Brock's Daily Post

Good morning Phoenix! I trust everyone is staying warm today - it's cold out there!

Pop Culture Trivia for February 12, 2014
► In 1879, the first artificial ice rink opened in Madison Square Garden in NYC
► The city and county of San Francisco began to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in 2004
► Also in 2004, Mattel officially announced the split of Barbie and Ken

Things that make you go “hmmmm”…
During the heat of the space race in the 1960's, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration decided it needed a ball point pen to write in the zero gravity confines of its space capsules. After considerable research and development, the Astronaut Pen was developed at a cost of about $1 million U.S. The pen worked and also enjoyed some modest success as a novelty item back here on Earth. The Soviet Union, faced with the same problem, used a pencil.

Joke of the Day:
Four expectant fathers pace in a hospital waiting room while their wives are in labor. The nurse enters and tells the first man, "Congratulations, you're the father of twins."
"What a coincidence," the man says. "I work for the Minnesota Twins baseball team."
A little later, the nurse returns and tells the second man, "You are the father of triplets."
"That's really an incredible coincidence," he answers. "I work for the 3M Corporation."
An hour later, the nurse tells the third man that his wife has just given birth to quadruplets.
The man says, "I don't believe it! I work for the Four Seasons. What a coincidence!"
After hearing this, everyone's attention turns to the fourth guy, who has just fainted. He slowly regains consciousness and whispers, "I should have never taken that job at Millennium Computers."

Quote of the Day:
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. Albert Einstein

Random Daily Factoid:
On November 8th, 2004, Cuba stopped accepting U.S. dollars and created the Convertible Peso as a replacement.

Be sure to wish Aric and Carys Happy Birthday! They're 21 today!

Have a fangtastic MB Phoenix kind of day!  Brock