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Friday 28 Oct 2016



Plush Animal Lover's Day



Plush Animal Lovers Day is a day of celebration that is held every year to show your favourite stuffed toy some extra special love and appreciation.

There’s an urban legend that says that the Teddy Bear, one of the worlds most popular plush animal pets, was invented when American President Theodore Roosevelt saw a baby bear on a hunting trip, and refused to shoot it.,

Everywhere you go these days you can find plushies of every variety, from stuffed Creeper’s from the famous Minecraft Franchise, to macro sized plushies of micro-sized diseases and bacteria.

One of the most powerful cuddly plushes is a giant sized yeast that is responsible for brewing beer. And considering how often beer is a pre-cursor to cuddling, who can blame them

History of Plush Animal Lover’s Day

The original origins of the day’s creation are vague but there is an unconfirmed Urban Legend that the day first came about after a collectibles dealer named Royal Selangor came up with the idea of a Teddy Bears Picnic Day in the late eighties.

Other stuffed toys became jealous that Teddy Bears were being singled out for their own celebration and demanded a special day all of their own!

Not long after, Plush Animal Lovers Day quickly replaced Teddy Bears Picnic Day in popularity!



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International Bandana Day



When I say “Bandana” you say “cancer,” right?

On any other day of the year bandanas conjure up thoughts of punks on the street, or pirates and ninjas but on International Bandana Day people all over the world ascribe special significance to wearing a bandana.

If we can get serious for a minute, in 2012 14.1 million new cases of Cancer occurred all over the world. Since it doesn’t just leave the next year you can imagine how many people have been affected over time by this versatile, ridiculously pervasive and vicious disease. It’s impact extends well beyond the patients themselves and into families, friends and the community.

So what do bandanas, a simple item of head adornment, have to do with cancer?

History of International Bandana Day

A specific original example of a Bandana Day is impossible to find, though it may have originated in Australia with a youth organization called CanTeen.

Every year the organization hosts a Bandana day to raise awareness and also to raise support for, in their case, young people living with cancer.

So, why bandanas?

Why not a bake sale, selling advertisements, giving out pins, whatever?

A common treatment for cancer is chemotherapy, a term shortened to chemo most of the time. The treatment utilizes various anti-cancer drugs administered in a chemotherapy regimen. Because of the incredibly powerful nature of the drugs involved chemo has some serious side effects, one of the most notorious being hair loss.

Hence the bandanas.

Bandanas are most commonly used on the head, to hold back hair, to protect a bald head from the sun, or just to look cool and stylish. The bandanas are an effective visual symbol of the effects of chemo, but that’s not all!

As mentioned, bandanas are often associated with punks on the street, who wear them as a show of solidarity with their mates (eh, Australia), all wearing the same color, in the same style.

“We are strong and we support each other,” they say.

This is the same attitude the bandanas represent to cancer patients and their supporters.

“We are strong and we support each other,” they say, “cancer will not hold us down!”

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October 28 Birthdays


Bill Gates - 61



Caitlyn (Bruce) Jenner - 67



Julia Roberts - 49



Brad Paisley - 44



Joaquin Phoenix - 42








October 28th

2003: At a Pearl Jam concert in Santa Barbara, CA, Chris Cornell joined them onstage for an impromptu reunion of the supergroup Temple of the Dog for renditions of “Hunger Strike” and “Reach Down”.

2003: David Bowie and supermodel wife Iman signed on to be the new spokesmodels for Tommy Hilfiger.

1989: Aerosmith peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart with “Love in an Elevator” which was their fourth top ten single in the U.S.

1989: Motley Crue peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart with “Dr. Feelgood” which was their first top ten single in the U.S.

1989: Don Henley made his first appearance on Saturday Night Live performing “The Last Worthless Evening” and “The Boys of Summer”.

1978: Alice Cooper made a guest appearance on The Muppet Show where he performed “Welcome to my Nightmare”, “You and Me” and “School’s Out”.

1978: Queen kicked off their tour in support of Jazz at the Dallas Convention Center in Dallas.

1972: The United States Council for World Affairs announced that “Join Together” by The Who has become their official theme song.

1958: Buddy Holly made his final major television appearance on American Bandstand where he lip-synched to “It’s So Easy” and “Heartbeat”.



Birthdays:

Rickie Reynolds - Guitarist for Black Oak Arkansas born in

1948 Desmond Child born in 1953