Philly-Style March Madness!

Sometimes it's natural for all creatures and critters to be driven by biological imperatives.This morning (in Philadelphia,PA USA) it's foggy with the high temperature heading up to 63 degrees. As an imaginary hoboclown detective, I am preparing a special breakfast: cheese biscuits and applesauce.You see, I am investigating the big ritualistic doings in the area.The human-kind in Roxborough have blocked off Port Royal Avenue ( a small highway) for the frog crossing! Its seems like the frogs have to cross the highway to get to the reservoir area to sow their wild oats.It's sort of a wild mating game! All the chipmunks,squirrels,groundhogs,moles and a few feathered friends are peeking from behind the bushes to see this great spectacle! Meanwhile, all the critters and creatures (including the human-kind) are rooting for "Nova Nation" as the Villanova wildcats have advanced to the final four! It's a mad time! I'll share my cheese biscuit crumbs with the partying critters but the salivating human-kind with the V tatoos on their cheeks have to keep their distance!

Spring Ahead?

In Philadelphia,PA, USA it's 47 degrees, heading up to 66 to 70 degrees.Spring is in the air and is about to spring,so we can say that it has sprung when it sprang.Do you feel springy? Do you have a spring in your step? Tonight, we will enter Daylight Savings Time as we spring the clock ahead one hour.Now, here's a small test for all Mensa applicants: Go to your local poultry market and ask the butcher for a spring chicken.If you get a civil answer, you advance in academic standing.
Also, open your mouth wide and say, ' Boinnnggg!'. If you succeed, you move to the head of the class.If not, take comfort in the fact that you are now a runner-up to the class clown! Lastly,
find your honey and give her or him a springalicious kiss!Now spring along and enjoy your day
before Flash Mc Cool springs something else on you !

Economic Stimulus Money & New Cities?

Let there be no doubt that President Obama's economic stimulus package has gotten many USA entrepreneurs salivating about new job opportunities to be found in re-building the USA
infrastructure. As an imaginary hoboclown detective,I have travelled back in time to the 1700s and 1800s to see what the state of the art in city-construction was like.Did you know that horses once pulled rail cars or that the US government previously purchased shares in local Philadelphia banks to get the economy going?
You can travel back in time too and see how Philadelphia's streets were planned or how bridges ,
waterways were constructed with the technology of that time.Yes, in order to build the future, you should re-visit and understand the past !
Get into an authentic, documented, published and public domain book- designed time machine to get ideas from the past to make a buck today! Be thankful and read the following book by
Arden Press of Philadelphia
http://www.libertynet.org/ardenpop/applist.html
<>A Short History of the City of Philadelphia, From Its Foundation to the Present Time (1880)
By Susan Coolidge
(**The following non-fiction work is in the public domain.**)
Summary This book, originally published in 1880, provides a comprehensive history of Philadelphia from its earliest settlements in the 1600's all the way to 1880, the year of the Centennial Exhibition.
Table of Contents Original Dedication Chapter 1 Early Settlements Chapter 2 The Quaker Colony Chapter 3 The Founding of Philadelphia Chapter 4 The Successors of Penn (1701-1766) Chapter 5 Old Philadelphia (1701 to 1766 continued) Chapter 6 The Gathering of the Storm (1766 to 1776) Chapter 7 The Revolutionary War (1776 to 1783) Chapter 8 Philadelphia as the Capital City (1783 to 1800) Chapter 9 Growth and Development (1800 to 1876) Chapter 10 The Centennial Exhibition Chapter 11 Philadelphia in 1880
Title: A Short History of the City of Philadelphia, From Its Foundation to the Present Time (1871)
Author: Susan Coolidge
Published: 1887
Copyright: 1887 by Roberts Brothers Publishers
Publisher: Roberts Brothers, Boston, Massachusetts
If an old fictional hoboclown detective can read this document, so can you !

His Eloquence ?

Woof! Since I am a dog, my boss,Flash Mc Cool, fictional hoboclown detective, told me about the guy who said ,"Beware the ides of March." Also, since I can't read, Flash Mc Cool told me about Russ Limbaugh,"Hoping that US President, Barack Obama, fails". So, I decided to give the first March,2009 Butterfly-Pup Leg-Up Award to His Eloquence,Russ Limbaugh.In the United States of America,Mr. Limbaugh's freedom of speech is protected by the First Amendment to the U.S, Constitution,whereby criticism of the government is allowed. With so many people in the United States unemployed,Russ Limbaugh may as well have said ,'Let there be light...'You see,Russ Limbaugh is very entertaining and he has a profitable job displaying his eloquence.If I didn't know better I might think he was a better clown than my boss!