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Thirty-four years and hundreds of episodeslater, Saturday Night Live! is still runningstrong and making millions of Americans laughevery Saturday. This week Tidbits goes behindthe gaffs and laughs, from the days of ChevyChase and Bill Murray, right up to AndySamberg and Tina Fey!

• Saturday Night Live (SNL) was originallycalled NBC’s Saturday Night, as the namewas already in use by ABC. NBC purchasedthe rights to the name in 1976.

• SNL’s producer and creator, Lorne Michaels,is originally from Canada and was bornLorne Michael Lipowitz.

• Michaels has also produced shows like Kids in

the Hall and 30 Rock and such movies asWayne’s World, Tommy Boy and Mean Girls.

• Comedian Mike Meyers supposedly based hischaracter of Dr. Evil on Lorne Michaels.There was even an SNL skit on the subject.

• SNL has won 23 Emmys in its thirty-fouryears on the air.

• Best known for his impersonation of PresidentClinton, Darrell Hammond sets the record forlongest running cast member with 14 seasonsunder his belt.

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NATIONAL BOSS DAYby Stanley Drummond

Bosses are people, too. (Really!) And every year on October 16, America pays tribute to them.• Actually, National Boss Day was created in

1958 by an Illinois secretary named Patricia Haroski. She chose October 16 because it was her father’s birthday. Her father also happened to be her boss at the time. Nevertheless, she felt that bosses in general were underappreciated, and registered the date with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as an official observance.

• Interestingly enough, a 2005 survey done by an international human resources consulting firm revealed that the majority of employees would not trade places with their boss. The primary reason given was the change that would result between them and their co-workers. They could no longer ignore or laugh at any slackers in their department; they’d be responsible for any poor performers.

• Hallmark started selling Boss Day cards in 1979. While they don’t reveal actual sales figures, they do disclose that the “holiday” is poised to break into the list of top 10 card-send-ing events within the next few years.

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• On April 3, 1776, because it lacked sufficient funds to build a strong navy, the Continental Congress gives privateers permission to attack any and all British ships, except for those vessels bringing arms and ammunition or people who intended to settle in the Colonies.

• On April 1, 1924, Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years in prison for treason for leading the Nazis’ unsuccessful “Beer Hall Putsch.” Sent to Landsberg jail, he spent his time dictating his autobiography, “Mein Kampf,” and was released after nine months.

• On April 31, 1930, the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America formally adopt the Production Code, which imposed strict guidelines on the portrayal of illegal drug trafficking, profanity, the portrayal of clergy members as comic characters or villains, and the portrayal of interracial relationships.

• On April 30, 1947, Preston Tucker announces his concept for a new automobile to be named the “Tucker.” His plans called for a rear-mounted engine as powerful as an aircraft motor, a stationary “cyclops” headlight and a steering wheel placed in the center of the car.

• On April 5, 1951, at the end of a highly publicized espionage case, death sentences are imposed against Julius and Ethel Rosenberg after they were found guilty of conspiring to transmit atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. The only incriminating evidence came from a confessed spy who was given a reduced sentence to testify against them.

• On April 4, 1969, the most popular show on TV, “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour,” is canceled by CBS because the brothers failed to submit an episode to network executives before its broadcast. Among other controversial content in the show, the network executives objected to antiwar guests, including Pete Seeger, who sang a Vietnam protest song on the air.

• On April 2, 1987, the United States government allows individual states to increase the speed limit on rural roads from 55 mph to 65 mph. Since 1973, when President Richard Nixon set a federal maximum speed limit of 55 mph, no cars were allowed to exceed this speed.

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SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE! (continued):

• Hammond later impersonated Johnny Depp asCaptain Jack Sparrow in 2007’s Epic Movie.

• Except for season seven, Don Pardo has beenthe announcer for SNL since its debute in1975. Though he officially retired from NBCin 2004, Pardo still flies in each week toannounce the show. He is 90 years old.

• Steve Martin has hosted SNL fifteen times,the most of any guest host. Paul Simon hasthe record as musical guest with nineappearances.

• The Rolling Stones were the first band tohost and appear as musical guests on anepisode.

• Britney Spears set a record as youngesthost/musical guest when she appeared onSNL at the age of 18.

• Chevy Chase was the first cast member toreturn and host the show in 1978.

• Several of the SNL sketches have gone on tobe made into films. The highest grossing ofthese was 1992’s Wayne’s World, whichbrought in $121 million. Wayne’s World firstappeared in 1989, season 14.

• Celebrity Jeopardy! is a famous SNL sketchrunning from 1996-2002. In later interviews,former cast member Norm MacDonald saidhe created the sketch just so he could do hisimpersonation of Burt Reynolds, whoMacDonald said is also a fan of the sketch.

• American comedian, Christopher Guest, is theonly former cast member who holds a title ofnobility in the United Kingdom. He isofficially titled Christopher Haden-Guest, 5th

Baron Haden-Guest. Guest is married toactress Jamie Lee Curtis. You might alsorecognize Guest as the six-fingered CountRugen from The Princess Bride.

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• Tina Fey, most recently known for her spot-on impersonation of Governor Sarah Palin,was born Elizabeth Stamatina Fey. She choseto go with just Tina.

• Every member of The Beatles has appearedon SNL except for John Lennon.

• Gerald Ford is the only U.S. President to openthe show with “Live from New York, it’sSaturday Night!”

• Former cast member Adam Sandler playedTheo Huxtable’s friend Smitty on The Cosby

Show back in 1987-88.

• There have been several Canadians on the castof SNL , including Mike Meyers, DanAykroyd, Phil Hartman, Norm MacDonaldand Martin Short.

• Three cast members have also gone on to hostthe Academy Awards: Chevy Chase, BillyCrystal and Chris Rock.

• The youngest person to host SNL was DrewBarrymore back in 1982 at the age of seven.

• Ford wasn’t the only U.S. President to cameoon SNL. President George H.W. Bush madean appearance to critique Dana Carvey’simpersonation of him back in 1994.

• Tina Fey’s impersonation of Sarah Palin onOctober 18, 2008 scored Saturday Night

Live! its highest ratings since 1994.

• George Carlin was the very first host of SNL

back in 1975. This episode also featured theAndy Kaufman Mighty Mouse sketch.

• Desi Arnaz was the first person to act as hostand appear as musical guest in the sameepisode back in 1976.

• John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd left the showat the same time and both appeared on theirfinal episode together on May 26, 1979.

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• There was no host for SNL the night of their100th episode.

• Queen gave their first and only Americantelevision performance on Saturday Night

Live! in 1982.

• Former cast member Dan Aykroyd has twounique traits. He was born with sydactyly,webbed toes, and heterochromia, twodifferent colored eyes.

• Long before she hosted in 2002, KirstenDunst appeared as one of George H.W.Bush’s (Dana Carvey) grandchildren in a1988 sketch.

• Richard Pryor hosted the show in 1975 andwas the first African-American to do so.

• The first episode after the 9/11 terrorist attackincluded a sentimental opening with musicby Paul Simon and the opening linesdelivered by Mayor Rudy Guiliani. Despitethe somber mood, everyone strove to end theopening on a lighter note. Lorne Michaelsturned to Mayor Guiliani and asked, “Can webe funny?” to which Guiliani responded,“Why start now?”

• Senator John McCain was the first sitting U.S.Senator to host SNL back in 2002.

• Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen missed theirsenior prom for the chance to host SNL in2004. They are the only twins to have hostedthe show.

• British Actor Hugh Laurie hosted back inOctober of 2006, with special guestappearance from fellow Brit, Sacha BaronCohen – best known as Borat. Reports laterappeared that Laurie and Cohen had gone outtogether while in New York and interactedwith people in character, ultimately endingup in an altercation when Cohen insulted aman as Borat.

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ZIMBABWEFormerly known as Southern Rhodesia, thisland-locked nation lies between the Zambeziand Limpopo rivers in South-Eastern Africa. Inhonor of its Independence Day, which is onApril 18th, Tidbits gives you some fun factsabout the Republic of Zimbabwe.

• The capital of Zimbabwe, and its largest city,is Harare.

• Zimbabwe gained its independence from theUnited Kingdom in 1980.

• Zimbabwe is bordered by Botswana, SouthAfrica, Zambia and Mozambique.

• Most researchers believe the name Zimbabwederives from the Shona words “Dzimba dzamabwe,” which means “great house ofstone.” This phrase refers to the ruins ofGreat Zimbabwe.

• Great Zimbabwe is the name of a set of stoneruins located in South East Zimbabwe and issome of the oldest and largest stonestructures in Southern Africa.

• Great Zimbabwe spans over approximately1,800 acres and was built and expanded uponover a course of 300 years. It was begunaround the 11th century.

• 19th century European explorers were stunnedby its workmanship, as it was built with nomortar.

• Great Zimbabwe was estimated to have had apopulation of over 10,000 at its peak, thoughonly 200 or 300 of the elite were said to havelived in the main structure.

• In 1888, British colonialist Cecil Rhodesobtained mining rights in the area. In 1895,the British South Africa Company gave thearea the name Rhodesia.

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• Locals call the falls Mosi-oa-Tunya, whichmeans “the smoke that thunders.”

• The water from the Zambezi river tumbles328 ft (100 m) to the bottom of the falls andthe width of the falls is over 1 mile (1.8 km).

• The national symbols of Zimbabwe are theZimbabwe Bird and the Balancing Rocks.

• The Zimbabwe Bird design is taken from thesoapstone bird carvings on the walls of GreatZimbabwe.

• The Balancing Rocks are geologicalformations found all over Zimbabwe. Therocks, of varying shapes and sizes, areperfectly balanced without any othersupports. The Balancing Rocks depicted onthe current Zimbabwean currency are locatedin Matobo National Park.

• The Limpopo River makes up Zimbabwe’sentire southern border, separating the countryfrom South Africa.

• The highest peak in Zimbabwe is MountNyangani, at 1.6 miles wide (2593 meters).

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• The Ziwa ruins are also located in Nygana.They have been dated to the 17th century andare a national monument of Zimbabwe.

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A BIT ABOUT POETRYFounded in 1996 by the Academy of Americanpoets, National Poetry month has beencelebrated annually in April ever since, and inCanada since 1999. This month, help Tidbitshonor this celebration of the spoken word.

• Poetry comes from the Greek word “poiesis”or “making.”

• Poetry, as art, may even predate literacy.

• The oldest surviving poem is the Epic ofGilgamesh from Sumer (Mesopotamia, nowIraq.) It was written on twelve clay tablets incuneiform in 2750 – 2500 B.C.

• A quatrain is a poem always consisting offour lines. A quatrain can also be a four-linestanza within a larger poem. Nostradamuswrote his prophecies in quatrains.

• Jintishi is Chinese form of poetry. Jintishiliterally means “modern-style poetry” despitethe fact that it dates back to the 5th century.

• Tanka is an unrhymed form of Japanesepoetry written as early as the 8th century. Itbecame a dominant form in Japan by the 13th

century and is still widely written today.

• Another popular form of Japanese poetry isthe haiku. It evolved in the 17th century andis usually written in a single, vertical line inthree sections. Japanese poet Masaoka Shikicoined the word haiku.

• Ruba’i is a quatrain from Arabia and Persia.

• Ghazal is also from this area and ispronounced like the English word “guzzle.”

• Sijo is a short, musical verse from Koreawritten in three lines, each averagingfourteen to sixteen syllables, for a total offorty-four to forty-six syllables. There is apause in the middle of each line, oftencausing the translation to be written as sixlines in English.

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2nd Quarter 2009

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2nd Quarter 2009

Week 15

Apr. 5 - Apr. 11

Page 7

A BIT ABOUT POETRY (continued):

• Did you know English poet Lord Byron wasborn with a club-foot?

• The shortest poem in the English languagewas written by Strickland Gillilan, 1869-1954. It goes like this:

“Lines Written on the Antiquity of Microbes”

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• The Academy of American Poetry, has a listof 30 ways to celebrate National Poetrymonth, including: attend a poetry reading ormemorize a poem. This list and moreinformation can be found at their website,www.poets.org.

• American poet Emily Dickinson onlypublished seven poems in her lifetime.

• The longest poem in the English languagewas written by Nigel Tomm in his 2008 bookThe Blah Story. The poem is 98,728 wordslong and spans 23,161 lines.

• William Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets andtwo narrative poems in his lifetime.

• A fib is a six line poem in which each line’ssyllables follow the Fibonacci sequence.

• Not all poets get rave reviews the first go-round. When John Keats first published“Endymion” in 1818, he was met with harshand scathing reviews. Keats died two yearslater, at the age of twenty-five, and is nowconsidered one of the great poets of theEnglish Romantic movement.

• Edgar Allan Poe was twenty-seven years oldwhen he married his thirteen year-old cousinVirginia Clemm.

2nd Quarter 2009

Week 15

Apr. 5 - Apr. 11

Page 8

A BIT ABOUT POETRY (continued):

• Did you know English poet Lord Byron wasborn with a club-foot?

• The shortest poem in the English languagewas written by Strickland Gillilan, 1869-1954. It goes like this:

“Lines Written on the Antiquity of Microbes”

Adam

Had’em

• The Academy of American Poetry, has a listof 30 ways to celebrate National Poetrymonth, including: attend a poetry reading ormemorize a poem. This list and moreinformation can be found at their website,www.poets.org.

• American poet Emily Dickinson onlypublished seven poems in her lifetime.

• The longest poem in the English languagewas written by Nigel Tomm in his 2008 bookThe Blah Story. The poem is 98,728 wordslong and spans 23,161 lines.

• William Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets andtwo narrative poems in his lifetime.

• A fib is a six line poem in which each line’ssyllables follow the Fibonacci sequence.

• Not all poets get rave reviews the first go-round. When John Keats first published“Endymion” in 1818, he was met with harshand scathing reviews. Keats died two yearslater, at the age of twenty-five, and is nowconsidered one of the great poets of theEnglish Romantic movement.

• Edgar Allan Poe was twenty-seven years oldwhen he married his thirteen year-old cousinVirginia Clemm.

2nd Quarter 2009

Week 15

Apr. 5 - Apr. 11

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Fleas, Fleas, Everywhere

DEAR PAW’S CORNER: The weather is turning warm again, and once more I have to deal with fleas crawling all over my two cats. Is there any way I can get rid of them? -- Clara in Val-dosta, Ga.

DEAR CLARA: Dealing with fleas, especially in warm, humid areas like the Southeast, is very difficult. It’s nearly impossible to completely eradicate them, but you can lessen their impact in a couple of ways.Tackle the problem before it starts. As the weather warms up, fleas become more active, and their eggs begin to hatch as well. Late winter and early spring are prime time for start-ing the flea battle. This means a thorough spring cleaning of your home, and treatment of your cats.Send the cats to your vet or a grooming/boarding service for an overnight stay while you clean. While they’re there, have them bathed and groomed and treated for fleas. Even if they showed no signs of infestation during the winter, eggs could still be embedded deep in their

coats.Next, while they’re gone, clean the entire house -- top to bot-tom. This means moving the furniture and cleaning under-neath it, as well as taking down all linens and curtains and wash-ing them. Treat the carpets and upholstery with a nontoxic flea stopper (available at pet stores). Vacuum thoroughly and discard the vacuum cleaner bag once you’re done.Throughout the remainder of the warm months -- well into October -- you will need to maintain a regular flea-preven-tion schedule. Your cats must be treated for fleas regularly with a treatment recommend-ed by your veterinarian; don’t let this lapse. If the cats spend time outside, you must brush them each time they come in to dislodge anything that attached to their coats. Vacuum the car-pets and furniture at least once a week, and wash all linens regularly so fleas don’t settle in and lay their eggs.

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