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#481 barmar

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Posted 2016-December-08, 18:54

Jon, you've redeemed yourself.

#482 blackshoe

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Posted 2016-December-11, 19:34

"For Captain Tamara Long, USAF
Born: May 12, 1979
Died: March 23, 2003, Afghanistan
You fly with the angels now."

This has been the dedication to virtually every book John Ringo has written.

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#483 barmar

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Posted 2016-December-17, 20:29

Henry Heimlich, the surgeon who invented the Heimlich Maneuver.

I choked up when I heard the news.

#484 kenberg

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Posted 2016-December-17, 21:22

barmar, on 2016-December-17, 20:29, said:

Henry Heimlich, the surgeon who invented the Heimlich Maneuver.

I choked up when I heard the news.

I quoted you to Becky.
"These people are weird", she replied.
She's not a bridge player.

Ken

#485 onoway

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Posted 2016-December-20, 22:55

Toby Hemenway, author of Gaia's Garden and other books, teacher,leader and a gentle and thoughtful man. Another one of the giants in the permaculture world.

#486 kenberg

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Posted 2016-December-21, 21:22

Kay Starr Nov 3.
You might have to be of a certain age to recognize the name. At a holiday gathering my younger daughter mention a singing group I had never heard of that sang Wheel of Fortune. I said that Kay Starr had sung a song by that name in the early '50s. Same song, it turned out, sung by Starr in 1952. Becky, younger than I am, had never heard of it, so I brought it up on the computer. I grew up listening to popular music and she was one of my favorites.

We did not then have the internet and only girls read the fan magazines, but I had heard that Ms. Starr was Native American (aka Indian in 1952). Apparently so.

Here is a bit from https://www.theguard...-starr-obituary

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Katherine Starks was born in the small town of Dougherty, Oklahoma, of Native American stock: her father, Harry, was an Iroquois and her mother, Annie, part Choctaw, Cherokee and Irish. The family moved to Dallas when Starr was three, where her father found work installing sprinklers in buildings while her mother raised chickens. An aunt noticed the nine-year-old’s pleasure in singing around the house and encouraged her to enter a talent contest at the local radio station. Starr won a prize for singing and operating a yo-yo simultaneously, and continued to win contests, so much so that the radio station WRR, Dallas, gave her a 15-minute programme of her own, paying her three dollars a show.

She could belt out a tune. Here are a couple, for anyone interested in the pop music culture [BE, Before Elvis] of mid century USA.

https://www.youtube....h?v=OeIce5NsWKk

https://www.youtube....h?v=pJcJIK5olDo

Ken

#487 1eyedjack

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Posted 2016-December-24, 09:20

Rick Parfitt

Psych (pron. saik): A gross and deliberate misstatement of honour strength and/or suit length. Expressly permitted under Law 73E but forbidden contrary to that law by Acol club tourneys.

Psyche (pron. sahy-kee): The human soul, spirit or mind (derived, personification thereof, beloved of Eros, Greek myth).
Masterminding (pron. m Posted Image

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ing) tr. v. - Any bid made by bridge player with which partner disagrees.

"Gentlemen, when the barrage lifts." 9th battalion, King's own Yorkshire light infantry,
2000 years earlier: "morituri te salutant"

"I will be with you, whatever". Blair to Bush, precursor to invasion of Iraq

#488 Cyberyeti

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Posted 2016-December-24, 10:41

1eyedjack, on 2016-December-24, 09:20, said:

Rick Parfitt

And sadly this one isn't a false ending

#489 1eyedjack

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Posted 2016-December-25, 17:19

Blimey. George Michael.

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#490 Lovera

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Posted 2016-December-26, 02:56

1eyedjack, on 2016-December-25, 17:19, said:

Blimey. George Michael.

https://www.youtube....be_gdata_player

#491 Trinidad

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Posted 2016-December-27, 05:45

The Russian Red Army Choir. They can be seen here in a concert with Finnish band Leningrad Cowboys. To me this showed that the Cold War was definitely over.

Rik

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#492 Winstonm

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Posted 2016-December-27, 16:28

Carrie Fisher aka Princess Leia

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

#493 Cyberyeti

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Posted 2016-December-27, 18:51

Winstonm, on 2016-December-27, 16:28, said:

Carrie Fisher aka Princess Leia

Prefer to remember her with a rocket launcher over her shoulder trying to drive-by John Belushi in the blues brothers

#494 hrothgar

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Posted 2016-December-27, 19:37

Cyberyeti, on 2016-December-27, 18:51, said:

Prefer to remember her with a rocket launcher over her shoulder trying to drive-by John Belushi in the blues brothers

I was just thinking that I needed to re-watch that...

Alderaan delenda est

#495 Phil

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Posted 2016-December-27, 22:19

hrothgar, on 2016-December-27, 19:37, said:

I was just thinking that I needed to re-watch that...

Indeed. I just re-watched Animal House for the 20th-odd time. One of my co-workers is the splitting image of Doug Kenney - 40 years later.

Hi y'all!

Winner - BBO Challenge bracket #6 - February, 2017.

#496 y66

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Posted 2016-December-28, 06:12

S. Newman Darby, Inventor of the Sailboard

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#497 barmar

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Posted 2016-December-28, 09:37

Winstonm, on 2016-December-27, 16:28, said:

Carrie Fisher aka Princess Leia

To borrow from Obi-Wan, I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of fans suddenly cried out in sorrow.

#498 Winstonm

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Posted 2016-December-28, 21:45

Debbie Reynolds Unreal.

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

#499 cherdano

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Posted 2016-December-31, 19:07

2016.

The easiest way to count losers is to line up the people who talk about loser count, and count them. -Kieran Dyke

#500 kenberg

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Posted 2016-December-31, 20:07

Cyberyeti, on 2016-December-27, 18:51, said:

Prefer to remember her with a rocket launcher over her shoulder trying to drive-by John Belushi in the blues brothers

And to quote Ms. Fisher, metaphors be with you. And with her.

Ken

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