Reclayhound's "Real" Wednesday Morning Ramblings..........Enjoy............

[redclayhound]

Good morning to all you good hearted, yet deplorable Dawgs…..Wednesday….June 17th……..Okay Folks, Brace Yourselves:

Today is National Eat Your Vegetables Day, and…..

Today is National Apple Strudel Day, and………

Today is National Cherry Tart Day, and………

Today is National Stewart’s Root Beer Day…….

That’s a smorgasbord of vittles……Don’t ask me why Stewart’s Root Beer and not just any Root Beer…..I simply do not know the answer to that question……There’s over 100 different brands of that molasses and sassafras (plus a pinch of a few other things) mixture, so I imagine a good ole cold A&W or Frosty’s or Hires or Barg’s or whatever will do…..Hey, I’ve even robbed my SIL’s frig of an IPA root beer or two……..Take care fellow Dawgs……

I'm afraid my ole buddy Yosemite Sam is in his final days due to this politically correct world we live in today........



UGA SPORTS SPOTLIGHT:

I’m gonna mention a Dawg great in the UGA sports spotlight section this morning, just to make sure at least something Dawg is mentioned today in this “DAWGChat” forum…Today the Georgia Bulldog in the spotlight is former Dawg Golfing Great Arnold Blum……..

A lifelong amateur, Arnold Blum was born in Macon, Ga., on April 21, 1922…….While at Lanier High School, he won the Georgia State High School Championship in 1937 and again in 1939…….He graduated from the University of Georgia, where he won the SEC Championship in 1941…….. Blum won the Southeastern Amateur three times, the Georgia Amateur five times, and the Southern Amateur twice………..He was one of Georgia's all-time great amateur golfers…….Highlights of his competitive career include:

1939 Southeastern Conference Champion

1940 Southeastern Conference Champion

1941 shot a record 11 under in a round of 62 at Athens Country Club

1946 Georgia State Amateur Champion

1947 Southeastern Conference Champion

1950 Georgia State Amateur Champion

1951 Georgia State Amateur Champion

1951 Southern Amateur Champion

1952 Georgia State Amateur Champion

1953 Walker Cup Team Member, US Team Won Championship

1956 Georgia State Amateur Champion

1956 Southern Amateur Champion

Played in 17 U. S. Amateur Matches, won 16, twice quarter-finalist.

1957 Walker Cup Team Member, US Team Won Championship

Played in The Masters 5 times, made the cut 4 times

Macon's City Tour Champion 9 times

Dogwood Invitational Winner in '50

2 time winner of the Peach Blossom

2 time winner of the Radium Springs Invitational

In addition to his on-the-field accomplishments, Arnold also gave back to the game by serving as President of the Georgia State Golf Association and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Southern Golf Association from 1952-1960…..Blum was inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 1979……Blum was inducted into the Georgia Golf Hall of Fame in 1989…….And on July 15, 1991, at the site of the Annual SGA Men's Amateur Championship at the Country Club of Birmingham, Arnold Blum was inducted into the Southern Golf Association Hall of Fame……

Arnold Blum passed away on April 5, 2017.

Arnold Blum……….a DGD………May he RIP………..



SOME “STUFF YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED YOU DON”T KNOW” AND SOME “STUFF YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED YOU DO KNOW”……

(by year/comments)

1579 English navigator Francis Drake lands on the coast of California at Drakes Bay, names it "New Albion"

1631 Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, then spends more than 20 years building her tomb, the Taj Mahal

1700 Massachusetts orders priest to leave the colony

1745 American colonials capture Louisburg, Cape Breton Island from French

1775 Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it was Breed's Hill)

1788 After a lengthy stay in Europe, future US President John Adams and his wife Abigail Adams return to Boston

1824 US Bureau of Indian Affairs established

1850 Paddle-wheeler "G P Griffith" burns off Mentor Ohio (206 die)

1856 Republican Party opens its 1st national convention in Philadelphia

1863 Naval Engagement at Warsaw Sound GA-USS Weehawken vs CSS Atlanta

1863 Travelers Insurance Co of Hartford chartered (1st accident insurer)

1864 -18] Confederate troops pull back out Solves/lost Mt, Georgia

1864 Skirmish at Mud Creek/Noyes's (Nose) Creek, Georgia

1986 Kate Smith, American singer (God Bless America), dies at 78

1877 Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon - the Nez Perce defeat the US Cavalry at White Bird Canyon in the Idaho Territory

1882 Tornado kills 130 in Iowa

1885 Statue of Liberty arrives in NYC aboard French ship `Isere'

1894 1st US polio epidemic breaks out in Rutland, Vermont

1895 US Ship Canal (W 225th St) in the Bronx completed; cutting Marble Hill off from Manhattan

1896 Polar explorers Fridtjof Nansen and Frederick Jackson meet by chance in Franz Josef Land, the Arctic

1898 The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established

1901 US Open Men's Golf, Myopia Hunt GC: Willie Anderson of Scotland wins first of his 4 Open titles by 1 stroke in an 18-hole playoff with Alex Smith

1901 The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT

1902 US Congress pass the New Lands Reclamation Act, which establishes a fund from sale of public lands to build irrigation dams for arid Western lands

1910 Red Foley, American country singer, was born in Blue Lick, Kentucky…..Foley went on to chart 56 Top 10 hit songs including 10 number one hit songs……Among his best was “Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy” which was #1 in both the US Country and US Pop Charts……



1915 Stringbean [David Akeman], American banjoist and comedian (Hee Haw), was born in Annville, Kentucky



1915 The League to Enforce Peace is organised at Independence Hall in Philadelphia with William Howard Taft as president; its program anticipates the League of Nations

1916 US troops under General Pershing march into Mexico

1919 "Barney Google" cartoon strip, by Billy De Beck, premieres

1923 Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch, American NFL halfback and end (LA Rams), was born in Wausau, Wisconsin

1927 US Open Men's Golf, Oakmont CC: American-based Scotsman Tommy Armour defeats Harry Cooper by 3 strokes in an 18-hole playoff to win the first of his 3 major titles

1928 Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland to become 1st woman (passenger) to fly Atlantic (as a passenger in a plane piloted by Wilmer Stultz)

1932 Oil tanker Cymbeline explodes in Montreal, Canada

1932 Bonus Army: around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the US Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits

1933 Kansas City Massacre: 1 FBI agent, 4 cops & 1 gangster killed by mob

1938 Japan declares war on China

1939 Last public guillotining in France. Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in Versailles outside the prison Saint-Pierre

1939 French Championships Men's Tennis: American collegiate champion Don McNeill beats countryman Bobby Riggs 7-5, 6-0, 6-3

1940 France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II

1940 Germany occupiers ration bread and cheese in Holland

1940 World War II: sinking of the RMS Lancastria by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France

1943 Player-manager Joe Cronin of Red Sox hits two 3-run pinch home runs

1943 Barry Manilow [Barry Alan Pincus], American singer/pianist (Mandy, I Write the Songs), was born in New York City



1944 Iceland dissolves its union with Denmark and declares itself a Republic

1946 SW Bell inaugurates mobile telephone commercial service, St Louis

1947 Gregg Rolie (keyboardist for Santana, Journey) is born in Seattle, Washington



1947 1st round-the-world civil air service leaves NYC

1947 Pan Am Airways chartered as 1st worldwide passenger airline

1950 1st kidney transplant (Chicago)

1953 Most runs scored in 1 inning (17 by Red Sox)

1953 US Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas stays executions of spies Julius & Ethel Rosenberg scheduled for next day their 14th anniversary

1954 CIA exile army lands in Guatemala. Organised by John Foster Dulles and United Fruit Co.

1954 Rocky Marciano beats Ezzard Charles by unanimous points decision in his 3rd world heavyweight boxing title defence at Yankee Stadium, NYC

1954 Televised Senate Army McCarthy hearings ends

1956 Golda Meir begins her term as Israel's foreign minister

1957 Tuskegee boycott begins (Blacks boycotted city stores)

1958 The Wooden Roller Coaster at Playland, which is in the Pacific National Exhibition, Vancouver, Canada opened, and is still open to this day

1960 Ted Williams hit his 500th HR

1961 US Open Men's Golf, Oakland Hills CC: Gene Littler wins his sole major title, 1 stroke ahead of runners-up Bob Goalby and Doug Sanders

1962 US Open Men's Golf, Oakmont CC: Jack Nicklaus wins his first major title by 3 strokes in an 18-hole playoff with Arnold Palmer

1963 Supreme Court rules against Bible reading/prayer in public schools

1965 11.08" (28.14 cm) of rainfall, Holly, Colorado (state 24-hour record)

1965 1st bombing by B-52 (50 km north of Saigon)……

1965 Kinks arrive in NYC beginning their 1st US Tour…..



1967 "Somebody To Love" by Jefferson Airplane peaks at #5



1967 China becomes world's 4th thermonuclear (H-bomb) power

1967 Longest MLB doubleheader 9 hours, 15 minutes (Tigers & Athletics)

1967 The Hollies release "Carrie Anne."



1968 Ohio Express' "Yummy Yummy Yummy" goes gold



1970 Edwin Land patents the Polaroid camera

1971 Carole King's album "Tapestry" goes to No. 1 on US album charts and stays there for 15 weeks



1972 Looking Glass releases "Brandy"



1972 Five men arrested after trying to bug Democratic National Committee office in Watergate Complex, Washington

1972 9 firefighters are killed in the Hotel Vendome fire in Boston

1973 US Open Men's Golf, Oakmont CC: Johnny Miller fires a record final round 63 (-8) to win his first major championship, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up John Schlee

1973 Dolly Parton records her song "I Will Always Love You" (later huge hit for Whitney Houston) for RCA in Nashville

1975 Voters in Northern Mariana Islands approve commonwealth status with US

1976 ABA (Nets, Pacers, Nuggets & Spurs) merges into NBA

1978 Ron Guidry sets Yankee record with 18 strike-outs

1978 Andy Gibb's "Shadow Dancing" hits #1 in America.



1979 US Open Men's Golf, Inverness Club: Hale Irwin wins his second Open title, 2 strokes ahead of former champions Jerry Pate and Gary Player

1981 At Earls Court in London, Pink Floyd play the last of 31 performances of The Wall, a unique stage show where a giant wall is erected (and torn down) as the band plays the album in its entirety. It's Roger Waters' last concert with the band, which breaks up in 1983 and carries on without him a few years later.



1982 President Galtieri resigns after leading Argentina to defeat in the Falkland Islands

1986 US Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger resigns and Antonin Scalia nominated as his replacement

1988 Givens' Family reports Mike Tyson beats his wife Robin Givens

1988 Microsoft releases MS DOS 4.0

1988 Women sentenced to 90 years in 1st product tampering murder case

1990 US Open Men's Golf, Medinah CC: Hale Irwin wins his 3rd Open title; defeats Mike Donald at the 91st hole, the first in sudden-death, after tying the 18-hole Monday playoff

1991 US Open Golf, Hazeline National GC: Payne Stewart wins a Monday playoff with 1987 champion Scott Simpson

1991 Country entertainer Minnie Pearl suffers a stroke at 78

1991 The body of the 12th US President, Zachary Taylor, is exhumed to test how he died; rumors had persisted since his death in 1850 of arsenic poisoning - no evidence of this was found

1991 South Africa abolishes last of its apartheid laws

1992 Connecticut Governor Lowell Weicker and WFAN DJ Don Imus change places for 1 day

1994 O.J. Simpson doesn't turn himself in on murder charges, LA police chase his Ford Bronco for 1½ hours before he eventually gives up (seen live on national TV)……..

1997 NHL announces it will add Nashville in 1998, Atlanta in 1999 & Minneapolis-St Paul & Columbus, Ohio in 2000

2003 Moneyball, a book about the 2003 Oakland Athletics baseball team and GM Billy Beane's sabermetric approach, inspired by Bill James, is published

2006 Sci-Fi author Anne McCaffrey inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame

2007 US Open Men's Golf, Oakmont GC: Ángel Cabrera wins his first major title, 1 stroke ahead of Jim Furyk and Tiger Woods; first Open won by an Argentine or a South American

2008 First day of legal same-sex marriage in California

2008 62nd NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 2

2009 43rd CMT Music Awards: Taylor Swift & Brad Paisley wins

2010 64th NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 3

2012 US Open Men's Golf, Olympic Club, SF: American Webb Simpson wins his first major title, 1 stroke ahead of runners-up Graeme McDowell and Michael Thompson

2015 John David Crow, American College Football Hall of Fame back and tight end (Heisman Trophy 1957, Texas A & M; Pro Bowl 1959, 60, 62, 65; St. Louis Cardinals), dies at 79

2015 Nine people are shot and killed inside Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, by a 21 year old gunman

2015 US Treasury announced that the image of Alexander Hamilton will be replaced from the US $10 bill by an image of a woman

2017 Bill Cosby trial for aggravated indecent assault declared a mistrial after jurors couldn't reach a verdict

2017 Collision at sea between U.S.S. Fitzgerald and ACX Crystal, a Philippine cargo ship kills 7 US sailors in Japanese waters

2018 US Open Men's Golf, Shinnecock Hills GC: Brooks Koepka wins by 1 stroke from Tommy Fleetwood for first back-to-back Open titles since 1988-89 (Curtis Strange)

2018 "The Incredibles 2" sets a box office record for an animated release, earning $180 million its opening weekend

2018 24 Hours of Le Mans: Former F1 world champion Fernando Alonso teams with Kazuki Nakajima and Sébastien Buemi to win for Toyota Gazoo Racing

2018 World electric speed record broken by Jaguar Vector V20E in battery-powered boat at 88.61 mph (142.60 kph) Coniston Water, English Lake District



******(to be continued…….see follow-up response page)******

 

[redclayhound]

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SOME FOLKS WHO DIED ON THIS DATE:

1939 Eugene Weldman, the last person to be publicly guillotined in France, dies at 31. When asked if he had remorse for his victims he had killed, he replied, “Remorse, what for? I didn’t even know them”

1986 Kate Smith, American singer (God Bless America), dies at 78

1987 Dick Howser, mgr (NY Yankees & KC Royal), dies of brain cancer at 51

1989 John Matuszak, American NFL defensive end (Oak Raider) and actor (The Goonies), dies of an accidental propoxyphene overdose at 38

2002 Willie Davenport, American bobsledder and track athlete (Olympic gold 110m hurdles 1968), dies from a heart attack at 59

2008 Cyd Charisse, American dancer and actress (Singin' in the Rain), dies at 86

2012 Rodney King, African American motorist beaten by LA cop, dies in an accidental drowning at 47

2015 John David Crow, American College Football Hall of Fame back and tight end (Heisman Trophy 1957, Texas A & M; Pro Bowl 1959, 60, 62, 65; St. Louis Cardinals), dies at 79

2019 Gloria Vanderbilt, American fashion designer, artist, heiress and socialite, dies at 95



SOME FOLKS BORN ON THIS DATE:

1867 John Robert Gregg, Irish-American inventor of a shorthand system Gregg Shorthand, born in Rockcorry, Ireland

1903 Ruth Wakefield, American inventor (created the Toll House Cookie, the first chocolate chip cookie), born in East Walpole, Massachusetts

1904 Ralph Bellamy, American actor (Rosemary's Baby, His Girl Friday, Trading Places), born in Chicago, Illinois

1910 Red Foley, American country singer (Mr Smith Goes to Washington), born in Blue Lick, Kentucky

1915 Stringbean [David Akeman], American banjoist and comedian (Hee Haw), born in Annville, Kentucky

1923 Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch, American NFL halfback and end (LA Rams), born in Wausau, Wisconsin

1937 Peter Lupus, American bodybuilder and actor (Mission Impossible), born in Indianapolis, Indiana

1938 Judy Kimball, American golfer (US Women's PGA C'ship 1962), born in Sioux City, Iowa

1943 Newt Gingrich, American politician (Rep-R-GA, 1979-99) and Speaker of the House (1995-97), born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

1943 Barry Manilow [Barry Alan Pincus], American singer/pianist (Mandy, I Write the Songs), born in New York City

1964 Erin Murphy, American actress (Tabitha Stevens in Bewitched), born in Encino, California

1965 Dan Jansen, American speed skater (Olympic gold 1984, 88, 92), born in West Allis, Wisconsin

1980 Venus Williams, American tennis star considered one of the all-time greats of women's tennis, born in Lynwood, California



TODAY’S @$$HOLE OF THE DAY:

This one is a tad personal today……Personal because it was the elimination of a band member…..It split up and ended the greatest guitar duo in rock, Don Felder and Joe Walsh……Can you believe Glenn Frey and Don Henley sent Felder packing?......Those that think highly Frey and Henley have been in denial all these years……While they are two extremely talented musicians that are key components that make the Eagles click (along with Felder, Walsh, and Randy Meisner), they are also two greedy B@$t@rd$......

Both Henley and Frey have admitted to having no regrets over the way they have treated people over the years, or more accurately, the way they have bullied people over the years……

One source close to the band says Henley and Frey were “very” egotistical and arrogant, and acted childishly toward Felder……It was obvious what they were doing to Felder, one of the bands founding members……It is the overwhelming opinion of those close to the band members that the two greedy ones should have never fired Felder…..

Another band member, Randy Meisner was also a victim of the hot tempered @$$Holes Frey and Henley……..Meisner, who abruptly left the Eagles after the Hotel California album, was clearly affected by Frey and Henley's behavior…….Meisner was having trouble hitting the high notes on Take it to the Limit, one of the band's biggest hits, during his final tour with the band…….Instead of being understanding and supportive, Frey and Henley berated and intimidated him, and ultimately Frey, who is a bigger prick than Henley, just went off big time on Meisner, who subsequently quit at the height of the Eagles' fame……

Beneath all that fame, that popularity, that success was on-going disagreements, hatred, and fighting…..You can bet Frey/Henley were the guilty culprits every time…….They flat out broke up one of the greatest rock bands in history…….The two Eagles that made the band click, were the two Eagles that killed the band too……Screw them…..

Two things can break up a successful band, greed and drugs……And drugs did not split the Eagles…….

Back Row: The two AOTDs…..Don Henley left, Glen Frey right…….From row, Don Felder left, Joe Walsh center, and Randy Meisner right ……

Frey has since passed away, and I say RIP, but I also say he was a @$$Hole, just like Don Henley……. Man did I love the Eagles…..There music was tops…..But two of them were greedy……And those two are @$$Holes and both can KMA…….


As always folks, I hope each of you have a Great Bulldawg Day.......GATA.....THWGT......MAGA......Go Dawgs......God Bless........

 

[JudgeLarryDawg]

Bravo. Great stuff, rch. Thank you..

Wonder if ol Wilmer Stultz founded the mile high club on that cross Atlantic flight with Amelia Earhart?

Like the Rocky Marciano heavyweight champion reference. I stayed at Rocky Marciano's house in Fort Lauderdale one summer during college.
Rocky, nor anyone else was there. A girl we knew, her dad had a key as he was a friend of Rocky's.

Enjoy the ramblings. You ever ride in a Nash Rambler?

 

[EufaulaDawg]

Thanks for the ramblings rch, they were great.
Music was spot on this morning too...especially
Brandy...made me think of a friend from the past.

 

[ibdawg78]

Great job RCH. Greed really does suck. I love me some Eagles, it didn’t have to turn out the way it did. What a shame.

 

[Vandydog]

Keep rolling RCH, up to speed for another day..

 

[redclayhound]

Bravo. Great stuff, rch. Thank you..

Wonder if ol Wilmer Stultz founded the mile high club on that cross Atlantic flight with Amelia Earhart?

Like the Rocky Marciano heavyweight champion reference. I stayed at Rocky Marciano's house in Fort Lauderdale one summer during college.
Rocky, nor anyone else was there. A girl we knew, her dad had a key as he was a friend of Rocky's.

Enjoy the ramblings. You ever ride in a Nash Rambler?

I honestly can't remember ever riding in a 1950s Nash Rambler, but I can say for sure I've ridden in a Henry J several times.......

 

[EufaulaDawg]

Bravo. Great stuff, rch. Thank you..

Wonder if ol Wilmer Stultz founded the mile high club on that cross Atlantic flight with Amelia Earhart?

Like the Rocky Marciano heavyweight champion reference. I stayed at Rocky Marciano's house in Fort Lauderdale one summer during college.
Rocky, nor anyone else was there. A girl we knew, her dad had a key as he was a friend of Rocky's.

Enjoy the ramblings. You ever ride in a Nash Rambler?

First car I had was a 63 Rambler American
It beat hell out of walking.

 

[deadduckdawg]

Frey has since passed away, and I say RIP, but I also say he was a @$$Hole, just like Don Henley……. Man did I love the Eagles…..There music was tops…..But two of them were greedy……And those two are @$$Holes and both can KMA…….

Really great and interesting Ramblings today, rch. I feel the same way about the Eagles in every respect. Felder was incredible and I liked his playing better than Walsh's. Felder's book Heaven and Hell lays it all out. Felder got sick of it and shoved Frey around at one point.

I enjoyed the Ramblings.