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and entertain our troops and veterans and their families,
and is family friendly.
Posted on 08/24/2016 5:59:35 PM PDT by PROCON
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and entertain our troops and veterans and their families, and is family friendly.
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Peace On Earth
Purity of Essence
(Dr. Strangelove)
Previous obvious, and lately I have become disappointed in my fav actress. Before I added a tagline , someone thought it was submachinegun fan. Good night.
Many moons ago I was attending an award dinner for a friend in Buffalo. He won businessman of the year. I surprised him by being there and when he saw me in the audience he was surprised as I live on Grand Island. He pointed me out and said I see The Mayor of Grand Island is here, Of course I am not and never have been a mayor. But, I am so politically active and call out corruption where ever I see it, he nicknamed me The Mayor.
Sam died a few years back from cancer. I miss him, he was a great friend.
Wow, great patriotic lineage!
WMARSHAL - The name William Marshal sounds ordinary enough and could belong to any unremarkable Englishman. The chances are that you do not associate it with anyone of note. Yet William Marshal – or William the Marshal – was one of the greatest men ever to have lived and arguably the greatest ever Englishman.
Although inexplicably omitted from schoolroom history he has a dozen claims to fame. He unhorsed Richard, the future King Richard I, the Lionheart, in battle and spared his life. He loyally served five Plantagenate kings, including Richard his erstwhile enemy, who had the sense to recognise Marshal’s qualities.
He defeated over 500 opponents in single combat, knighted two kings, ruled England as Regent, beat a powerful French army on English soil, saved the kingdom of England, and earned the respect of Europe. He was called “The Flower of Chivalry”. Stephen Langton, the Archbishop of Canterbury, described him as the “greatest knight that ever lived”. Every king and great nobleman in Europe had an officer called a marshal, but by the time of his death in 1219 the whole of Europe knew William as “The Marshal.
He also went on Crusade and killed a lot of Muslim fanatics.
http://www.medievalwarfare.info/marshal.htm
FR is THE forum :-)
Jan in PA. janipa -because it sounded better. But unbeknownst to me, it is an Indonesian surname. No longer in PA, tho.
I’m half German and half Macedonian. That means I’m orderly and methodical about harboring my grudges.
Political pollster? Boring? Heck no, you need to be shot! :-)
This is terrible but...
My Christian name is Hugh.
The rest would be obvious in person.
Thomas Sumter, one of the heroes of the Revolutionary War, was nicknamed the "Carolina Gamecock" based on his reputation as a fierce warrior.
The Gamecock is the mascot of my alma mater, THE University of South Carolina
And All-American!
Most people in NJ live near an exit —— either on the Turnpike or the Garden State Parkway. Ergo -— Exit148.
You got a problem with that??
I was inebriated. The keyboard won.
I thought Arizona had an open-season on demorats? :-)
My son was in Iraq when I finally stopped lurking and signed up at FR. He was a Screaming Eagle, 101st Airborne, hence, SE Mom.
“Breaker 19 yarddog, I hear ya lima charlie.”
LUV W
Nuff said. :)
Cool thread!
I worked in the hotel business for a number of years: Hot. And my first name is: Kathleen. Kinda cute HotKat.
Being a bit of an electric guitar enthusiast, I used the nickname of Pete Townshend’s 100 watt, plexiglass-paneled Marshall amplifier.
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