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#65223 - 06/08/08 11:28 PM
Round Table for Monday, June 9, 2008
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olyve
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GOOD MONDAY MORNING, ALL!
TAKE SOME AT THE DOOR....
THIS DAY IN HISTORY...
1860 - The book, "Malaeska, the Indian Wife of the White Hunter" by Mrs. Ann Stevens, was offered for sale for a dime. It was the first published "dime novel."
1861 - Mary Ann "Mother" Bickerdyke began working in Union hospitals. 
During the war, she became chief of nursing under the command of General Ulysses S. Grant, and served at the Battle of Vicksburg. When his staff complained about the outspoken, insubordinate female nurse who consistently disregarded the army's red tape and military procedures, Union Gen. William T. Sherman threw up his hands and exclaimed, "She outranks me. I can't do a thing in the world."
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1924 - "Jelly-Roll Blues" was recorded by Jelly Roll Morton and his band.
Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton (September 20, 1885 or October 20, 1890 – July 10, 1941) was an American jazz pianist, bandleader and composer whom some call the first true composer of jazz music. Morton was a colorful character who liked to generate publicity for himself by bragging. His business card referred to him as the Originator of Jazz, and during his life he was regarded as a source of rare historical information, despite his penchant for hyperbole.wiki
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1943 - The withholding tax on payrolls was authorized by the U.S. Congress.
1953 - A tornado struck Worcester, Massachusetts, killing about 100 people.
1958 - Jerry Lee Lewis took out a full-page ad in Billboard Magazine to explain about his second divorce and third marriage to his 14 year old cousin Myra.
1978 - Leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints struck down a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men from the Mormon priesthood.
1980 - Richard Pryor was severely burned by a "free-base" mixture that exploded. He was hospitalized more than two months.
1985 - Thomas Sutherland, an American educator, was kidnapped in Lebanon. He was not released until November 1991.
2000 - Canada and the United States signed a border security agreement. The agreement called for the establishment of a border-enforcement team.
2000 - The U.S. House of Representatives voted to repeal gift and estate taxes. The bill called for the taxes to be phased out over 10 years.
BIRTHDAYS JUNE 9....June 9
1672 - Peter the Great (Peter Alekseyevich)
Piotr Alekseevich Romanov) (Peter I: Russian Czar [1682-1721], Emperor of Russia [1721-1725]; died Feb 8, 1725; note: these dates are based on the Gregorian calendar -- see May 30 for Julian calendar dates
1891 - Cole (Albert) Porter
composer & lyricist: Broadway shows: Anything Goes, Kiss Me Kate, Can Can, Silk Stockings; songwriter: I’m in Love Again, Let’s Do It, You Do Something to Me, It’s De-Lovely, Night and Day, Don’t Fence Me In, What is This Thing Called Love, Love for Sale, I Get a Kick Out of You, Just One of Those Things, Begin the Beguine, I Love Paris, In the Still of the Night, True Love
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1916 - Robert McNamara
U.S. Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy & Johnson administrations; president of World Bank
1931 - Jackie Mason (Jacob Moshe Maza)
comedian: Chicken Soup, The World According to Me, The Jerk, Caddyshack 2, History of the World: Part 1; ordained rabbi
1934 - Jackie Wilson
singer: Lonely Teardrops, Night, Alone at Last, [Your Love Keeps Lifting Me] Higher and Higher, Baby Workout, For Your Precious Love, Chain Gang; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [1987]; died Jan 21, 1984
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1939 - Dick Vitale
sportscaster: basketball analyst: ABC, ESPN; author: Time Out, Baby!, Campus Chaos - Why the Game I Love is Breaking My Heart; columnist: USA TODAY
what is college basketball without Dick Vitale screaming the whole entire time!
1961 - Michael J. Fox
actor: Back to the Future, The Secret of My Success, Bright Lights Big City, Doc Hollywood, Greedy, For Love or Money, Family Ties; voice of bulldog puppy in Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
brave man....
1963 - Johnny Depp (John Christopher Depp III)
actor: : Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Arizona Dreams, Nick of Time, Dead Man, Ed Wood, Donnie Brasco, Don Juan DeMarco, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare, Edward Scissorhands, Platoon, A Nightmare on Elm Street, 21 Jump Street, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
1964 - Wayman Tisdale
basketball: Olympic Gold medalist [1984], Univ of Oklahoma [all-American], Phoenix Suns; jazz musician: bass guitar: group: LPs: Power Forward, In the Zone, Decisions
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1981 - Natalie Portman
actress: Mars Attacks!, The Prince of Egypt, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Georgia Kudzu
HAVE A GREAT WEEK, Y'ALL!!
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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#65271 - 06/09/08 05:31 PM
Re: Round Table for Monday, June 9, 2008
[Re: olyve]
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1978 - Leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints struck down a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men from the Mormon priesthood.
1980 - Richard Pryor was severely burned by a "free-base" mixture that exploded. He was hospitalized more than two months.
COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!
Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.
-- Groucho Marx
From the Church of Ineffable Stupidity:
a) billo really?
Bill Moyers takes apart his hatchet man.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-uptake/fox-ambushes-bill-moyers_b_106047.html
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b) Wittle Scottie had a big thorn
Wittle scottie was a tad forlorn
Wittle scottie, tired of bull$%it
wrote up a booklet
and now is happy to wake up each morn.
how long remains to be seen.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/09/mcclellan-to-testify-befo_n_106128.html
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c) Pastor Ag has decided to reserve "C" for Condi Rice for as long as she pretends to be SexState. Or negotiate. Or bloviate.
Which, despite a very welcome absence from the public eye, she continues to this very day. If EVER there was the definition of the Anti-Midas touch, first in line would be Cheney, then Rummie, then Condi.
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d) yet another series of storms approacheth.
and still people discount global climate change?
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"There was never a good war or a bad peace."
Benjamin Franklin
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#65281 - 06/09/08 08:29 PM
Re: Round Table for Monday, June 9, 2008
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BamaMama
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BamaMama, I saw "In Plain Sight" last night for the first time, and I liked it a lot, even though I was prepared to dislike yet another sexy blonde crime show. I liked it a thousand times better than "Saving Grace" which I haven't liked since the first episode. I'll definitely watch "In Plain Sight" again, especially since it comes on right after my absolute favorite show, Law and Order Criminal Intent (the ones with Vincent D'Onofrio and Kathryn Erbe).
EmmaG
Ditto EmmaG. Didn't it seem as if they re-did "Saving Grace" and this time they got it "right?" Even the music is similar. I love Holly Hunter so I hated that "Saving Grace" was so "over the top."
I too LOVE Vincent D'Onofrio. I may have my TiVo set incorrectly because I never seem to get his episodes. Did you ever watch the "Inspector Haver" mysteries on PBS. Katherine Erbe looks, in my opoinion, so similar to Haver's side-kick and their roles are also similar.
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