A SEVERE WINTER STORM HIT THE MIDWEST ON FEBRUARY 4, 1996. MILWAUKEE TIED THEIR RECORD LOW TEMPERATURE OF 26 DEGREES BELOW ZERO.

 
 
 
 
 

We want to wish

best of luck to

Prairie du Chien native

MATT ANTOINE

at the Winter Olympics.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This video was posted three week ago.

 

 



DID YOU HEAR CONAN O'BRIENS LINE about the Super Bowl BUDWEISER COMMERCIAL?

"After seeing that commercial with the horse and puppy, my kids wouldn't stop bugging me.  So, I caved in and bought them a case of Bud."

I've about worn my one good eye out reading Tim Cope's book, ON THE TRAIL OF GENGHIS KHAN.  I ploughed through the first 200 pages of the 450 page book, in a couple of days.  What a great book! 

Talk about weather!  I, actually, think Mongolia has more miserable winters than Wisconsin!! And a good number of those folks spend their winter in tents!  Of course, you know me.  I don't care so much about the people....it's the other animals I feel so sorry for.  The horses and dogs are treated like family but they sure do earn their keep in that harsh climate!

 

 By the way, if your starting to think about summer travel plans, YOU MIGHT WANT TO READ THIS ARTICLE if you will be traveling out of the country.

A NICE WINTER SCENE

 FROM TEXAS

 

IT'S WORLD CANCER DAY

22 WILL BE OUR HIGH TODAY.  That's not warm but it's the warmest we'll see all week so I' guess I'll get out a make a grocery run.  The rest of the week our highs will be closer to 10 above and I see a forecast for 11 BELOW Wednesday night.  That's real temperature, not wind chill.

CLINT BLACK, and Lisa, were regulars at the club when I was working in Houston.  Like most country stars I've met, he was a nice man. Clint celebrates his 52nd birthday today


We remember another great singer today.  Karen Carpenter had such a beautiful voice and she left us much too soon.  She PASSED AWAY ON FEBRUARY 4, 1983.


I SLEPT GOOD LAST NIGHT.  That means I should be ready to hit the floor running.  Well, forget that!  Any 74 year old that tells you they "hit the floor running" is a damn liar.

 

You know those people who say, "I can sleep anywhere"?  Well, let them try this!

 

Nap Time pic.twitter.com/PJmPacBIE5
— Earth Pics (@ThatsEarth) February 4, 2014

$77.00 for an end zone seat.  What do you think?

IT'S LIBERACE DAY

LIBERACE DIED 4 FEBRUARY 1987

 

You've got to admit that, next to me, Liberace was, probably, the most colorful person to ever come out of Wisconsin.

 

It's an interesting coincidence that it was 44 years ago today, February 3, 1970 that I first met Ron and Penny when they arrived in Rapid City.

 

Ron was hired to be our engineer at the radio station but that didn't last long.  He was the most worthless radio engineer I ever met in my many years in the business.  It turned out, however, that he had a gift for sales and he turned out to be the best radio salesman I ever knew.

 

Ron, Penny and I traveled a lot of miles together in the old days and one of our stops was in Las Vegas to see Liberace at the Hilton.  Like I said, Ron was the best salesman I ever knew.  Good enough to convince the doorman at he Hilton show room that we were VERY IMPORTANT PEOPLE.  I won't tell you HOW he did it but I will tell you we ended up with front row seats for the show!!

 

And, I have to tell you, the Liberace show was the best show I ever saw in Vegas and he knew how to open a show!

 

 



DONNIE FOUND THIS.  I nearly died laughing.

CAR TALK: Will the next big thing be cars talking to each other?  READ THIS INTERESTING ARTICLE FROM NPR

CUTE PHOTO

just a bunny and his veggies ~ pic.twitter.com/dAVr1QhY5W
— Baby Animals (@BBAnimals) February 2, 2014

There aren't many of you who still send emails to my Yahoo! address but, for those who do, I can no longer access Yahoo! mail because I won't download another browser so please send your emails to my Gmail address.  Thanks.

 

IF YOU THINK THIS IS COLD, THE COLDEST TEMPERATURE EVER RECORDED IN NORTH AMERICA WAS 63 BELOW ZERO IN SNAG, YUKON ON FEBRUARY 3, 1947.

A NOTE FROM DONNIE

"You've given me a new destination for my next trip north.  The Buddy Holly cornfield monument in Clear Lake.  I must have driven past it dozens of times, on I35, but never knew where to take the detour."

AIN'T IT THE TRUTH!
If you can't cut it being a real doctor you can always get a TV show.

The quickest way to get a doctor today is to turn on your television set -- .
— Math Vibe (@mathvibe) February 3, 2014

ATTENTION: CARL

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE THIS CAT!

REMEMBERING THE BIG BOPPER ON THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED.

THE TERRITORY OF ILLINOIS WAS CREATED ON THIS DATE IN 1809.

TALK ABOUT WALKING AROUND WITH YOUR NOSE IN THE AIR!!

A trio of juvenile king penguins on Saunders Island in the Falklands http://t.co/hdKPtQE5hS (Photo: Barcroft Media) pic.twitter.com/XOeBHWIF1Q
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) February 3, 2014

HAPPY CARROT CAKE DAY!  Carrot cake has been around since Medieval times when sugar was very expensive and scarce.  Since THE CARROT HAS MORE SUGAR THAN ANY OTHER VEGETABLE they came up with the carrot cake to satisfy their sweet tooth.

 

Having spent more time around booze than cakes, I should mention that there's also a shooter called a CARROT CAKE COCKTAIL.  It's 1/3 Baileys Irish Cream, 1/3 Hot Damn Cinnamon Schnapps and 1/3 Frangelico and, yes, it tastes like carrot cake with a kick!!

REMEMBERING RICHIE VALENS ON THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED.

MONDAY....BACK TO WORK KIDDIES! US OLD FOLK GET TO STAY HOME.

I had plans to go to Festival this morning but there's nothing on the list I can't live without.  It was 4 below when I got up.  Down to 8 below by 6 A.M.  That is NOT Festival weather!

I should have stayed in Key West.  At 5, this morning, they had a temperature of 76 degrees.  THAT'S what I call PERFECT January weather!

COLDEST WEATHER RIGHT ON TOP OF US THIS MORNING

Apex of arctic airmass centered over the western Great Lakes region this morning with temps below zero (6:15 am ET) pic.twitter.com/aE9BMsxOkI
— Johnny Kelly (@stormchaser4850) February 3, 2014

There isn't a day that goes by that I don't manage to do, at least, one STUPID THING.  This morning I grabbed the wrong bottle and washed my entire body with Alberto VO5 hair conditioner rather than St. Ives shower soap.  I can't promise my body is clean today but CAN guarantee that it's perfectly manageable.

WE'LL HAVE TO BUNDLE UP IF WE GO OUT.  The weatherman predicts wind chills around 12 below today.  I won't forget this winter any time soon!

Talking about winter, I can see why THERE AREN'T A LOT OF AMERICANS RUSHING OFF TO RUSSIA FOR THE WINTER OLYMPICS.  With airfares running around $3,000 per person and hotels charging $1,000 A NIGHT even the Bieber kid might think twice about that little caper.

These guys need to forget space and get their own TV show!

SCREW POSITIVE THINKING.

So sorry to hear of the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman.  A great actor.  He played Capote as well as Capote did.

IT'S FEBRUARY 3: THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED

 

 

The other day I mentioned that I was on the air in Edinburg the day the shuttle blew up.  The Day The Music Died I was on the air in Deadwood that morning, 55 years ago today.

This is the memorial, on the site of the crash, just outside Clear Lake, Iowa.

 

 

It was 4 below zero when I got up this morning.  "COLD" is the nastiest four letter word in the English language.

THE WEEKEND COMES TO AN END. ANOTHER WEEK BEGINS. BUT LOOK AT IT THIS WAY; IT'S ANOTHER WEEK CLOSER TO SPRING!

ANOTHER COLD NIGHT FOR DONNIE AND LINDA.  At 4:00 PM, Dripping Springs was down to 37 degrees and that's only 4 degrees warmer than Rapid City was.  This winter is showing no mercy on anyone.

Donnie spent the weekend digging up facts.

 "The Japanese, who we tend to consider neat and fastidious, generally don't make their beds.  Apparently most Japanese beds are perpetually tossed and 'disheveled'.

The word, 'disheveled' originally applied only to hair.  Only hair could be disheveled.  Not persons, nor houses, nor beds."

I don't have enough hair left for it to really be disheveled.  It's just "kind of" disheveled.  I try to keep things picked up and in their place but I'm not totally fastidious.

I think you would have to call me "fasteveled".

 

 

So, six more weeks of winter.  It looks, to me, like winter is gearing up to make my life completely miserable until the very last day.

The latest bulletin tells me we'll have ANOTHER ONE TO THREE INCHES OF SNOW coming, SOUTH OF I-90, BETWEEN MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY NIGHT.  Like we don't have enough of that crap on the ground already?  I no longer consider this a laughing matter.

 

HIGHS WILL BE NEAR 20 TODAY AND TOMORROW. THEN BITTERLY COLD SINGLE DIGIT HIGHS ON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY.

BE WATCHING FOR THIS PIZZA HUT COMMERCIAL DURING THE SUPER BOWL.  It's features MARY HVIZDA who is better known as the "Grandma Drummer".  Believe it, or not, MARY IS FROM LA CROSSE!!  YOU GO GIRL!!!



SCREW YOU YAHOO!  I can no longer access my Yahoo! Calendar, which I have used for years, unless I download Firefox, Safari or Internet Explorer because they have changed the calendar format.

First of all, I already have Internet Explorer installed so I don't know why I should have to install it again.  Second, I'm not computer savvy enough to start downloading anything because it always causes me big problems, which I can't fix, or slows the computer down to a snails pace so forget Yahoo!  They're history as far as I'm concerned.

What that all means is that I've lost all of my birthday and anniversary information so IF YOU HAVE ANY EVENTS COMING UP IN MARCH LET ME KNOW and I'll put it on my new WINDOWS 8 calendar which is the best calendar I've ever found and which I'm now using.  Thanks!


DONNIE AND LINDA WILL GET SIX MORE WEEKS OF WINTER TOO!

In case you are wondering, #PunxsutawneyPhil saw his shadow so 6 more weeks of winter. For once, we agree with that forecast! #txwx
— Texas Storm Chasers (@TxStormChasers) February 2, 2014

This makes me want to cry.  This is the exact view I had, out my bedroom window, for the two years I was in Key West.

@NWSKeyWest @WeatherNation Truman Annex sunrise in #KeyWest on Super Sunday/Groundhog Day. #FLwx #FLKeys #Keyswx pic.twitter.com/Gj8rY7QrxT
— Gary J Blinebury (@GBlinebury) February 2, 2014

You've, probably, already seen the "best" Super Bowl ads but what about the WORST SUPER BOWL ADS?  I don't know who picked these, from last year, because I think a couple of them are pretty funny...but that's just me.  Never mind.

 

Did you know?  THE FIRST GROUNDHOG DAY CELEBRATION WAS HELD IN PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA. IN 1887.  That makes Punxsutawney Phil one OLD groundhog dude!

PHYLLIS DILLER TALKS ABOUT FOOTBALL:  "The reason women don't play football is because eleven of them would never wear the same outfit in public."

This is BOY SCOUT ANNIVERSARY WEEK.  My Scouting career lasted about 2 weeks.  Tying knots in ropes seemed like a total waste of time and I never could figure out what I was supposed to be prepared for.

Has anyone ever told you YOU'RE SO CREATIVE?  Well, guess what!

A Harvard study found that creative people are more likely to cheat and be dishonest.
— Facts (@TheFactsBook) February 2, 2014

Want a sinfully delicious after dinner cocktail?  Try a CHOCOLATE WATERFALL.

1 oz. chocolate liqueur
3/4 oz. cherry liqueur
1/2 oz. Kahlua coffee liqueur
2 oz. heavy whipping cream
espresso powder

Combine ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice.  Shake it, baby, shake it.  Strain into a chilled martini glass and dust with espresso powder.

Wouldn't that be good after your Easter dinner?  Beats the hell out of a chocolate egg.

 

The world’s best Alpine Skiers are arriving @Sochi2014. Get to know them! http://t.co/0xzVaaxKFC #Olympics pic.twitter.com/Re9XfIuX3n
— Olympics (@Olympics) February 2, 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS JUST REPORTED THAT OUR LA CROSSE GROUNDHOG WILL SEE HIS SHADOW THIS MORNING. SIX MORE WEEKS OF WINTER HERE.

 IT'S OFFICIAL!

Punxsutawney Phil declares there will be six more weeks of winter! AccuWeather's forecast?: http://t.co/tf81tM9Z4J
— AccuWeather.com (@breakingweather) February 2, 2014

 

Besides this being Groundhog Day, it's a BIRTHDAY FOR TOM SOMOTHERS.  HE'S 76 TODAY.

 

11 REASONS TO CELEBRATE GROUNDHOG DAY.....
11. It's on nearly every calendar.
10. Helps relieve cabin fever.
9. Spring or not, it's six weeks till St Urho's Day.
8. Forecast is no less reliable than the National Weather Service.
7. At least one of them critters is bound to see things your way.
6. Valentine's Day is too depressing for nerds.
5. Unlike the Easter bunny, he keeps his dirty paws outside.
4. As they used to say on radio: "The Shadow knows".
3. It's fun to say "Punxsutawney".
2. If a rodent can bring us an early spring, more power to him.
1. In Minnesota, either way we come out ahead.

GROUNDHOG DAY EXPLAINED