A Mixed Bag

Today is Wear a Plunger On Your Head Day. Really, people, I don't make this stuff up. And we are in the midst of Chanukah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, so a big high-five to our fellow Hebrew nationals. In an unfortunate coincidence on this date in 1892 Rabbi H. Rosenberg is expelled from Temple Beth Jacob in Brooklyn for eating pork! Speaking instead of tongue, on this day in 1996 "Ebonics" is declared a language or dialect by the school board of Oakland, California. In more news from the Communications Lab today in 1997 HTML 4.0 — without which we could not be publishing this daily enterprise on anything other than paper — is released by the World Wide Web Consortium. On this date in 1968 John Lennon and Yoko Ono arrive for a London press conference whilst canoodling inside a large paper bag — the first Bagism performance. Finally, one last tidbit from the World of Wood — on this day in 1999 Julia "Butterfly" Hill ends her two-year, anti-logging protest called the Luna Tree Sit wherein she lives atop a redwood tree. I wonder if she had a plunger in her perch.

This Plunger iconTee — No, I will not fix your toilet is the product description — can be pulled from the groovy Terrific! Tees room of the Cafe Press.com Big Star Shirts shop.

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