Ray's Twitter Updates

    follow me on Twitter

    Friday, January 25, 2008

    March 31st?

    So who knows what March 31st is and what makes it significant?

    21 comments:

    Amy said...

    My guesses would be:
    1) Easter
    2) the day clocks are moved ahead
    3) your birthday

    Brucesz said...

    I suppose it's the last possibility to plan your pranks for April Fool's Day.

    Yamaha Evans said...

    Well, let's see......

    March 31st? Happy birthday, Christopher Walken! I gotta have more cowbell!

    Happy birthday Herb Alpert, the grand-daddy of cheesy trumpet waltzes and 70's gameshow themes;

    Surely you don't mean Shirley "Come on world, there's a song that we're singing, join in get happy" Jones? The Partridge Family might never have got off the blocks if not for her?

    Then again,

    March 31st IS Mr. "I invented the internet" Al Gore's birthday. If not for his vision, we'd be stuck driving truckloads of information down tubes somewhere.

    Not a birthday?

    How about:

    March 31 is the day that Daylight Savings Time was first enacted;

    Explorer 1 came back to earth 12 years after it was launched;

    Archeologists found a complete Australopithicus afarensis skull, which was supposed to explain when humans started walking upright and stopped dragging their knuckles on the ground. I went to school with some kids who apparently missed the "cease and desist with the knuckle-dragging" memo, by the way;

    Or my (geeky) favorite,

    March 31st is when Netscape released its code under the open source agreement, paving the way for the wonderful firefox browser.

    Not any of those things?

    I'm tapped oyut, unless it's something like Easter, but that wasn't on the wikipedia page!

    Y.E.

    Ray McDonald said...

    No one has even come close yet!!

    Anonymous said...

    Cesar Chavez Day

    Anonymous said...

    This is the target date for troop withdrawal which is endorsed by the United States Senate

    Anonymous said...

    Lets see, could it be:

    The Beatles Fan Club closes down in
    1972 - I was a huge fan!!

    Or In 1918 Daylight Savings time went into effet;

    Or In 1951 the first commercial US made computer UNIVAC I was delivered to the Census Bureau

    Kris

    Ray McDonald said...

    No one is near yet - it is a very big day folks!

    Anonymous said...

    Is this the day that you were offered the Mount Oak Pastor position---if so it WAS a great day----

    Ray McDonald said...

    We're still not close...

    By the way, Monday, February 12 was when I was officially appointed to Mt. Oak, effective July 1, 2007. The announcement came on Sunday, February 11, at Mt. Zion and Mt. Oak. We met with Mt. Oak's SPRC on February 9 after accepting the move on February 6 and being asked on February 5. They are important dates in my life.

    Anonymous said...

    Is it your wedding anniversary?
    or Caroline's birthday?

    Ray McDonald said...

    Some really good thoughts but no one is right yet... keep trying...

    Anonymous said...

    March 31st is also National Bunsen Burner Day and National "She's Funny That Way Day".

    Ray McDonald said...

    I'll give you all a few more days to guess. My wife got it without even stopping to think about it and it isn't an anniversary or birthday that no one would know. But then, she knows me pretty well.

    Anonymous said...

    Opening Day for the Orioles?

    Anonymous said...

    March 31 to April 3, 2008, the world's leading technology companies as well as innovative start-ups will showcase their news and views on the future of electronics, design tools, and new applications to the world's top 50+ electronics journalists at a new location in San Francisco.

    Anonymous said...

    It is the 2008 Orioles Opening Day.

    Bonnie Beard

    Anonymous said...

    The first Anniversary from last year's Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
    laurie

    Ray McDonald said...

    Jamie got it right first (after Carolyn) and then Bonnie got it! Opening Day for the Baltimore Orioles!

    The hint was the Oriole Bird on my page!

    Yamaha Evans said...

    I thought you said it was significant......

    Amy said...

    Big deal..... :)