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Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and has become a moveable feast of word or picture or music prompts to encourage us to write stories, poems, or whatever strikes our fancy.
While Elephant's Child takes a blog break, River is providing the prompts on her blog.
This week's words/prompts are:
1.herring
2.detectives
3.beer
4.mask
5.peaches
Charlotte (MotherOwl) has selected Saint Patrick's Green as the colour of the month
In these days when cozy mysteries are all the rage, he wondered what ever happened to the plain, old fashioned gumshoe DETECTIVES.
You know the kind, the hard boiled guy, always with a B-girl around somewhere. It stood for Bar-girl, a girl the bar or speakeasy would hire to get the hard boiled guys to buy them drinks, like Joan Miller in the Burt Lancaster noir classic Criss Cross.
These guys wore the MASK required to appear tough, saw right through the red HERRINGs thrown their way, drank hard liquor not BEER, and had girlfriends with flighty names like PEACHES.
Now, understand he loves mysteries that are not easy to solve no matter what style. It's just sometimes reading about, say, the interior designer turned amateur sleuth who is solving the mystery while deciding between lime and St. Patrick's Green for the paint color kind of gets to him and he wants one of those Humphrey Bogart types again.
(Grandpa loves mysteries and someone gave him a stack to read, some of which were cozies. He liked them okay, but really prefers the harder, edgier type.)
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Today is:
Commemoration of the Victory over Kadhafi -- Libya
Corn Dog Day -- some sites say the 20th
Dietician's Day -- Canada
Greater Dionysia -- Ancient Greek Calendar (largest festival to Dionysos, lasting five days; date approximate
International Read to Me! Day -- a day for children to remind the adults in their lives to read to them often
Kashubians' Unity Day -- among Kashubians in northern Poland
Let's Laugh Day -- a holiday spread by ecard companies, because any day is a good day for a laugh
Mojoday -- Discordianism
National Chocolate Caramel Day
Oil Nationalization Day -- Iran
Pet Passport Day -- today in 2000, the UK passed the pet passport law, allowing pets into Great Britain without quarantine if they met certain criteria
Poultry Day -- a day to honor the role poultry plays in our lives
Quinquatria -- Roman Empirical Calendar (celebration of Minerva and Mars, especially the birthday of Minerva today; through the 23rd)
Swallows Return to San Juan Capistrano Day -- despite what you think, the bird you saw there yesterday was not a swallow, the natives will tell you
St. Joseph's Day (Patron of bursars, cabinetmakers, carpenters, civil engineers, confectioners, craftsmen, dying people, emigrants, expectant mothers, families, fathers, happy death, holy death, house hunters, immigrants, interior souls, laborers, married people, Oblates of St. Joseph, people in doubt, people who fight communism, pioneers, protection of the church, social justice, travelers, unborn children, wheelwrights, workers; Universal Church; over 50 cities, diocese, and countries; against doubt and hesitation)
As Patron of fathers, his day is also Father's Day in Belgium, Bolivia, Honduras, Italy, Portugal, and Spain.
Valencia, Spain has it's biggest day of the Las Fallas Festival today, with the fireworks.
Time Zone Day -- US Congress passed the Standard Time Act to sort out the fact that different states and cities used different times, with no rhyme or reason
Birthdays Today:
Michael Bergin, 1969
Bruce Willis, 1955
Glenn Close, 1947
Clarence "Frogman" Henry, 1937
Ursula Andress, 1936
Phyllis Newman, 1935
Renee Taylor, 1935
Phillip Roth, 1933
Ornette Coleman, 1930
Patrick McGoohan, 1928
Brent Scowcroft, 1925
John Joseph Sirica, 1904
Earl Warren, 1891
Edith Nourse Rogers, 1881
Charles M. Russell, 1864
William Jennings Bryan, 1860
Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1847
Wyatt Earp, 1848
Sir Richard Burton, 1821
David Livingstone, 1813
Thomas Mckean, 1734
William Bradford, 1590
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Kate and Allie"(TV), 1984
"A Child of Our Time"(Oratorio), 1944
"Amos and Andy"(Radio), 1928
"Faust"(Opera), 1859
"Die Braut von Messina"(Schiller Play), 1803
Today in History:
A Mongolian victory in the Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China, 1279
Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men, 1687
The SS Georgiana, said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, medicines and merchandise then valued at over $1,000,000, 1863
Pluto is photographed for the first time but is not recognized as a planet, 1915
Eight American planes take off in pursuit of Pancho Villa, the first United States air-combat mission in history, 1916
The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time, 1918
Willie Mosconi sets a world record by running 526 consecutive balls without a miss during a straight pool exhibition at East High Billiard Club in Springfield, Ohio. The record still stands today, 1954
Gumby makes his debut, 1957
The wreck of the SS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is discovered by then teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence exactly 102 years after its destruction, 1965
Texas Western becomes the first college basketball team to win the Final Four with an all-black starting lineup, 1966
India and Bangladesh sign a friendship treaty, 1972
The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN, 1979
Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island, precipitating the Falklands War with the United Kingdom, 1982
Zimbabwe is suspended from the Commonwealth on charges of human rights abuses and of electoral fraud, following a turbulent presidential election, 2002
A cosmic burst, GRB 080319B, that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye is briefly observed, 2008
After two decades of being closed due to civil war, the Somali National Theater reopens in Mogadishu, 2012
The papal inauguration ceremony for Pope Francis is held in St. Peter's Square, 2013
The world's last male northern white rhino, 45-year-old Sudan, dies in Kenya, 2018
American Karen Uhlenbeck becomes the first woman to win mathematics' Abel Prize, 2019
The Icelandic volcano Fagradalsfjall erupts for the first time in 800 years, 2021
In a deal brokered by the Swiss government, Switzerland's largest bank, UBS, agrees to buy its rival Credit Suisse to help ease global financial panic, 2023
Finland is ranked the happiest country in the world by the UN for the seventh year in a row, 2024
Great use of the words, I love it. I like mysteries too, but have to confess I'm not really happy with the amateur sleuth brigade. Especially the ones with talking animals or magical powers, they just seem a bit too far-fetched to me. Give me an old-fashioned Whodunnit with a proper detective any day.
ReplyDeleteI only read mysteries if they are mysetery plus ... That is to mean, I don't like mysteries set in my everyday surroundings, or manned by ordinary people. They have to also tell or show me something, I do not know - like magic ;) or the Australia of times gone by of Arthur Upfield, or the Shetland isles of Marsali Taylor. Scratch this. I don't really care for mysteries, I like to be taken to another place or time when reading.
ReplyDeleteYour story is a great description of hard boiled whodunnits. And If I meet any azalea, I'll sure stop and smell them.
I'm a cozy mystery reader myself. But once in awhile I throw in something a little stronger. Oh my on the azaleas. How you've uplifted my morning. My mini daffodils are just starting to turn yellow in a place or two. I have hundreds.
ReplyDeleteWow, beautiful flowering bushes.
ReplyDeleteThey smell delicious, Mimi. Great pictures too😸Double Pawkisses for a Silent Wednesday🐾😽💞
ReplyDeleteI love azaleas, both the sight and smell. I'm with Grandpa when it comes to mysteries, cozy is not for me!
ReplyDeleteLove your WFW story.
ReplyDeleteSpring is late this year.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
The azaleas are magnificent here, too. Even the ancient ones in my yard still manage to produce.
ReplyDeleteI would smell those azaleas. Beautiful and pink is my favorite color.
ReplyDeleteLove your use of the prompts. I love a good mystery too. My favorite kind of read.
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Those azaleas are beautiful. Great story. I occasionally read cosy mysteries, but also prefer a good hard crime story.
ReplyDeleteSuch gorgeous azaleas!!! We don't have any in bloom here yet, but we have seen daffodils and magnolia trees in bloom, and hyacinths poking their heads through the soil.
ReplyDeleteWoos - Misty and Timber
Gorgeous floral photos ~ hugs,
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
clm ~ A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
Our azaleas need to get with the program! That was a really good story!
ReplyDeleteThat is great that Grandpa enjoys reading. XO
ReplyDeleteTerrific use of the prompts, as usual, Mimi. Loved your story!
ReplyDeleteAnd yay for azaleas. And Spring!
Loved your take on the words. I was waiting for Sam Spade to come walking into the story.
ReplyDeleteGreat pics and beautiful flowers.
ReplyDeleteJava Bean: "Ayyy, I am always up to stop and sniff something! I don't even need a sign to tell me to do it!"
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