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Tuesday Trivia

My summer job in high school and college was lifeguarding at our local park. One of the best parts of guarding were stormy days. I loved watching the storm front roll in and seeing that first flash of lightning that would allow us to close the pool! Once the pool was clear of swimmers, we would sit in the office, looking over Lake St. Clair and watch the storm pass by. I especially loved to watch the lightning. My favorite are the long bolts that were purple in color. A purple lightning bolt against a grey sky - beautiful!

Today's trivia is all about lightning! Did you know...

~ Lightning is one of the leading weather-related causes of death and injury in the U.S.?

~ Talking on the telephone is the leading cause of lightning injuries inside the home?

~ The Earth as a whole is struck by an average of over 100 lightning bolts per second?

~ The temperature of a typical lightning bolt is hotter than the surface of the sun?

Hey Hey Hockeytown!

Congratulations Detroit Red Wings!

2008 Stanley Cup Champions!

Special shout out to Dan Cleary. He is the first player from New Foundland, Canada to win the Stanley Cup!

I Want Stanley!

Well, it's just about game time for the Red Wings in game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final.

I'm not a huge sports fan, I need to know the teams that are playing in order to enjoy watching the game. I of course watch Notre Dame Football but in terms of pro sports, I enjoy watching the Detroit teams (Red Wings, Pistons and even the Tigers...can't do the Lions though).

I remember our 8th grade graduation dance. It was the night of one of the Red Wings Stanley Cup games and a lot of the girls were mad because all of the boys were in the cafeteria watching the game instead of dancing. The Wings went on to win the cup in 1997, their first Stanley Cup since 1955!

Monday night was game 5 of this series against Pittsburgh and the Wings were up 3 games to 1. The game was at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit and was the perfect place for them to win the cup. Again, I'm not a huge sports fan, but this was a big and exciting game so I had to watch. The Wings played well and went from being down 0-2 to being very close to a win with a score of 3-2. Everyone thought the Wings had the game in the bag, but with just 34 seconds left in the game Pittsburgh scored to send the game into overtime. I ended up going to bed at 12:15am after the second overtime and Pittsburgh won the game in the third overtime! UGH!

I'm hoping the Wings win tonight. Let's just cross our fingers that it's not in the 3rd overtime!

Tuesday Trivia

Did you know...

The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language?

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night? (just disgusting!)

A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair?

Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants?

China has more English speakers than the United States?

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out?