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Posted on 10/29/2004 8:10:35 AM PDT by JustAmy
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I am making my rounds today to say hi and see how everyone is holding up!
Thank y'all for the precious poem and graphic!
Morning Amy....great graphic by Billie.
Good morning, all! Today is:
Republic Day (Turkey)
Frankenstein Friday
The Internet's Birthday
They could be related.
(Moved by PAL to today's thread.)
Way to go Amy in having your own continous thread. Memory serves me right, you were the first freeper I had contact with through the web (eventhough I had lurked from a Drudge link for a long time), back in the Klamath Basin Crisis days! From a distance you've been one of my favorite Freeperettes - keep up the great work!
Frankenstein Day
There are three known "days', and as a result, a little confusion. We have Frankenstein Friday, National Frankenstein Day, and Frankenstein Day.
Frankenstein Day is on August 30. This day is in honor of author Mary Wollenstone Shelly who was born on August 30,1797. She wrote the book "Frankenstein "in 1818. This day in in honor of her birth.
Frankenstein Friday is the Friday before Halloween. We traced some references to it back to a website on Frankenberry cereal, which suggests a commercial origin. Origin and details unknown.
National Frankenstein Day Google posts this as October 29th. We have not been able to verify that this as a true National Day.
Are you still confused? Then, do what we do and celebrate all three days!
Great pic!
Awesome graphic. Billie's got the touch.
A spat over Islamic garb marred a celebration of the Turkish republic's anniversary on Wednesday.
By Nicholas Birch | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
ISTANBUL – Wednesday was supposed to be the day Turks celebrated the heritage of Kemal Atatürk, the resistance hero who 80 years ago dragged his people from the wreckage of the Ottoman Empire into secular republican modernity. Instead, it degenerated into a squabble, nominally over women's clothing, that had more to do with what it is to be modern in this mainly Muslim country straddling two continents and two civilizations.
As always with the most serious quarrels, this one began with a trifle - the president's annual party.
While foreign diplomats and opposition lawmakers - pillars of Turkey's Westernized and staunchly pro-secular elite - were invited to bring their spouses, male members of the conservative Justice and Development Party (AKP) were asked to leave their wives at home.
The reason? Most wear head scarves, legally forbidden in universities and public offices around the country. AKP deputies were far from alone in deploring the president's decision. But he had his supporters, too. "[Government supporters] claim this decision is against human rights and democracy," fumes Gulay Ertekin, who sells insurance in Istanbul. "Hypocrites! What's so democratic about the theocratic state they're trying to introduce?"
More at:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1031/p08s02-woeu.html
Good morning, She Lion.
With all of the election threads, it is difficult to spend very much time at Amy's. I've been featuring some of the Welcome Graphics and Poems from past threads. :)
FResno FReepers will be joining a couple of other groups tonight for a Pro-Bush/Support our Troops Rally. We are expecting a nice crowd. We have heard that Veterans for Bush will be there, as will some people from the local Republican Party.
Hope you are having a fabulous Friday and are looking forward to a wonderful weekend.
If he had a MUCH bigger chin he'd look like John Kerry.
WHAT BOTHERS FRANKENSTEIN?
Frankenstein doesn't mind...
Nails in his neck,
Screws in his toes,
Rain on his brain,
Or ill fitting clothes,
Big iron shoes,
Socks full of muck,
A zipper in his neck that always gets stuck,
Stiches, staples, grease and glue,
Skin thats greenish greyish blue.
But there is one thing that bugs him
One thing that never fails...
Scratching the black board with his finger nails.
-- Sara Hassan
Mornin', everybody ! Happy Friday! TGIF!!
4 days until President Bush is re-elected! :^D
Have a cup while you Freep !
By Dan Lee
Mercury News
The Internet's first baby steps began in Leonard Kleinrock's UCLA lab 35 years ago today.
The young computer science professor's team had networked its computer with one at the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park. The plan was for UCLA to send the letters ``L-O-G'' and for SRI to answer back with ``I-N.'' The system crashed with the message reading just ``L-O.''
When a later attempt worked, UCLA graduate student Charley Kline's made a note in the lab's log book: ``Talked to SRI host to host.''
The test brought little fanfare. But Kleinrock knew that communicating over computer networks could change the world.
More here:
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/technology/10045262.htm?1c
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