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bad hammy
Marlow wrote: bad hammy wrote: eldrick wrote: if someone called him the greatest ever, as
But you would be wrong, by a fairly large number of Presidents . . .
Hey, careful, I clearly have him in the Top 40!
I agree with you there. I am not anti-Reagan, but I think putting him even in the top 10 of Presidents is ludicrous.
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Marlow
He was a very likeable girl - it's just that I can think of at least 10 others, from the original George W, through Teddy, to Franklin, through, ugh, yes, Clinton.
Marlow
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Cooter Brown
There's a book out called Tear Down This Myth that dispels the revisionist history regarding Reagan.
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Bob H
tlb747 wrote: The day is usually celebrated for Abe Lincoln, not Darwin. . . . I was born 170 years after the two gentlemen.
It happens that you share a birthday not only with Lincoln and Darwin, but also with Henry Rono and with me.
Hope you had a good one. I did.
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skyin' brian
tlb747 wrote: guru wrote: tandfman wrote: Charles Darwin was born 200 years ago today.
Not the only one of course.
That is correct! The day is usually celebrated for Abe Lincoln, not Darwin. I wonder why this weekend is "Presidents' Day" weekend instead of Lincoln's weekend? That holiday usually came a week after Lincoln's birthday. Besides, I was born 170 years after the two gentlemen.
Actually what we celebrate as "Presidents' Day" federal holiday is technically still a holiday observing Washington's birthday. Lincoln gets his own holiday in a few states (including my native Illinois -- I think a few years in school we got out on Lincoln's birthday, celebrated on Feb 12th every year and also for the federal holiday...unfortunately, schools eventually started opting out of several federal holidays.)
Wednesday night I was going to trim my full beard into the Lincoln style that you see in all of those pictures but messed up and had to go clean-shaven (young Lincoln?). Oh well.
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Cooter Brown
bad hammy wrote: I have the good fortune to work at a place that still has Lincoln's B-Day as a holiday (along with President's day on Monday instead of Washington's B-Day on the 22nd - go figure!).
Texas state employees get LBJ's birthday and Confederate Heroes Day (formerly known as Robert E Lee's birthday). I imagine they'll get W's bday when he kicks the the bucket.
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bad hammy
bad hammy wrote: Marlow wrote: bad hammy wrote: eldrick wrote: if someone called him the greatest ever, as
But you would be wrong, by a fairly large number of Presidents . . .
Hey, careful, I clearly have him in the Top 40!
I agree with you there. I am not anti-Reagan, but I think putting him even in the top 10 of Presidents is ludicrous.
A panel of CSPAN experts disagrees with bad hammy, giving Reagan the number 10 spot.
http://www.c-span.org/PresidentialSurve ... nking.aspx
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Marlow
bad hammy wrote: A panel of CSPAN experts disagrees with bad hammy, giving Reagan the number 10 spot.
Isn't like asking the senior Gestapo staff to rank their favorite war heroes?
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cullman
I'm trying to figure out how Rutherford B. Hayes dropped 7 places since the last survey.
cman
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bad hammy
cullman wrote: I'm trying to figure out how Rutherford B. Hayes dropped 7 places since the last survey.
cman
That, and US Grant moves up ten spots. What did they do in the last nine years to deserve such drastic re-evaluations??
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tlb747
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Marlow
Happy B-Day, Sammy!
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wineturtle
No Memorial Day Art?
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tandfman
Google now has the moon landing thing, but I can't seem to import it here.
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Daisy
tandfman wrote: Google now has the moon landing thing, see picture below.
wineturtle wrote: No Memorial Day Art?
http://www.google.com/holidaylogos.html
See that link for all the ones they have done.
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rasb
with relation to the thread title, and not from personal experience....
* When you disrobe in front of a woman, and she says "wow", and faints in the intensity of the moment !!! .... I'm just saying...
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Daisy
rasb wrote: .... I'm just saying...
Maybe she's just scared off by
the spines ?
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JRM
May 21st, 2010: 30th anniversary!
You can actually play the game, too, by clicking on the image to move. Press "Insert Coin" to begin, of course!
http://www.google.com/
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gh
man, I sucked then, suck now!
gh
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gh
and credit goes to (this actually made the front page of the
SF Chronicle ):
<<...They are unknown, but their works of art are seen by hundreds of millions of people across the globe. They were art nerds in school - teased by peers or called to the principal's office for doodling in class - but are now working at one of the world's most important companies.
They are Google doodlers....>>
Read more:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... z16oM3NA9z
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tandfman
Google has one up today, but I haven't figure out how to copy and paste it in here.
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Marlow
tandfman wrote: Google has one up today, but I haven't figure out how to copy and paste it in here.
Right click on the image, copy image url, paste here, highlight and then click on the Img button above this box.
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tandfman
Thank you, Marlow. I think I once knew how to do it but at that hour of the morning, I couldn't even figure out how to type "figured."
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Marlow
tandfman wrote: Thank you, Marlow. I think I once knew how to do it but at that hour of the morning, I couldn't even figure out how to type "figured."
Well, if you posted TOMORROW at 7am, THEN i'd really be impressed!
My plan for the New Year is to be up at the crack of noon . . .
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tandfman
Good morning, Marlow. Happy New Year!
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Marlow
tandfman wrote: Good morning, Marlow. Happy New Year!
And a happy New Year to you - and all!
(and yes, I'm impressed you're up that early!
)
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