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Just The Aunt
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Username: Auntof13
Post Number: 3715
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 8:39 am: | 
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I lost count of how many times I've heard on several different radio stations as well as several different tv channels today is the most depressing day of the year. Does anyone happen to know why? |
Hank Zona
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Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 5176
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 8:49 am: |
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Health Magazine determined in a study that due to the reality of broken News Years resolutions, holiday credit card bills due and the lack of daylight all combined, that this is for some reason the most depressing day of the year in general.
It also is...National Beer Can Appreciation Day (the beer can was first used on this day in 1935, by the Krueger Brewing Company in Newark)...its also Eskimo Pie Day (Eskimo Pie was patented on this day) and National Peanut Butter Day (no idea why) and Neil Diamond's birthday...
so if youre feeling depressed, put your 45 of "Sweet Caroline" on the turntable, fix yourself a peanut butter sandwich and wash down some Eskimo Pies with a couple of frosty ones! |
Parkbench87
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Username: Parkbench87
Post Number: 3377
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 9:07 am: |
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Plus it's my wife's birthday. Maybe I'll get her Neil Diamonds Greatest Hits. |
buzzsaw
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Username: Buzzsaw
Post Number: 3621
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 10:04 am: |
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Yesterday was depressing for me when I found out my PSE&G bill was $370. What made it sad was that I froze the last month trying to keep the heat down. So, I was cold and maybe saved $20....
A canned beer from Newark sounds about right for an afterwork snack..... |
LilLB
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Username: Lillb
Post Number: 1202
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 10:13 am: |
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By SHELLEY EMLING
semling@coxnews.com
Published on: 01/23/06
London — Having a bad day? No wonder. According to one scientist, today,
Jan. 23, is the gloomiest day of 2006.
Cliff Arnall, a health psychologist at the University of Cardiff in Wales,
has devised a formula that combines personal and seasonal factors to
calculate the year's emotional low point.
Arnall said January is a time when people are simply working and don't have
a lot of events or holidays to look forward to.
They are struggling to cope not only with the bleak weather, but also with
debts from holiday spending.
It's also a time when people are starting to feel like failures because
they've broken their resolutions so shortly after making them.
On paper, the formula looks like this:
W + (D-d) x TQ
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M x NA
The variables are (W)eather, (D)ebt, (d) monthly salary, (T)ime since
Christmas, time since failure to (Q)uit a bad habit, low (M)otivational
levels and (NA), the need to take action.
"All these elements converge to make for a very unhappy day on the 23rd of
January," Arnall said.
He said his formula holds true for the United States as well as Britain,
except perhaps in places such as Texas, Florida, or California where better
weather could help lift the day's depressing mood.
But Arnall said there are ways to beat the late January blues. Instead of
trying to turn over the same old new leaf every New Year's Day, he
suggested, why not resolve to make a change in a different month, such as
March or April?
"I also advise people to do the unusual every January," he said. "Go for a
walk in the woods or just get out and about."
Arnall suggested groups of friends could throw parties to celebrate the
23rd, since being around people you like can boost your spirits. People also
could resolve to make a budget for their holiday spending next December.
Leslie Godwin, a Los Angeles-based author and life transition coach, agreed
that January is a tough time of the year. She encouraged people to exercise,
whether the weather's bad or not.
"Exercise releases hormones that give us a sense of well-being, and it
should be seen as an antidote to feeling down or blue," she said.
But even if you aren't exercising, there is some good news: It's only six
months until what Arnall figures will be the happiest day of 2006 — June 23.
"In June, there is a lot more of an emphasis on nature, with plenty of
flowers and trees in full bloom," he said. "There's also the likelihood that
people are seeing more of their neighbors because of more daylight."
It might be expected that a formula for unhappiness would be created in
Britain. According to Ruut Veenhoven, a sociologist at Erasmus University
Rotterdam and creator of a new "life satisfaction index," Britain is ranked
below 20 other nations, including far poorer countries like Ghana, Mexico
and Uruguay, when it comes to happiness.
The index, which asked people in 90 countries to rate how happy they were on
a scale of 1 to 10, found Malta to be the happiest country, with the United
States ranking 13th alongside Guatemala, Norway, and Uruguay.
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campbell29
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Username: Campbell29
Post Number: 330
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 10:27 am: |
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And from a former Maplewood resident - no less |
greenetree
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Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 6615
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 10:33 am: |
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Could be worse. It's also my dad's, sis-in-law's and newphew's B-day.
See my post about 2/20 a bit further down. Only 26 days to go now! |
Earlster
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Username: Earlster
Post Number: 1456
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 11:06 am: |
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Beer belongs in bottles, so marking the day of the invention of the beer can as the most depressing day makes perfect sense to me. |
monster
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 1914
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 11:19 am: |
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Todays also the day that,
January 24, 1994 Dow Jones closes above 3,900 for 1st time (3,914.48)
January 24, 1993 14th annual star-athon $24,000,000
January 24, 1993 Polish ferry boat John Heweliusz sinks, 52 killed
January 24, 1993 Soyuz TM-16 launches
January 24, 1993 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Davis
January 24, 1991 "Les Miserables," opens at Theatre St. Denis, Montreal
January 24, 1990 Japanese MUSES-A (Hiten) launched towards moon
January 24, 1989 1st reported case of AIDS transmitted by heterosexual oral sex
January 24, 1988 1st WWF Royal Rumble - Jim Duggan wins
January 24, 1988 76th Australian Mens Tennis: M Wilander beats P Cash (63 67 36 61 86)
January 24, 1988 9th ACE Cable Awards
January 24, 1988 Australia beat New Zealand 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
January 24, 1988 Cerebral Palsy telethon
January 24, 1987 61st Australian Womens Tennis: H Mandlikova beat M Navratilova (75 76)
January 24, 1986 43th Golden Globes: Whoopi Goldberg, Color Purple win
January 24, 1986 New York Islander Mike Bossy scores his 1,000th point
January 24, 1986 South Yemen Premier Haydar Bakr al-Attas becomes interim-president
January 24, 1986 Voyager 2 makes 1st fly-by of Uranus (81,593 km), finds new moons
January 24, 1985 15th Space Shuttle (51-C) Mission-Discovery 3 is launched
January 24, 1984 Apple Computer unveils its Macintosh personal computer
January 24, 1983 Hulk Hogan pins Iron Sheik for World Wrestling Federation title
January 24, 1982 Superbowl MVP: Joe Montana, San Francisco, QB
January 24, 1982 Superbowl XVI: San Francisco 49ers beat Cin Bengals, 26-21 in Pontiac Mich
January 24, 1981 Islanders scored 5 power play goals against Nordiques
January 24, 1981 Kim Hughes scores 213 vs. India at Adelaide
January 24, 1979 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
January 24, 1978 31st NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 3-2 (OT) at Buffalo
January 24, 1978 Carter Executive Order on Intelligence
January 24, 1977 5 lawyers murdered by fascist in Madrid
January 24, 1976 Cleve Cavaliers biggest margin victory-43 pts (beat Milwaukee 132-89)
January 24, 1976 George Foreman KOs Ron Lyle in 5th round of a real slugfest
January 24, 1975 "Hot l Baltimore" situation comedy premieres on ABC TV
January 24, 1975 Fastest Earth-bound object, 7200 kph, in vacuum centrifuge, England
January 24, 1973 Warren Spahn is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
January 24, 1972 WRIP (now WDSI) TV channel 61 in Chattanooga, Tennessee (IND) 1st broadcast
January 24, 1971 NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 27-6
January 24, 1970 3rd ABA All-Star Game: West 128 beats East 98 at Indiana
January 24, 1970 Valeri Muratov skates world record 500m (38.99 sec)
January 24, 1969 Queen Juliana appointed honorary citizen of Addis Ababa
January 24, 1969 Spanish Gen Franco announces state of emergency
January 24, 1966 WDIO TV channel 10 in Duluth, MN (ABC) begins broadcasting
January 24, 1964 CBS purchases 1964 and 1965 NFL TV rights for $28.2 million
January 24, 1964 Martin Kresses final comic strip of Eric the Viking
January 24, 1964 24th Amendment to U.S. Constitution goes into effect and states voting rights could not be denied due to failure to pay taxes
January 24, 1963 Buddy Rogers and Lou Thesz wrestle in Toronto, Rogers becomes WWF wrestling champ and Thesz becomes NWA champ
January 24, 1962 28 refugees escape from East to West Germany
January 24, 1962 Brian Epstein signs management contract with the Beatles
January 24, 1962 Jackie Robinson is 1st Black elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
January 24, 1962 Mickey Wright/Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Naples Pro-Am Golf Tournament
January 24, 1961 Edward Albee's "American Dream," premieres in New York City
January 24, 1961 Lazard Brothers Ltd draw a check for $334,867,807.68
January 24, 1960 Algeria uprises against French president De Gaulle
January 24, 1959 "Party with Comden and Green" closes at John Golden New York City after 38 performances
January 24, 1959 Dmitri Shostakovitch's comedy "Cheryomushk," premieres in Moscow
January 24, 1959 WHCT TV channel 18 in Hartford, CT (IND) begins broadcasting
January 24, 1958 After warming to 100,000,000 degrees, 2 light atoms are bashed together to create a heavier atom, resulting in 1st man-made nuclear fusion
January 24, 1956 96.5 cm precipitation at Kilauea Plantation, Hawaii (state record)
January 24, 1954 BPAA All-Star Tournament won by Don Carter
January 24, 1954 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Women's Golf Open
January 24, 1952 1st NFL team in Texas, Dallas Texans formerly New York Yanks
January 24, 1952 Fire in main building of French Port Martin Antarctic base
January 24, 1951 Dutch government Drees-van Schaik resigns
January 24, 1950 Jackie Robinson signs highest contract ($35,000) in Dodger history
January 24, 1948 "Music in My Heart" closes at Adelphi Theater New York City after 124 performances
January 24, 1948 Australia all out 674 vs. India (Bradman 201, Hassett 198*)
January 24, 1948 Dutch Liberal Party forms-People's party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD)
January 24, 1947 NFL adds 5th official (back judge) and allows sudden death in playoffs
January 24, 1945 Scottish 52nd Lowland division occupies Heinsberg
January 24, 1944 Allied troops occupy Nettuno Italy
January 24, 1943 Hitler orders nazi troops at Stalingrad to fight to death
January 24, 1943 Jewish patients/nurses/doctors incinerated at Auschwitz-Birkenau
January 24, 1942 Musical "Star and Garter," premieres in New York City
January 24, 1941 British troops march into Abyssinia
January 24, 1939 30,000 killed by earthquake in Concepcion Chile
January 24, 1939 Eddie Collins, Willie Keeler and George Sisler elected to Hall of Fame
January 24, 1939 Spanish government moves to Figueras
January 24, 1936 Benny Goodman and orch record "Stompin' at the Savoy" on Victor Records
January 24, 1935 1st canned beer, "Krueger Cream Ale," is sold by Kruger Brewing Co
January 24, 1933 Noel Coward's "Design for Living," premieres in New York City
January 24, 1930 J E Mills scores 117 on Test Cricket debut, NZ vs. England, Wellington
January 24, 1930 Stewie Dempster scores New Zealand's 1st Test century
January 24, 1925 Moving picture of a solar eclipse taken from dirigible over Long Island
January 24, 1925 Sandler follows Branting as premier of Sweden
January 24, 1924 Mussolini disallows non-fascists work union
January 24, 1924 Russian city of St. Petersburg renamed Leningrad
January 24, 1923 Aztec Ruins National Monument, New Mexico established
January 24, 1922 -54 degrees F (-48 degrees C), Danbury, Wisconsin (state record)
January 24, 1922 Eskimo Pie patented by Christian K Nelson of Iowa (not an Eskimo)
January 24, 1922 Lehman Caves National Monument established
January 24, 1915 German-British sea battle at Doggersbank and Helgoland
January 24, 1914 Opera "Madeleine," premieres in New York City
January 24, 1913 Franz Kafka stops working on "Amerika"; it will never be finished
January 24, 1908 Gen Baden-Powell starts Boy-Scouts
January 24, 1902 Denmark sells Virgin Islands to USA
January 24, 1901 1st games played in baseball's American League
January 24, 1901 Emily Hobhouse view lord Kitcheners concentration camp at Bloemfontein
January 24, 1900 Battle at Tugela-Spionkop, South Africa (Boers vs British army)
January 24, 1900 Newcastle Badminton Club, world's oldest, forms in England
January 24, 1899 Belgium government of Vandenpeereboom forms
January 24, 1899 Rubber heel patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan
January 24, 1892 Battle at Mengo, Uganda: French missionaries attack British missionaries
January 24, 1875 Camille Saint-Saens' "Danse Macabre," premieres
January 24, 1874 Gen J van Swieten conquerors Kraton Atjeh, after 1000's die
January 24, 1874 Mussorgsky's opera "Boris Godunov," premieres in St. Petersburg
January 24, 1862 Romania principality arises under King Alexander Cuza
January 24, 1861 Arsenal at Augusta, Georgia seized by Confederacy
January 24, 1861 Federal troops from Ft. Monroe are sent to Ft. Pikens
January 24, 1848 James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California
January 24, 1847 1,500 New Mexican Indians and Mexicans defeated by U.S. Col Price
January 24, 1839 Charles Darwin elected member of Royal Society
January 24, 1764 Gov Winthrop Telescope, is destroyed in a Harvard fire
January 24, 1742 German leaders elect Charles VII Albert Emperor
January 24, 1722 Czar Peter the Great begins civil system
January 24, 1722 Edward Wigglesworth appointed 1st U.S. divinity professor (Harvard)
January 24, 1679 King Charles II disbands English parliament
January 24, 1659 Pierre Corneille's "Oedipe," premieres in Paris
January 24, 1656 1st Jewish doctor in U.S., Jacob Lumbrozo, arrives in Maryland
January 24, 1652 Duke of Orleans joins Fronde rebels
January 24, 1644 Battle at Nantwich Cheshire: Parliamentary armies win
January 24, 1639 Connecticut colony organizes under Fundamental Orders
January 24, 1634 Emperor Ferdinand II declares Albrecht von Wallenstein a traitor
January 24, 1616 Jacques Le Maire discovers Street Lemaire/Cape Receiver
January 24, 1613 Amsterdams merchant Hans Bontemantel baptized
January 24, 1568 Abdij Church in Middelburg destroyed by fire
January 24, 1568 In Netherlands, Duke of Alva declares William of Orange an outlaw
January 24, 1556 Heavy earthquake strikes Shaaxi China, kills 830,000
January 24, 1534 Francois I signs classified treaty with evangelical German monarchy
January 24, 1458 Matthias I Corvinus chosen king of Hungary
January 24, 1328 King Edward III of England marries Philippa of Henegouwen
January 24, 1118 Giovanni Caetani elected Pope Gelasius II
January 24, 1076 Synod of Worms: German King Henry IV fires Pope Gregory VII
January 24, 817 St. Paschal I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Stephen IV
January 24, 772 Stephen III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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Parkbench87
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Username: Parkbench87
Post Number: 3379
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 11:23 am: |
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"January 24, 1986 New York Islander Mike Bossy scores his 1,000th point"
Mike Bossy, those were the days!!! |
Arnomation
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Username: Arnomation
Post Number: 464
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 3:35 pm: |
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Todays also the day that
Out of that whole list of stuff, they forgot that on January 24, 1965 Winston Churchill died. |
Gene Z
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Username: Genez
Post Number: 593
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 5:09 pm: |
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My daughter's mother-in-law was just diagnosed with untreatable Cancer. That's why. |
greenetree
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Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 6623
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 5:14 pm: |
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Gene - my sincerest condolensces to your daughter and your whole family. |
Gene Z
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Username: Genez
Post Number: 594
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 5:21 pm: |
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Thanks; I just happened to be online when my daughter called; and posting has helped. Now to get on with the day. |
Carrie Avery
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Username: Carrie33
Post Number: 1286
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 6:53 pm: |
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Wow, monster, what a history lesson! Thanks for that. We weren't at all "depressed" today, but I hope others try to think positive, and that if they think in terms of time, that January is almost over and we only have Feb to contend with, perhaps it might lift some spirits.
Try to smile, it is contagious.Hang in there folks! |
buzzsaw
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Username: Buzzsaw
Post Number: 3634
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 9:30 am: |
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you know what - yesterday wasn't that bad |
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