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2009-05-31 
Good morning
Posted by Fred 2009-05-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ]  Top

#1 Where do I enlist? Great shot Fred. I hope your recovery is going well.
Posted by Richard of Oregon 2009-05-31 00:12||   2009-05-31 00:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Happy Birthday: May 31st

Elaine Stewart - 80 "Elsy Steinberg" (Now?)

Clint Eastwood - 79 "Do you feel lucky punk - For Barbara" (Now)

Jim Hutton - died 1979 (45) "Where the Boys Are"

Johnny Paycheck - died 2003 (64) "Take This Job and Shove It"

Sharon Gless - 66 "Cagney & Lacey" (Now)

Joe Namath -66 "Broadway Joe" (Now)

Bernard Goldberg 64 "Slobbering Love Affair" (Now)

Tom Berenger - 60 "Platoon" (Now)

Lea Thompson - 48 "Marty McFly's mother" (Now)

Brooke Shields - 44 "For Fred's Nekkid as an egg collection" (Now)

On this day in history: May 31st.
1279 BC – Rameses II (The Great) (19th dynasty) becomes pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. (Invented the condom)
1678 – The Godiva procession through Coventry begins.(Nekkid as and egg)
1859 – Big Ben Starts keeping time.
1889 – Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam break sends a 60-foot wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
1911 – R.M.S. Titanic launched.
1916 – Battle of Jutland – The British Grand Fleet under the command of Sir John Jellicoe & Sir David Beatty engage the Kaiserliche Marine under the command of Reinhard Scheer & Franz von Hipper in the largest naval battle of the war, which proves indecisive.
1927 – The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
1971 – In accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1968, observation of Memorial Day occurs on the last Monday in May for the first time, rather than on the traditional Memorial Day of May 30.
1973 – The United States Senate votes to cut off funding for the bombing of Khmer Rouge targets within Cambodia, hastening the end of the Cambodian Civil War. (Hastening the death of millions)
1977 – The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System completed.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-05-31 01:06||   2009-05-31 01:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Aunt Samantha wants you



Eyes Right!

I think she's French

This will get you up in the morning. (DGS)

Raise the gangway

Run it up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes.

Atten Hut

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-05-31 02:48||   2009-05-31 02:48|| Front Page Top

#4 
Betcha can't watch just one minute.
(Better cover the kids' eyes. And ears.)
Posted by gorb 2009-05-31 03:13||   2009-05-31 03:13|| Front Page Top

#5 That Army Gal ("Atten Hut") better watch where she's going. She can poke somebody's eye out if she isn't careful.
Posted by Frozen Al 2009-05-31 13:34||   2009-05-31 13:34|| Front Page Top

#6 "For Barbara"

Woo-hoo!

Thnx, GBUSMC. :-D
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2009-05-31 13:38||   2009-05-31 13:38|| Front Page Top

#7 Barbara:

You're welcome. I also left a treat for you on yesterdays Birthday post. I hope you'll share them with TW and anyone else that enjoys Beefcake.
Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-05-31 14:37||   2009-05-31 14:37|| Front Page Top

#8 Ooooh, presents! You are a darling, GolfBravoUSMC.
Posted by trailing wife 2009-05-31 22:58||   2009-05-31 22:58|| Front Page Top

#9 They DEFINITELY didn't waste time on political correctness then, did they? :)
Posted by European Conservative 2009-05-31 23:16||   2009-05-31 23:16|| Front Page Top

#10 I don't waste much time on it now, EC. ;-p
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2009-05-31 23:30||   2009-05-31 23:30|| Front Page Top

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