Wednesday, September 19, 2012

B is for Basswood and Birch Trees


  • B - the first letter of my maiden name
  • B is sometimes the silent letter, like in the words debt and climb.
  • B&Bs offer bed and breakfast.
  • The B in a B-1 fire extinguisher indicates the type of fire that can be extinguished, flammable liquids such as gasoline, grease, oil, diesel fuel, and kerosene.  The number indicates the approximate number of square feet the unit can extinguish, so a B-1 would be a relatively small extinguisher.
  • The bb-gun.
  • If Plan A doesn't work, maybe Plan B will.
  • The letter B ranks 20th in usage frequency.
  • B-Bomber - a U.S. military aircraft designation, as in B-52.
  • B = indicates bold type font
  • Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, the 3-B's of classical music
  • B (Beta) is the 2nd brightest star in a constellation.
  • Hepatitis B is an infectious inflammatory illness of the liver caused by the Hepatitis B virus.
  • B Vitamins are necessary for maintaining good health.
  • Women's medium width shoe is a B.
  • Remember Bobby Socks and Bobby Pins?
  • Bee-line
  • B.A. and B.S. Degrees
  • To Be or not to Be.  That is the question.
  • Bold and Spicy Bloody Marys
  • B movies are low-budget films with cheesy acting and dialogue.
  • B is the second step in a set of instructions.
  • The 3-B's of bass fishing.....the bait, the bottom and the bass.  (1)  Each bait, or lure, has a distinct feel and resistance against the water when worked correctly to properly attract the fish.  (2)  Bass are basically at the bottom.  Just like each bait has its own feel, each type of bottom has its own feel, whether its bushes, stumps, boulders, sand, mud, gravel, ledges, drop-offs, or weeds.  (3)   You need to learn the feel of the bass holding on as being different from the feel of the bait and the feel of the bottom.  The 3-B's of bass fishing are what's called "the presentation," and that often matters more than what lure you use.     
  • B-teams in baseball.  When there are enough players for two teams, they probably would be divided into two...the A team and the B team.
  • Braille...the writing system used by the blind and visually impaired. It was a Frenchman named Louis Braille who went blind after a childhood accident who developed Braille around 1825.
  • The class B motor home came into being back in the 1970s.  It is a full-sized van modified to provide for sleeping, cooking, and other basic creature comforts.
  • B indicates the blackness of a pencil.  BB and BBB for successively softer leads.
  • Spelling bees, bumble bees, and quilting bees.
  • The letter b is not used until the number one billion.
  • Brazil is named after a tree.  
  • Brazil covers 50% of the South American continent, bordering every country in the South American continent, except Chile and Equador.
  • Breaths - we take over 23,000 breaths a day.
  • Boston - first public library and the first subway.
  • The Bible is the best-selling book in history.
  • Do you remember Be-Bop a Lula, She's my Baby?
  • Bluebells, begonia, bachelor buttons, buttercup
  • The word "byte" is a contraction of 'by eight.'
  • A billion has 9 zeroes.
  • Remember the Beatniks?