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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on November 22, 2010, 08:10:52 AM
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I won't be able to roam around Skins's island today, Monday; work and all that stuff.
Anyway.
Today is November 22, 2010.
Exactly one year ago today, about mid-afternoon, TxRadioguy and I were chatting in the "shout box" here, and I mentioned it was November 22, 2009.
TxRadioguy said yeah, he remembered, too.
Since I don't do television, I asked TxRadioguy if there had been any mention of it on that media any time during the day. He said he hadn't seen anything, not a word.
I got curious, and went over to Skins's island to check things out.
Nope, no mention over there either.
Which grievously surprised the Hell out of me; usually the primitives remember things like this.
The majority of the primitives on Skins's island were in high school, college, graduate school, or on the assembly-line or in the military at the time; old enough to have remembered.
But the primitives hadn't even remembered.
franksolich made mention of it--I think on freerepublic, though, not here--which apparently a lurking primitive spotted, and rushed to Skins's island to start a campfire about it, about half an hour later.
The primitives finally remembered.
Finally.
And they probably had to read franksolich to remember it, just as they did last July, neglecting to commemorate the late red round one, after which the late red round one was commemorated here instead.
At least some of us remember the late red round one.
I encourage members to scout around Skins's island today, to see if the primitives remembered this year.
And as usual, the primitive version of history should prove most interesting.....and as usual, wrong.
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Faygo Kid (1000+ posts) Sun Nov-21-10 08:27 PM
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OK, here we go again, and our numbers dwindle: But where were you 11/22/63?
Amazingly, I hurt more now every year. I guess it's because I have seen what this nation has become. At any rate, I was in Mrs. Burgoyne's seventh grade history class at Oakwood Junior High School in East Detroit, MI. I won't go through the details, but I remember every moment, and every detail of the next week.
It was a tough Thanksgiving. And the people that I loved then and who wept with me are now gone.
But I remain. And I remember. And quite frankly, it was bigger than 9/11, although degree doesn't matter. Thank you, Beatles, in early 1964. We needed you. Those of you old enough to remember know what I mean.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9605832
Something like this?
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Seems that most of the DUmmies claim to have been in school. I, on the other hand, in South Carolina must have been on the opposite side of the international date line....because I remember it as happening on a Saturday during my lunch break at work.
Do or did Catholic schools operate on Saturday?
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http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/?year=1963&country=1
The above calendar shows Nov.22nd as a Friday.
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http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/?year=1963&country=1
The above calendar shows Nov.22nd as a Friday.
Now that makes me wonder what I was doing out of school that day. I definitely remember I was working. I had just driven a 2 stick MACK back to the grain company, picked up another 2 stick MACK, stopped by home for a quick lunch and while I was between home and the service station, it happened.
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Maybe you had already graduated that year? I was 17 @my graduation.
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Maybe you had already graduated that year? I was 17 @my graduation.
I was 16 at that time. I had just turned 17 when I graduate from high school in the spring of '63.
Correction, it happened in the fall of '63. I was in college then, so that explains it. I was working in the truck garage and making short hauls for the grain company at that time.
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Johnny, that must have been like a few minutes in the Twilight Zone there...have a Bayrische Mittagessen :cheersmate:
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Johnny, that must have been like a few minutes in the Twilight Zone there...have a Bayrische Mittagessen :cheersmate:
:-) No it's more like a few minutes inside the head of an old man.
Ok, here's part of that memory...now where did I put the rest of it?
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I was in the middle of my terrible twos, so it didn't penetrate my little self-centered universe.
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9605832
Something like this?
Wow. And that's from yesterday.
And so I guess I'll "unsticky" this; it had been posted simply so that the lurking primitives would remember.
It was a shock last year, when they didn't, until prompted.
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:-) No it's more like a few minutes inside the head of an old man.
Ok, here's part of that memory...now where did I put the rest of it?
Um like this?
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4d/Walterdummy.PNG) :rotf:
I was scheduled for detention that day but it got canceled.
Today I watched a few minutes of a Jack Ruby thing. I remember walking in the house seeing that being played on TV a couple days later.
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I was four at the time The only thing today was mention of it on the radio as a "This day in History" bit that followed the celebraty birthday segment.
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I was four at the time The only thing today was mention of it on the radio as a "This day in History" bit that followed the celebraty birthday segment.
Yeah, it's receding.
It's going the same way as the assassination of William McKinley in 1901 or the unexpected death of Warren Harding in 1923.
While admittedly the assassination of John Kennedy was a traumatic event for all, the national grief was no more in 1963 than it had been in 1901 or 1923.
History books tell it all, but primitives don't know excresence about history.
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I haven't seen anything on Fox News today. :fuelfire:
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Um like this?
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4d/Walterdummy.PNG) :rotf:
I was scheduled for detention that day but it got canceled.
Today I watched a few minutes of a Jack Ruby thing. I remember walking in the house seeing that being played on TV a couple days later.
Had a cousin on the Dallas police force back then. He sat with Jack Ruby in his cell for months. Jack had someone in the cell with him at all times. Said Jack acted crazy all the time. He also said that they gave Jack shots everyday and Jack claimed that the government had given him cancer with those shots.
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I was -2 and, consequently, do not remember much.
I do have vague memories of the space capsule that burned up on the launch pad.
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I haven't seen anything on Fox News today. :fuelfire:
There hasn't been much talk about this day as far as I saw/heard. I'm surprised.
I wasn't even born yet, but do remember seeing how this day was remembered.
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Talk about a thread that makes a person feel young. I was six years away from entering the population. :-)
It used to be that the media devoted all kinds of time on the air to remember the tragedy in Dallas. Now not even a peep.
IMHO it's for two different reasons. The media folks that revered and respected Kennedy have either died...retired or are reduced to "Special Commentary" on the news programs. And the current crop of...ahem..."journalists" don't like Kennedy cause he wasn't left enough for their liking. So they let the day just kinda pass by and hope more and more people forget.
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And quite frankly, it was bigger than 9/11, although degree doesn't matter.
:o Really?....Really? The JFK assasination started a war? Unbelievable......3000+However many soldiers have died since=one man??? :bird:
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:o Really?....Really? The JFK assasination started a war? Unbelievable......3000+However many soldiers have died since=one man??? :bird:
That's because they believe that 9/11 was staged.
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That's because they believe that 9/11 was staged.
The JFK assasination still didn't start a war. I know there are people who claim Viet-Nam would have never escalated to what it did had he lived but i refuse to believe that.
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That's because they believe that 9/11 was staged.
More stupidity from the DUmpkies. :mental: