Why is today special?

RE: Why is today special?

Silvia Maldonado — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 17:42:36 GMT

Hello, everybody! Hope you all have a nice week

RE: Why is today special?

Rob Davis — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 17:22:28 GMT

[quote user="Arlo Guthrie"]

It's the 17,900th day of my life?

(http://www.beatcanvas.com/daysalive.asp).

[/quote]

Just tried this link with my birthdate and got: "The conversion of a varchar data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range value."

I don't think this is good.....

RE: Why is today special?

Neil Wheadon — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 23:58:29 GMT

[quote user="Colin Thomson"]

[quote user="Martin Atkinson"]Watching the Tour de France.[/quote]

Nice to see Cav back to his winning ways. Could be a few more from him before the end of this tour.

[/quote]

Thanks for posting this after the highlights show. My wife was furious because Radio Five announced he winner with no warning during he tennis, so wrecked her enjoyment, guess we won't be tuning to hat station again for a few weeks. Will he win a few more? He only has 2 chances, but it's been gripping stuff so far.

Neil

RE: Why is today special?

Colin Thomson — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 20:39:44 GMT

[quote user="Martin Atkinson"]Watching the Tour de France.[/quote]

Nice to see Cav back to his winning ways. Could be a few more from him before the end of this tour.

RE: Why is today special?

Bob Russell — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 15:37:26 GMT

Burst into tears once I realised I had missed RCVS day!

How could it have happened? My world has all but collapsed! How embarrassing!

Still had plenty of opportunity to write complaint emails to UK Visas & Immigration, my MP and starting a formal complaint about the behaviour of the British government with the EU. All because they have failed to issue a family permit for a friend of my wife, who lives in Switzerland. The planned holiday has been delayed because the family cannot come over until a passport is returned!

My wife is upset as she has taken time off work and when my wife gets upset she tends to spread the upset around liberally!

Still back to the original post! What was it again?

RE: Why is today special?

Martin Atkinson — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 15:14:15 GMT

[quote user="J G Wray"] What are others doing to mark the day?[/quote]Watching the Tour de France.

RE: Why is today special?

J G Wray — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 14:58:29 GMT

[quote user="Bradley Viner"]It's rather special for me. It's not every day one gets inaugurated as President of the RCVS![/quote]

Yup that's it! It's RCVS Day folks. The "Doc" will be wearing a gown, a chain and a silly grin. What are others doing to mark the day?

RE: Why is today special?

Julian Earl — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 12:05:01 GMT

Because in a moment of weakness, the University of Liverpool decided to qualified me as a veterinary surgeon just a few [26 years ago! and presumably thought that maybe I wasn't really the idiot I had pretended to be for the previous five years! I wonder if they regret this now??

RE: Why is today special?

John Alborough — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 11:09:53 GMT

[quote user="J G Wray"]Does anyone know why today is special and noteworthy?[/quote]

I'm alive.

RE: Why is today special?

Martin Atkinson — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 10:19:46 GMT

[quote user="Bradley Viner"]

It's rather special for me. It's not every day one gets inaugurated as President of the RCVS!

[/quote]Yup, congrats Bradley. You've always been a political animal though - remember when you were barely out of nappies and were president of the that venerable organisation the Hounslow Veterinary Club? Those were the days!

RE: Why is today special?

Arlo Guthrie — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 10:13:25 GMT

[quote user="Bradley Viner"]It's not every day one gets inaugurated as President of the RCVS![/quote]

Congratulations Bradley. Must say, I've never forgotten your kindness to me in my early career; glad yours has gone so well!

RE: Why is today special?

Bradley Viner — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 09:50:51 GMT

It's rather special for me. It's not every day one gets inaugurated as President of the RCVS!

RE: Why is today special?

Mark Hedberg — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 09:43:47 GMT

Happy Birthday Arlo!

www.youtube.com/watch

RE: Why is today special?

Martin Atkinson — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 09:36:47 GMT

You are retiring Jon?

or:

July 10: International Quds Day (2015); Silence Day; Independence Day in the Bahamas (1973)

1460 – War of the Roses: King Henry VI of England was captured by Yorkists at the Battle of Northampton.
1800 – Lord Wellesley, Governor-General of the British Raj, founded Fort William College in Fort William, India, to promote Bengali, Hindi and other vernaculars of the subcontinent.
1925 – Indian mystic and spiritual master Meher Baba (pictured) began his silence until his death in 1969, only communicating by means of an alphabet board or by unique hand gestures.
1941 – The Holocaust: A group of non-Jewish ethnic Poles from around the nearby area murdered hundreds of Jewish residents of Jedwabne in occupied Poland.
1962 – Telstar, the world's first active, direct relay communications satellite, was launched by NASA aboard a Delta rocket from Cape Canaveral.
for more go to this link

RE: Why is today special?

Francisco Gomez — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 09:29:01 GMT

'confederate flag' was never the flag of the South in the States.. but was used as a 'battle flag'.

In that thing that we human beings have where we tend to link symbols and ideology, many racist groups use it as their own. We are now at the point where the US is removing it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-33457169

It is happening today. Is that in any way special, noteworthy or related to us?

RE: Why is today special?

Clive Ansell — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 09:19:51 GMT

Arlo Guthrie the country singer was born on this day in 1947, as was Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys in 1954.

Closer to home, on this day in 2005 I returned to the UK from Pakistan, unaware of the 7/7 atrocities, to be frog marched by armed police with dogs off the plane in single file and then searched. Scary.

RE: Why is today special?

Arlo Guthrie — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 08:36:37 GMT

It's the 17,900th day of my life?

(http://www.beatcanvas.com/daysalive.asp).

Have you bought me a present, JGW?

RE: Why is today special?

Mark Hedberg — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 07:46:31 GMT

Yep - it's Friday! ;)