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Post by tod2 on Jan 10, 2011 14:00:34 GMT
My mother's jounger sister turned 88 today - we had a little tea party for her this morning.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2011 16:43:19 GMT
I heard on the radio that Rod Stewart is 66 today.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 10, 2011 16:59:26 GMT
I once spent a day with Rod Stewart.............
If my Dad was alive he would have been 99 yesterday.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 10, 2011 17:43:26 GMT
All those double numbers!
And what was your day with Rod like, Mick?
Other birthdays of Jan. 10 ~~ 1869, Grigori Rasputin 1904, Ray Bolger 1908, Paul Heinreid 1927, Gisele MacKenzie & Johnnie Ray 1939, Sal Mineo 1943, Jim Croce 1949, George Foreman 1953, Pat Benatar
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Post by tod2 on Jan 10, 2011 19:05:23 GMT
Mick! Don't say! I once stood next to Rod on a street in Soho, London. As he towered above me I looked down at his shoes. Moccasin type things and no socks. He had all his bodyguards(mates) around and all had been shopping.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 10, 2011 20:05:34 GMT
it was wonderful. He came to watch a cricket match that I was playing in. His roadie played for us and Rod drove hin to the game in his white Rolls then carried his bags in for him - he stayed all day and Steve Harley (Cockney rebel) came over in the evening. He took loads of photos.
2 nicer guys it would be hard to find...
Rod comes from North London, my part of the world too.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2011 20:10:32 GMT
Do you think he's sexy?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2011 20:41:15 GMT
I think so, yes.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 11, 2011 2:23:19 GMT
Thanks for that reminiscence, Mick. Rod Stewart is someone I think of as so pop star, so jet-setty, that I would never be able to imagine him as just a regular guy, and a regular nice guy, at that.
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Post by onlymark on Jan 11, 2011 4:29:31 GMT
Is mickthecactus actually Mick Jagger?
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 11, 2011 4:45:42 GMT
Is Mark the only taking the mickey out of Mick the cactus?
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Post by onlymark on Jan 11, 2011 6:16:59 GMT
As if I would.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 11, 2011 9:06:31 GMT
Pack it in you lot.
I can't help it if I move in famous circles..........
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 11, 2011 16:20:22 GMT
Oh dear ~~ he caught us fawning! Hey, today is 1 - 11 - '11.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2011 18:46:27 GMT
And tomorrow is the first anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti. On one of the evening talk shows, there was a Haitian writer (who now lives in Canada as so many Haitians do) who said that foreign aid is so often off the mark in such catastrophes.
People would send food and clothes and medicine, fine. But he said that the children were sitting in the camps without books, because nobody sent any.
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Post by hwinpp on Jan 13, 2011 8:41:11 GMT
Oh dear ~~ he caught us fawning! Hey, today is 1 - 11 - '11. You trying to stir up something, Bix?
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 15, 2011 15:52:47 GMT
On January 15 in 1559, England's Queen Elizabeth I was crowned in Westminster Abbey. 1929, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta. 2001, Wikipedia, a web-based encyclopedia, made its debut. Other people born on this date: Moliere, 1/15/1622 - 2/17/1673 Abigail Kelley Foster, 1/15/1810 - 1/14/1887 Gamal Nasser, 1/15/1918 - 9/28/1970
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 19, 2011 16:27:20 GMT
b. January 19, 1943 ~
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Post by bjd on Jan 19, 2011 19:57:55 GMT
Thanks, Bixa. I really liked Janis Joplin. I like the picture around 2:15 where she is beside that straight-looking family, the father in particular looking as though he's wondering where she came from. No wonder she left Texas.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 19, 2011 21:25:11 GMT
Ha! I watched it again & see what you mean about the guy.
My favorite Janis factoid is that she would go golfing with her aunts.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2011 10:02:51 GMT
On January 20, 1841, the signature of the convention of Chuanbi gave the British crown a perpetual concession to Hong Kong and also ended the opium war.
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Post by onlymark on Jan 20, 2011 10:11:02 GMT
I like how we managed to shaft half the world at one time. Makes me proud to be English.
I know it was reprehensible, but in a weird way you have to admire the way we went about doing some of these things.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2011 10:15:28 GMT
Industrial revolution = plentiful and high quality cannons.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 20, 2011 17:32:23 GMT
As a US citizen, I would like to thank the English for showing their colonial child how to be effectively crafty and imperialistic. The legacy lives on!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2011 19:02:53 GMT
Yes, and now the UK is a colony of the United States.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 21, 2011 18:49:23 GMT
On January 21,
1793 -- France's King Louis XVI, condemned for treason, was executed on the guillotine.
1924 -- Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin died at age 54.
1977 -- President Jimmy Carter pardoned almost all Vietnam War draft evaders.
Interesting array of singers born on this date. Placido Domingo and Richie Havens both turned 70 today. Mac Davis is 69 and Billy Ocean, 61. Spice Girl Emma Bunton is 35.
It was also a good day for the high fashion industry ~~ Cristobal Balenciaga, 1/21/1895 -- 3/23/1972 and Christian Dior, 1/21/1905 -- 10/24/1957
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2011 3:51:28 GMT
I heard on NPR this morning that today was National Pie Day here in the U.S. Who comes up with this stuff anyway?? I adore pies but...WTF?
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 24, 2011 5:38:58 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 25, 2011 17:52:03 GMT
On this date in 1533, England's King Henry VIII secretly married Anne Boleyn, his second wife. And in 1961, US President John F. Kennedy held the first presidential news conference carried live on radio and TV. 1961!
Interesting array of birthdays today ~~
Robert Burns, 1/25/1759 -- 7/21/1796
W. Somerset Maugham, 1/25/1874 -- 12/16/1965
Virginia Woolf, 1/25/1882 -- 3/28/1941
and on 1/25/1938 ~~
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Post by bjd on Jan 25, 2011 20:55:11 GMT
Thanks Bixa. I just spent about 45 minutes looking and listening to Etta James on Youtube!
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