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2009-06-03
Posted by:Fred

#4  I can't believe that's Joan Blondell....
Posted by: Bugs Floluling1285   2009-06-03 16:25  

#3  The pic of Joan and the wave machine reminds me of a Bugs Bunny cartoon, the one in which he sees a Scotsman playing a bagpipe and immediately attacks the organ, screaming at it to 'get off that old lady!'
Posted by: Steve White   2009-06-03 08:16  

#2  A Rose by any other name is still a Joan Blondell



Back to the Future

Daily Gam Shot

A new angle on Joan

Blondell on the Rocks

A nice pair of dueces

Cocktails anyone

Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC   2009-06-03 04:00  

#1  Happy Birthday: June 3rd.

Paulette Goddard - died 1990 (79) "Marion Pauline Levy"

Leo Gorcey - died 1969 (51) "The Bowery Boys"

Definitely ***NSFW***
Lili St. Cyr - died 1999 (80) "Willis Marie Van Schaack - Ecdysiast"

Tony Curtis - 84 "Bernard Schwartz - For Barbara & TW" (Now)

Chuck Barris - 80 "The Gong Show" (Now)

Deniece Williams - 59 "Let's Hear It for the Boy", " (Now)

Large ***NSFW***
Janine Habeck - 26 "Playmate of the Year in 2005" (Now)

On this day in history: June 3rd.
1539 – DeSoto claims Florida for Spain.
1839 – Lin Tse-hsü destroys 1.2 million kg of opium in Humen, confiscated from British merchants, providing Britain with a Casus belli to open hostilities with China, resulting in the First Opium War.
1888 – The poem "Casey at the Bat", by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner.
1889 – The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon, United States.
1916 – The Reserve Officer Training Corps or ROTC is established by the U.S. Congress.
1940 – The Battle of Dunkirk ends with a German victory and with Allied forces in full retreat.
1965 – Launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Crew-member Ed White performs the first American spacewalk (EVA).
1969 – Melbourne-Evans collision: Off the coast of South Vietnam, the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne cuts the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in half.
1989 – The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.

Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC   2009-06-03 02:33  

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