"Rule one: Always keep your points. Dad would have been 80 years old today, and would have loved to have been playing with everyone last night. His list of "rules" is decidedly shorter than most folks' rules, but they never seemed to steer him wrong. I used some of his pegs in his honor tonight and, well, so did Liz. While she skunked the ever-loving heck outta me, neither of us made points tonight. This week, we had 22 peggers come out to play, including three guests. John Morch's son, JB, was on hand, as were two potential new Club members, Tom and Elizabeth Reed. We had eight people (including Elizabeth) score 12 points or more. Of course, on the flip side, we had two players who had 3/1 cards (not me, I had a bridesmaid hand). With this number of players, we paid out five places and three teams. Birthday Boy Frank Abernathy took 1st with a 15 / 7 / 64 Joseph Greiner took 2nd with a 15 / 6 / 114 Jeff Raynes took 3rd with a 14 / 7 / 47 Kristy Haught took 4th with a 14 / 6 / 114 and Brian Wilson rounded out 5th with a 13 / 6 / 87 First Team (24/11/128): Bernard Whitfield (13) and Megan Player (11) Second Team (22/11/94): Elizabeth Reed (12) and Larry Phifer (10) Third Team (18/8/-57): Jennifer Johnson (11) and John Morch (8) Here are the current standings, after this week: We’re going to go not-so-far-back as last week, stepping only back 60 years or so… On this date in 1960, Chubby Checker's "The Twist" hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. “The Twist” is the only song in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 to enjoy two separate chart runs to No. 1: September 19, 1960 (one week), and, after an October 1961 appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” January 13, 1962 (two weeks). It also set a record for the most weeks (39) on the Hot 100 by a No. 1 song, which held until 1998. “The Twist” first came out as the B-side of Hank Ballard & the Midnighters’ 1959 single “Teardrops on Your Letter.” DJs largely ignored “The Twist,” but inner-city youth who had flipped the disc began doing a hip-wiggling dance to the track, which did not go unnoticed by “American Bandstand” host Dick Clark. Clark went to Philadelphia’s Cameo-Parkway label and suggested that Checker take it on. Checker had recorded “The Class” for him in 1958 as a holiday single to send to friends. “I said I didn’t want to sing that song,” Checker remembers. “It had been out already. Nobody was playing it. But I wanted to make records, and so when they said, ‘Come up here and sing “The Twist,”’ I said, ‘OK.’” In July 1960, Checker performed “The Twist” for the first time in front of a live audience at the Rainbow Club in Wildwood, New Jersey and just weeks later, on Aug. 6, 1960, the song became a national sensation after Checker performed it on Dick Clark’s American Bandstand. Checker continued to re-record the song throughout his career including some variations, being the most famous one “Let’s Twist Again”, one of the biggest hit singles of 1961, it reached No.8 on the U.S. Billboard pop chart in August of that year and subsequently reached No.2 in the U.K. in February 1962. Curiously, “Let’s Twist Again” turned out to be a bigger hit for Checker worldwide than “The Twist”. “The Twist” was the gift that kept on giving: Five more of Checker’s 32 Hot 100 entries mined the dance. He even joined the Fat Boys for “The Twist (Yo, Twist),” which hit No. 16 in 1988. Not a whole lot was happening specifically on this day back in 1942, when my dad joined the planet, but that’s OK. He deserves to have his own day. Cost of Living in 1942:
Oh, if only I could take my current savings account, and teleport with it back to 1942. I could definitely live like a queen! But, alas, that is not possible, so I will continue to live like a normal person… but I’m not giving up my tiara… ![]() You may have noticed a few of us keeping track of our cut cards on our scorecards. We're playing "Cut Card Poker". Just for fun, we're seeing who can cut the best poker hand. Someone asked if I'd post how we do, so SURE! In no particular order (well, alphabetical by last name): Liz: Three-of-a-kind in 6s Jennifer: Full House, 4s full of Jacks Megan: Queens full of 7s Andy: pair of deuces I'm gonna call it a night now; I've had to go IN TO THE OFFICE for TWO WHOLE DAYS IN A ROW (lol) and I'm exhausted. That 10 minute commute is killer. Having to wear something other than pajama pants and long-sleeve t-shirts wasn't any fun, either. Good luck to those of us who are going to Omaha for the Grand National -- it's not many of us, but may we come home with most of the prize money!! See ya'll on Monday. ~ Jennifer
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