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• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Tue, Dec 9 2014 4:28 AM

  December 9

                           ~ 1933 - Orville Moody -"0l' Sarge" ~

                                     ~ 1949 - Tom Kite ~

                      ~ 1926 ~ USGA legalizes steel shafted clubs ~

  1561 - Edward Sandys ~ A Founder of Virginia Colony

  1595 - Gustavus II Adolphis ~ King who made Sweden a major power

  1608 - John Milton ~ London ~ Poet - Puritan

  1751 - Maria Luisa of Parma ~ Queen of Charles IV of Spain

  1848 - Joel Chandler Harris ~ Creator of Uncle Remus stories

  1898 - Emmett Kelly ~ Clown

  1902 - Margaret Hamilton ~ everyone favorite Witch from 0z

  1916 - Kirk Douglas

  1922 - Redd Fox ~ Comic....what do you get when you cross Redd Fox with Bo Derick ? The 10 of Spades

  ~ By the Bye ~

  1212 ~ Frederick II is crowned King of Germany in Mainz

  1738 ~ Jews are expelled from Breshu, Silesim

  1783 ~ EXECUTION!! the first one at Newgate Jail in London

  ~ See Ya ~

• hpurey 11,505 Posts

  Wed, Dec 10 2014 4:21 AM

  SweetiePie:

  December 4

   

  Damn,  can't believe I forgot to chime in here for my 5th b'day on WGT.  Where did the time go?  lol

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Wed, Dec 10 2014 7:21 AM

  December 10

                                         ON December 4th past

                              ~ hpurey - aka "Mellow Yellow" "Saffron" ~

              ~ celebrates 5 years at WGT ~ he is responsible for the Yellow Cally's ~

  1787 - Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet ~ pioneered educating the deaf

  1830 - Emily Dickinson ~ Poet

  1851 - Melvil Dewey ~ created the Dewey Decimal System for libraries

  1911 - Chet Huntley ~ NBC News guy

  1914 - Dorothy Lamour [Mary Kaumeyer] ~ Actress & singer

  1928 - Dan Blocker ~ the "Hoss"

  ~ By the Bye ~

  1582 ~ France begins use of Gregorian Calender

  1672 ~ Monthly mail service between NY & Boston begins

  1688 ~ King James II ~ House of Stuart ~ flees London...forever...end of reign

  1799 ~ Metric system adopted in France -- 1st to do so

  1919 ~ National League bans the spitball...so sad

  1936 ~ Edward VIII ~ House of Windsor ~ gives up British Throne

  Edward VIII is famous---or infamous---for having abdicated the throne in order to marry an American divorcee [Wallis Simpson]. Edward may have been a royal, but he was also a product of his times, and embodied some of the changes rapidly altering the social and political landscape.

  ~ Peace & Love are good friends to be friendly with ~

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Thu, Dec 11 2014 5:18 AM

  December 11

                                        ~ BRANDON DUNES ~

  1475 - Pope Leo X [Giovanni de'Medici] ~ Florence, Italy

  1709 - Louise Elisabeth of Orleans ~ queen consort of Spain

  1725 - George Mason ~ Virginia ~ Statesman

  1810 - Alfred de Musset ~ Paris ~ Poet & Dramatist

            ~ from a love letter to George Sand [Amatine Aurore Dudevant] dated 1833 ~

  "I have something stupid and ridiculous to tell you. I am foolishly writing to you instead of having told you this, I do not know why, when returning from that walk. To-night I shall be annoyed at having done so. You will laugh in my face, will take me for a maker of phrases in all my relations with you hitherto. You will show me the door and you will think I am lying. I am in love with you. I have been since the first day I called on you."

  1935 - Ferdinand Porsche ~ Stuttgart, Germany

  1950 - Christine Onassis

  ~ By the Bye ~

  1620 ~ 103 Mayflower Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock

  1730 ~ Voltare's "Brutus" premieres in Paris

  1792 ~ King Louis XVI goes on trial for treason & high crimes

  1913 ~ RECOVERED!! the Mona Lisa, stolen from the Louvre in 1911

  1951 ~ Joe DiMaggio retires

  ~ Have fun at Brandon ! ~

• hpurey 11,505 Posts

  Thu, Dec 11 2014 6:41 PM

  SweetiePie:

  N December 4th past

                              ~ hpurey - aka "Mellow Yellow" "Saffron" ~

              ~ celebrates 5 years at WGT ~ he is responsible for the Yellow Cally's ~

  :-)

   

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Fri, Dec 12 2014 3:59 AM

  December 12

                    ~ in 1899, George Bryant of Boston patents the wooden golf tee ~

  1574 - Anne of Denmark ~ daughter of King Frederik II & wife of James I of England

  1673 - Ahmad III ~ Sultan of Turkey ~ ( So ?)

  1724 - Samuel Hood ~ British Admiral ~ Viscount

  1745 - John Jay ~ 1st Chief Justice of US

  1791 - Marie Louise of Austria ~ 2nd wife of Napoleon -- he wrote her a note:1-1-07

  "I have seen only you, I have admired only you, I desire only you " --- nice words, but only because he wants to cut her meat

  1805 - Henry Wells ~ Founder of American Express & Wells Fargo

  1821 - Gustave Flaubert ~ France ~ Novelist

  --- another meat lover, he wrote to Louise Colet, on 9-15-1846, this: " I will cover you with love when next I see you, with caresses, with ecstacy. I want to gorge you with all the joys of the flesh, so that you faint and die. I want you to be amazed by me, and to confess to yourself that you had never even dreamed of such transports ... when you are old, I want you to recall those few hours, I want your dry bones to quiver with joy when you think of them "

  1863 - Edward Munch ~ Norway ~ painter of "The Scream"

  1915 - Frank Sinatra ~ Hoboken

  ~ By the Bye ~

  627 ~ Battle of Ninevah ~ Heraclius beats Perzen

  1098 ~ 1st Crusaders capture & plunder Syria

  1474 ~ Isabella crowns herself Queen of Castille & Aragon 

  1800 ~ Washington DC is established as Capital of US

  ~ Peace ~

   

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Sat, Dec 13 2014 7:36 AM

  December 13

  1533 - Erik XIV Wasa ~ King of Sweden

  1553 - Henry IV ~ 1st Bourbon King of Navarre ~ France

  1784 - Archduke Louis of Austria

  1818 - Mary Todd Lincoln ~ 1st Lady

  Mary Lincoln never recovered from Lincoln's assassination. She insisted on wearing only the color black for the rest of her life, which ended in 1882. She's buried next to Abe

  1913 - Archie Moore

  1925 - Dick Van `***

  1929- Christopher Plummer

  1949 - Ted Nugent

  1957 - Morris Day ~ Cool

  1989 - Taylor Swift ~ Reading. PA

  ~ By the Bye ~

  1545 ~ Council of Trent opened by Pope Paul III

  1577 ~ Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England to go around the world

  1642 ~ Dutch Explorer Abel Tazman sights Island of New Zealand - he calls it Staten Landt, then changes it to Nieuw Zeeland a year later

  1668 ~ Jean Racine's "Britannicus" premiers in Paris

  1769 ~ Dartmouth College receives charter

  1903 ~ Wright Bros. 1st flight at Kitty Hawk

  1916 ~ AVALANCHE!!! bombards 10,000 Austrian & Italian troops in Tyrol...it was more than they could bare...

  1920 ~ Mt. Wilson Observatory does 1st measurement of the diameter of a star...the star?...good ol' Betelgeuse

  1928 ~ ...it's new & handy...the clip-on tie

  2003 ~ SADDUM HUSSEIN CAPTURED !!! ...yep, in Tikrit...he badly needs a shower, a shave, deoderant, mouthwash & sumpum to eat...not a dry eye can be found...laughter can do that to you....;-}

  ~ Time to Play ~

• ThreeSpot 476 Posts

  Sat, Dec 13 2014 1:14 PM

  It was 5 years ago today that I created my WGT account. At that time: Kiawah and BPB were the only courses. The Tour GI-SD was the top ball, the Redwood (think Daytona with a faster meter) was the top putter and the best driver did not go as far as the top 3W today. Master was the highest Tier and there was no such thing as Level or Experience Points. Match and Stroke were the only multi-player options available. Even par was not an embarrassing round. And many considered Tibbets, now retired, the best player at the time although Bollox, AvatarLee, nivlac and a few others were certainly worthy candidates.

  So a lot has changed over the last 5 years, and mostly for the better. Yes, there have been mistakes and controversy. There was an uproar in 2010 when Experience Level was introduced, the Tiers were expanded and most equipment became Level rather than Tier based. The handling of the first Clash Event also comes to mind. And of course there have been many, many complaints about everything from prices to meter issues to cheats. I myself have stated I will stop buying credits until WGT commits to improving their pre-release testing - but it’s a lie, a bloody humping lie. I will continue spending as much as I want whenever I want on whatever virtual WGT gear strikes my fancy. Because the fact is this is the best video golf game there is, and 2^nd place is not even close.

  So thanks, WGT, for 5 years of quality entertainment. I wish you many years of prosperity and success. (And I really don’t want to have to find something else to do while I drink martinis.)

• hpurey 11,505 Posts

  Sat, Dec 13 2014 9:52 PM

  ThreeSpot:

  So thanks, WGT, for 5 years of quality entertainment. I wish you many years of prosperity and success. (And I really don’t want to have to find something else to do while I drink martinis.)

   

  I'll drink to that! hiccup,  Cheers!

   

   

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Mon, Dec 15 2014 6:48 AM

  December 15

  Two days ago, Three Spot (the mighty Sean) hit 5 years at WGT. He wrote a wonderful post about this experience. You should read it. It provides an accurate view. I thank him for it and would love to see more posts of this style of personal celebration ~ SP ~

      37 - Nero Claudius Augustus Germanicus ~ 5th Emperor of Rome

  1832 - Gustave Eiffel ~ French engineer of Tower

  1892 - J. Paul Getty ~ OIL

  1922 - Alan Freed ~ invented the term "Rock'n'Roll"

  ~ By the Bye ~

  1612 ~ German Astronomer Simon Marius is 1st to view the Andromeda Galaxy with a telescope

  1664 ~ English begin colonizing Connecticut

  1791 ~ Bill of Rights becomes amendments to US Constitution

  1810 ~ 1st Irish magazine Shamrock is published in the US

  1932 ~ Groundbreaking begins on Jefferson Memoriel

  1961 ~ Eichman convicted

  1961 ~ Canada adopts the Maple Leaf

  ~ Play Well ~