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2009-05-04 
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Posted by Fred 2009-05-04 00:30|| || Front Page|| [5 views ]  Top

#1 Happy Birthday: May 4th.

Maynard Ferguson - died 2006 (78) "Canadian jazz trumpeter"

Roberta Peters - 79 "Roberta Peterman - Coloratura Soprano who enjoyed a long and distinguished career at the Metropolitan Opera" (Now)

Audrey Hepburn - died 1993 (63) "Audrey Kathleen Ruston - Roman Holiday - Breakfast at Tiffany's - Sabrina"

George Will - 68 "RINO Pundit" (Now)

Tammy Wynette - died 1998 (55) "First Lady of Country Music - Stand By Your Man"

Stella Parton - 60 "Dolly's little sister Stella - The Parton Curse" (Now)

Pia Zadora - 55 "Pia Alfreda Schipani - Eye Candy" (Now?)

Randy Travis - 50 "Randy Bruce Traywick - Always & Forever" (Now)

On this day in history: May 4th.
1863 – The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with a Union retreat.
1904 – Construction begins by the United States on the Panama Canal.
1932 – In Atlanta, Georgia, mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion.
1942 – The Battle of the Coral Sea begins with an attack by aircraft from the United States aircraft carrier Yorktown on Japanese naval forces at Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands.
1945 – The surrender of the North Germany Army to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.
1946 – In San Francisco Bay, U.S. Marines from the nearby Treasure Island Navy Base stop a two-day riot at Alcatraz federal prison.
1953 – Ernest Hemingway is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
1970 – Vietnam War: Kent State shootings.
1979 – Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1980 – President Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia dies in Ljubljana at the age of 87.
1989 – Iran-Contra Affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges. The convictions, however, are later overturned on appeal.
1994 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord regarding Palestinian autonomy granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-05-04 02:56||   2009-05-04 02:56|| Front Page Top

#2 Winifred June Vlasek for "Auld Lang Syne"



We two have run about the slopes,
and picked the daisies fine;


Put on a Happy Face

Daily Gam Shot

This exercise makes me cargo shift to port.

I don't date men that wear pasties

But we’ve wandered many a weary foot,
since auld lang syne.


Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-05-04 03:58||   2009-05-04 03:58|| Front Page Top

#3 
Posted by How I Lost Thirty Pounds in Thirty Days 2009-05-04 07:10||   2009-05-04 07:10|| Front Page Top

#4 How I Lost Thirty Pounds in Thirty Days

Cut off your big, fat head?
Posted by Fred 2009-05-04 10:37||   2009-05-04 10:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Nah Fred, that'd make him lose more than 30 pounds, picture an old Mr potato head, with a 50 pound spud and you're close.
Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim  2009-05-04 11:34||   2009-05-04 11:34|| Front Page Top

#6 June Lang's dramatic tour de force


Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-05-04 15:25||   2009-05-04 15:25|| Front Page Top

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