Monday !

Monday from the old English word Mōnandæg meaning "Moon's day". 

In today's Issue

The Daily Serial
International Disobedience Day
Trivial Top 10
Amaaaaaazing Fact !
Random Daily Joke
Finish With a Song

The Daily Serial 
Merlin Stories by Susan McCartney
Part 3

Raising the dead fiasco:

The servant, Egbert, hid his face in his hands.  His shoulders shook but he couldn’t hold back the peals of laughter.  ‘My poor Master Merlin,’ he chuckled.  He clutched the spell book to his thin chest. ‘I told him not to meddle with the unknown but he wouldn’t listen.  He would not let her be.  Raising a dead wife is a matter for skilled Necromancers and Master Merlin is not one of those.’  Tears of mirth ran down Egbert’s wizened face.  ‘The chant was wrong, the salts were wrong, the timing wrong but who listens to a servant?’  He gave a sly grin.  ‘It did work though, after a fashion.  She’s back to life now.’  Egbert snorted.  ‘A pity she’s a frog.’

The power to end all powers:

Merlin raged.  ‘Egbert!  Egbert you dunderhead.  You have let them steal the formulae from under our noses.’  The servant threw himself to his knees, tears and snot running down his thin face.

‘I am so sorry Master.  They must have used powerful magic to cloak their presence.  I heard and saw nothing.’  He trembled under the glowering gaze of the Magician.

Merlin muttered.  ‘Hour upon hour I bargained with the Sorcerer Oppenheimer.  Do you know how long it took to raise him? I forced him to release to me the secret of the most powerful energy of all time.  Now it is gone.  Stolen by the Alchemist Satanus.’  Merlin paced the floor growling and his eyes blazing. He reached again for the book.

‘Surely Sire,’ said Egbert his voice cracking, ‘nothing good can come of such ultimate power.  Only evil deeds. That book holds nothing but misery.’

International Disobedience Day

So this is the day we disobey.
I can only think that this day is dedicated to civil disobedience.
So if you do celebrate by public demonstration then that OK, but keep it 'civil'

Civil disobedience is the active refusal to obey certain laws, demands and commands of a government, or of an occupying power, without resorting to physical violence. It is one of the primary tactics of nonviolent resistance.

The American author Henry David Thoreau pioneered the modern theory behind this practice in his 1849 essay Civil Disobedience, originally titled "Resistance to Civil Government".

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (also known as Mahatma Gandhi) used non-violent civil disobedience in South Africa in a campaign for civil rights for the people who came from India and lived in South Africa. This campaign was from 1893-1914. When Gandhi returned to India, he used civil disobedience in the campaign for the independence of India from the British rule.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, and young activists in the American civil rights movement of the 1960s also adopted civil disobedience techniques, during and after the Vietnam War.

Trivial Top 10

Top 10 Twitter Accounts by Followers

10 - Justine Timberlake +57m Followers

9 - Twitter +58m Followers

8 - Ellen DeGeneres +64m Followers

7 - Lady Ga Ga +65m Followers

6 - You Tube +66m Followers

5 - Rihanna +69m Followers

4 -  Barack Obama + 80m Followers

3 - Taylow Swift + 83m Followers

2 - Justin Bieber + 91m Followers

1 - Katy Perry + 95m Followers

Me - @BenDeetoy 4,000 Followers

Here is an Amaaaaaaaaazing Fact

The planet Pluto was discovered in 1930 but, by 2006 its planet status was rescinded.

In that time, it has not yet done a full orbit of the sun.

Pluto takes 248 years to orbit the sun !!

Random Joke of The Day

I'll never forget my Grand Dad's last words...

"Are you holding that ladder?"

Finish with a Song

As she's number 1 in the Twitter top 10. Here is Katy Perry with Firework.

Released in 2010

Random Joke of the Day

I'll never forget my Grand Dad's last words.

"Are you holding that ladder?"

Finish With a Song

Given that she's number 1 in the Twitter poll, Here is Katy Perry with Firework, 

released in 2010