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Post by liriodendron on Nov 8, 2009 17:58:24 GMT -5
I wasn't aware that Lincoln and Obama had busts.
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Post by BoatBabe on Nov 9, 2009 10:25:15 GMT -5
;D
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Post by doctork on Nov 11, 2009 7:51:54 GMT -5
Chia pets must be false, I haven't seen the ads yet, and you can't miss the ads as they are always everywhere.
Oh wait - I've not been watching TV. True.
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Post by doctork on Nov 11, 2009 7:53:33 GMT -5
"Pineapple song" I know, I know!
"Pineapple Princess" by Annette Funicello, early-mid 60's during her beach movie days.
"Pineapple Princess, he called me Pineapple Princess all day As he played his ukelele on the hill above the bay..."
That's all I remember so far.
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Post by brutus on Nov 11, 2009 22:51:35 GMT -5
This is another True/False statement derived from the same salon, though a different day, my hair day instead of my nails. True/False: Bald men are more manly than men who have a thick head of hair.This one is true too! Discuss: Male pattern baldness is linked with high testosterone levels (predominant male hormone), while a full head of hair is linked to lower testosterone levels. My stylist was finishing a haircut for an attractive male client who was lamenting his thinning hair, and how it did not take long to cut, since there wasn't so much there any more. I told him not to worry, thinning hair was more manly. He was surprised by this comment from the peanut gallery, but Debbie (the stylist) said he should believe me because I was a doctor. He was quite gratified by this additional knowledge, and said he would store the line away for future use. So far, that line works for me!
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Post by BoatBabe on Nov 16, 2009 9:49:44 GMT -5
Chia pets must be false, I haven't seen the ads yet, and you can't miss the ads as they are always everywhere. Oh wait - I've not been watching TV. True. Oh, So True. Not the busts part . . . I should have called them heads, or . . . what? Sculptures? ~B~, I'll bet that IS working for you ~ Here's another one. True or False: The last Metal of Honor was awarded to a Marine in 1976. (We went to the National Museum of the Marines. It was fabulous, but we all decided it probably wasn't the place to visit if you suffer from wartime post traumatic stress. WAY too real. The building is astonishing.)
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Post by gailkate on Nov 16, 2009 10:07:07 GMT -5
I'm guessing 'true.'
Way too real in what ways? photos?
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Post by doctork on Nov 16, 2009 10:52:02 GMT -5
I think brutus takes this testosterone/baldness thing real personal!
I'll guess "True" on the Marine medal of honor. I am a native of Washington, DC, as well as a frequent visitor, but I did not know there was a Marine Museum. Maybe I will visit it next time I am there - due soon since I have to return my rental car to IAD.
Remember my traveling menagerie on that road trip from Dulles to Sparta? Seems so long ago.
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Post by jspnrvr on Nov 16, 2009 11:18:06 GMT -5
I'll also guess "true". That's a DC museum I haven't been to, either. Another neat museum, not in DC but N'awlins, the D Day Museum that Stephen Ambrose helped push. Not just the big D Day at Normandy but dedicated to all the landings, in Europe and the Pacific. This was a trip with my Mom, BB, in 2002, and we checked it out. We saw a real neat deal; only one Medal of Honor was awarded to a Coast Guardsman in WW2, one of the Pacific actions, and it turns out that is who her American Legion Post in Panama City is named after. Traveling with Moms can be a lot of fun. Maybe that could be a new thread?
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Post by doctork on Nov 16, 2009 19:36:02 GMT -5
True or False?
//Somebody has to do something, and its incredibly pathetic that it has to be us. Jerry Garcia//
The inestimable Jerry Garcia. I wonder when he said that. Any comments?
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Post by brutus on Nov 16, 2009 21:02:58 GMT -5
Right before he did something pathetic! ;D ~B~
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Post by jspnrvr on Nov 16, 2009 21:29:38 GMT -5
Point to Brutus! I wonder how grateful old Jerry really is these days.
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Post by BoatBabe on Nov 16, 2009 22:22:00 GMT -5
I'm guessing 'true.' Way too real in what ways? photos? True. The last marine to receive a Medal of Honor was in 1976. We couldn't believe it, and asked for clarification from one of the marine attendants. He said that there has been some serious speculation/complaints on the lack of awarding marines, and that the award is actually awarded by congress, after the multitudinously difficult and diversely triplicated and duplicated recommendations. "Way too real" in the real life-sized displays in perfect believeability. There was one full room dedicated to a WWII battle in the snow on a mountain with sound, narration, lifed-sized people, explosions, tracer fire, and they even air conditioned the room so you were freezing. Other displays included real tanks, airplanes, Vietnam booby-traps that killed soldiers, shot soldiers screaming for help, paramedics responding, soldiers rapelling from the ceiling, you name it, it was probably there. They had this time line ( a curved hallway with a time line on one side) that showed on the bottom what the world was doing, and on the top what the marines were doing at the same time.
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Post by doctork on Nov 17, 2009 7:51:25 GMT -5
I've seen just a touch of what the Marines do in Afghanistan, and it is the toughest job in the whole country by far. Unimaginably difficult and dangerous.
No Congress member on a "show tour" can get the slightest idea, especially since they limit themselves to the creme puff sites inside the Green Zone of Baghdad or the heavily guarded confines of Bagram Air Base. And most of the Marines themselves aren't going to be bragging about the details, or telling their families so that they can petition Congress.
And BTW, at the forward operations where squads of 6 - 8 Marines live in villages with the locals, they aren't hooked up to the internet and Skype to report back either. No sat phones, and lucky to have batteries for their radios to contact the CO back at the real base. It is a whole 'nother world out there.
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Post by BoatBabe on Nov 17, 2009 9:59:57 GMT -5
www.usmcmuseum.org/Check it out. The building itself is astonishing. At night there is a laser light that shines to the sky, a striking site through the pre-dawn remnents of Ida.
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Post by BoatBabe on Nov 17, 2009 10:12:01 GMT -5
I'll also guess "true". That's a DC museum I haven't been to, either. Another neat museum, not in DC but N'awlins, the D Day Museum that Stephen Ambrose helped push. Not just the big D Day at Normandy but dedicated to all the landings, in Europe and the Pacific. This was a trip with my Mom, BB, in 2002, and we checked it out. We saw a real neat deal; only one Medal of Honor was awarded to a Coast Guardsman in WW2, one of the Pacific actions, and it turns out that is who her American Legion Post in Panama City is named after. Traveling with Moms can be a lot of fun. Maybe that could be a new thread? The marines' museum is new. I'll bet the D Day Museum was great! Traveling with Moms is great fun, but only after enough maturity has been attained by all parties involved. Key Word = Flexibility. And I'm not talking about a new yoga position. Fortunately for us, my Mom instilled in all of us a sense of adventure, and a love of cemeteries, so nobody got tweaked when we spent so much time in the rain at the Confederate Cemetery. Mom stayed in the car, as the ground wasn't good for a transportation device. Okay, Doc, I'm saying the Garcia quote is true, and he was referring to the pathetic position of having to protest the Vietnam War to make the government pull out. It's my guess. I have no idea.
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Post by doctork on Nov 17, 2009 12:07:23 GMT -5
I don't know the details about the Garcia quote, I just saw it as someone's signature line on another website and thought it was cool so I copied it.
But I'd guess you're right about the reference to the Viet Nam War - it was the baby Boomers protesting the War and the universal draft that finally brought the whole thing to a halt. IMHO.
Google search shows lots of citations of that quote, no details though on the context.
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Post by doctork on Nov 17, 2009 12:26:21 GMT -5
I guess my sense of adventure was also instilled by my mom, although my dad (the military pilot) fit that description as well. We had some great trips together.
And more recently, I'm the mom taking the kids on adventures, most recently Spain/Andorra/BooDoo.
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Post by booklady on Nov 17, 2009 21:30:50 GMT -5
I am moved to add that the National WWII Museum** in New Orleans has just undergone an expansion and has more planned.
True or false: people in the South mention the word "Katrina" at least once a day.
**renamed from the D Day Museum Jay mentioned.
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Post by BoatBabe on Nov 17, 2009 21:40:47 GMT -5
I am moved to add that the National WWII Museum** in New Orleans has just undergone an expansion and has more planned. True or false: people in the South mention the word "Katrina" at least once a day. **renamed from the D Day Museum Jay mentioned. Good to see you, BL! I'm saying "True," with the accent on At Least Once a Day. I'll bet it's more. Is there a link to that National WWII Museum? I'm thinking it's pretty cool.
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Post by doctork on Nov 17, 2009 21:41:03 GMT -5
True, is by "the South" you mean Louisiana and Mississippi.
In "The Two Virginias" (a phrase I never heard in a whole year of Virginia history) or North Carolina, one does not hear the word "Katrina" much at all.
One of my NOLA high school classmates is named Katrina - she is the subject of endless ribbing at reunions.
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Post by booklady on Nov 17, 2009 21:44:47 GMT -5
Here ya go, BB: www.nationalww2museum.org/I visited there in June and enjoyed it, but I read recently that they had just completed and dedicated an expansion.
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Post by booklady on Nov 17, 2009 21:51:03 GMT -5
Yes, doc, here in MS and I'm sure in LA, too. Katrina was at least the trauma that 9/11 was. One of the coolest things about rebuilding after Katrina, IMO, is the sculptures that are down on old U.S. 90 along the Gulf Coast that were done from trees that died in the storm. Instead of cutting them down, an artist (or more than one) sculpted things like birds from the remaining parts of the trees. You can see some here: thanks-katrina.blogspot.com/2009/03/update-on-highway-90-sculptures.html
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Post by BoatBabe on Nov 20, 2009 1:02:59 GMT -5
Good site on the museum, BL. And the sculptures are incredible. How insightful to use the mediums provided to create the monument.
Let's see.
True or False:
You can separate your personal worth from your physical capacity.
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Post by booklady on Nov 21, 2009 9:32:19 GMT -5
BB, do you mean "one can," generally speaking, or each of us, personally?
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Post by doctork on Nov 21, 2009 11:08:56 GMT -5
True or False: You can separate your personal worth from your physical capacity. True of course. Otherwise disabled individuals would be of little or no value. And NFL players and other athletes might the only people who "counted."
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Post by doctork on Nov 21, 2009 11:29:00 GMT -5
Yes, doc, here in MS and I'm sure in LA, too. Katrina was at least the trauma that 9/11 was. One of the coolest things about rebuilding after Katrina, IMO, is the sculptures that are down on old U.S. 90 along the Gulf Coast that were done from trees that died in the storm. Instead of cutting them down, an artist (or more than one) sculpted things like birds from the remaining parts of the trees. You can see some here: thanks-katrina.blogspot.com/2009/03/update-on-highway-90-sculptures.htmlI'd agree about the degree of trauma for LA and MS. Although 9/11 was a national trauma in many ways, I just think about the small spaces involved - a few blocks in Manhatten, the Pentagon on the Potomac in Virginia, and the few acres in Shanksville, PA - as opposed to the huge expanse of destruction involving most of metropolitan New Orleans, and then hundreds of miles along the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, Alabama and northwest Florida. I did much of my growing up in Alexandria, VA a few miles from the Pentagon, and when we lived in NYC I watched them build the Twin Towers within sight of our house. Shanksville, PA, the crash site of United 93, captained by Jason Dahl, was about 30 miles from our home in Morgantown, WV. It all feels so close. On our charter flight across Europe on November 5, we all bought charitable raffle tickets, the proceeds of which went to the Captain Jason Dahl Scholarship Fund, to support promising aviation students, as Captain Dahl himself was funded in his education to become a pilot. Still, judging from the comments I hear made casually, the extent of the Gulf Coast disaster is unimaginable to those who do not know the area very well. I used to drive Highway 90 regularly as a teen-ager, between my home in New Orleans, and my grandparents' home near Lillian, Alabama outside Pensacola, Florida. I'd visit my aunt and uncle and cousins in Gulfport and Biloxi, Mississippi along the way. I'm glad to see the photos of what is now being resurrected along the old highway 90, but I can't look too much, as it is too difficult for me. You all may want to watch the video "The Katrina Myth" on that website as well. I can't watch it, but I'm pretty sure I know what it says - Katrina was a man-made disaster (my dad and I watched the building and opening of MRGO back in the 60's in horror, knowing it would lead to this), and it is waiting to happen again, and not just in Gulf Coast LA/MS. So True or False: Trips down memory Lane can be harmful to your mental health.
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Post by booklady on Nov 21, 2009 13:57:44 GMT -5
In my opinion, that's sometimes true. As Scarlett O'Hara said, "Don't look back, Ashley. It drags on your heart until you can't do anything but look back." But bad stuff also needs to be grieved, or it just subconsciously pulls you down.
And I learned that children need constant trips down memory lane just in the form of families sitting around talking about what so-and-so did "that time" and the "remember when we..." kind of thing. It helps gel their memories of their childhoods, which is so important to their sense self, place, and history.
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Post by booklady on Nov 21, 2009 13:59:09 GMT -5
I can easily separate somebody else's personal worth from their physical capacity. I'm not always successful when making self-evaluations.
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Post by BoatBabe on Nov 24, 2009 10:28:23 GMT -5
I can easily separate somebody else's personal worth from their physical capacity. I'm not always successful when making self-evaluations. Now, That's a true statement, BL! True or False: An appropriate outfit to wear at a "Pilgrims 'N Indians, 1050s Style" Thanksgiving dinner is a turquoise psychedelic-patterned tunic, black leggings and turquoise stilettos.
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