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meower

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Posted: May 30, 2013 - 5:14am

 kurtster wrote:


That's a big Wow !

I was 16 living in Philly when it came out.

 

i was 11.5 months old
kurtster

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Posted: May 30, 2013 - 5:11am

 meower wrote:

44 years ago today.

 

That's a big Wow !

I was 16 living in Philly when it came out.
meower

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Posted: May 30, 2013 - 5:04am


44 years ago today.
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Posted: May 29, 2013 - 11:45am

 hobiejoe wrote:
Mt Everest conquered by Sherpa Norgay Tenzing and Sir Edmund Hillary 60 years ago today.

 

well, yeah, but they didn't eat anybody, right?
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Posted: May 29, 2013 - 11:40am

Mt Everest conquered by Sherpa Norgay Tenzing and Sir Edmund Hillary 60 years ago today.
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Posted: May 29, 2013 - 11:04am

 black321 wrote:
On this day in 1874, were spoken some of the most intriguing words in American
jurisprudence.
In the late fall of the preceding year, a trail guide named Alferd (his spelling....not
ours) Packer had led a party of twenty men into the San Juan Mountains. Ignoring
warnings and early snows, Packer pushed his party onward.
Little was heard of the party for several months until Packer returned, alone, saying
the party had abandoned him. When spring set in, however, the bulk of the party
was found in the hills, the apparent victims of cannibalism.
At his trial Packer claimed that eating human flesh was the only means of survival in
the frigid circumstances. The jury was unsympathetic and found him guilty. The
judge was outright hostile and sentenced him to 40 years of hard labor.
And, as he left the courtroom, the judge shouted after him - "Packer, you depraved
Republican son of a bitch, there was only seven Democrats in Hinsdale County .....
and you ate five of them."
History does not record whether that particular judge lost the next election by four or
more votes. And, if you want to learn more about this tale, just drop by the student
snack area at the University of Colorado. It's called the "Alferd A. Packer Memorial
Grill."

 
If I hadn't lived in Denver for as long as I did, I would never have known this. I was going to add the factoid regarding the Alferd Packer Grill, but you beat me to it. {#Dance} 
black321

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Posted: May 29, 2013 - 10:47am

On this day in 1874, were spoken some of the most intriguing words in American
jurisprudence.
In the late fall of the preceding year, a trail guide named Alferd (his spelling....not
ours) Packer had led a party of twenty men into the San Juan Mountains. Ignoring
warnings and early snows, Packer pushed his party onward.
Little was heard of the party for several months until Packer returned, alone, saying
the party had abandoned him. When spring set in, however, the bulk of the party
was found in the hills, the apparent victims of cannibalism.
At his trial Packer claimed that eating human flesh was the only means of survival in
the frigid circumstances. The jury was unsympathetic and found him guilty. The
judge was outright hostile and sentenced him to 40 years of hard labor.
And, as he left the courtroom, the judge shouted after him - "Packer, you depraved
Republican son of a bitch, there was only seven Democrats in Hinsdale County .....
and you ate five of them."
History does not record whether that particular judge lost the next election by four or
more votes. And, if you want to learn more about this tale, just drop by the student
snack area at the University of Colorado. It's called the "Alferd A. Packer Memorial
Grill."
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Posted: May 23, 2013 - 9:22am

1933: Joan Collins born.
jc


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Posted: May 23, 2013 - 8:58am

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

There's a Clyde's Bar in my town. It got sold and the new owners changed it to Red Stag Pub & Grill. Everyone says Clyde's.
 
Took out a classic neon sign and put in a plastic fluorescent pile of fail. 
 
( I know you were talking about something completely different ) 

 
Still a cool thing, tho, sorta like a musical cowinkydink.
ScottFromWyoming

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Posted: May 23, 2013 - 8:44am

 gypsyman wrote:

Can I have Clyde's BAR, please?

 
There's a Clyde's Bar in my town. It got sold and the new owners changed it to Red Stag Pub & Grill. Everyone says Clyde's.
 
Took out a classic neon sign and put in a plastic fluorescent pile of fail. 
 
( I know you were talking about something completely different ) 
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Posted: May 23, 2013 - 8:37am

 Red_Dragon wrote:
1934: Bonnie & Clyde are ambushed and murdered.

 
Can I have Clyde's BAR, please?
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Posted: May 23, 2013 - 8:34am

1934: Bonnie & Clyde are ambushed and murdered.
DaveInSaoMiguel

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Posted: May 20, 2013 - 1:59pm

First U.S. speeder caught on this date in 1899


hobiejoe

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Posted: May 18, 2013 - 2:17pm

 Alexandra wrote:
33 years ago today, not too far from where I am now....
 

 
 
It's interesting to talk to people who lived here then, and how the whole region looked for days afterward with the ash and smoke and dark cloud hanging over.
 
Mt St Helens was one of my highlights of our trip last year, we went up to the eastern rim and had a great lecture from a Ranger. We had a chat and got talking about the guy who took those four famous 'photo's and survived to tell the tale.
 
Apparently he hangs out at the Rangers lodge a mile or two back down from the rim, and is always keen to chat. Sadly poor Nancy developed a nasty heat rash so we couldn't stop to say hello, which was a shame as seeing those pictures in the National Geographic all those years ago helped fuel my love of geography and geology.
 
This was from the edge of the area affected by the blast, with trees killed by the heat of the pyroclastic flow, but left standing - seventeen miles from the crater:
 

Mount St Helen's, WA.
DaveInSaoMiguel

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Posted: May 18, 2013 - 1:24pm

I bought a '59 Rambler Station Wagon that had been near the eruption. Every nook and cranny of that car was crammed with ash and small pieces of pumice. It even got into places that were pretty well sealed. 
Prodigal_SOB

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Posted: May 18, 2013 - 1:23pm

 swell_sailor wrote:

The math doesn't look right, but I remember it very well. I had to travel a couple of day later and my normal routes were closed. 

I've ridden up there several times since. This is how it looks up there now.



 
 
 The only time I actually went up there was in 1999 and I was really impressed with how much of Yellowstone had come back a decade after the fires and how desolate that place was nearly twenty years on.   Might as well change the avatar too. 


Alexandra

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Posted: May 18, 2013 - 1:17pm

 swell_sailor wrote:

The math doesn't look right, but I remember it very well. I had to travel a couple of day later and my normal routes were closed. 

I've ridden up there several times since. This is how it looks up there now.

 
Whoops, I meant 33!
2cats

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Posted: May 18, 2013 - 1:12pm

 Alexandra wrote:

 
Wow.

 

I lived in southern California at the time, but my mom saved a leaf from a magnolia tree with ashes on it.  Weird.
swell_sailor

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Posted: May 18, 2013 - 1:03pm

 Alexandra wrote:
23 years ago today, not too far from where I am now....
 

 
 
It's interesting to talk to people who lived here then, and how the whole region looked for days afterward with the ash and smoke and dark cloud hanging over.

 

The math doesn't look right, but I remember it very well. I had to travel a couple of day later and my normal routes were closed. 

I've ridden up there several times since. This is how it looks up there now.




Alexandra

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Posted: May 18, 2013 - 12:57pm

 2cats wrote:


Some of the ashes made it all the way to Oklahoma.

 
 
Wow.
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