Posted on 03/25/2005 9:43:51 PM PST by snippy_about_it
Good morning, snippy and everyone at the Foxhole.
Morning Snippy.
Morning AZamericonnie.
Nice poster and good message
Morning Aeronaut.
Morning E.G.C.
Supposed to get hit with the Pinapple express this weekend, heavy wind and rains. :-(
good morning
Hi Sam.
Good morning, folks. Gonna update Norton in just a moment. It's cloudy and cool this morning. Rain in the forecast for today.
Hull number 194 -- the USS Taylor was my dad's ship. I went to a reunion last summer and met four plank holders (Members of the commissioning crew). It was great!
Back at ya the lovely and gracious Ms. bentfeather, Saturday Humor Bump for the Freeper Foxhole
A St. Paul construction site boss was interviewing men for a job, when along
came a Norwegian. I'm not hiring any Norwegians, the foreman thought to
himself, so he made up a test to avoid hiring the Norwegian without getting
into an argument.
"Here's your first question," the foreman said. "Without using numbers,
represent the number 9."
"Without numbers?" The Norwegian says. "Dat is easy," and proceeds to draw
three trees.
"What's this?" the boss asks.
"'Ave you got no brain? Tree and tree and tree make nine," says the Norwegian.
"Fair enough," says the boss. "Here is your second question. Use the same
rules, but this time the number is 99."
The Norwegian stares into space for a while, then picks up the picture that
he has just drawn and makes a smudge on each tree.
"'Ere you go."
The boss scratches his head and says, "How on earth do you get that to
represent 99?"
"Each of da trees is dirty now! So it's dirty tree, and dirty tree, and
dirty tree. Dat is 99."
The boss is getting worried he's going to have to hire this Norwegian, so he
says, "All right, last question. Same rules again, but represent the number
100."
The Norwegian stares into space some more, then he picks up the picture
again and makes a little mark at the base of each tree, and says, "Ere you
go. One hundred."
The boss looks at the attempt. "You must be nuts if you think that
represents a hundred!" The Norwegian leans forward and points to the marks
at the base of each tree, and says, "A little dog come along and crap by
each tree. So now you got dirty tree and a turd, dirty tree and a turd, and
dirty tree and a turd, which make one hundred. So when I start?"
"Monday."
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
I don't recall offhand, but wasn't the first of class Arleigh Burke built at Bath Ironworks?
I ain't snippy but you do recall correctly O Darksheare, lookie here amongst others
http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/factfile/ships/ship-dd.html
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on March 26:
1479 Vasili III great prince of Moscow (1505-33)/son of Ivan III
1516 Konrad von Gesner Zürich Switzerland, naturalist (Bibliotheca Universalis)
1753 Benjamin Thompson physicist(discovered that heat equaled motion, which led to the 2nd law of thermodynamics)/spy (American revolution) (Royal Institute of Great Britain, Woburn MA)
1773 Nathaniel Bowditch mathematician/astronomer/polyglot/author (Marine Sextant)
1813 Thomas West Sherman Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1879
1817 Herman Haupt Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1905
1840 George Smith London England, assyriologist (cuneiform (script))
1863 Henry Royce founder (Rolls-Royce Limited in 1884)
1868 Fuad I king of Egypt (1922-36)
1874 Robert Frost San Francisco CA, poet (Mending Wall, Road Not Taken)
1875 Syngman Rhee "President" of South Korea (1948-60)
1880 Duncan Hines US, restaurant guide writer (Out of Kentucky Kitchens)
1904 Joseph Campbell mythologist (Mythic Image)
1905 Viktor Emil Frankl pyschiatrist (Man's Search for Meaning)
1911 Tennessee Williams Columbus MS, dramatist (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
1914 William Westmoreland Saxon SC, army general (Vietnam era)
1917 Rufus Thomas Cayce MS, singer (Walking the Dog)
1919 Strother Martin Kokomo IN, actor (Cool Hand Luke)(What we have here is a failure to communicate)
1921 Peter Horsley CEO (Osprey Aviation)
1930 Sandra Day O'Connor El Paso TX, 1st woman Supreme Court Justice (1981- )
1931 Leonard Nimoy Boston MA, actor (Spock-Star Trek, Mission Impossible)
1934 Alan Arkin New York NY, actor (Catch 22, In-Laws, Simon, Wait Until Dark)
1934 Gino Cappelletti ORFU, AFL running back (AFL Player of Year 1964)
1937 Wayne Embry holder of 7 basketball records (Miami of Ohio)
1939 James Caan Bronx NY, actor (Brian's Song, Killer Elite, Godfather)
1940 Nancy Pelosi (Representative-Democrat-CA)
1942 Erica Jong [Mann] New York NY, author (Fear of Flying)
1943 Robert Woodward investigative reporter (Watergate, CIA crimes)
1944 Diana Ross [Earle] Detroit MI, (Supremes, Lady Sings the Blues, Mahogany)
1946 Johnny Crawford Los Angeles CA, actor (Mark-The Rifleman)
1948 Steven Tyler New York NY, rock vocalist (Dream On, Walk This Way, Aerosmith-Janie's Got a Gun)
1949 Vicki Lawrence Inglewood CA, actress (Carol Burnett Show, Mama's Family)
1950 Martin Short Hamilton Ontario, comedian (Saturday Night Live, SCTV, 3 Amigos)
1954 Curtis Sliwa founder (Guardian Angels)/radio personality (WABC)
1960 Marcus Allen NFL running back (Los Angeles Raiders, Kansas City Chiefs, Heisman 1981)
1962 Yuri Pavlovich Gidzenko Russia, Lieutenant-Colonel/cosmonaut
1969 Elizabeth Howell Clinton MS, Miss Mississippi-America (1990)
2233 James T Kirk captain of USS Enterprise (Star Trek)
Thanks!
Off to work I must go, I hear the sheetrock callingIt sounds like "O CRAP"
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
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