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Posted on 12/16/2005 4:43:32 PM PST by scott7278
The ***OFFICIAL*** Friday/Saturday Night Singles' Thread Ping.
That's really cool!
I was bored one Sunday morning, and did an internet search (maybe even before Google ruled the net) on...what? Something... Wound up reading a FR thread on the boys who died on the railroad tracks in Arkansas... I was hooked from then on.
I guess this was back in 98 or 99.
Gas was briefly under a dollar a gallon in those days, crude down around $13 I think. Is that right? I know it was less than $25.
And thank you!
Glad you joined the thread -- welcome!
Those were the good old days but I remember whrn there were gas wars and you would drive down the street and the gas stations would be lowering prices left and right
This Day In History | General Interest
VALENTINO DIES:
August 23, 1926
Well, that figures.
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I joined during the Andy Stephenson fiasco documented in the DUmmie Funnies. Had been lurking the previous 6 months.
I joined FR one year and one day ago, 12/15/04, forget how I found this place though. The first post I read was the longest zot thread(35,000 and counting).
I joined in May of this year. I had been a lurker for a long time, and just up and decided to join. No real fancy story or reason.
1) "When and why did you join Free Republic?"
I originally signed up under a different name, but I can't remember what it was for the life of me. I joined again on Dec. 11th, 2002 because FR was the premier news forum -- and it still is!
2) "What was going on at the time?" (Top movies, favorite song(s), price of gas, etc.)
#1 Song -- "Complicated" by Avril Lavigne
#2 Song -- "Can't Get You Out of My Head" by Kylie Minogue
#3 Song -- "Hey Baby" by No Doubt
#4 Song -- "Come What May" by Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor
#5 Song -- "Soak Up The Sun" - Sheryl Crow
#6 Song -- "Your Body Is A Wonderland" - John Mayer
#7 Song -- "Don't Let Me Get Me" - Pink
#8 Song -- "Dilemma" - Nelly f/ Kelly Rowland
#9 Song -- "Game Of Love" - Santana f/ Michelle Branch
#10 Song -- "No Such Thing" - John Mayer
3) "What happened on that day in history?"
Old West -- December 11th, 1872 -- Buffalo Bill Cody makes his first stage appearance (from "This Day in History")
Already appearing as a well-known figure of the Wild West in popular dime novels, Buffalo Bill Cody makes his first stage appearance on this day, in a Chicago-based production of The Scouts of the Prairie.
Unlike many of his imitators in Wild West shows and movies, William Frederick Cody actually played an important role in the western settlement that he later romanticized and celebrated. Born in Iowa in 1846, Cody joined the western messenger service of Majors and Russell as a rider while still in his teens. He later rode for the famous Pony Express, during which time he completed the third longest emergency ride in the brief history of that company. During the Civil War, Cody joined forces with a variety of irregular militia groups supporting the North. In 1864, he enlisted in the Union army as a private and served as a cavalry teamster until 1865.
Cody began to earn his famous nickname in 1867, when he signed on to provide buffalo meat for the workers of the Eastern Division of the Union Pacific Railroad construction project. His reputation for skilled marksmanship and experience as a rapid-delivery messenger attracted the attention of U.S. Army Lieutenant General Philip Sheridan, who gave Cody an unusual four-year position as a scout-a testament to Cody's extraordinary frontier skills.
Cody's work as a scout in the western Indian wars laid the foundation for his later fame. From 1868 to 1872, he fought in 16 battles with Indians, participating in a celebrated victory over the Cheyenne in 1869. One impressed general praised Cody's "extraordinarily good services as trailer and fighter . . . his marksmanship being very conspicuous." Later, Cody again gained national attention by serving as a hunting guide for famous Europeans and Americans eager to experience a bit of the "Wild West" before it disappeared. As luck would have it, one of Cody's customers was Edward Judson, a successful writer who penned popular dime novels under the name Ned Buntline. Impressed by his young guide's calm competence and stories of dramatic fights with Indians, Buntline made Cody the hero of a highly imaginative Wild West novel published in 1869. When a stage version of the novel debuted in Chicago as The Scouts of the Prairie, Buntline convinced Cody to abandon his real-l!
ife western adventures to play a highly exaggerated version of himself in the play.
Once he had a taste of the performing life, Cody never looked back. Though he continued to spend time scouting or guiding hunt trips in the West, Cody remained on the Chicago stage for the next 11 years. Buffalo Bill Cody was the hero of more than 1,700 variant issues of dime novels, and his star shone even more brightly when his world-famous Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show debuted in 1883. The show was still touring when Buffalo Bill Cody died in 1917.
Well, I'm glad you're here.
I don't remember the day specifically.
I spent all of election night on FR. I was going back and forth from there, to Yahoo!, while watching Fox News.
What a night that was.
Glad you found the thread -- I had you down as darkangle182, then darkangel182. Now I know the truth!
I don't even know how I found it but I was sooooo glad to find a web site with like minded people I could talk with during the wild and crazy 2000 election!
ok a trip down memory lane
Chronology of Presidential Election
By The Associated Press
2000
Nov. 8 — The networks project that Texas Gov. George W. Bush won Florida, and consequently the White House. Vice President Al Gore telephones him to concede at about 3 a.m. EST, only to retract the call about an hour later because Bush's slim margin of victory in Florida triggers an automatic recount.
Nov. 9 — Gore campaign chairman William Daley says Gore will seek a hand recount of the ballots cast in Palm Beach, Miami-Dade, Broward and Volusia counties - about 1.8 million votes.
Nov. 11 — Bush's attorneys file suit in U.S. District Court to block Gore's request for manual recounts.
Nov. 13 — A Miami federal judge rejects Bush's request for an order barring hand recounts; Bush later appeals. The Volusia County Canvassing Board sues to extend the state's Nov. 14 deadline for counties to submit election returns to Secretary of State Katherine Harris.
Nov. 17 — Florida Supreme Court prohibits Harris from certifying results - as she had planned to do Nov. 18 - until further notice. An Atlanta federal appeals court refuses to block manual recounts in Broward and Palm Beach counties. Local Democrats sue the Seminole County Canvassing Board in state court over disputed absentee ballot applications.
Nov. 21 — Florida Supreme Court rules that manual recounts may continue and that those votes must be included in the final tally. Court sets as deadline for certifying the election Nov. 26, a Sunday, or early Nov. 27.
Nov. 24 — U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear Bush's appeal on the legality the Florida Supreme Court's decision to allow recounts and extend state deadline for certification.
Nov. 26 — Harris certifies election results, giving Bush a 537-vote victory over Gore.
Nov. 27 — Gore contests results in Miami-Dade, Nassau and Palm Beach counties in Leon County Circuit Court.
Nov. 28 — Gore and Bush file briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court. Leon County Circuit Judge N. Sanders Sauls orders about 14,000 disputed ballots from Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties brought to him in Tallahassee.
Nov. 29 — Bush's legal team ask Sauls to order all 1.1 million votes cast in Palm Beach and Miami-Dade sent to the state capital.
Nov. 30 — A Florida legislative committee recommends a special session to name the state's 25 representatives to the Electoral College, which elects the president.
Dec. 1 — U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments on Bush's appeal regarding recount deadline. Local Democrats file lawsuit accusing the Martin County Canvassing Board of mishandling absentee ballot applications. Florida Supreme Court refuses Gore's appeal to immediately start recounting ballots in his election challenge.
Dec. 2-3 — Sauls holds trial on Gore's election challenge.
Dec. 4 — U.S. Supreme Court returns for clarification the Florida Supreme Court's decision on recount deadlines. Sauls rejects Gore's election challenge.
Dec. 5 — U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta holds a hearing on Bush's request to stop manual recounts, which earlier was rejected by the U.S. District Court.
Dec. 6 — Separate trials on the Martin and Seminole county absentee ballot cases begin in Leon County Circuit Court. Florida's Republican legislative leaders call for special session to consider whether to appoint state's electors.
Dec. 7 — Florida Supreme Court hears Gore's appeal of Sauls' decision rejecting Gore's election challenge. Trials in Seminole and Martin county cases conclude.
Dec. 8 — Florida Supreme Court rules for Gore, orders manual recounts to begin and adds 383 votes to his total. Two Leon County Circuit Court judges refuse to throw out any of the 25,000 absentee ballots challenged in Martin and Seminole counties. Florida Legislature opens in special session. Bush campaign appeals to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta and the U.S. Supreme Court to halt the manual recounts.
Dec. 9 — Manual counts resume in the morning. The 11th Circuit refuses to take up the case. The U.S. Supreme Court narrowly rules to halt manual recounts pending Dec. 11 arguments. Hand counts cease in late afternoon.
Dec. 11 —Bush and Gore lawyers argue before U.S. Supreme Court. House and Senate committees of the Florida Legislature approve resolution naming a slate of electors loyal to Bush.
Dec. 12 — U.S. Supreme Court reverses Florida's court-ordered recount of presidential election ballots, ruling that varying standards for counting made the effort unlawful. A 5-4 majority says there is no time to conduct a lawful recount. Some Democrats call for Gore to concede. The Florida House of Representatives votes to certify a slate of electors for Bush.
Dec. 13 — Gore says in nationally broadcast speech that he accepts Bush as the 43rd president; Bush pledges to deliver reconciliation and unity to a divided nation in his acceptance speech. The Florida Senate - scheduled to vote on a resolution certifying electors for Bush - recesses instead.
Dec. 18 — Electoral College representatives meet in state capitals nationwide to select the nation's 43rd president.
2001
Jan. 5 (tentative) — Joint session of Congress officially tallies Electoral College results, which require a majority in the House and Senate for approval.
Jan. 20 — Inauguration Day.
How's school?
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