Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Birthday Meme



I stole this from one of my favorite bloggers, Mary The Teach, over at Work of the Poet. She got it from the inventor, Jamie of Duward Discussion. If you need a post idea for NaBloPoMo, or any thing else, jump right in.



I was born July 8, 1944



According to the Birthday Calculator this is what happened on my birthday:

Your date of conception was on or about 16 October 1943 which was a Saturday.
You were born on a Saturday under the astrological sign Cancer.

Your fortune cookie reads: Love is for the lucky and the brave.

The year 1944 was a leap year.
Your birthday falls into the Chinese year beginning 1/25/1944 and ending 2/12/1945.
You were born in the Chinese year of the Monkey.

Your lucky day is Monday.
Your lucky number is 2 & 7.
Your ruling planet(s) is Moon.
Your lucky dates are 1st, 10th, 19th, 28th.
Your opposition sign is Capricorn.
Your opposition number(s) is 8.

I don’t know what an opposition number is, but 8 is my favorite number.

Your birthstone is Ruby

Celebrities who share your birthday:
Kathleen Robertson (1973) Toby Keith (1961) Kevin Bacon (1958)
Christopher G. Moore (1952) Marianne Williamson (1952) Anjelica Huston (1951)
Steve Lawrence (1935) Roone Arledge (1931) Billy Eckstine (1914)
Nelson Rockefeller (1908) John D. Rockefeller (1839)

According to popculturemadness, these were the top songs of 1944:

1. Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral - Bing Crosby
2. Trolley Song - Judy Garland
3. Swinging On A Star - Bing Crosby
4. Hamp's Boogie Woogie - Lionel Hampton
5. Mairzy Doates - Merry Macs
6. You Always Hurt The One You Love - Mills Brothers
7. Twilight Time - Les Brown
8. It Could Happen to You - Jo Stafford
9. Don't Fence Me In - Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters
10. Besame Mucho - Jimmy Dorsey

and Going My Way won the Academy Award for Best Picture, Bing Crosby for Best Actor and Ingrid Bergman for Best Actress.

I found this info at InformationPlease:

Federal spending: $91.30 billion
Federal debt: $204.1 billion
Consumer Price Index: 17.6
Unemployment: 1.2%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.03

World Series
St. Louis Cardinals d. St. Louis Browns (4-2)

Pulitzer Prizes
Fiction: Journey in the Dark, Martin Flavin

The first instance of network censorship occurs. The sound is cut off on the Eddie Cantor and Nora Martin duet, "We're Having a Baby, My Baby and Me."

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