Category Archives: Dancing

We ballroom and swing dance every chance we get so these posts deal with dancing!

Thursday And We Were Hopping!

Posted on Thursday, March 31, 2022 by Paul

Fact: Dolphins sleep with one eye open!  Dolphins are known to be one of the world’s most intelligent animals—possibly because they can conserve their brainpower.  Because they must constantly be looking for predators, the marine mammals have developed a neat … Continue reading →

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To The Mardi Gras At The Fullerton Elks

Posted on Sunday, March 27, 2022 by Paul

Fact: Mardi Gras is more than just a day, it’s an entire season. Carnival season begins on Twelfth Night (January 6) and ends on Fat Tuesday  (It’s called Fat Tuesday because it’s the last day that many people eat meat and … Continue reading →

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Sunday And Time To Dance With The Starlighters!

Posted on Sunday, March 20, 2022 by Paul

Fun Fact: The dancing plague of 1518, or dance epidemic of 1518, was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace (modern-day France), in the Holy Roman Empire from July 1518 to September 1518.  Somewhere between 50 and … Continue reading →

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Time To Work! Time To Play!

Posted on Sunday, March 13, 2022 by Paul

Fact: The difference between nectarines and peaches is that nectarines don’t have fuzzy skins. You can graft peach branches onto a nectarine tree or nectarine branches onto a peach tree so you have both types of fruits. A day to relax does not come … Continue reading →

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Good Bye Week; Hello Weekend!

Posted on Friday, March 11, 2022 by Paul

Fact: Mr. Bean has a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering. – Rowan Atkinson has made generations laugh at his goofy antics as Mr. Bean. However, the Englishman is actually quite intelligent, and most people don’t know that Atkinson has a Master’s … Continue reading →

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Wedding Bells Are Ringing

Posted on Friday, February 25, 2022 by Paul

Fun Fact: Tread Lightly – The tradition of carrying the bride across the threshold is to protect her against evil spirits.  Evil spirits seem to be a pretty common theme with weddings.  Sourced back to ancient Rome, new houses were suspected … Continue reading →

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Friday Is Upon Us!

Posted on Friday, February 11, 2022 by Paul

Fun Fact: The feeling of getting lost inside a mall is known as the Gruen transfer – We’ve all heard how casinos are designed to deliberately disorient visitors, causing them to lose track of time and where exactly they are.  … Continue reading →

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Today Is Fun Day!

Posted on Sunday, February 6, 2022 by Paul

Fact: Oranges aren’t naturally occurring fruits  – Oranges may be an iconic fruit, but they are not naturally occurring, as The Telegraph points out. Oranges are a hybrid of tangerines and pomelos, also known as “Chinese grapefruit,” They were originally … Continue reading →

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Thursday; The Week Is Getting Weaker!

Posted on Thursday, February 3, 2022 by Paul

Fact: Roller coasters were invented to distract Americans from sin! – In the 1880s, hosiery businessman LaMarcus Thompson hated that Americans were tempted by hedonistic places like saloons and brothels. So he set out to straighten up one of the most immoral … Continue reading →

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Sunday Has Arrived; We Are Ready!

Posted on Sunday, January 30, 2022 by Paul

Fact: All of the water on Earth would form a ball that’s 860 miles wide. About 71 percent of the surface of the Earth is covered with water. However, it’s hard to fully grasp just how much water that actually … Continue reading →

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