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Posted: May 6, 2012 - 7:30am

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

Not to downplay the seriousness of that event but really that's not the kind of defensive posture one would expect to see when people are being fired upon.

 
The people whose backs you see were not the ones being fired on, but were a bit of a distance away.  There are some hills in that area and there were a number of "spectators" to what happened.
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Posted: May 6, 2012 - 7:21am

 hippiechick wrote:


I found this picture online yesterday, while looking at KSU stuff. This is exactly where I was standing during the shootings. 

 
Not to downplay the seriousness of that event but really that's not the kind of defensive posture one would expect to see when people are being fired upon.
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Posted: May 6, 2012 - 6:49am

 mzpro5 wrote:
75 years ago today, May 6, 1937, the hydrogen-filled German dirigible Hindenburg burned and crashed in Lakehurst, N.J., killing 36 of the 97 people on board.

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Having seen that footage many times, I always was amazed that any of the passengers survived.


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Posted: May 6, 2012 - 5:58am

75 years ago today, May 6, 1937, the hydrogen-filled German dirigible Hindenburg burned and crashed in Lakehurst, N.J., killing 36 of the 97 people on board.

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Posted: May 5, 2012 - 6:57am



I found this picture online yesterday, while looking at KSU stuff. This is exactly where I was standing during the shootings. 
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Posted: May 4, 2012 - 5:11am

The Kent State Massacre took place 42 years ago today. As a witness to this event, I remember it like it happened yesterday. 
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Posted: Apr 20, 2012 - 6:04am

1916: The Chicago Cubs play their first game in Weeghman Park (now Wrigley Field) against the Cincinnatti Reds, defeating them 7-6 in 11 innings.


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Posted: Apr 19, 2012 - 12:37pm

Jayne Mansfield was born - 1933.
Jayne Mansfield


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Posted: Apr 13, 2012 - 7:58am

1940 Census Fever! The Most Popular Baby Names That Year


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Posted: Apr 11, 2012 - 2:24pm

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:
 Manbird wrote:

I think you just proved it for me. 


Salience:
take two ground sallys and
10 minutes of dalliance
Mix well until you get an emulsion
Serve cold.
leave outside for a month until it begins to fester.

 
It doesn't matter how emulsified I am. I'm not going to dally with no festering Sally.
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Posted: Apr 11, 2012 - 12:59pm

 Manbird wrote:

I think you just proved it for me. 


Salience:
take two ground sallys and
10 minutes of dalliance
Mix well until you get an emulsion
Serve cold.
leave outside for a month until it begins to fester.
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Posted: Apr 11, 2012 - 12:58pm

 Manbird wrote:
Twenty four hours ago from today I was sitting here typing shit on my computer just like I am now. 

 
That's a different thread entitled Yesterday in History.

Try to keep up, will ya? 
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Posted: Apr 11, 2012 - 12:55pm

 Manbird wrote:
Twenty four hours ago from today I was sitting here typing shit on my computer just like I am now. 

 
I bet you just made that up.
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Posted: Apr 11, 2012 - 12:55pm

 oldslabsides wrote:


were you just trying to prove your own point?

 
I think you just proved it for me. 
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Posted: Apr 11, 2012 - 12:53pm

 Manbird wrote:
Twenty four hours ago from today I was sitting here typing shit on my computer just like I am now. 

 

were you just trying to prove your own point?
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Posted: Apr 11, 2012 - 12:51pm

Twenty four hours ago from today I was sitting here typing shit on my computer just like I am now. 
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Posted: Apr 11, 2012 - 11:16am

 oldslabsides wrote:
1954: Computer programmer William Tunstall-Pedoe calculates this day to be the most objectively dull day since 1900.

 

Was he just trying to prove his own point?
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Posted: Apr 11, 2012 - 10:59am

 kysmet wrote:

1 year

 
Doh!   {#Doh}
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Posted: Apr 11, 2012 - 10:53am

 jagdriver wrote:

Crap... it's been TWO YEARS already?!

(Quite bizarre... 9/15 marks my {unbelievable!} fourth year here. Time is flying by!)

Congrats!

 
1 year
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Posted: Apr 11, 2012 - 10:48am

 kysmet wrote:
2011:  I started my new job. Happy anniversary to me.

 
Crap... it's been TWO YEARS already?!

(Quite bizarre... 9/15 marks my {unbelievable!} fourth year here. Time is flying by!)

Congrats!
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