The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Battle of Glorieta Pass (March 26-29 1862) - Nov. 20th, 2003

National Park Service ^

[SAMWolf]

LOL! Bios Rejection?

[SAMWolf]

Hi Feather. I see you've had some Foxholers dropping in on your Poetry Thread.

The Dragon Flies' Lair IV

[SAMWolf]

Good Morning Colonel_Flagg.

Please keep us updated.

[Darksheare]

Yup.
Either that, or the machine has become destructively sentient.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Will do. Today is a good day. And that's all we can really ask for.

[SAMWolf]

1973 Allan Sherman songwriter ("Camp Granada"), dies

[Recite with the tune of "America The Beautiful" in the background]

I would like to explain how it came to pass that I got fat.

Ladies and gentlemen, I got fat as a public service. When I was a child, my mother said to me, "Clean the plate, because children are starving in Europe." And I might point out that that was years before the Marshall Plan was ever heard of. So I would clean the plate, four, five, six times a day, because somehow I felt that that would keep the children from starving in Europe. But I was wrong. They kept starving. And I got fat.

So I would like to say to every one of you who is either skinny or in some other way normal - when you walk out on the street, and you see a fat person, do not scoff at that fat person. Oh no! Take off your hat. Hold it over your heart. Lift your chin up high. And in a proud, happy voice say to him:

"Hail to thee, fat person! You kept us out of war!"

Allan Sherman

Totally Un-PC today, but I loved this one by Alan Sherman.

[SAMWolf]

Thanks HiJinx. I learned about a new battle today. Never heard of this one.

The author of this article postulates that the locals weren't very particular about whose army claimed the territory as long as they promised to keep the Apaches at bay!

I can believe that premise, they had other problems out West besides worrying about the War back East. A lot of people went west to get away from the problems back East in the first place.

[Soaring Feather]

I see you've had some Foxholers dropping in on your Poetry Thread.

Yes, thank you Sam, and I am very pleased about it. :-)

[Valin]

Well I know some people who are ALL they can to keep the peace. :-)

[SAMWolf]

"Resistance is futile...."

[snippy_about_it]

Good morning Colonel. Good news brightens the day.

[snippy_about_it]

1602 Otto von Guericke inventor (air pump)

This was important as I needed this invention to help keep my bicycle troops on the road. ;)

[snippy_about_it]

Thanks jinxy, I had no idea.

[SAMWolf]

My mom would tell us stories about trying to get enough food during the war and being a kid I always wondered how my eating would help a starving kid somewhere else. Never looked at the stories as a "be thankful that you have food" lesson.

[Darksheare]

100,000 Lemmings can't be wrong???
The Borg, the IRS of Star Trek.

[SAMWolf]

This was important as I needed this invention to help keep my bicycle troops on the road. ;)

ROTFLMAO!

[SAMWolf]

OH NO! It looks like Snippy's bicyclespankentruppen have come up with an up-gunned, up- armored, all terrain version!

[snippy_about_it]

Arrrgh. I can't see it until I get home. I don't understand the rhyme or reason why some sites are blocked from work and some not. Boo-hoo.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Looks to me like that's Michael Palin driving it, too. LOL

[w_over_w]

Morning Glory Snip & Sam~

Sibley probably faced insurmountable odds. Besides miscalculating Union strength and fortitude, he faced cold weather, barren dry landscape, and a New Mexico Hispanic population that viewed Confederate forces as thieves. Whenever, he detached small scouting units they fell victim to raiding Apaches.

Oh well, Sibley's dream of San Francisco becoming a West Coast "Atlanta" will never be realized. But we can dream! ;o)