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If I had a nickel for every time I heard someone say, "If I had a nickel"...

In New England, a law firm hands out attorney trading cards. Each lawyer's stats are on the back-- showing how many clients he's handled, how many cases he's won, etc. Here at (STATION) we’re debating doing the same thing with disk jockey trading cards, with each DJ's stats on the back. I have my personal stats right here.

· Number of shows: 984

· Number of shows without insulting the boss: 862

· Number of shows I’ve spilled coffee into studio equipment: 6

· Number of times not in the studio when song ended: 38

· Number of times burped during a commercial: 19

· Number of times fell asleep during newscast: 3

· Number of times accidentally locked in men's room: 1 – but that wasn’t my fault

· Number of times finger stuck in CD machine: 3 (we don’t use CDs much anymore)

· Number of times finger stuck in hole in middle of CD: 189 (we still have a lot of CD laying around the studio)

Okay... let’s start the show and see how the stats change; it’s (THE JOCK SHOW)!

BIBLE VERSE OF THE DAY

Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God. -- Romans 15:7

Sing to God, sing praise to his name, extol him who rides on the clouds — his name is the Lord — and rejoice before him. A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling. — Psalm 68:4-5

HEARTLIGHT VERSE & THOUGHT

May the LORD, the God of the spirits of all mankind, appoint a man over this community to go out and come in before them, one who will lead them out and bring them in, so the LORD's people will not be like sheep without a shepherd. — Numbers 27:16-17

Thought: Wow! For any city, county, or country electing new leadership, or church selecting elders or ministers, what greater prayer could there be?

Prayer: O Father, please forgive us for choosing leaders for the wrong reasons and with the wrong character. Please raise up leaders at every level of community that have integrity of character and a deep concern for people. In the name of the Savior, Jesus. Amen.

The Thoughts and Prayers for Today's Verse are written by Phil Ware. You can email questions or comments to .

“BIRTH VERSE” OF THE DAY

The chapter and verse corresponds to the month and the day!

2 Corinthians 6:18 NIV = “I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”

TODAY IS THURSDAY – JUNE 18, 2015

(NOTE: Some holidays may be duplicated due to various calendars reporting conflicting dates)
WEIRD, WACKY, STRANGE, ZANY, ODD, BIZARRE, QUIRKY, UNUSUAL HOLIDAYS!
THERE ARE ONLY 191 SHOPPING DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS.

NATIONAL SPLURGE DAY. ***MARLAR: Splurge? In other words, spend money wastefully on something that you can't afford and don't need. Yep... that pretty much describes my life.

This is TAKE YOUR PET TO WORK WEEK. ***MARLAR: Not nearly as popular as "Take Your Son/Daughter To Work Day" – mostly because of that whole pooper-scooper thing. And in an effort to celebrate Take Your Pet To Work Week, we have had a special collar designed for (OTHER JOCK).

TODAY IS ALSO. . .

International Sushi Day

Dump the Pump Day

Ramadan (6/18-7/16)

Recess at Work Day

COMING UP NEXT

FRIDAY, JUNE 19

Garfield the Cat Day

Juneteenth

National Flip Flop Day

Ugliest Dog Day

Work at Home Father’s Day

World Sickle Cell Day

World Sauntering Day

SATURDAY, JUNE 20

American Eagle Day

Dollars Against Diabetes Days

Flitch of Bacon Day

Polar Bear Swim

World Productivity Day

World Refugee Day

SUNDAY, JUNE 21

Alzheimer’s Awareness Day

Ann & Samantha Day

Atheists Solidarity Day

Cuckoo Warning Day

Family Awareness Day

Father’s Day

Go Skateboarding Day

National Daylight Appreciation Day

National Selfie Day

Husband Caregiver Day

Summer Solstice (12:38pm)

Tall Girl Appreciation Day

World Handshake Day

World Humanist Day

World Music Day

MONDAY, JUNE 22

Global Smurfs Day

Stupid Guy Thing Day

Baby Boomers Recognition Day

TUESDAY, JUNE 23

International Widows’ Day

Let It Go Day

National Columnists’ Day

Pink Flamingo Day

Public Service Day

Runner’s Selfie Day

SAT Math Day

Windjammer Days (23-24)

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24

Celebration of the Senses

International Fairy Day or Faerie Day

THURSDAY, JUNE 25

Color TV Day (CBS)

Day of the Seafarer

Global Beatles Day

National Bomb Pop Day

National Catfish Day

National Hand Shake Day

ON THIS DAY

1812: The WAR OF 1812 began. ***MARLAR: I can't recall what year that was, but I'm sure it began on June 18th.

1873: Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for trying to vote in the 1872 U.S. presidential election. She refused to pay the fine, but never was allowed to vote.

1948: Columbia Records publicly unveiled its new long-playing phonograph record in New York. It played at 33 and 1/3 revolutions per minute.

1953: The Boston Red Sox got 14 hits and a mind-boggling 17 runs in the 7th inning on their way to embarrassing the Detroit Tigers 23 to 3.

1961: "Gunsmoke" was broadcast for the last time on CBS radio. (audio clip)

1963: England’s Henry Cooper decked Cassius Clay near the end of the fourth round of their heavyweight fight. Saved by the bell, Clay went on to win the fight, and claimed later that he went down only to get a closer look at Elizabeth Taylor, who was at ringside.

1975: Fred Lynn of the Boston Red Sox hit three home runs, a triple and a single in a game as Boston massacred the Detroit Tigers 15-1. Lynn would go on to become the only player in sports history to be named Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player in the same season..

1983: Astronaut Sally Ride became America's first woman in space as she and four colleagues blasted off aboard the space shuttle Challenger.

1984: Radio talk show host Alan Berg was shot to death outside his home in Denver. Two white supremacists were convicted of civil rights violations in the slaying.

1985: Wimbledon made Chris Evert Lloyd and Martina Navratilova co-number one seeds, the first time in the tennis tournament’s 63-year history for a co-top seeding.

1988: Fourteen students at Hanover High School in New Hampshire set a world record by leapfrogging 888.1 miles in 189 hours 49 minutes, or almost eight days.

1990: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that singer Jett Williams was the daughter of and a legal heir to the estate of singer Hank Williams Senior.

1992: Italian police arrested a man for stealing 17-thousand little bars of hotel soap.

1994: At a Las Vegas auction a collector paid $36,000 for Elvis Presley’s expired American Express card.

1995: Americans Steven Trotter and Lori Martin were treated for minor injuries after flying 165 feet over Niagara Falls in a fiberglass barrel.

2000: Tiger Woods won the U.S. Open by a record 15 strokes.

2002: The Los Angeles Lakers took the New Jersey Nets in four games, winning their third straight NBA title.

2006: Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger broke his jaw and nose in a motorcycle crash. He was not wearing a helmet.

2007: A Canadian couple won their second big lottery jackpot in less than a decade. Jadwiga and Rudy Taylor of Mississauga won $20 million ($19 million U.S.) in the Lotto 6/49. The jackpot was 20 times the $1 million they won in 1999 in the Ontario 49 lottery.

TODAY IN CHRISTIAN HISTORY

325: Bishop Hosius, a delegate at the Council of Nicea, announces the newly written Nicene Creed. Countering Arius, who taught that "there was a time when the Son was not," the creed describes Christ as "God from very God, begotten not made"

1464: Pope Pius II begins a crusade against the Turks. He died on the way to a rendezvous with his allies, and the crusading mentality died with him.

1546: Protestant Anne Askew is condemned in England for denying the doctrine of transubstantiation (the idea that sacramental bread and wine turn into the body and blood of Christ). When asked by her accuser, "Sayest thou that priests cannot make the body of Christ?" she answered, "I have read that God made man; but that man can make God, I never yet read, nor, I suppose, shall ever read.

1956: Death of Dawson Trotman who founded the Navigators, a discipleship ministry.

HOLLYWOOD, SPORTS AND CELEBRITY FIGURE BIRTHDAYS

o Actress (Simka on “Taxi,” The Princess Bride, The Ghost of Christmas Present in Scrooged) Carol Kane 63 (audio clip)

o actress Isabella Rossellini 63

BEE-BOP BIRTHDAYS

(Music Artist Birthdays From SongFacts.com)

1942 : Paul McCartney, born James Paul McCartney

1942 : Carl Radle (Derek and the Dominos)

1947 : Sandy Posey

1952 : Ricky Gazda (Asbury Jukes)

1961 : Alison Moyet

1963 : Dizzy Reed (Guns N' Roses)

1971 : Nathan Morris (Boyz II Men)

1975 : Silkk The Shocker

2006 : When I'm 64 - On this date in 2006, Paul McCartney turned 64. He started writing the song when he was 15.

SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE

Who started the custom of men wearing tuxedos on formal occasions?

At one time if you told me it was a bunch of penguins that wanted men to look as funny and ridiculous as they do, I would have believed you. But now I can muster some facts to fill in the tail--er, tale--of the tuxedo's origins. When the tuxedo debuted in 1886, black tie and tails had been the accepted formal wear for a century. But that year Pierre Lorillard (from the tobacco family) commissioned a tailor to create something less stiff--preferably tail-less--for a big social occasion where he lived, in Tuxedo Park, New York. But by the big night his enthusiasm for the new suit had tailed off, and he chickened out. However, his son and his friends wore it, and they started a new fad that itself became the standard for formal wear. In the process, they immortalized the name of their hometown.

CHRISTIAN ARTIST NEWS

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Steven Curtis Chapman'sdebut at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC is one he won't soon forget. The longtime Christian artist played in front of a full house, selling out the Kennedy Center during his first visit to the well known concert hall.

Jamie Gracehad an ulterior motive for a recent concert in Houston. She tweeted: why did we play in Texas this weekend? Cause Grandma only turns 70 once. We head to Houston after a lovely evening celebrating with our Grandma, Papa Lee and countless cousins, aunts, uncles and new friends.

Third Day'sMac Powell needs your help. He tweeted: I need help getting the word out about my country shows this week. Mac will be in Louisiana, Texas and Oklahoma playing some solo shows.

Moriah Peterssays an air plane has become her new home. She and her band have been jet setting for the past four days, traveling from Minnesota to Florida to North Carolina.

The 11th AnnualSwitchfootBro-Am surf contest and concert will take place at Moonlight Beach in California on Saturday, July 11. According to New Release Tuesday,Switchfoot, NeedToBreathe,Drew Holcomb and The Neighbors and Colony House will perform at the concert. This year, the surf contest/concert will be streamed online, allowing viewers around the world to tune in and catch the Bro-Am action live. The 2015 events will benefit the Switchfoot Bro-Am Foundation, which the members of Switchfoot recently created to continue their mission of giving back to the local community through music, surfing, and youth development programs.

http://www.switchfoot.com/c/bro-am

Mercyme'sMike Scheuchzer this week received what he described as the best birthday gift ever. It was a bed spread emblazoned with the face of artistDave Grohl.

You might want to read the fine print before purchasing items at upcomingColton Dixon and David Crowderconcerts. Recently David posted a picture of sale flyer at a nearby store. It featured an item that had been marked down by a whopping one-cent, from $149 to 148.99. That prompted Colton to tweet: we should start doing that for Merch items.

The members offor King and Countrywould like to facetime with you. They will be playing five songs on Fox and Friends this Friday and if you help them spread the word you will be entered in a drawing to facetime with the Aussie band. Simply retweeted the announcement about their appearance to be entered in the drawing.

http://t.co/5sebiEaxTd

WEIRD & WACKY

3 little pig houses left at Ohio road where semi crashedphoto
XENIA, Ohio (AP) — An anonymous apparent fan of pigs and fairy tales is offering some shelter for any piglets still loose after a semitrailer crash last week in southwest Ohio. Motorists on U.S. Route 35 in Xenia (ZEEN'-uyh) Township west of Dayton noticed Monday the three small houses along...
Thieves break into Ohio pet rescue, swipe 7 rare pythons
AKRON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio pet rescue is searching for seven rare pythons that were stolen from the shop over the weekend. Akron Rattery and Reptile Rescue CEO Robin Everley says the snakes were taken Saturday when thieves cut a hole in a wall in an adjacent building and broke in. She says...
Police: Lotto winner leaves behind voucher at turnpike plaza
BEDFORD, Pa. (AP) — Police say a man accidentally left a Pennsylvania Turnpike plaza without claiming a $500 prize from a scratch-off lottery ticket, only to have another man claim the winnings. Troopers from the Bedford barracks say the York man accidentally left the voucher displayed on a...
Bridge closed for 2nd night over swarms of mayflies, crashesphoto
WRIGHTSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — A bridge has been closed for a second straight night because of swarms of mayflies so thick they caused accidents, authorities said. Wrightsville fire officials said the Route 462 bridge over the Susquehanna River between Columbia and Wrightsville closed at about 10...
Distracted GOP lawmaker accidentally OKs California budget
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A Republican lawmaker accidentally cast his party's first vote for the California budget in years because he was distracted by Facebook. Assemblyman Scott Wilk was the sole Republican to vote for California's record $117.5 billion spending plan Monday. The Santa...
Earthlings, NASA send toast to Martians: Happy New Year!
MARS, Pa. (AP) — Earth to Mars: Happy New Year! That's the sentiment being offered this weekend in Mars, Pennsylvania, as NASA and other space enthusiasts gather to honor the red planet. The Martian New Year occurs about every two Earth-years. On Friday and Saturday, NASA will sponsor...
Minnesota man's mistake leads to winning poker's top prizephoto
LAS VEGAS (AP) — It's one thing to outlast hundreds or thousands of poker players to win one of the World Series of Poker's 68 events and the Las Vegas tournament's coveted gold bracelet. It's another thing entirely to win a game you've never played before. Christian Pham of St. Paul,...
School district's diploma cover features wrong state seal
KELSO, Wash. (AP) — High school graduates in Kelso, Washington, discovered an error when they received their diplomas during Saturday's graduation ceremony. The covers protecting the diplomas carried the state seal of Oregon. Kelso High School is in southwest Washington. HASH(0x1410290) Kelso...
$10K donation nets hockey fan chance to use Taser on mayor
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona Coyotes fan got to take out her frustration on the mayor behind the decision to send the hockey team packing. KPNX-TV reports (http://bit.ly/1FSCfwn) that disgruntled fan Ronda Pearson used a stun gun on Glendale Mayor Jerry Weiers on Saturday as part of a...
Giant purple sea slugs slime San Francisco Bay Area beaches
ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — A giant purple blob from the sea — a slug — is invading East Bay beaches and waterways this summer, and some experts say it may be caused by warmer temperatures near coastal waters. HASH(0x13d3c80) "We are getting calls from the public asking what the heck...
Virgin Islands couple wins Maine inn in writing contest
CENTER LOVELL, Maine (AP) — A Virgin Islands couple will be trading the Caribbean breezes of St. John for the rigors of Maine's four seasons after winning a "Win an Inn" essay contest. Prince and Rose Adams, both 45 and originally from New York City, entered the contest organized by Janice...

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