Happy Bloomsday!

[godotwaits]

...... and yes I said yes I will yes.....

[mnhermit]

G'mornin - I'm going to assume this is the daily for the obscure - 'Tales of Brave Ulysses' - hope it takes off

Today in History:

1567 - Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned in Lochleven Castle prison Scotland
1755 - British capture Fort Beaus‚jour, expel Acadians
1858 - Abraham Lincoln says "A house divided against itself cannot stand"
1882 - 17" hailstones weighing 1.75 lbs fall in Dubuque Iowa
1884 - 1st roller coaster used (Coney Island NY)
1903 - Ford Motors incorporates
1903 - Pepsi Cola company forms
1909 - 1st US airplane sold commercially, by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000
1937 - Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in LA
1947 - 1st network news-Dumont's "News from Washington"
1974 - Homer Simpson & Marge Bouvier wed
1979 - Moslem Brotherhood kills 62 sheiks in Aleppo Syria


born today:

1895 - Stan Laurel, [Arthur S Jefferson], comedian (Laurel & Hardy)
1896 - Jean Peugeot, Frans auto manufacturer (Peugeot)
1899 - Nelson Doubleday, US, publisher (Doubleday)
1938 - Joyce Carol Oates, NY, novelist (Garden of Earthly Delights)
1940 - Billy "Crash" Craddock, Greensboro NC, singer
1941 - Lamont Dozier, Detroit, songwriter (Dozier-Holland-Dozier)
1952 - Gino Vanelli, Montreal Quebec, singer (Living Inside Myself)
1954 - Gary Roberts, rocker (Boomtown Rats)

[Lonnie]

Today in History:

1567 - Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned in Lochleven Castle prison Scotland
1755 - British capture Fort Beaus‚jour, expel Acadians
1858 - Abraham Lincoln says "A house divided against itself cannot stand"
1882 - 17" hailstones weighing 1.75 lbs fall in Dubuque Iowa
1884 - 1st roller coaster used (Coney Island NY)
1903 - Ford Motors incorporates
1903 - Pepsi Cola company forms
1909 - 1st US airplane sold commercially, by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000
1937 - Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in LA
1947 - 1st network news-Dumont's "News from Washington"
1974 - Homer Simpson & Marge Bouvier wed
1979 - Moslem Brotherhood kills 62 sheiks in Aleppo Syria
1982 - Irish state broadcaster, RTÉ, transmitted a continuous 30-hour dramatic performance of the entire text of Ulysses on radio.

[ducktrapper]

A lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.

[mnhermit]

Thank you Lonnie

[Chesapeake]

He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liver slices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencod's roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.