It's Harry Houdini Day



Houdini is the most famous magician in history. He was born Erik Weisz on March 24, 1874, in Budapest, Hungary - and 4 years old when his family emigrated to America. His worldwide fame came from making amazing escapes.

Early routines included getting out of straitjackets and handcuffs. He eventually performed an act where he was shackled with irons, placed in a box that was locked, roped, and weighted - and then submerged under water. Abracadabra!

Look at my magic

Jenni - what a beautiful bit of magic! Lovely morning there and here! Robins are twittering.

It's also my mum's 78th birthday today.
Happy Birthday mum!!!

I don't know how to put mum on the cake, or margaret, which is her name. Anyone direct me how to do it?

Jenni! I'll give it a try, if it works - I'll tell you how I did it! LOL

Snapper:

Hey Jenni, I used GifWorks.com - opened this cake and went to Insert Text and chose Comics Sans, 18 Bold and centered it on the dot on the cake! Voila - magic!

And a couple fishies - stoplight parrots and ?Charlotte?

morning gang...rusty, you graphic of "somebody said it was monday again" is EXACTLY how I feel this morning! argh!

Happy Birthday Margaret!!


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Hi everyone. I thought I was the only one with the Monday Blues. Can't seem to sake 'em off.

Mondays come too soon and Fridays drag their behinds to get here! Just doesn't seem fair, Cynde. When does Michael start doing his CG gig?

Lovely capture of Satchmo, Annie. I got him doing a headstand - have a magnifying glass?

Pretty Annie!

Okay, here's a whodunit or a whatzit:

hey rusty, he just left in full uniform...snapped a pic to post tomorrow...he is going up to his station today to check in and find out what his schedule will be

Silly Rusty. Issa Alien of course.

Weren't we waiting for PINKY?



Heeerrrreee'sss Charlotte:

Annie - great alien - matched my whatzit exactly.

We had our big (275,000 in attendance) St. Patrick's Day Parade yesterday in nearby (Little Ireland) Holyoke, MA. Only four people were shot this year. Too much green beer? Not enough?

TODAY'S TRIVIA:

1882 - German scientist Robert Koch discovers cause of TB
1898 - 1st automobile sold
1930 - Planet Pluto named
1955 - 1st seagoing oil drill rig placed in service
1981 - "Nightline with Ted Koppel" premieres on ABC

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS:

1874 - Harry Houdini, magician/escape artist
1930 - Steve McQueen, actor (Bullitt)
1940 - Bob Mackie, designer (Streisand, Cher)
1944 - Patti Labelle, singer (Chameleon)
1962 - Star Jones, attorney/TV hostess (Inside Edition)

Lovely day for walking on the beach.

Gonna go watch tv for a while. See ya later. Annie B.

I'm still here - watching the cams and reading The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub. We bought Black House, the sequel to it, so I'm trying to get up to speed. Last time I read The Talisman was in 1985. I'm enjoying it much more this time. Last time around I wasn't the fantasy fan I am today.

Where is everyone? Watching CNN?

Lots of fuzzy fish and diver pix today:

What odd looking fishy is this?

Hiya Rusty. I was just gonna ask what are they?? I put them on the other thread, maybe someone there will know. Annie B.

Annie, I'm guessing something in the puffer family - maybe a porcupinefish? The lower one seem puffed up - unless there are two fishes overlapping in the shot. Hard to tell from where I sit! LOL

hi gals, i think they are either puffer or porcupine...remember a while back when a group of them showed up, and they are generally solitary so it was really wierd...rusty, love that fish graphic!

Hiya, Cynde! I got that funny fish a long time ago at scubamom.com - might be worth checking her page out to see if she's still there and making new funnies! She's a talented artist.

Rusty and Cynde. I am thinking puffer or porcupine too, at a wierd angle.

Sunset time

I'm not sure why but this one reminds me of Cecil - it's called Shorediver:

Time for me to run and do a little supper prep!

Rusty, more like Cynde, she has to deal with surf. If the surf is up here I stay home.

Hi Folks!
Bob and I are back from our weekend in Amsterdam. We must apologise to all the Dutch BT'ers for our niece who has attempted to rid your lovely country of Chocomel in two days! We had great weather and are always so impressed with the hospitality. We live in the north east of England so it takes us less time to get to Amsterdam than it does to get to London. That's the reason we started to go to Bonaire! The travel connections were better!

I don't know if this one will come out right or not, but I thought is looked like an odd shaped fish. Maybe the porcupine again.

cecil, you are correct, and I have been there!

Hi guys, and Bye guys.

Just got my briefcase ready for a VERY busy day tomorrow, and straight on to a monthly meeting I chair. Whew! tired just packing for it. :-)

Thanks for putting my mum's name on the cake, Rusty. I'll have a go and then let you know if I can do it. And thanks for the birthday wishes - she'll be real chuffed when she sees them.

Happy Birthday Margaret and Jenni's Mum!

Better late than never eh????

Hello to all of you.. I am busy as usual, but still need my fix from time to time!

xx

Good Evening and Good Night! Great Pics!
I will pass on a Happy Birthday to Jenni's Mum (Margaret)!

Eileen, thanks! It is late you know.... ;-)

Isn't it tomorrow (Tuesday) for you ! It is 8:06pm here, it feels late, just catching up before I get things ready for tomorrow. It feels like it has been a long day - Monday's usually are!! I have 4 reports on the go this week!

I am going to say GoodNight All! Goodnight Sarah!

72 more hours...still haven't fitted my mouthpiece;)

nevertheless, y'all have a good 'un...

;)

Re: the shorediver - actually I realized it's JAKE - isn't that his yellow tank?