Saturday, July 25, 2015

Saturday 25th July


Trivia Question – which former boxing world champion named all five of his sons after him – Rocky Balboa:  George Foreman:  Sugar Ray Leonard: Muhammad Ali?   Answer at the bottom - if I remember.
The temperature today was allegedly 95, but it was lying.  I had to go out briefly for some cat food and litter and it felt over 100.   It was hot in Clinton at 103.
 
 
It doesn't look like cooling down much next week.
The news is mostly Donald Trump, whose rallying cry is “I shall make America GREAT again”.  I thought Americans already believed their country was great.  I hear “our great country”  several times a day from  television pundits.  

We know our country is Great, it is emblazoned across our passports “United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland”.    Perhaps Trump, if President (God forbid! I am already seeing too much of him on television) will change the US passports to The Great United States.
2016 Republican candidates.    I wouldn’t know who to vote for among these – they are all mostly good decent people.   But definitely at the bottom of the heap, were it my choice, would be Trump and the intensely irritating Rick Perry, governor of Texas,   I’d like to see Fiorina beat Hilary Clinton, to be first woman President, ha, ha – bear in mind I am not into the politics, I have no axes to grind, it is purely a matter of personalities for me.
Trivia question answer
George Foreman is a retired American professional boxer, two-time World Heavyweight Champion, Olympic gold medalist, ordained minister, author, and entrepreneur.  
Foreman has 12 children: five sons and seven daughters. The boxing legend and famous grill salesman named all of his sons after him: George Jr, George III, George IV, George V, and George VI. He also has a daughter named Georgetta, and another daughter named Freda George. The rest of his daughters are not named after him.
Surely they must have given all those Georges nicknames.  Their mother surely didn't call them George III, IV, V, and VI when she was shouting up the stairs to them.

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