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miamizsun
Location: (3283.1 Miles SE of RP) Gender:
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Aug 14, 2013 - 6:43am |
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buzz wrote:To kidnap an heiress or threaten her with a knife To get cable TV and watch it every night An Indian guru to show me the inner light A meaningless love affair with a girl that I met tonight Well, I can't have that, but as an American citizen I am entitled to: a heated kidney shaped pool,
a microwave oven—don't watch the food cook,
a Dyna-Gym—to be personally demonstrated in the privacy of my own home,
a king-size Titanic unsinkable Molly Brown waterbed with polybendum,
a foolproof plan and an airtight alibi,
real simulated Indian jewelry,
a Gucci shoetree, a year's supply of antibiotics,
a personally autographed picture of Randy Mantooth
and Bob Dylan's new unlisted phone number, a beautifully restored 3rd Reich swizzle stick, Rosemary's baby, a dream date in kneepads with Paul Williams,
a new Matador, a new mastodon,
a Maverick, a Mustang, a Montego,
a Merc Montclair, a Mark IV, a meteor,
a Mercedes, an MG, or a Malibu,
a Mort Moriarty, a Maserati, a Mac truck, a Mazda, a new Monza, or a moped,
a Winnebago—Hell, a herd of Winnebago's we're giving 'em away, or how about a McCulloch chainsaw,
a Las Vegas wedding,
a Mexican divorce,
a solid gold Kama Sutra coffee pot,
or a baby's arm holding an apple? is this list open to additional entitlements? because if it is....
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buzz
Location: up the boohai
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Aug 14, 2013 - 6:34am |
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Red_Dragon wrote: I skipped the 13th; wha'dya want?
To kidnap an heiress or threaten her with a knife To get cable TV and watch it every night An Indian guru to show me the inner light A meaningless love affair with a girl that I met tonight Well, I can't have that, but as an American citizen I am entitled to: a heated kidney shaped pool,
a microwave oven—don't watch the food cook,
a Dyna-Gym—to be personally demonstrated in the privacy of my own home,
a king-size Titanic unsinkable Molly Brown waterbed with polybendum,
a foolproof plan and an airtight alibi,
real simulated Indian jewelry,
a Gucci shoetree, a year's supply of antibiotics,
a personally autographed picture of Randy Mantooth
and Bob Dylan's new unlisted phone number, a beautifully restored 3rd Reich swizzle stick, Rosemary's baby, a dream date in kneepads with Paul Williams,
a new Matador, a new mastodon,
a Maverick, a Mustang, a Montego,
a Merc Montclair, a Mark IV, a meteor,
a Mercedes, an MG, or a Malibu,
a Mort Moriarty, a Maserati, a Mac truck, a Mazda, a new Monza, or a moped,
a Winnebago—Hell, a herd of Winnebago's we're giving 'em away, or how about a McCulloch chainsaw,
a Las Vegas wedding,
a Mexican divorce,
a solid gold Kama Sutra coffee pot,
or a baby's arm holding an apple?
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Proclivities
Location: Paris of the Piedmont Gender:
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Aug 14, 2013 - 6:27am |
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buzz wrote:are there any days with no interesting history?
Feb. 29, 2013?
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islander
Location: West coast somewhere Gender:
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Aug 14, 2013 - 6:20am |
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buzz wrote:are there any days with no interesting history?
The days yet to come.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Aug 14, 2013 - 6:16am |
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buzz wrote:are there any days with no interesting history?
I skipped the 13th; wha'dya want?
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buzz
Location: up the boohai
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Aug 14, 2013 - 6:12am |
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are there any days with no interesting history?
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Aug 14, 2013 - 6:02am |
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1935: The Social Security Act is passed into law
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Aug 12, 2013 - 6:13am |
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1883: the quagga becomes extinct
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Aug 11, 2013 - 7:30am |
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Prodigal_SOB
Location: Back Home Again in Indiana Gender:
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Aug 8, 2013 - 8:14am |
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1969:
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black321
Location: An earth without maps Gender:
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Aug 7, 2013 - 7:06am |
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On this day 219 years ago (that would be August 7, 1794 if you happen to be saddled with a graduate degree in accounting but have no batteries for your calculator), the President of the United States was told by his aides that he had to get focused. They warned him that his popularity was slipping...that many of the people worried that he was trying to expand the government's authority and size...and that much of his problem related to three areas: taxes, exports and access to medication. Finally, they told him most of his trouble may have been stimulated by his political opponents....the Republicans. In this case, the President was George Washington...the "Republicans" were what they called Jefferson's supporters at the time (they later changed their name to Democrats)...the tax was an excise tax engineered by Alexander Hamilton...the export question dealt with the shipments down the Ohio and Mississippi...and the medication in question was, of course, alcohol...er in this case whiskey. (Now wait...don't scoff...there was no anesthesia yet and the only other means of sterilization was fire..."Sarge, we've got to get that arrow out or Bob will die!" "Okay, pour some whiskey on this knife and give Bob a gulp for the pain.") We understand there also may be non-medicinal uses of whiskey and hope to hear of them someday.
Anyway, back to the story. At this time, from Pittsburgh, PA to Marietta, Ohio, Frontier folk were growing more corn and grain than they, or anyone, could eat. So they decided to sell it. Since there were no roads at the time, they loaded a couple of barges with corn and sent them toward New Orleans. By the time it got there, the small amount that hadn't rotted and was thus saleable brought almost no value. Next they tried feeding the corn to hogs and sending the resultant pork in barges to New Orleans. Given the state of refrigeration at the time, the results were about the same. In fact, the only way the barge crews raised enough money to head back north was by selling a few jugs of whiskey to the medicine hungry folks of New Orleans. Well, at the time the settlers of this region of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio were mostly of Scottish and Irish descent. In those politically incorrect days, Scots/Irish were assumed to be good at farming (corn/rye/an occasional buh-day-duh), pharmacology (above mentioned miracle drug) and finance (Adam Smith, etc.).Applying their finance skills, they realized a ton of corn took up a lot of space and barge-wise yielded no profit. Hogs raised on said ton of corn took up less space but still yielded no profit. But...a ton of corn or rye made several barrels of medicine which did yield a profit. And since a barge could hold 5 times more condensed corn (whiskey) than dry corn (corn), the leverage was enormous. Then along came Hamilton's excise tax. He assumed the product was so valuable that producers could easily pass a tax increase along to consumers. (Maybe genius can be crimped by government service.) The initial reaction was so hostile that Hamilton had to develop a formula. The formula forgave small volume producers and punished high volume producers. Since the East Coast was also making money in tobacco and cotton, that left the Ohio Valley crowd to pay the bulk of the tax. Although the Scots/Irish of the area were good at farming, pharmacology and finance; their political skills were rudimentary at best. So they began "tarring and feathering" tax collectors. They even burned tax offices and had bonfires of tax forms. (Whereare these people when we really need them?)Sensing that he was slipping in the polls, Washington followed his aides' advice and sent the army to quell this "Whiskey Rebellion." But...Washington (and the U.S.) had no army so he had to beg for help from the militia of four states. When the "army" hit Pittsburgh, they found most of the rebels were over-medicated so to speak. The two results of the Whiskey Rebellion were: a) the Federal Government could collect taxes; and b) we needed a standing army (to avoid begging).
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Aug 6, 2013 - 6:05am |
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1964: the world's oldest tree is cut down.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Aug 6, 2013 - 6:03am |
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1945: The United States becomes the first - and still only - nation to use nuclear weapons.
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Coaxial
Location: Comfortably numb in So Texas Gender:
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Aug 1, 2013 - 7:32am |
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Proclivities wrote: I remember it well...When we tuned the sat. rcvr. to that transponder and added it to out system feed we monitored it for most of the day...In the beginning it rocked.
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Proclivities
Location: Paris of the Piedmont Gender:
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kurtster
Location: where fear is not a virtue Gender:
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Jul 30, 2013 - 6:23am |
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Red_Dragon wrote:1975: Jimmy Hoffa goes missing
And J Edgar Hoover buys a new dress and pumps for the occasion.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Jul 30, 2013 - 6:17am |
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1975: Jimmy Hoffa goes missing
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Jul 29, 2013 - 8:26am |
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1958: President Eisenhower signs the law creating NASA
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Prodigal_SOB
Location: Back Home Again in Indiana Gender:
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Jul 26, 2013 - 8:29am |
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1943: Mick Jagger was born in Dartford, Kent, England. 1975: Prodigal_SOB attends his second live Rolling Stones concert in Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A. Sadly it will be two decades before he attends his third and he has yet to make it to a fourth.
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