ON THIS DAY

It was on this date in 1775 that Paul Revere made his famous midnight ride and fashion prediction, saying "The Red Coats are coming! The Red Coats are coming!"

• Back then, that's how they announced the next "in" spring fashions.
• It was supposed to be Regis' night, but he had a previous engagement.
• That was the "eleven o'clock ride" Central.
• He let the colonists know he was having a sale on cookware.
• Actually, Paul rode through the streets of Boston to alert the colonists that "Red coats are on the way!" Turns out he was wrong. The look that all was more of an admiral blue.
• And he did it all with just one horsepower.
• What's not very well known: on the way back, he was yelling, "Name cookware after me! Name cookware after me!"

On this date in 1924, the very first crossword puzzle book was published by Simon and Schuster. I believe Simon did the downs and Schuster was in charge of across.

• Hey, we've all got our across to bear.
• Some say they made the puzzles too difficult, which resulted in a few cross words of their own.
• I guess it took that many years to come up with enough cross words to make a puzzle.

In 1934, the first-ever coin-operated Laundromat opened up in Fort Worth, TX. It was there the phrase was coined, "Who's got change for a dollar?"

Did you know that women do laundry every couple of days. A man will wear every article of clothing he owns, including his surgical pants that were hip about eightyears ago, before he will do the laundry. When he is finally out of clothes, he will wear a dirty sweatshirt inside out, rent a U-Haul and take his mountain of clothes to the laundromat.