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• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Wed, Aug 6 2014 9:33 AM

  August 6

  1180 - Go-Toba ~ Jap Emperor

  1644 - Francoise L de la Baume Le Blanc ~ Mistress of Louis XIV...Ta mere est une pute !

  1666 - Maria Sofia ~ Queen of Portugal

  1697 - Charles VII ~ Holy Roman Emperor

  1775 - Daniel O'Connell ~ Irish politician

  1809 - Alfred Lord Tennyson ~ Poet Laureate of Great Britain

  1861 - Edith Roosevelt ~ First Lady - Teddy's 'old lady'

  1881 - Alexander Fleming ~ London - Penicillin

  1881 - Louella Parsons ~ Blabbering Gossip

  1892 - Hoot Gibson ~ an actor

  ~ Bye the Bye ~

  1181 ~ Supernova seen in China and Japan

  1675 ~ Russian Czar Alexis bans foreign hairstyles to those below the Nobility

  1890 ~ Cy Young pitches and wins his first major league game

  1890 ~ OUCH! William Kemmler is 1st ever to enjoy the shocking effect of the electric chair --- sizzle & shake

  see ya

   

• DaddysKat 3,554 Posts

  Wed, Aug 6 2014 12:09 PM

  6 August,

  A special birthday salute to PGA golfer Webb Simpson, who's 29 today.

  One of the best female comedians ever ... Lucille Ball (1911 - 1989).  There's this show on TV Land from back in the days when dinosaurs roamed free on the highways of America ... it's called "I Love Lucy".  While the show is extremely dated, I simply love it!

  Here's a tribute video taken from that show ...

  Geri Estelle Halliwell (Ginger Spice) celebrates her 41st birthday today  I won't punish anyone with a "Spice Girls" number though (because I'd have to find one).  Instead I'll play a video of Regina Carter (48) who is also celebrating a birthday today ...

  and 6 August is also Robert Mitchum's birthday (1917 - 1997) ...

  English born Jazz and Rock Fusion guitarist Allan Holdsworth is 68 today ...

   

  Have a great Hump day everyone!

   

   

• andyson 6,415 Posts

  Wed, Aug 6 2014 3:18 PM

  DaddysKat:

  There's this show on TV Land from back in the days when dinosaurs roamed free on the highways of America ...

  Oh yes, those were the good old days!  I remember the I Love Lucy show well.  Desi, Fred, Ethyl.  They don't make shows like that anymore!  Yah know, kids got it easy these days riding a bus or parents driving 'em to school each day.  Why in my day we used to walk 5 miles to school and back.  Uphill both ways it was!   Here's an old photo of me and my pet dinosaur.....her name wuz Lucy...

  

   

• DaddysKat 3,554 Posts

  Wed, Aug 6 2014 4:28 PM

  andyson:

  Why in my day we used to walk 5 miles to school and back.  Uphill both ways it was!

  Good thing it wasn't snowing!

  My uncle tells a story of his pet "Rex" when he was a small boy.  The family had to get rid of Rex because he kept eating all the neighbors.  Here's a pic of Rex ...

  

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Thu, Aug 7 2014 7:31 AM

  andyson:

  DaddysKat:

  There's this show on TV Land from back in the days when dinosaurs roamed free on the highways of America ...

  Oh yes, those were the good old days!  I remember the I Love Lucy show well.  Desi, Fred, Ethyl.  They don't make shows like that anymore!  Yah know, kids got it easy these days riding a bus or parents driving 'em to school each day.  Why in my day we used to walk 5 miles to school and back.  Uphill both ways it was!   Here's an old photo of me and my pet dinosaur.....her name wuz Lucy...

  

   

  I Love Lucy ? Lucy ? I Love Andy !

  Oh My God! I so treasure old keepsake photos. Look an him ! What an adorable little boy Andy was....already a "looker" back then, before his eyes went south. I wonder if he had started yet on his path to becomming an 'Eagle Scout'. A 'hottie' in early bloom...turnin' the heads of many a foine young lassies but yet to be liftin' skirts.....oh, me heart is poundin' for me sweet Andy Lad ! I want so much to post a song for him that keeps ringin' in me ears as I gaze at that sweet boy...."ain't no doubt about it' by Darryl Hall...would someone post that song for me to dedicate to Andy? Please

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Thu, Aug 7 2014 1:47 PM

  July 7

    317 - Flavius Julius Constantius ~ Emperor of Egypt - Byzantine - Rome

  1560 - Elizabeth Bathory ~ Hungarian Countess and...the most prolific female serial killer in history

  1742 - Nathanal Greene ~ American Revolutionary War General and perhaps Washington's most trusted and reliable...extraordinary text on him in the book "1776"

  1783 - Princess Amelia of the Ubited Kingdom

  1876 - Mata Hari ( Margaretha Zelle ) ~ Dancer - Courtesan - Convicted German WWI Spy

  1884 - Billie Burke ~ Icon Actress best known as "Glenda" the good witch in the 1939 movie "The Wizard of Oz "

  ~ Bye the Bye ~     

    322 BC ~ Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedon; it followed the death of Alexander the Great

    622 ~ Battle at Constantinople

    936 ~ Otto I the Great becomes King of Germany

  1479 ~ Battle of Guinegate : Emperor Maximillian vs King Louis XI....ticket scalpers made a killing

  1575 ~ Spanish troops conquer Oudewater --- all inhabitants die

  1606 ~ !st Performance of Macbeth is at the Great Hall at Hampton Court

  1620 ~ Johannes Kepler's Mother is arrested for WiTcHcRaFT+ ....incidently, don't you just love the way Frankie Sinatra sings that song ?

  1620 ~ Battle at Ponts-the-Ce, Poitou : French King Louis XIII beats his Mother Marie de Medici --- On t'a berce trop pres du mur ?

  1782 ~ George Washington creates the Purple Heart medal ( Badge of Military Merit )

  1882 ~ The Hatfields of West Virginny & McCoys of East Kentucky whip up a feud and 100 po white crackers are wounded or kill't....no corn pone, no chittlins, no nuthin

  ~ Peace and Grace ~

  1479 ~

• DaddysKat 3,554 Posts

  Thu, Aug 7 2014 1:47 PM

  7 August,

  Today is Charlize Theron's 39th birthday.  I found this clip from "The Legend of Bagger Vance".  Since this is a golf game, I thought it would be fun to share it with my loyal readers ...

  Also Carl Switzer was born on this date (1927 - 1959).  Many of you super FOPs probably remember him better by his stage name ... Alfalfa.  I think Andy will remember him.  Anyone else?

  Clint's daughter Francesca Eastwood is 21 today.  A bit spoiled IMO!

  Bruce Dickinson, the frontman for Iron Maiden is 56 today.  Here's a vid when he had hair ...

  The Amazing James Randi is 86 today ... I found this rope trick on youtube ... hope you enjoy!

  And Wayne Knight is 59 today.  I'm sure many of you may remember him as "Newman" on the TV show, "Seinfield".  Here's a clip of Wayne as "Newman" ...

  An extremely good blues singer and guitarist, Magic Slim was born on 7 August (1937 - 2013).  Any of you guys share Slim's sentiments?  (I promise not to tell!)

  Also born on this day, contemporary Hawaiian singer Justin Young is 36 today.  

  And Country Western Singer Rodney Crowell is 64 today ...

  And last, but not least ... Country singer BJ Thomas is 72 today.  I know I've heard this song before in a movie ... I just can't think of the title ... (help please!) ...

  Have a happy S.H.I.T. day everyone!

• mefitz 372 Posts

  Thu, Aug 7 2014 8:14 PM

  DaddysKat:

   I know I've heard this song before in a movie ... I just can't think of the title ... (help please!) ...

     "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" aka Paul Newman and Robert Redford.  ;-)

     Enjoy this thread very much, keep it going.

                              Tks, Martin

• DaddysKat 3,554 Posts

  Thu, Aug 7 2014 8:22 PM

  mefitz:

   "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" aka Paul Newman and Robert Redford.  ;-)

  Thanks Martin ... I was just a teen when I saw that movie ... and I think it was on a channel like AMC.

  Sure is a great tune!

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Fri, Aug 8 2014 9:12 AM

  SweetiePie:

  .....oh, me heart is poundin' for me sweet Andy Lad ! I want so much to post a song for him that keeps ringin' in me ears as I gaze at that sweet boy...."ain't no doubt about it' by Darryl Hall...would someone post that song for me to dedicate to Andy? Please

   

  August 8

  1079 - Emperor Horikawa of Japan

  1518- Conrad Lycosthenes ~ French Encyclopedist

  1605 - Cecilius Calvert ~ 2nd Baron Baltimore, British Colonial Govenor of Maryland

  1673 - John Ker ~ Scottish Spy

  1805 - Anteen Jurgens ~ Dutch margerine manufacturer

  1824 - Maria Alexandrovina ~ Tsarina of Russia

  1866 - Mathew Hanson ~ 1st Black to reach the North Pole...shook hands with Santa

  1879 - Emiliano Zapata ~ Mexican Peasant Leader

  1879 - Bob Smith ~ Founder of Alcoholics Anonymous.....the cornerstone of wgt-AA, except that at wgt-AA everyone still drinks behind a different name and an avatar

  ~ Bye the Bye ~

      70 ~ Tower of Antonia destroyed by Romans ( Antonia Fortress in Jerusalem ? the Roman barricks?)

    936 ~ German King Otto the Great is crowned

  1549 ~ France declares war on England

  1609 ~ Venetion senate examines Galileo's telescope

  1786 ~ Balmat & Paccard are 1st to reach the top of Mont Blanc...(I have both a fountain & ball point and attest to their excellence)

  1839 ~ Beta Theta Pi is founded in Oxford, Ohio....so ? Chi Omega here

  1844 ~ Brigham Young becomes Morman Leader following the death of Joseph Smith

  1854 ~ Smith & Wesson patents metal bullet cartriges ( example of another excellent line of products)

  1864 ~ Red Cross forms in Geneva

  1868 ~ eArThQuAkE !! destroys Arica, Chile

  1876 ~ Thomas Edison patents mimeograph

  YAHOO