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Grand Old Problem: Where Was GOP Born?
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| May 1, 2004
Posted on 04/30/2004 11:55:34 PM PDT by Leroy S. Mort
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``Michigan is the birthplace of many 'firsts' - first automobile, first cereal flakes, first hockey player to score career 700 goals (Gordie Howe) - and, yes, first place the Republican Party convened,'' said Granholm, a Democrat. Earth to Jennifer: Gordie Howe was born in Floral, Sasketchewan.
To: Leroy S. Mort
It was Ripon Wisconsin. One of the few good things to come out of Wisconsin.
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posted on
04/30/2004 11:59:26 PM PDT
by
cpprfld
(Who said accountants are boring?)
To: cpprfld
I live a half hour from Rippon. Not much going on there.
The rest of the state is solid Democrat.
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posted on
05/01/2004 12:03:16 AM PDT
by
afraid
To: cpprfld
"It was Ripon Wisconsin. One of the few good things to come out of Wisconsin."Excuse me? What about Harley Davidson motorcycles, Kohler bathroom fixtures, Jelly Bellys, the finest cheeses in the world, and Joseph McCarthy?
To: Leroy S. Mort
A silly question.
If a new political party is going to be viable it will coalesce from nascent cells that are widely distributed.
That of course is why the Green and the Constitutionalist and other parties haven't gotten off to a good start...they have at best just one solid birthplace, and only weak ties to communities elsewhere.
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posted on
05/01/2004 12:11:13 AM PDT
by
Triple Word Score
(Meretriciousness Everywhere.)
To: Honcho Bongs
the best football team in the history of football, the
Green Bay Packers.
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posted on
05/01/2004 12:14:36 AM PDT
by
smonk
To: Honcho Bongs; Catspaw
And THE GREEN BAY PACKERS!!!!!!!!!
To: smonk
Ditto that!!
To: Honcho Bongs
Excuse me? What about Harley Davidson motorcycles, Kohler bathroom fixtures, Jelly Bellys, the finest cheeses in the world, and Joseph McCarthy? All good jellybeans are from Wisconsin!! :) 
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posted on
05/01/2004 12:15:43 AM PDT
by
jellybean
(Official Custodian of the Word Gobsmacked!)
To: Leroy S. Mort
You mean it wasn't Ithaca, NY? I'm shocked, I tell ya'!
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posted on
05/01/2004 12:16:20 AM PDT
by
BykrBayb
(5 minutes of prayer for Terri, every day at 11 a.m. EDT, until she's safe.)
To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
I was going to add "and the best QB to ever pick up
a football, Brett Favre", but he's actually from
mississippi. I would bet that he wouldn't mind
very much, though.
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posted on
05/01/2004 12:20:20 AM PDT
by
smonk
To: Leroy S. Mort
Michigan is the birthplace of many 'firsts' - first automobile,
The first internal combustion automobile was built by the Benz brothers in Germany in 1885. The first automobile in America was built by the Duryea brothers in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1893. They formed the first automobile manufacturing corporation, Duryea Motor Wagon Company, in 1895.
To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
I love my Green Bay Packers (and yes, you can sing that)!
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posted on
05/01/2004 4:01:01 AM PDT
by
Catspaw
To: smonk
"the best football team in the history of football, the Green Bay Packers."
With all due respect, your post needs a minor correction:
the best football team in the history of football, the Green Bay Packers Chicago Bears.
As to Ripon, I've been to Ripon and it undoubtedly is the birthplace of the Republican Party. Green Lake is nice too. Now if the cheese-heads would just stop calling those from IL "F.I.B's" (who by the way keep Wisconsin's 3rd World economy going), we'd be onto something.
/sarcasm
(I really don't dislike Wisconsinites, just teasing. But the "FIB" thing's gotta go - very childish)
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posted on
05/01/2004 7:48:45 AM PDT
by
Condor51
("Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments." -- Frederick the Great)
To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
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posted on
05/01/2004 7:58:00 AM PDT
by
nicollo
To: Condor51
FIB? Is that like the term 'flatlander' or 'troll'(Yoopers term for those south of the bridge)?
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posted on
05/01/2004 10:29:10 AM PDT
by
Dan from Michigan
("The bigger they are, the harder they fall" - John L Sullivan)
To: nicollo
You belong here: Society of Automotive Historians
Yes, and I could document the 3 million Americans and tens of millions worldwide killed in the Automobile Holocaust.
To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
...the 3 million Americans and tens of millions worldwide killed in the Automobile Holocaust.
What, no /sarcasm tag?
I'm sure, of course, that you're similarly capable of documenting the "cigarette holocaust," the "high blood pressure holocaust," the "poverty holocaust," the "DDT holocaust," and all the other human stupidities that have directly or indirectly killed millions over the last century.
Can't you can do better than "automobile holocaust"?
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posted on
05/01/2004 10:57:39 PM PDT
by
nicollo
To: Honcho Bongs
And a massive amount of beer, my friend, along with the finest in German sausages!
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posted on
05/01/2004 11:02:01 PM PDT
by
July 4th
(You need to click "Abstimmen")
To: nicollo
Can't you can do better than "automobile holocaust"?
Can't you do better than justify one Holocaust with another?
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