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• andyson 6,415 Posts

  Mon, Mar 10 2014 11:37 AM

  DaddysKat:

  I wonder ... is the "Bakerloo" still in operation?

  Seem's to be...

  

• DaddysKat 3,554 Posts

  Mon, Mar 10 2014 2:10 PM

  andyson:

  DaddysKat:

  I wonder ... is the "Bakerloo" still in operation?

  Seem's to be...

  

  LMAO ... the railway, silly!

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Tue, Mar 11 2014 8:19 AM

  DaddysKat:

  andyson:

  DaddysKat:

  I wonder ... is the "Bakerloo" still in operation?

  Seem's to be...

  

  LMAO ... the railway, silly!

  The only way to fly!

  March 11

  1731 - Robert Paine, Signer of The Declaration of Independence

  1931 - Rupert Murdoch

  1936 - Antonin Scalia

  Have a sweet one

• adeypa 1,151 Posts

  Tue, Mar 11 2014 9:01 AM

  DaddysKat:

  I wonder ... is the "Bakerloo" still in operation?

  It is, still carries about 95m passengers a year. Cool thread btw  :)

• DaddysKat 3,554 Posts

  Tue, Mar 11 2014 9:44 AM

  11 March

  Special Birthday Tribute ...

  Douglas Noel Adams - 1952 - 2001 ... Author of several wonderful books, "So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish", "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", "Doctor Who, Shada", and one of my all-time favorites: Dirk Gently Omnibus".  I found his work extremely refreshing.  Very creative and funny!  If you haven't read this wonderful author and enjoy humorous stories, give some of his a try!  

  Notables:

   

  • Lawrence Welk (1903 - 1992) ... my uncle refers his shows to "getting stuck on 'It's a Small World' at Disneyland for an hour".
  • Sam Donaldson - 80

   

  Actors/Actresses:

   

  • Johnny Knoxville (Jackâss shows and movie with the same name) - 43
  • Terrence Howard - 45
  • Actress ... Alex Kingston - 51  (gender bender to 'A Boy Named Sue'
  • Anton Yelchin - 25
  • Nina Hartley - 55

   

  ... and ... Singer Bobby McFerrin is 64.

  Also on this date in history:

   

  • 1779 - The (US) Army Corps of Engineers is founded
  • 1824 - The US War Department establishes the Bureau of Indian Affairs
  • 1861 - The Confederate States of America adopt their Constitution ... this is plagiarism at it's finest!

   

  Have a wonderful day, all!

  Kat ♥

   

  adeypa:

  DaddysKat:

  I wonder ... is the "Bakerloo" still in operation?

  It is, still carries about 95m passengers a year. Cool thread btw  :)

  Thanks for the info and accolades!  So love trivia!

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Wed, Mar 12 2014 8:00 AM

  March 12

  1963 - Paul Way, Brittish Golfer

  1479 - Giuliano de' Medici, Monarch of Florence

  1637 - Anne Hyde, wife of James II of England

  1672 - Richard Steele, Irish writer & politican...In a letter dated Aug 1707 Sir Richard, in a letter to future wife Mary Scurlock, wrote This:

  Madam,

  I lay down last night with yr Image in my thoufgts, and have awak'd this morning in the same contemplation. The pleasing Transport with which I'me delighted, has a sweetnesse in it attended with a Train of Ten thousand soft desires, anxieties, and cares; The day arises on my hopes with new Brightnesse; Youth Beauty and Innocence are the charming objects that Steal me from myself, and give me Joys above the reach of Ambition pride or Glory. Believe Me, Fair One, to throw myself at yr Feet is giving myself the highest blisse I know on Earth. Oh hasten Ye Minutes! bring on the happy Morning wherein to be ever her's will make me look down on Thrones!  Dear Molly I am tenderly, passionately, faithfully Thine, Richard Steele.

  1781 - Frederica of Baden, Queen of Sweden

  1788 - Pierre J David, French Sculptor

  1922 - Jack Kerouac

  1928 - Edward Albee

  1931 - "Buckwheat"

  1947 - Mitt Romney

  Time to tee it

   

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Thu, Mar 13 2014 7:51 AM

  March 13

  1953 - Andy Bean, PGA

  1372 - Louis of Valois, brother of Charles VI of France

  1615 - Innocent XII (Antonio Pignatelli) Pope

  1741 - Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor

  1798 - Abigail Powers Fillmore, 1st Lady

  1855 - Percival "Percy" Lowell, Astronomer, predicted the discovery of Pluto

  1908 - Walter Annenberg, TV Guide & a fine personal golf course at his home in Rancho Mirage, CA

  1911 - L. Ron Hubbard, A genuine space-case without =

  1936 - Clarence Nash, the voice of Donald Duck

  1938 - Joe Bellino, 1960 Heisman Trophy

  1939 - Neil Sedaka

  1950 - Charles Krauthammer, regardless of where or who, always the biggest brain in the room. Read his book "Things That Matter"

  plus

  In 1781, the seventh planet of the solar system, Uranus, was discovered by Sir William Herschel

  oh...I heard that the better male golfers have stiff shafts, is this true? 

• DaddysKat 3,554 Posts

  Thu, Mar 13 2014 10:35 AM

  SweetiePie:

  oh...I heard that the better male golfers have stiff shafts, is this true? 

  It is, SP ... sadly, the circumference of their shafts are extremely small, however!

  13 March ...

  • Dana Delany is 58
  • William H. Macy is 64

  also on this date in history ...

  • in 1995, Boyz II Men win the "Soul Train Music Awards" ... later, Michael Jackson comes to the realization that  "Boys to Men" is not a delivery service!
  • In 2003, the journal "Nature" reports finding 350,000 year old upright man footprints in Italy.  At the time, they could not identify the strange markings made between the footprints.  Ten years later, they realize it was just Rennie on spring break ... and all this time, I thought bag slippage was an age thing!
  • In 2012, Encyclopaedia Britannica announces it will no longer publish printed versions of its encyclopedia.  The end of an era.

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Fri, Mar 14 2014 8:36 AM

  March 14

  1931 - Bob Goalby, PGA

  1960 - Helen Hopkins, Aussie golfatrix

  1800 - James Bogardus, Inventor of iron buildings & responsible for " Don't Bogard the joint"

  1804 - Johann Strauss, the Elder, Viennese composer

  1807 - Josephine of Leuchtenberg, Queen of Sweden & Norway

  1820 - Victor Emmanuel II , King of Sardinia

  1835 - Giovanni V Schiaparelli, Astronomer

  1864 - (John) Casey Jones, RR Engineer

  1879 - Albert Einstein

  1904 - Doris Eaton Travis, Ziegfeld girl

  1908 - Ed Heinemann, Aircraft Designer, Douglas Aircraft (a friend & associate of my Grandfather)

  1920 - Hank Ketcham, cartoonist

  1921 - Truett Cathy, Founder of Chick-fil-A

  1954 - Adrian Zmed, extremely close friend of Merv Griffin

  Let us play

   

• DaddysKat 3,554 Posts

  Fri, Mar 14 2014 12:55 PM

  14 March ...

  Notables ...

  • Quincy Jones is 81
  • Les Brown (1912 - 2001)
  • Stephen Curry (NBA Point Guard) is 26

  Actors ...

  • Billy Crystal is 66
  • Michael Caine is 81 (I loved him as Scrooge in Muppets Christmas Carol).
  • Daniel Gillies is 38
  • Chris Klein is 35
  • Penny Johnson is 53

  On this date in history ...

  • 1794 - Ely Whitney patents the cotton gin.
  • 1954 - Henry "Hank" Aaron hits his first MLB home run ... in his very first exhibition game with the Braves.
  • 1967 - NFL Baltimore Colts take a chance with their #1 draft pick and select Bubba Smith.
  • 1994 - Linux Kernel version 1.0.0 is released.