On this morning’s Brighter Breakfast we discovered that today is Electric Blanket Day.
In 1912, S.I. Russell patented an electric heating pad for tuberculosis patients. The small square of fabric with insolated heating coils was to meant to warm the chest and help them breathe. It sold for $150 – a staggering price at the time.
People immediately wanted to make larger, bed-sized pads, but it wasn’t until the 1930s that the first electric blanket was made. Today, we have standards for electric blankets that regulate both heating and safety.
Here endeth the history lesson.
The Brighter Breakfast Brain Boggler
Today’s Brain Boggler asked the question “What herb is used as a magic word in a Christmas Pantomime?”The answer is Sesame (as in Open Sez-a-me).
The Christmas Country Cracker came from Rascal Flatts and their version of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.
Rascal Flatts are Joe Don Rooney, Gary LeVox and Jay DeMarcus
If any act embodies the place to which country music has evolved in the new century, it is Rascal Flatts. Since their inception a decade ago in 1999, 
the trio has helped change the face of popular music. Their trademark sound–Gary LeVox’s powerfully emotive lead vocals coupled with the soaring harmonies of Jay DeMarcus and Joe Don Rooney, set amid world-class arrangements and production, have made the band the standard bearers for cutting-edge country. Drawing on Nashville’s best tunesmiths and their own enviable songwriting skills, they have released, in songs like “These Days,” “Bless The Broken Road,” “What Hurts The Most” and “Take Me There,” some of the most important and successful music to come out of Nashville in recent years. Along the way, they have placed 10 #1 singles and 20 Top Tens, seen every one of their studio albums go multi-platinum, with total sales approaching 19 million, been the ACM and CMA top vocal group every year since 2003, and won multiple American Music Awards and People’s Choice Awards.
The NewsWho Mystery Voice was that of Sarah Jessica Parker who has been in the news during the past week when she revealed she’d been kicked by cow during the filming of here latest movie “Did You Hear About The Morgans?”
