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How Golf Is Like Urinating In A Restroom 1. Keep your back straight, knees bent, and feet shoulder-width apart. 2. Form a loose grip. 3. Keep your head down. 4. Avoid a quick backswing. 5. Stay out of the water. 6. Try not to hit anybody. 7. If you are taking too long, you should let others go ahead of you. 8. You shouldn't stand directly in front of others. 9. Be quiet while others are about to go. 10. Keep strokes to a minimum.

COLD? COLD? LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT COLD!!! Ahem...sorry, just yelling to STAY F**KING WARM!!! Good morning good friends o' mine. Currently -2F with -16F windchill. Clear skies with a possible high temperature of 26F on this fine and most lovely Friday.

American Gas Association Ad - February 1943 1941: British take the Somali capital in East Africa. 1941: Franco, in response to Hitler's appeal to enter the war, says I stand today already at your side, entirely and decidedly at your disposal,' but refuses to enter the war. **Vivian Blaine 1942: The RAF launch an attack against the battleship Gneisenau, which is being repaired at Kiel's floating dock. The damage caused is severe and the battleship is never again put to sea under her own power. 1942: Churchill exhorts General Auchinleck to launch an offensive against the German and Italian forces that are gathering in front of the Gazala line. He reminds Auchinleck that the longer he waits, the more time Rommel will have to rebuild his strength. To this General Auchinleck reply's that his intention is to first build up an armoured striking force as quickly as possible and strengthen the defenses of the Gazala line. Only then would he mount a major offensive, which he advised Churchill would be in early June. 1942: While carrying Army fighters to the Netherlands East Indies, the first U.S. carrier, the USS Langley, is sunk by Japanese bombers. Vivian Blaine 1943: U.S. Flying Fortresses and Liberators pound German docks and U-boat lairs at Wilhelmshaven. 1943: Von Arnim launches a five-day counter attack in northern Tunisia, gaining some ground. Montgomery issues the plan Operation 'Pugilist', which is to smash the Mareth defensive Line in southern Tunisia. 1944: Bad weather ends Big Week, during which 26 German aircraft production related factories are hit putting German monthly production down by 20%. Vivian Blaine 1945: The attacks by the US Ninth Army into the Hürtgen Forest make little progress. 1945: Army Group Courland repulses heavy Red Army attacks in the area of Prekuln. Vivian Blaine as Blossom Hart with Michael O'Shea as Sergeant Ronald 'Rocky' Fulton 1945: Syria declares war on Germany and Japan. 1945: U.S. Marines land on Verde Island, to the Southeast of Manila. *1936: Japanese military troops march into Tokyo to conduct a coup and assassinate political leaders. Vivian Blaine **Born Vivian Stapleton on November 21, 1921 in Newark, New Jersey, the cherry-blonde-haired Blaine appeared on local stages as early as 1934 and was a touring singer with dance bands starting in 1937. In 1942, her agent and soon-to-be husband Manny Franks signed her to a contract with Twentieth Century-Fox, and she relocated to Hollywood, sharing top billing with Laurel and Hardy in Jitterbugs (1943) and starring in Greenwich Village (1944), Nob Hill (1945), and State Fair (1945), among other films. Following her Fox years, Blaine returned to the stage, making her Broadway debut in the Frank Loesser musical Guys and Dolls in 1950. Her character Adelaide has been engaged to inveterate gambler Nathan Detroit for 14 years, a condition which, according to her song "Adelaide's Lament", can foster physical illness as well as chronic heartbreak. After the show's 1200-performance run on Broadway, in which she starred opposite Sam Levene as Nathan Detroit and Robert Alda as fellow gambler Sky Masterson, she reprised the role in London's West End in 1953, and then on film in 1955, with Frank Sinatra playing Nathan and Marlon Brando in Sky's role. Blaine also appeared on the Broadway stage in A Hatful of Rain, Say, Darling, Enter Laughing, Company, and Zorba, as well as participating in the touring companies of such musicals as Gypsy. As she reached age 50, her television career took off, with guest roles on shows like Fantasy Island and The Love Boat. On the 25th annual Tony Awards in 1971, she appeared as a guest performer and sang "Adelaide's Lament" from Guys and Dolls, providing a visual recording of the performance for posterity. Blaine's first marriage, to Franks, lasted from 1945 to 1956. She then married Milton Rackmil, president of Universal Studios and Decca Records, in 1959, and recorded several albums prior to their 1961 divorce. In 1973, Blaine married Stuart Clark. In 1983 she became the first celebrity to make public service announcements for AIDS-related causes. She made numerous appearances in support of the then fledgling AIDS-Project Los Angeles (APLA) and recorded her cabaret act which donated its royalties to the new group; this included the last recordings of her songs from Guys and Dolls. She died of congestive heart failure on December 9, 1995 at age 74 in New York City.

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Very nice piece of video indeed! May God forever Bless Canada, the Canadian people and the United States of America! Brothers forever by border, by values and by blood.

Déjà vu? Morning. -7F with -24F windchill and clear skies.

Morning. -7F with -24F windchill and clear skies.

Goodyear Chemigum Ad - December 1943 1941: British Commando's land on the Italian held Island of Castelorizzo in the Dodecanese. 1941: The British submarine, HMS Upholder, sinks the Italian Cruiser Armando Diaz to the southwest of Malta. 1941: British Nigerian troops of the 11th African Division occupy Mogadishu, the capital of Italian Somaliland, having advanced up the coast. Meanwhile the 12th African Division pushes up the river Juba in Italian Somaliland towards the Abyssinian border town of Dolo. Anne Baxter 1942: The debate in the House of Commons comes to a close with many speakers being sharply critical of government policy, with the bombing of Germany being called in to question. 1942: After the withdrawal of ABDA HQ from Java, Wavell himself now leaves for Australia. Anne Baxter 1943: The RAF begins a round the clock bombing campaign in Tunisia, with 2,000 raids in the next 48 hours. 1943: U.S. troops retake the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia, where they had been defeated five days before. Anne Baxter as the Egyptian Princess Nefertiri & Yul Brynner as Pharaoh Ramesses II in The Ten Commandments 1944: Convoy JW-57 (43 ships and 19 escorts) sailing the Loch Ewe to the Kola Peninsula, is attacked on 25 February off Norway. One destroyer, HMS Mahratta, is sunk by U-990 for 1,920 tons. 1944: U.S. forces destroy 135 Japanese planes in Marianas and Guam. Anne Baxter as Olga, Queen of the Cossacks & Vincent Price as Egghead in 1960's Batman TV Series 1945: 400 RAF bombers carry out attacks against Dortmund and Rheine. 1945: Turkey declares war against Germany. *Anne Baxter was born in Michigan City, Indiana, on May 7, 1923. She was the daughter of a salesman and his wife, Catherine, who herself was the daughter of Frank Lloyd Wright, the world-renowned architect. Anne was a young girl of 11 when her parents moved to New York City, which at that time was still the hub of the entertainment industry even though the film colony was moving west. The move there encouraged her to consider acting as a vocation. At 16 Baxter screen-tested for the role of Mrs. DeWinter in Rebecca, losing out to Joan Fontaine because director Alfred Hitchcock considered her "too young" for the role, but the strength of that first foray into movie acting secured her a seven-year contract with 20th Century Fox. Her first movie role was in 20 Mule Team in 1940. She was chosen by director Orson Welles to appear in The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), based on the novel by Booth Tarkington. Baxter co-starred with Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney in 1946's The Razor's Edge, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 1950, she was chosen to co-star in All About Eve, largely because of a resemblance to Claudette Colbert, who had initially been chosen to co-star in the film; the original idea being to have her character gradually come to visually mirror Colbert's over the course of the film. Baxter received a nomination for Best Actress for the title role of Eve Harrington. Later during that decade, Baxter also continued to act in professional theater. According to a program from the production, Baxter appeared on Broadway in 1953 opposite Tyrone Power in Charles Laughton's John Brown's Body, a play based upon the narrative poem by Stephen Vincent Benét (though the Internet Broadway Database states that Power's co-star was Judith Anderson). In 1953 she appeared opposite Montgomery Clift in Alfred Hitchcock's I Confess. Baxter appeared regularly on television in the 1960s. For example, she did a stint as one of the What's My Line? "Mystery Guests" on the popular Sunday night CBS-TV quiz program. She also starred as guest villain "Zelda the Great" in two episodes of the superhero show Batman. She appeared as another villain, "Olga, Queen of the Cossacks," opposite Vincent Price's "Egghead" in three episodes of the show's third season. She also played an old flame of Raymond Burr on his crime series Ironside. Baxter returned to Broadway during the 1970s in Applause, the musical version of All About Eve, but this time in the "Margo Channing" role played by Bette Davis in the film. (She was replacing Lauren Bacall, who won a Tony Award in the role.) In the 1970s, Baxter was a frequent guest and stand-in host on the popular daytime TV talk-fest The Mike Douglas Show, since Baxter and host Mike Douglas were friends. She portrayed a homicidal movie star on an episode of Columbo called "Requiem for a Fallen Star." In 1983, Baxter starred in the television series Hotel, replacing Bette Davis in the cast after Davis was taken ill. In the 1950s, Baxter was married to and then divorced from actor John Hodiak. They had a daughter, Katrina. In 1960 Baxter married second husband, Randolph Galt. They left Hollywood to briefly live on a cattle station in the Australian outback before moving to New Mexico and Hawaii and settling back in Brentwood, California. She told the story in her memoir Intermission: A True Story. In the book, Baxter blamed the failure of her first marriage to Hodiak on herself. Baxter and Galt had two daughters Melissa, an interior designer and Maginel, a Roman Catholic nun in Rome. Baxter was briefly married again in 1977 to David Klee, a prominent stockbroker, but was widowed when he died unexpectedly due to illness. Baxter never remarried. They had purchased a sprawling property in Easton, Connecticut which was extensively remodeled, but Klee did not live to see the renovations completed. The house was architecturally reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright's flat-roofed 'Prairie School Architecture' structures.[citation needed] Baxter remodeled the living-room fireplace to resemble the one in her grandfather's masterpiece, Fallingwater. Although Baxter maintained a residence in West Hollywood, California, she considered her beloved Connecticut home to be her primary residence. She was a lifelong friend of the late costume designer Edith Head, who she first met on the set of The Ten Commandments and who also appeared in a cameo role with Baxter in the Columbo episode in which Baxter starred. Upon Head's death in 1981, Baxter's daughter, Melissa, who was also a goddaughter of Head, was bequeathed her extraordinary collection of jewelry. Baxter died from a brain aneurysm on December 12, 1985, while walking down Madison Avenue in New York City. She was 62. She is buried on the estate of Frank Lloyd Wright at Lloyd Jones Cemetery in Spring Green, Wisconsin. She was survived by her three daughters.

Thanks Dude and OG. I appreciate the compliments! It is a lot of work trying to find this stuff and change up this thread each and every day. Keep the interest in the forum going is what I am trying to accomplish, and if someone learns a bit of history, then that is a big bonus.

That would be great. I would love one of those empty missle silos. But I think the majority are in Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas. Who in the hell wants to go there? Iowa is a friggin' paradise compared to those states.

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Morning. Partly cloudy, -1F with -20F windchill. 17F for a high temp. At least no snow today. Had some flurries yesterday afternoon. Not enough to cover the driveways. I am so frickin' tired of winter, snow and the damn cold.

General Electric Mazda Lamp Ad - February 1943 1941: The 2-engine Manchester bomber, is used for the first time during an RAF raid against Brest. 1941: Reconnaissance elements of the German 5th Light Division clash with British forces for the first time in Africa, at Nofilia near El Agheila. *Marie McDonald 1942: British Parliament begins a two day debate on the conduct of the war. 1942: USS Enterprise attacks the Japanese garrison on Wake Island. Marie McDonald 1944: ‘Big Week’ continues with a co-ordinated RAF and USAAF attacks on the Schweinfurt ball-bearing factory. 1944: Hitler speaks to a closed door meeting of Nazi Party leaders and activists at the Hofbrauhaus in Munich on the occasion of the anniversary of the proclamation of the Party Program in 1920. Hitler refuses Goebbels requests that the speech be broadcast and even prohibits any mention of it in the newspapers. Marie McDonald 1945: German U-boats sink 8 ships and 2 destroyers from a convoy bound for the Russian port of Murmansk. 1945: A haggard and aged-looking Hitler addresses his Gauleiters and Reichsleiters for what proves to be the last time in the Reich Chancellery in Berlin on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the proclamation of the Nazi Party program. Perhaps sensitive to the likelihood of public scepticism and derision, he refuses to allow the speech to be broadcast or even reported to the public at large. Marie McDonald 1945: Germans counter attacks wipe out the Russian Hron bridgehead over the Danube to the northwest of Budapest. 1945: U.S. Marines capture a second airfield on Iwo Jima. Marie McDonald *Marie McDonald, born Cora Marie Frye on July 6, 1923 in Burgin, Kentucky, was a leggy, voluptuous blonde starlet who pursued her career with a vengeance but found little reward in the end. Her mother was a former Ziegfeld girl and her grandmother an operatic singer. Her father, on the other hand, was not so artistically inclined, earning a living as a warden at Leavenworth Prison. Her parents divorced when Marie was just 6 years old. Marie's mother remarried and the new family moved to Yonkers, New York, where she attended Roosevelt High School and excelled in piano and wrote for the school newspaper. Although Marie was offered a college scholarship by Columbia University in journalism, Marie's impressive beauty and physical assets propelled her to try a show business career. A Powers model at 15 (she lied about her age), she quit high school and started entering beauty contests, winning the "Miss Yonkers" and "The Queen of Coney Island" titles, among others. In 1939 she was crowned "Miss New York," but subsequently lost at the "Miss America" pageant. The attention she received from her beauty titles, however, pointed her straight to the Broadway stage and the "George White's Scandals of 1939." This in turn led to her move to Los Angeles, finding work in the chorus line while trying to break into pictures. She found her first singing work with Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra on his radio show and eventually joined other bands as well. Although Universal signed her up, she couldn't get past a few one-line jobs. She knew publicity would have to be her mode of operation if she was to draw the necessary attention and advance her career. During World War II, McDonald became one of Hollywood's most popular pin-up girls and she posed for the United States military magazine, YANK. Press agents dubbed Marie "The Body" and the tag eventually stuck. Though her physical attributes were impressive, her talent was less so. Managing to come her way were the films Guest in the House (1944), Living in a Big Way (1947) with Gene Kelly and Tell It to the Judge (1949). Marie was once in contention for the Billie Dawn role in "Born Yesterday," which could have been her big break, but she lost out to Judy Holliday. The audience simply didn't latch on to Marie and she ended up more on the road doing bus-and-truck shows than anything else. Despite a plethora of tabloid attention, which included her seven marriages and numerous sex scandals in addition to the publicity hijinks she managed to muster up, notoriety that would have made the late Jayne Mansfield envious, Marie's career eventually stalled and she turned to drink, drugs and despair. This led to frequent skirmishes with the law and more than a few nervous breakdowns. Her last effective role was in the Jerry Lewis starrer The Geisha Boy (1958) where she gamely played a snippy movie star at the mercy of the comedian's outrageous slapstick. On October 21, 1965 (aged 42) at Calabasas, California, the never-say-die gal finally decided enough was enough and she ended it all with an overdose of Percodan. She was laid to rest in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Three months after McDonald's death, her sixth husband Donald F. Taylor, who was a producer had occasionally acted under the name Don Taylor, committed suicide in January 1966. McDonald's three surviving children were raised by Harry Karl and his wife, Debbie Reynolds.

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Iconic Moment in U.S. History

The meeting room was filled with male heterosexual celebrities of all types. Actors, Professional Sports Figures, Industry and Corporate CEO's and Billionaires from Wall Street. Well maybe only Millionaires now, but you get my drift... Charlie Sheen drunkenly approaches the small podium at the front of the room. He grabs the mounted microphone and slightly adjusts it upward, clears his throat and begins speaking... "You all know why you're here...you all have a problem...some have admitted it...some are new to this meeting and have not. Let us hear from the first lost soul amongst us that needs to bare his soul to the world..." The men in the crowded meeting room all look around to see who will be first. Slowly a short, handsome blond haired, blue eyed man stands and walks with the use of a cane up to the podium. As he reaches the podium, Sheen shakes his hand and gives him a reassuring hug, then steps away. The disabled man grabs the mike and pulls it downward, even after stepping up on the New York City Phone Book. "Hello all. My name is Donnie. And I am here to admit that I am addicted to sex and especially really big tits."

Morning. Sunny and a toasty 3F with -12F windchill. Below 30F for a high temp over the next 7 days.

United States Rubber Company Ad - February 1943 1938: Twelve Chinese fighter planes drop bombs on Japan. 1940: Sweden announces that she will not permit British or French troops to cross through her territory on their way to Finland. *Anne Gwynne - YANK Pinup Girl 1940: The Soviet Union announces its final conditions for peace. Finland must hand over the Karelia Isthmus and the shores of Lake Ladoga. It must also grant a 30 year lease on the Hangö Peninsula and sign a mutual assistance treaty, guaranteeing the security of the Gulf of Finland against external threats. In return for all this, the Russians will withdraw from the Petsamo area. 1940: Crews of Exeter and Ajax cheered through London after return from South America. Anne Gwynne 1941: Alexandros Korizis, the Greek premier formally accepts Britain's offer of troops. 1941: Stuka's sink a British Destroyer and the Monitor Terror off the North African coast, near Tobruk. 1941: Free French forces land in Eritrea. Anne Gwynne 1942: Air Marshal A. T. (Bomber) Harris is appointed C-in-C of Bomber Command. Harris already had a reputation of being a determined and forceful character and was totally convinced that the bombing of Germany could bring her to her knees and be decisive in winning the war. 1942: The British submarine HMS Trident, torpedo's the cruiser Prinz Eugen which is sailing to Norway from Kiel, forcing its return to Germany for substantial repairs. Anne Gwynne 1942: While the 17th Indian Division is withdrawing across the river Sittang, the Japanese launch an attack to capture the Bridge. Lieutenant General Smyth, orders the bridge to be blown, even though more than half his division has still to cross. The remnants of the 17th Indian Division, withdraw to Pegu, where they are joined by the 7th Armoured Brigade, which had recently arrived from the Middle East. For prematurely blowing up the bridge on the river Sittang, Lieutenant General Smyth is removed from command of the 17th Indian Division by General Wavell. 1942: Wavells ABDA HQ leaves Java for Australia, where upon its arrival it is disbanded. Against the wishes of Churchill, the Australian Prime Minister, Curtin orders all Australian Divisions to return home. 1942: A Japanese submarine shells an oil refinery near Santa Barbara, California, the first Axis bombs to hit American soil. Anne Gwynne 1944: Total U.S. casualties so far are put at 19,499 killed, 45,545 wounded, 26,339 missing and 26,754 captured. 1944: U.S. carrier-based planes attack the Mariana Islands. Only 1,300 miles from Tokyo. 1944: General Lucas is sacked from the Anzio command and is replaced by Major General Truscott. German counter-attacks drives the Anzio beachhead back further. 1944: Merrill’s ‘Marauders’ (US 5307th Composite Unit) begins Stilwell’s Sino-American advance into northern Burma. 1945: The US Ninth Army begins an offensive from its bridgeheads on the Roer river leading to the bloody battle of the Hürtgen Forest. 1945: The Russians capture the fortress of Posen after a month-long siege. Anne Gwynne 1945: US paratroops spring 2,146 detainees from a Japanese camp South of Manila in surprise attack, during which 243 Japanese are killed for loss of just two U.S. killed and two injured. 1945: U.S. Marines storm Mt. Suribachi on Iwo Jima and raise the U.S. flag. 1946: Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita is hanged in Manila, the Philippines, for war crimes. Anne Gwynne *Vivid, strikingly beautiful actress Anne Gwynne arrived in Hollywood a typical starry-eyed model looking to become a big film star, and ended up one of Universal Studio's favorite screamers in "B" horror films. Born in Waco, Texas on December 10, 1918, but raised in Missouri, she first modeled Catalina swimwear and appeared in local community theater productions to gain experience. Universal Studios took one look at this gorgeous eyeful and immediately signed her up in 1939. Her first work was in westerns opposite the likes of Johnny Mack Brown, but she swiftly moved to chillers and at the mercy of Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, and Lon Chaney Jr.. Though she seldom rose above the second-string ranks, she was quite popular with the servicemen as a WWII pin-up. As many others before her, TV proved a welcome medium in the 50s as her film career fell away, appearing in guest spots and commercials. Widowed in 1965, her health began to deteriorate in the 90s and she was forced to move to the Motion Picture Country Home. Anne Gwynne had the looks and talent to be a top star, but not the luck. Nevertheless, she was a game player who screamed with the best of them. She passed away on March 31, 2003 at age 84 in Woodland Hills, California following complications of a stroke. Trivia: Height - 5' 5" Was one of the top five pin-ups in World War II, according to a February 15, 1943 "Life" magazine article. Others were Dorothy Lamour, Ann Sheridan , Maureen O'Hara and Alexis Smith. #1 pinup girl for 2 years in the "YANK" magazine for WWII servicemen. A former "Miss San Antonio".

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Complete truisms in this here story... Lottie was convinced that the so-called Combatsim group discount was bogus and that he was being set up for some kind of scam. But she thought everything about Combatsim was in bad taste and possibly illegal. No explanation needed here. "Doug and Old Guy put you up to this, didn't they," she snarled when he first broached the subject. Nor here. With any luck he wouldn't return to find all his belongings piled in the street. At least not this time, they were the last time. Images of "independent skirts" with boobs the size of watermelons flashed through his diseased brain. Everyday! Even the diseased brain part. Obviously he saw that you, sir, want a genuine Noir Town experience, sharp-edged adventure with historical overtones, and that you are not here to get drunk and carouse with a bevy of large-breasted women." I demand this of my travel agent every time I plan a trip. Two women entered the hotel and headed for the back, toward what had to be a bar. Both had the well-rounded, somewhat top heavy figure Donnie loved. His vision blurred. He felt dizzy. Happens to me all the time. I should see a Doctor. "Um, sir?" The clerk extended a key. "You've drooled on the register, sir." Been there, done that. "Thagz. Thath a gutt …" Donnie swallowed. "Ma tonguk thwoll up." Usually, it's my...well ya know. What bothers me is how well OG knows me. He must have performed one of them "Vulcan Mind Meld™" thingmies while I was asleep, when he and his wife visited Lottie and me a few years back. Yeah, that has to be it.

Morning. Well the National Weather Service and the local weathermen really screwed the pooch on the big storm forecast for last night/this morning. Our predicted 6-10 inches of snow turned into only a light dusting here in Cedar Rapids. 15F with a high of 31F today. And hopefully my last appointment with the physical torturist this morning.