Month: December 2013

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Peter’s Pack of Pickled Pigskin Picks- Bowl Edition

Here they are!

The final chance for Wandering Fame. Select the winners of these 10 college football bowl games and your reputation in the sporting world will be as accurate as the BCS itself. (Not really.) And shall we dare to make the National “Championship” Game the tie breaker? Sure, why not! Then the suspense can be almost as exciting as the game itself, if not more. (Remember, folks, these are college “students” who, although they have been on the practice field, haven’t played a game in over a month. Also, once they arrive in the city of the game, they get fat on fancy dinners and hoopla, so that come game time, they look often like high school freshman on the field for the first time. So, have at it. Just get your entries in by 6:45PM EST Monday, when the first game begins. (Note to Mumsee- Boise State already played in the Hawai’i Bowl and lost to Oregon State.)

#10 Oregon vs. Texas (VALERO ALAMO BOWL)

#24 Duke vs. #21 Texas A&M (Chick-fil-A BOWL)

#19 Wisconsin vs. #9 South Carolina- (CAPITAL ONE BOWL)

Iowa vs. #16 LSU- (OUTBACK BOWL)

#5 Stanford vs. #4 Michigan State- (ROSE BOWL)

#15 UCF vs. #6 Baylor- (TOSTITOS FIESTA BOWL)

#11 Oklahoma vs. #3   Alabama- (ALLSTATE SUGAR BOWL)

#13 Oklahoma State vs. #8   Missouri- (AT&T COTTON BOWL)

#12  Clemson vs. #7 Ohio State- (DISCOVER ORANGE BOWL)

#1 Florida State vs. #2 Auburn- (VIZIO BCS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP) Pick winner and score.

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Our Daily Thread 12-27-13

Good Morning!

It’s Friday! 🙂

On this day in 1831 Charles Darwin set out on a voyage to the Pacific aboard the HMS Beagle. Darwin’s discoveries during the voyage helped him form the basis of his theories on evolution. (I didn’t discover this fact until I’d already picked the quote from Pasteur, but the link with the quote responds to some of those theories, and how they were easily proven wrong. Pasteur was an interesting fellow, so check out the link below if you’d like to read more, you know, in case there’s a test…. 😉

In 1845 Dr. Crawford Williamson Long used anesthesia for childbirth for the first time. The event was the delivery of his own child in Jefferson, GA.

In 1900 Carrie Nation staged her first raid on a saloon at the Carey Hotel in Wichita, KS. She broke each and every one of the liquor bottles that could be seen. 😯

In 1904 James Barrie’s play “Peter Pan” premiered in London.

And in 1947 the children’s television program “Howdy Doody,” hosted by Bob Smith, made its debut on NBC.

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Quote of the Day

“Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment.”

Louis Pasteur

More on Mr. Pasteur here, from AnsweringGenesis.org. He’s an interesting fellow.

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Today is James Mead’s birthday. So yeah, Kutless. 🙂

And it’s Matt Slocum’s, so SixpenceNonetheRicher

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Anyone have a QoD?

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Prayer Requests 12-27-13

Anyone have a request or praise to share today?

Psalm 122

¹I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord.

2 Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem.

3 Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together:

4 Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the Lord.

5 For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David.

6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.

7 Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.

8 For my brethren and companions’ sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.

9 Because of the house of the Lord our God I will seek thy good.

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Our Daily Thread 12-26-13

Good Morning!

Only 364 Days Until Christmas! 😯

🙂

On this day in 1620 the Pilgrim Fathers landed at New Plymouth, MA, to found Plymouth Colony, with John Carver as Governor.

In 1776 the British suffered a major defeat in the Battle of Trenton during the American Revolutionary War.

In 1865 the coffee percolator was patented by James H. Mason.

In 1931 George Gershwin’s musical, “Of Thee I Sing,” opened at the Music Box Theatre in New York City.  It became the first American musical to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize.

And in 1941 Winston Churchill became the first British prime minister to address a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress.

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Quote of the Day

“I always looked up there, because I remember a time when the only things on the walls in Fenway were the Jimmy Fund sign and the retired numbers. Never in a million years did you think you’d ever be up there with those guys.”

Carlton Fisk

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This musical opened today in 1931. And it actually won a Pulitzer Prize. Weird.

From TheMusicProf78, who has tons of really old stuff.

Next, it’s Bob Hartman’s birthday. So Petra, Live From FarmAid

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QoD

How was your Christmas?

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Prayer Requests 12-26-13

Anyone have a request or praise to share?

Psalm 121

¹I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.

2 My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.

3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.

4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.

5 The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand.

6 The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.

7 The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.

8 The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

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Our Daily Thread 12-25-13

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! 🙂

dec 24th 025

Luke 2:6-21

6 And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.

7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.

8 And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.

9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.

10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.

11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.

12 And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.

13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,

14 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.

15 And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.

16 And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.

17 And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child.

18 And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds.

19 But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.

20 And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.

21 And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

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Quote of the Day

6 Jesus saith unto him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”

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From George Fox University

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QoD

Did you get anything good this year?

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