TRIVIA TODAY - Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Greetings Infomaniacs,

I was over at my dad's house last night to have dinner and visit for awhile. While we were eating, my dad's cell phone rang but he didn't answer it and the call went to voicemail.

Apparently, when there's a new voicemail message, the phone alerts with a loud doorbell noise. Well, the phone went "ding dong" and my dad's dog went crazy.

My dad doesn't even have a doorbell, but apparently the pup has lived in a home before where there was one, because he knew exactly what it meant.

He jumped up and ran to the front door, barking all the way, ready to greet the visitor. The poor dog kept running from the front door to the back door, waiting for someone to be at either door. It took a few minutes before he realized that it was a false alarm!

Ah, pets - always a great source of entertainment!

Enjoy!
Melissa

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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves."

HINT: (1899-1980), American naturalist, photographer, and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer.


RANDOM TIDBITS
First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy wasn't a regular hat wearer until her husband became president. When Halston designed a bone wool pillbox hat for her to wear at her husband's inauguration, she found the style so flattering that she made it her trademark.

The story of a 10-gallon hat being so named because it could hold that much water is a myth. Galon is the Spanish word for "braid," and back in the day, it was a tradition to have a tall-crowned hat that left room for several rows of braided hatbands. English-speaking cowboys heard "galon" and thought "gallon."

Butch Patrick (Eddie Munster) starred in an unlikely Saturday morning Krofft TV production called Lidsville. The show was set in a netherworld populated by oversized hat puppets, with Charles Nelson Reilly as the ringleader.

The pork-pie hat is similar to a traditional Fedora but
has a flat crown. It had been traditional headgear for
British men-about-town for years, but also became popular in America thanks to silent film star Buster Keaton.

In the 1980 motion picture The Blues Brothers, Elwood (Dan Aykroyd) is never seen without his sunglasses, while younger brother Jake (John Belushi) never takes off his hat.

The term "hat trick" originated not with hockey, but with cricket. A bowler tricky enough to take three wickets on three consecutive balls was often rewarded by his club with a rather heady gift: a new hat.


VIDEO CLIP
That's Good - That's Bad
Hee Haw stars Archie Campbell and Roy Clarke always had great chemistry on screen and off. And this hilarious skit is no exception. Archie plays his reoccurring barber character while Roy is in for a hair cut.

Watch It Now: That's Good - That's Bad


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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves."

ANSWER: Edwin Way Teale.

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