A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....Hall of Fame #18

A Few of FR's Finest archives | January 9, 2007 | Billie

[Billie]

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day

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We're having fun and hope you are!
~ Billie, Dutchess, DollyCali, GodBlessUSA, Aquamarine ~

Thank you to all our Hall of Famers and to all of you who have become part of our Finest Family ... as regular contributors and supporters who drop in every day to say hello.  We wouldn't be here without you. : )

It's been FOUR AND A HALF YEARS and we're still having fun. Hope you are. As promised, for your information and perusal, here is our 18th "Hall of Fame" - a list of all our threads from the very beginning ... from Monday, June 24, 2002, through the New Year's Weekend, January 01, 2007.

"Getting to Know You"

Previous Hall of Fame Threads

09-23-02 .................................. HALL OF FAME #1
12-31-02 .................................. HALL OF FAME #2
03-24-03 .................................. HALL OF FAME #3
06-25-03 .................................. HALL OF FAME #4
09-30-03 .................................. HALL OF FAME #5
12-30-03 .................................. HALL OF FAME #6
03-23-04 .................................. HALL OF FAME #7
06-29-04 .................................. HALL OF FAME #8
09-28-04 .................................. HALL OF FAME #9
12-29-04 .................................. HALL OF FAME #10
03-29-05 .................................. HALL OF FAME #11
06-28-05 .................................. HALL OF FAME #12
09-27-05 .................................. HALL OF FAME #13
12-28-05 .................................. HALL OF FAME #14
03-28-06 .................................. HALL OF FAME #15
07-01-06 .................................. HALL OF FAME #16
10-01-06 .................................. HALL OF FAME #17

October 2006

10-02-06 ......................................................MILITARY MONDAY
10-03-06 ............................................................OKTOBERFEST
10-04-06.........................................WARM FUZZY WEDNESDAY
10-05-06 ...................................................JOHNHUANG ESSAY
10-06,07,08-06 ........................................T.G.I.F. AT THE FINEST
10-09-06 ......................................................MILITARY MONDAY
10-10-06......................DOGGIE TAILS -WHY DOGS BITE (reprise)
10-11-06..........................................WARM FUZZY WEDNESDAY
10-12-06 ....................................................JOHNHUANG ESSAY
10-13,14,15-06 ......................................T.G.I.F. AT THE FINEST
10-16-06 ......................................................MILITARY MONDAY
10-17-06............................................................AUTUMN BIRDS
10-18-06.........................................WARM FUZZY WEDNESDAY
10-19-06 ...................................................JOHNHUANG ESSAY
10-20,21,22-06 ........................................T.G.I.F. AT THE FINEST
10-23-06 ......................................................MILITARY MONDAY
10-24-06 ..................................................AUTUMN SPLENDOR
10-25-06 .......................................WARM FUZZY WEDNESDAY
10-26-06 ... ................................................CAT TAILS - LIGERS
10-27,28,29-06........................................T.G.I.F. AT THE FINEST
10-30-06 ......................................................MILITARY MONDAY
10-31-06 .....................PUMPKIN PARADE: HALLOWEEN 2006

November 2006

11-01-06.........................................WARM FUZZY WEDNESDAY
11-02-06.....................................................JOHNHUANG ESSAY
11-03,04,05-06 ........................................T.G.I.F. AT THE FINEST
11-06-06 .......................................................MILITARY MONDAY
11-07-06................................................I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE
11-08-06.........................................WARM FUZZY WEDNESDAY
11-09-06....................................................JOHNHUANG ESSAY
11-10,11,12-06................................VETERAN'S DAY WEEKEND
11-13-06 ......................................................MILITARY MONDAY
11-14-06.....................................HOLLYWOOD'S FINEST DAYS
11-15-06.........................................WARM FUZZY WEDNESDAY
11-16--06....................................................JOHNHUANG ESSAY.
11-17,18,19-06........................................T.G.I.F. AT THE FINEST
11-20-06 .....................................................MILITARY MONDAY
11-21-06 .......................................THANKFUL TO BE THANKFUL
11-22-06 ........................................WARM FUZZY WEDNESDAY
11-23,24,25,26-06...............................................THANKSGIVING
11-27-06 ......................................................MILITARY MONDAY
11-28-06.......................................................MILITARY TRIBUTE
11-29-06.........................................WARM FUZZY WEDNESDAY
11-30-06...................................................JOHNHUANG ESSAY

December 2006

12-01,02,03-06......................................T.G.I.F. AT THE FINEST
12-04-06.....................................................MILITARY MONDAY
12-05-06...........................................DECK THE HALLS, YA'LL
12-06-06.......................................WARM FUZZY WEDNESDAY
12-07-06.................................................JOHN HUANG ESSAY
12-08,09,10-06.......................................T.G.I.F. AT THE FINEST
12-11-06............,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,..MILITARY MONDAY
12-12-06................................................CHRISTMAS MUSIC
12-13-06.......................................WARM FUZZY WEDNESDAY
12-14-06...................................................JOHNHUANG ESSAY
12-15,16,17-06 ......................................T.G.I.F. AT THE FINEST
12-18-06........ .............................................MILITARY MONDAY
12-19-06 ..............FINEST CHRISTMAS POETRY & POTPOURRI
12-20-06 ......................................WARM FUZZY WEDNESDAY
12-21-06 ...................................................LET US ADORN YOU
12-22,23,24,25-06 .....POLAR EXPRESS - CHRISTMAS WKEND
12-26-06 ..............................MILITARY MONDAY ON TUESDAY
12-27-06 ......................................WARM FUZZY WEDNESDAY
12-28-06 ............................................PET DAY AT THE FINEST
12-29-06 THRU 01-01-07 .....A FINEST NEW YEARS WEEKEND

We're Here Because of You.

10-01-06 ~ Hall of Fame #17

THIS WEEK'S THREADS 01-08-07 Military Monday

Opinions by our own 'King of Ping' Every Thursday at the Finest The guy's good, folks!

[MEG33]

*We'll Play!*

[Texagirl4W]

Just lovely, Billie. Happy New Year, I don't think I spoke to you yet this year,

[Billie]

RAVENS RULE!

Hi, Anne - I guess if you say so. :)

[MEG33]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1763394/posts

Our 1st Quarter '07 FReepathon is now Underway! .. Thread 2
Click here to donate ^ | Jan 6, 2007

[Anne of DC]

Indeed I do! ;o)

[beachn4fun]

Yipeeeee!

[Billie]

I was going to suggest that we do something different today, since the Hall of Fame threads are usually very light threads, participation-wise, but didn't get that posted.

What I thought is for everyone to go and click on one of the links of the threads listed in the opening, grab a graphic from the OPENING POST ONLY (not comments) of that thread, and post it here, with a note about it - date & title of thread. K? Anyone game?

[Diver Dave]

Mornin' Billie. 4 1/2 eh?

Methinks this milestone calls for a pay raise all the FR's Finest Staff. :)

[DollyCali]

JOKES FOR THE OLDER CROWD (ahem)

A distraught senior citizen phoned her doctor's office.
"Is it true," she wanted to know,
"that the medication you prescribed has
to be taken for the rest of my life?"
"Yes, I'm afraid so," the doctor told her.
There was a moment of silence before the senior lady replied,
"I'm wondering, then, just how serious is my condition
because this prescription is marked 'NO REFILLS'."

@


An older Jewish gentleman was on the operating table
awaiting surgery and he insisted that his son,
a renowned surgeon, perform the operation.
As he was about to get the anesthesia
he asked to speak to his son.
"Yes, Dad, what is it?"
"Don't be nervous, son;
do your best and just remember, if it doesn't go well,
if something happens to me .
your mother is going to come
and live with you and your wife.

.."
@


Aging: Eventually you will reach a point when you
stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.


@-


Some people try to turn back their odometers.
Not me, I want people to know "why" I look this way.
I've traveled a long way and some of the
roads weren't paved.


@---


When you are dissatisfied and would
like to go back to youth, think of Algebra.


@


You know you are getting old when everything
either dries up or leaks.


@


I don't know how I got over the hill
without getting to the top.


@


One of the many things no one tells you about aging
is that it is such a nice change from being young.


@


Ah, being young is beautiful,
but being old is comfortable.


@


Old age is when former classmates are so gray
and wrinkled and bald, they don't recognize you.


@


If you don't learn to laugh at trouble,
you won't have anything to laugh at when you are old.


@


First you forget names, then you
forget faces. Then you forget to pull up your zipper.
It's worse when you forget to pull it down.



@


The famous Olympic skier Picabo Street (pronounced Peek-A-Boo) is not just an athlete....she is now a nurse currently working at the Intensive Care Unit of a large metropolitan hospital. She is not permitted to answer the
hospital telephones. It caused too much confusion when she would answer the phone and say,

Picabo, ICU


@


Two old guys are pushing their carts around Wal-Mart
when they collide. The first old guy says to the
second guy, "Sorry about that. I'm looking for my
wife, and I guess I wasn't paying attention to where I
was going."

The second old guy says, "That's OK, It's a
coincidence. I'm looking for my wife, too. I can't
find her and I'm getting a little desperate."

The first old guy says, "Well, maybe I can help you
find her. What does she look like?"

The second old guy says: "Well, she is 27 yrs old,
tall, with red hair, blue eyes, long legs, big bust,
and is wearing short shorts. What does your wife look
like?"

To which the first old guy says, "Doesn't matter,
--- let's look for yours."



@



When I got home last night,
my wife demanded that I take her out to some place expensive.
So I took her to a gas station!!!!!!!

@

[beachn4fun]

Anne, he sounds ok, but I checked out Duncan Hunter (he's poll is at the bottom of the Ping Page). I like the sound of him better.

[Billie]

thanks for doing all this work to keep us organized Billie!
great pledge & each time see it I comment how much i like the corduroy looking background in table.
snow falling here..terrible loss for the Buckeyes last night. The Gators clearly outplayed us & with a lot of class.

Thanks, Dolly! You're always so complimentary. :)

Sorry about the Buckeyes - I just don't follow football, so I never know who's doing what or how well they're doing.

[beachn4fun]

Here's one I got in email:

One day a fourth-grade teacher asked the children what their fathers did for a living. All the typical answers came up - fireman, mechanic, businessman, salesman, doctor, lawyer, and so forth.

However, little Justin was being uncharacteristically quiet, so when the teacher prodded him about his father, he replied, "My father's an exotic dancer in a gay cabaret and takes off all his clothes in front of other men and they put money in his underwear. Sometimes, if the offer is really good, he will go home with some guy and stay with him all night for money."

The teacher, obviously shaken by this statement, hurriedly set the other children to work on some exercises and then took little Justin aside to ask him, "Is that really true about your father?"

"No," the boy said, "He works for the Democratic National Committee and is helping to get Hillary Clinton to be our next President, but I was too embarrassed to say that in front of the other kids."

[DollyCali]

GREAT IDEA.. I have already been to many of the threads(instead of cleaning...big choice)

Possible "caption": I'll tell you a secret if you don't eat me"

This was one of the "take an email & make a thread" ideas I got from you Billie. From my Ligers thread.

[Texagirl4W]

These are great. I had never read any of them.

[Billie]

A nice way to start the morning. You do such a beautiful job on the graphics!

Hi, sage. Thank you so much, and I'm glad you came by. We've tried to keep all our threads easy to find from the very beginning, and this seems to be the best way to keep them archived since the FR Search Archives function has been broke for way too long.

Hope you come back again.

[DollyCali]

thanks.. actually it was an email just received but I had seen many of them prior in other mailings. A few new ones. I left one out that I didn't think was THAT funny(or maybe I didn't understand it)

[MEG33]

OktoberFest October 3, 2006 | Billie This was fun..with several of us manning "booths".

[Billie]

Hi, Bob - cute poem! I recognize the tables (my TGIF Wear Red) and the graphic - Hello, Dolly! :)

Remember this one?

[Billie]

Good Morning Billie Thank you :) This is lovely. I'll enjoy revisiting these threads today.

Thanks, GeeBee! Morning! How's everything going with your after-the-move-cleanup? :)

[Billie]

Good morning, Rus. Thank you for morning coffee and daily scripture.