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tommytalldog
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Date Posted：2022-06-06 11:16:50Copy HTML June 6, 1944 D-Day Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy by Allied forces. The honor of the opening salvo unleashed upon the German occupiers was given to HMS Belfast. Once the allied troops gained control of the beaches it was all over for the evil Nazis. Facing the Allies in the west & the Russians in the east it was only a matter of time. Live respected, die regretted
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2023-10-04 12:10:41Copy HTML 19th Century
Graphite mined in China was used in pencils. Yellow is color of royalty in China & that is the reason pencils are yellow. |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2023-10-04 12:22:35Copy HTML October 4, 1970
The great Janis Joplin went to the Great Beyond. |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2023-10-04 12:29:46Copy HTML October 4, 1970
The great Janis Joplin went to the Great Beyond. 53 years ago, hard to believe |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2023-10-04 06:33:29Copy HTML 19th Century
Graphite mined in China was used in pencils. Yellow is color of royalty in China & that is the reason pencils are yellow. Dixon Pencil Inc.531 Davis Drive, Newmarket, ON L3Y4W6It use to be big in the 40-50's for H-2 pencils but has changed now and become the Dixon Medical Centre. |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2023-10-04 06:39:12Copy HTML October 4, 1970
The great Janis Joplin went to the Great Beyond. 53 years ago, hard to believe Tommy, Shula and you would remember her rasp voice singing the Blues but I'm not old enough and was still in Diapers. |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2023-10-04 06:59:04Copy HTML You were still in nappies at the age of 20! |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2023-10-06 01:39:45Copy HTML That's because he was breastfed until he was 16. I saw Janis in concert in, I think, 1969. I don't remember much. "It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time."
-Albert Camus-
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2023-10-06 11:19:38Copy HTML Always loved her music. I still play it on the jukebox at the Legion. Piece of My Heart is my favo(u)rite. |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2023-10-06 12:08:06Copy HTML October 8, 2023
Our beloved Buffalo Bills will be playing the evil Jacksonville Jaguars this Sunday in London. For you Limey's it is a chance to see real football, American style. |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2023-10-06 12:24:03Copy HTML I'd love to Tom but I've got this tap I've got to watch drip. By the way, the Rugby Union world cup is on at the moment Tom, now that's a real sport, no full body armour, no breaks every ten seconds and the whole team gets to touch the ball whereas in American football you can play for a decade and never see it. I think if you handed it over to one of those monsters on the front line he wouldn't know what it was, never mind what to do with it. |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2023-10-06 12:31:04Copy HTML Even our local weatherperson (see woke) is forecasting 70 degrees F for the game, Major. Buy some Bills' gear & wear it while out walking your spaniel. |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2023-10-06 12:40:06Copy HTML Early 1900's
The punka wallah was a servant in British India who operated a ceiling fan with a pulley system to keep their British masters cool. They were placed on the unemployment line after the advent of electricity. |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2023-10-06 12:47:25Copy HTML October 2023
This October has: Friday the 13th, a solar eclipse, a full-blood moon, & a lunar eclipse on Halloween weekend. Should we be worried? Shula, please advise. |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2023-10-07 02:57:09Copy HTML October 8, 2023
Our beloved Buffalo Bills will be playing the evil Jacksonville Jaguars this Sunday in London. For you Limey's it is a chance to see real football, American style. Pay no attention to that gibberish Tommy is spouting. It you want to watch football then watch Canadian football and you won't fall asleep during the game. Americans players are so fat they had to make their football fields 10 yards narrower and 10 yards shorter. They also had to add another what they call a down because it takes them 4 downs to be able to move forward while it takes the Canadians only 3. Now here's something I think is a little weird about our Shula. She says she watches football just to see the guys in their tight little pants. Who in their right mind finds a bunch of fat guys in pants 4 sizes to small for them trying to run a couple of yards at a time before falling down exhausted a turn on. I guess we could say it's just different strokes for different folks. It's a sick world out there for sure, eh! |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2023-10-07 03:04:21Copy HTML That's because he was breastfed until he was 16. I saw Janis in concert in, I think, 1969. I don't remember much. Get it right girl, I was 15 1/2 and didn't take it up again till I was almost 16. I tried posted a couple of her bigger hits but you-tube won't let me. |
