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2009-03-02 
Good morning
Posted by Fred 2009-03-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 Happy Birthday:

Sam Houston - died 1863 "President of the Republic of Texas" (Now)

Dr. Seuss - died 1991 "American author" (Now)

Desi Arnaz - died 1986 "Mr Lucille Ball" (Now)

Jennifer Jones - 90 "The Song of Bernadette" (Now?)

Mikhail Gorbachev - 78 "Former Head Commie" (Now)

Barbara Luna - 70 "Teresa Modesto, Zorro" (Now)

Gates McFadden - 60 " Dr. Beverly Crusher, Star Trek" (Now)

Karen Carpenter - died 1983 "We've Only Just Begun." (Now)

Laraine Newman - 57 "Original cast SNL" (Now)

This day in History:
1836 - Texas Revolution: Declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico.
1896 - Ethiopia defeats Italy in the Battle of Adwa.
1919 - The first Communist International meets in Moscow. (Later moved to Democrat Convention)
1933 - The film King Kong opens at New York's Radio City Music Hall.
1943 - World War II: Battle of the Bismarck Sea
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain sets the single-game NBA scoring record, 100 points.
1991 - Battle at Rumaila Oil Field brings end to the 1991 Gulf War.
Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-03-02 00:06||   2009-03-02 00:06|| Front Page Top

#2 This is no "Mack the Knife".



Hellen with Mom, (Helen takes after Dad)

Helen holding Randolph's hand in "She"

The studio couch at Fox was kind of chincy

If that big monkey keeps giving me the bird, shoot him.

I'd walk a mile for a Camel

Prepare to come, about

I have no idea what happened to the living room drapes.

Some day people will wear hats like this backwards.

Bedtime


Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-03-02 01:02||   2009-03-02 01:02|| Front Page Top

#3 P.S. Hellen Strauss.

The morning edition of the RS & TP did not hit the streets until after I left for my Sunday morning golf game. When I returned KiloBravo had scheduled us to attend a "Y Gymanfa Ganu" in celebration of Dydd Dewi Sant.

Dydd Dewi Sant Hapus

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-03-02 02:35||   2009-03-02 02:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Miss Mary Mack's little sister?
Posted by Adriane 2009-03-02 04:07||   2009-03-02 04:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Holy Crap another Welshman??

St. David's Day?

How did I forget that?

Crap why didn't some one tell me.

As an aside wasn't Helen Mack's married name Helen Bedd?
Posted by James Carville 2009-03-02 10:34||   2009-03-02 10:34|| Front Page Top

#6 Never knew I was Sainted, (That's my for real last name, David, odd, no?)
Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim  2009-03-02 13:10||   2009-03-02 13:10|| Front Page Top

#7 Happy Saint Davids Day from another Welsh Fremen (we are a vast hidden army, don't tell anyone).
Posted by Bright Pebbles the flatulent 2009-03-02 13:19||   2009-03-02 13:19|| Front Page Top

#8 OK if I'm sainted, I can absolve sins, I start by absolving all of Mine.

Line forms on the left. Gifts appreciated due to the depth of sin absolved.

(In other words just how guilty do you feel)
Posted by The Holy Reverend Redneck Jim">The Holy Reverend Redneck Jim  2009-03-02 14:06||   2009-03-02 14:06|| Front Page Top

#9 
Posted by Weight Loss Success">Weight Loss Success  2009-03-02 15:15||   2009-03-02 15:15|| Front Page Top

#10 Line forms on the left. Gifts appreciated due to the depth of sin absolved.
(In other words just how guilty do you feel)

We've lost another one to the Donks. Well, isn't that their racket? Along with original sin, ie being white or successful but conservative. Just saying. :)
Posted by Procopius2k 2009-03-02 17:47||   2009-03-02 17:47|| Front Page Top

#11 All this talk about the Welsh made me want to find out the definition of the name of the township I grew up in because I had never been able to find Tredyffrin in any gazeteers of Wales. So when I googled it I found this in the townships history:

The Old Eagle School was built in 1776 by German Lutherans who did not find it easy to live with the Welsh Quakers. They moved on, and the next Lutheran church in the Township was established in 1960 when the Township had undergone considerable change.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2009-03-02 18:06||   2009-03-02 18:06|| Front Page Top

#12 Ah, but do the Welsh distill whiskey?
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-03-02 18:55||   2009-03-02 18:55|| Front Page Top

#13 What's wrong with mead?
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2009-03-02 19:12||   2009-03-02 19:12|| Front Page Top

#14 Meade will do. I was just wondering if St. David's day is gonna have celebrations like the Irish do. That and I was a little curious, being a whiskey afficianado, if there's something out there I need to know about.
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-03-02 19:20||   2009-03-02 19:20|| Front Page Top

#15 What I'm a DEMOCRAT, sorry but the Church has been taking money, property and riches millenia before those upstart democrats were invented.

To Hades with you Procopius. :-)

(Ps. whenever someone introduces himself as being Revered this, or Holy that, hang on to your property, biggest thieves I ever knew were "Holy Men" Of some stripe)
Posted by  The Holy Reverend Redneck Jim"> The Holy Reverend Redneck Jim  2009-03-02 19:35||   2009-03-02 19:35|| Front Page Top

#16 Ditto your holiness THRRJ.
Posted by Monsignor Besoeker  2009-03-02 19:40||   2009-03-02 19:40|| Front Page Top

#17 OK, that's enough of "The Holy Man' Schick
I'm demoted back to "Sinner' again (Whew)
Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim  2009-03-02 19:56||   2009-03-02 19:56|| Front Page Top

#18 It never takes long.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2009-03-02 20:15||   2009-03-02 20:15|| Front Page Top

#19 It's the mead that does it. And the wimmens.
Posted by SteveS 2009-03-02 20:32||   2009-03-02 20:32|| Front Page Top

#20 There has been a terror attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Pakistan. First reports say 5 police dead.

I'll post more after midnight.
Posted by phil_b 2009-03-02 23:47||   2009-03-02 23:47|| Front Page Top

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