planet Earth, Sol System, Milky Way Galaxy, Universe
71 Percent of the Earth’s surface is covered with water. Earth’s atmosphere is 77% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, with traces of argon, carbon dioxide and water (H20). Earth’s oceans have an average depth of about 2.5 miles and contains 97 percent of the planet’s water. Earth has a central (inner and outer) core, a rocky mantle and a solid crust.
The name “Earth” is at least 1,000 years old and it is the only planet whose name doesn’t come from from Greek or Roman mythology. The name is from Old English and Germanic origins and means “ground”.
Earth orbits the sun and completes one daily rotation every 23.9 hours. It takes 365.25 days to complete a one year trip around the sun. The Earth’s axis is tilted 23.4 degrees to the plane of the planet’s orbit around the sun and this causes the cycle of seasons.
Earth is the only known planet that has a single moon. The moon is (an average distance of) 238,855 miles away from Earth.
Planet Earth, Sol System, Milky Way Galaxy, Universe
A beautiful Waikoloa sunset on the Big Island of Hawaii
We Can Run
by John Barlow & Brent Mydland
We don’t own this place though we act as if we did It belongs to the children of our children’s kids The actual owners haven’t even been born yet
But we never tend the garden and we rarely pay the rent Most of it is broken and the rest of it is bent Put it all on plastic and I wonder where we’ll be when the bills hit
We can run but we can’t hide from it Of all possible worlds we only got one, we gotta ride on it Whatever we’ve done we’ll never get far from what we leave behind Baby we can run, run, run but we can’t hide
Well I’m dumping my trash in your back yard Making certain you don’t notice really isn’t so hard You’re so busy with your guns and all of your excuses to use them
Well it’s oil for the rich and babies for the poor We’ve got everyone believing that more is more If a reckoning comes maybe we’ll know what to do then
We can run but we can’t hide from it Of all possible worlds we only got one, we gotta ride on it Whatever we’ve done we’ll never get far from what we leave behind Baby we can run, run, run but we can’t hide
All these complications seem to leave no choice I heard the tongues of billions speak with just one voice Saying just leave all the rest to me, I need it worse than you, you see Then I heard the sound of one child crying
Today I went out walking in the amber wind There’s a hole in the sky where the light pours in I remember the days when I wasn’t afraid of the sunshine
But now it beats down on the ashphalt land Like a hammering blow from God’s left hand What little still grows Cringes in the shade till the night-time
We can run but we can’t hide from it Of all possible worlds we only got one, we gotta ride on it Whatever we’ve done we’ll never get far from what we leave behind Baby we can run, run, run but we can’t hide (….no, we can’t hide.)
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Clara Peller asks “Where’s The Beef?” in 1984
Beef is the name for meat from cattle.
Beef can be harvested from bulls, cows, heifers or steers.
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“Let’s Play Know Your Cuts of Meat!” – David Letterman
Beef muscle (MEAT) is cut into roasts, short ribs or steaks.
Cuts: filet mignon, sirloin steak, rump steak, rib steak, rib eye steak, hanger steak, etc.
Some cuts are processed (corned beef and beef jerky) and trimmings are ground, minced or used in sausages. Blood is used in some varieties of blood sausage.
Other parts: the oxtail, liver, tongue, tripe from the reticulum or rumen, glands (the pancreas and thymus are called sweetbreads), the heart, the brain, the kidneys and testicles (called calf fries, prairie oysters or Rocky Mountain oysters in the U.S.) are eaten too. Some intestines are cooked and eaten, but more often they are cleaned and used as natural sausage casings. The bones are used for making beef stock and gelatin.
Beef is the third most consumed meat in the world, accounting for about 25% of meat production worldwide (after pork 38% and poultry 30%).
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“Where’s The Beef?”
Beef is first divided into primal cuts during butchering.
Primal cuts are large pieces of meat initially separated from the animal’s carcass.
Steaks and other subdivisions are cut from these basic sections.
Steak! (Before)
Steak! (After)
Steak-On-A-Stake at the Renaissance Pleasure Faire
“Beef….it’s what’s for dinner.”
Porcini-Rubbed Ribeye and Fingerling Potatoes at Mozza Osteria in Hollywood
$29 Room Service Bacon Cheeseburger and Fries at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas
Steak Diane at Yoshi’s in San Francisco
Steak Dinner at Carnevino at the Palazzo Hotel in Las Vegas
Bone-in Ribeye Steak w/fries at the Texas Roadhouse BBQ in Medford, Oregon
2 AM Pastrami Sandwich at Tommy’s Joynt in San Francisco!
Christmas Dinner! Prime Rib (perfectly done) at a Friend’s in North Hollywood
Bite-Size Short Rib & Cheese Slider at the Four Seasons Beverly Wilshire
Spicy Beef Panang at Chan Dara in Larchmont Village, California
Cooking (All You Can Eat) Beef at AYCE GOGI in Van Nuys, California
In-N-Out Burger Double-Double With Cheese!
Wagyu Beef (on a hot stone) – Dinner Party at N/Naka in West Los Angeles
Bone-In Ribeye Steak at Patina at the Hollywood Bowl
Beef For Sale at The Butcher Shop in Eagle Point, Oregon
Cheeseburger and Fries for Lunch at the Four Seasons Westlake Village
Steak Dinner at Carnevino at the Palazzo Hotel in Las Vegas
Steak Sandwich and Fries at Cafe Bizou in Sherman Oaks
Choose Your Steak for Dinner at the Texas Roadhouse BBQ in Medford, Oregon
Chili Burger from Tommy’s at Universal City in Los Angeles
Steak Dinner at Beasy’s on the Creek in Ashland, Oregon
Best Pastrami Sandwich in San Francisco at Tommy’s Joynt
Home Cooked Bone-In Ribeye Steak with Sautéed Red Onion
Cooking Beef Behind the Glass at The Stand in Encino, California
Steak-On-A-Steak!
Filet Mignon at Le Sanglier in Tarzana, California
Bacon Cheeseburger & Fries at Karl Strauss Brewery in Downtown Los Angeles
Prime Rib at the Sunday Brunch at the LUXE Hotel on Sunset in West Los Angeles
Bistec Empanizado (Breaded Steak) at Versailles Cuban Food in Encino
Crusted Filet Steak at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills
BBQ Bacon Cheeseburger Lunch at Jasper’s in Medford, Oregon
Sloppy Joe!
1/2 of the Cote de Boeuf at Melisse Restaurant in Santa Monica
How did “Where’s The Beef?” become a part of the American vocabulary and an all-purpose phrase questioning the substance of an idea, event or product?
Clara Peller (August 4, 1902 – August 11, 1987) was a manicurist and American character actress. Born on August 4, 1902 in Russia, she came to the United States at the age of 5 with an uncle and lived in Chicago, Illinois. At the age of 81, Clara starred in the 1984 “Where’s The Beef?” advertising campaign for Wendy’s restaurants, created by the Dancer Fitzgerald Sample advertising agency.
At age 80, Clara was hired as a manicurist for a television commercial set in a Chicago barbershop. Impressed by her no-nonsense manners and unique voice, the agency signed her. She was hard of hearing and had emphysema, which limited her ability to speak long lines of dialogue, and she appeared in many TV commercials. She first attracted attention as a comical cleaning lady in an ad for the new Massachusetts State Lottery game “Megabucks” in the late 1970s and later became a national cultural phenomenon in a series of commercials for the Wendy’s Restaurant chain.
First aired on January 10, 1984, the Wendy’s commercial “Fluffy Bun” portrayed a fictional competitor “Home of the Big Bun” where three elderly ladies are complaining about an enormous hamburger bun containing a tiny hamburger patty. Two of the women comment on the size of the bun and they are interrupted by Peller’s character, who looks around in vain while making the outraged demand: “Where’s The Beef?”
“Where’s The Beef?” became a catchphrase (before viral video) across the United States.
The actress made the three-word phrase a cultural phenomenon, achieved Andy Warhol’s “15 minutes of fame” and became an instant star. Sequels to the spots featured her yelling her famous line in various scenes and her face and the slogan were merchandised on shirts, hats, buttons, mugs, glasses, bumper stickers, frisbees, games, a commemorative plate, and all sorts of other products. Nashville songwriter and DJ Coyote McCloud wrote and performed a hit song entitled “Where’s the Beef?” released as a promotional single for Wendy’s featuring Clara Peller.
“Where’s The Beef?” – The Game!
Wendy’s sales jumped 31% to $945 million in 1985 worldwide. Wendy’s Senior VP of Communications Denny Lynch said at the time that “with Clara we accomplished as much in five weeks as we did in 14½ years.” Former Vice-President Walter Mondale also used the line in his bid for the Democratic nomination in the 1984 presidential campaign.
The campaign ended in 1985 when Clara did a commercial for Campbell’s Prego pasta sauce, where she declares “I found it! I really found it!” After the Prego commercial aired, Wendy’s management decided to terminate her contract. Clara’s response: “I’ve made them millions and they don’t appreciate me.” Following her termination and the conclusion of the “Where’s The Beef?” campaign, Wendy’s suffered a 2 year sales slump and consumer awareness of the Wendy’s brand did not recover for another five years!
NOTE: According to an A&E biography, “Where’s The Beef?” was actually an error made by Clara who was supposed to say “Where’s all the beef?” And another story says the line was shortened because of her emphysema.
Clara was paid scale for the first commercial and claimed she only made about $30,000 from the commercials, but Wendy’s claimed she was paid about $500,000 for her work. Clara also appeared in other commercials, did interviews and guest spots (including a cameo on “Saturday Night Live” in April 1984), made other appearances, and she had a small role in the feature film “Moving Violations.”
Clara Peller died in on August 11, 1987, one week after her 85th birthday.
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The World Cup or “Coupe du Monde”is the most viewed sporting event in the world exceeding even the Olympic Games.
FIFA World Cup Brazil 2014
Tournament Kickoff: 12 June, 2014
Final (Championship) Game: 13 July, 2014
732 Players on 32 National Teams
A record 204 countries entered qualification for the 2010 World Cup.
BRAZIL is the host nation in 2014
World Cup 2014 – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
FIFA -Fédération Internationale de Football Association
FIFA Membership: 209 national associations
FIFA Headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland
FIFA President is Sepp Blatter
FIFA was founded in Paris on 21 May, 1904. Founding Members: Belgium, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Spain (the Madrid Football Club; Spanish Federation wasn’t created until 1913), Sweden and Switzerland. The same day, the German Association telegrammed its intention of affiliating. Membership expanded beyond Europe with South Africa 1908, Argentina and Chile 1912, Canada and the United States 1913.
In tournaments from 1934-1978, 16 teams competed except in 1938, when Austria was absorbed into Germany after qualifying, and in 1950, when India, Scotland and Turkey withdrew. The tournament was expanded to 24 teams in 1982 and then to 32 in 1998 allowing more teams from Africa, Asia and North America to take part.
“Coupe du Monde” FIFA World Cup Trophy
The 1974 FIFA World Cup, the tenth staging, was held in West Germany. The tournament marked the first time that the FIFA World Cup Trophy, created by the Italian sculptor Silvio Gazzaniga, was awarded. The previous trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, had been won for the third time by Brazil in 1970 and was awarded permanently to the Brazilians.
Largest official attendance at a World Cup match: 173,000 in Maracana, Brazil, July 16, 1950 (unofficial attendance: 220,000)
WORLD CUP 2014! USA! USA! USA! USA defeats Ghana 2-1 on 16 June, 2014!
The next two World Cups will be hosted by Russia in 2018 and Qatar in 2022.
World Cup 2014! USA! USA! USA! United States of America – One Nation One Team!
UPDATE: 1 July, 2014 United States eliminated. Belgium 2 – United States 1
Great game! – Extra time! – Heartbreaking loss! – Belgium wins. Thank you and good night! Tim Howard played an amazing game as Goalkeeper, making 15 saves and keeping the U.S. in it until extra time. Too many opportunities for Belgium and too many missed opportunities for the United States. It was a good run, but now the U.S. is out of the competition. Congratulations Belgium. Good luck against Argentina.
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