Dunnys and Toothy things.

February 2

Forty Shilling Day, Wotton, near Dorking, Surrey,( date subject to alteration and weather!)
“Five clever and intrepid boys under the age of sixteen who are willing to brave the weather of a cold churchyard at Wotton in February, and who have retentive memories, can earn themselves 40 shillings each under the terms of William Glanville's will. To do so, they have to stand with both hands on his tombstone, recite the Lord's Prayer, the Apostles' Creed and the Ten Commandments. Next, they have to read aloud the fifteenth chapter of the First Epistle of St Paul to the Corinthians, and follow this by writing two verses of the Epistle in a clear and legible hand.The weather has not always been conducive to such an outdoor ceremony: on some occasions it has been postponed and on others a makeshift tent has been erected over the grave.

(come on baby light my fire?)

Groundhog Day in the United States and Canada, from the saying that the groundhog first appears from hibernation on that day. If he sees his shadow, he goes back for another six weeks – indicating six more weeks of bad weather.
European settlers brought the custom with them, mainly from Germany, but also from Czechoslovakia, England and other parts of Europe, where a badger had performed the same prognostications for centuries prior.

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Happy Birthday

1650 Nell Gwynne,she who graduated from a fruit barrow gal to the mistress of King Charles II(eating your fruit and veggies will get you more places than just the nearest toilet!)

1954 The former Mrs. Billy Joel,that Uptown Gal Christine Brinkley

1977 She of the hips that never fib,Shakira

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1653 New Amsterdam was incorporated("even old New York was once New Amsterdam,why they changed it I can't say,people just liked it better that way").

1829 Charles Sturt became the first European to stumble across The Gutter of Australia-the Darling River.(been flushing the trash down it ever since)

1852 the first public toilet for men opened in Fleet St London(and the tabloid press has kept up the sewerage content to this day)

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Fish man to face crocs,piranhas in Amazon swim ...even Steve Irwin had more sense.

Man breaks nails with teeth...didn't his mother tell him to stop chewing his nails?

Thief caught by false teeth...ahh those molars will give you away everytime.