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2011-09-29 
Good morning
Posted by Fred 2011-09-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top

#1 Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot

Greer Garson aka Mrs. Kay Miniver in " Mrs. Miniver" aka Katherine Chipping in "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" aka Edna Kahly Gladney in "Blossoms in the Dust" aka Marie Curie in "Madame Curie" aka Susie "Sparrow" Parkington in "Mrs. Parkington" aka Mary Rafferty in "The Valley of Decision" aka Eleanor Roosevelt in "Sunrise at Campobello" Note: She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in every picture listed, winning for her performance in Mrs. Miniver. (age 92)



Women Who Bathe
Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2011-09-29 02:09||   2011-09-29 02:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Picayune, from French picaillon, meaning ‘old copper coin,’ originally referred to a coin of little value in Louisiana, especially New Orleans. The word is first recorded in 1804. “Near the green,” the dictionary quotes from 1819, “is a horizontal fandango of four wooden horses. . . . Upon these, children canter and circulate for exercise, by paying a half-bit, here called a pécune.” Picayune “belonged” to Louisiana throughout the nineteenth century, but by now, of course, picayune is a more common adjective meaning ‘of little or no account or value.’
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2011-09-29 13:21||   2011-09-29 13:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Pic of Peggy from "Gun Crazy".

The ORIGINAL "Gun Crazy", not the picayune remake with Drew Barrymore "acting"...
Posted by mojo 2011-09-29 14:41||   2011-09-29 14:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Thus a perfect name for New Orleans' remaining newspaper. Also a neat way of demonstrating the difference between worth and cost.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-09-29 15:23||   2011-09-29 15:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Never thought the WOT needed a Pedants Corner, but there you have it in the best of style.
Posted by Rhodesiafever 2011-09-29 19:30||   2011-09-29 19:30|| Front Page Top

#6 Just my .02.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-09-29 19:34||   2011-09-29 19:34|| Front Page Top

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