November 12... RB Day!

According to the Congressional Record, tomorrow is a little known and seldom celebrated US Holiday called RB Day.  It was on this day back in '47 I think, a time when Winnie Churchill had already dragged the Iron Curtain across the world stage, wrapped himself in it and begun prancing about all goth and nonsense, a time when Hollywood was on about "The Egg and I" and "A Double Life" and Bollywood was yet to be, November 12, 1947...  I'm guessing Gemini was rising because on that day the twins, RB and Chris Locke were born.

RB - in these parts that stands for Root Beer, and partner, not just ANY root beer, nosirree.  Free Range Root Beer, aged like the finest, the finest - well - Root Beer! 

It wasn't that many years ago that I met Chris Locke.  We were both enrolled in Root Beer 101 at Free Range University.  Chris was trying to - I'm guessing here - get in touch with his roots?

[Illustration: A rare, full-grown wild white snow root beer. It's a four-pointer and has a fully-developed snow mullet, which it will raise in self defense or when it's particularly excited.}

Comments

[RageBoy]

aha! so this is why I'm getting b-day greets from all over! thanks, Frankie!

Happy Birthday!

[Kombinat!]

Thanks Frank for the heads up on the RB's bday.
I talkled to him last night and had Michael sing him Happy Birday over the phone. Michael has an amazing voice, sort of like Tony Bennett. Then Ann C talked to him. Yes the same Ann C who dined Gary Turner in Seattle few years back and who took the famous picture of RB doing research. Then 14 people sitting at our dinner table shouted happy birthday to Chris Locke. An amazing technology cell phone technology is. I think people will start phoning each other soon. I think this is the next in the post blog world.

Thanks for making us remember RB's bday.