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

[redclayhound]

Good morning to all you good hearted, yet deplorable Dawgs…..Tuesday….June 16th……..Today is National Fudge Day……….yum, yum……..Enough said…….Take care folks………

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 Lyn Lott………

Lyn Lott was born April 9, 1950, in Douglas, Ga……While at Coffee County High School, Lott twice won the Georgia state high school championship, the Georgia State Junior and the Southeastern Junior Amateur. ……He also won the Georgia State Jaycees Championship and the Future Masters……In 1967, at age 17, Lott became the youngest person to win the Georgia Open…….In 1971, he won the Tennessee Classic……He also won the Jr-Sr Collegiate Tournament in 1971…..In 1972, he won the Georgia Amateur. …..While at the University of Georgia, he was on the only UGA team in school history to win four consecutive SEC Championships (1969-1972)…..He was Captain of the 1972 UGA Golf Team......He was 1st Team All-SEC in 1971 and again in 1972…….

Following college, Lott competed on the PGA TOUR for 11 years, participating in three Masters…….He served on the PGA TOUR Advisory Board from 1978-1979…….After making 150 cuts in his career, he qualified for lifetime membership in the PGA TOUR……Lott was inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 1998 and inducted into the Georgia Golf Hall of Fame in 2005……. Lott passed away on March 22, 2018……

Lyn Lott………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)

1779 Spain declares war on Great Britain in support of the US, starting the siege of Gibraltar

1784 Holland forbids the wearing of orange clothes

1822 Denmark Vessy leads slave rebellion in South Carolina

1832 Battle of Kellogg's Grove, Illinois

1858 Abraham Lincoln says "A house divided against itself cannot stand" accepting Illinois Republican Party's nomination for the Senate

1861 Battle of Vienna, Virginia and Secessionville, South Carolina (James Island)

1864 Skirmish at Golgotha, Georgia

1880 Salvation Army forms in London

1882 17" hailstones weighing 1.75 lbs fall in Dubuque Iowa

1883 1st baseball "Ladies' Day" (NY Gothams beat Cleve Spiders 5-2)

1884 1st roller coaster used (Coney Island NY)

1893 RW Rueckheim invents Cracker Jack

1896 Temperature hits 127°F at Fort Mojave, California

1903 Ford Motors under Henry Ford incorporates

1903 Pepsi Cola company forms

1903 Roald Amundsen commences the first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage by leaving Oslo, Norway

1908 The Republican Party convenes in Chicago where President Theodore Roosevelt picks William Howard Taft as his successor

1909 1st US airplane sold commercially, by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000

1909 Jim Thorpe makes his pro baseball pitching debut for Rocky Mount (ECL) with 4-2 win, this will cause him to forfeit his Olympic gold medals

1911 A 772 gram stony meteorite strikes the earth near Kilbourn, Columbia County, Wisconsin damaging a barn

1922 Henry Berliner demonstrates his helicopter to US Bureau of Aeronautics

1932 US President Herbert Hoover and Vice President Charles Curtis renominated by Republican Convention

1933 US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) created

1934 Janet Pilgrim, American early playmate model for Playboy (July 1955, Dec 1955, Oct 1956), was born in Wheaton, Illinois

1935 US Congress accepts FDR's "New Deal"

1938 Boston first baseman Jimmie Foxx is walked a record 6 consecutive times by St Louis Browns; Red Sox still win, 12-8

1939 Billy "Crash" Craddock, American country singer (Boom Boom Baby, Rub It In), born in Greensboro, North Carolina



1941 1st US federally owned airport opened Washington, D.C.

1942 Eddie Levert, vocalist (O'Jays-Love Train, For the Love of Money), born in Canton, Ohio



1943 Race riot in Beaumont Texas (2 die)

1944 George Stinney, a 14-year-old African-American boy, is wrongfully executed for the murder of two white girls, becoming the youngest person ever executed in 20th-century America

1944 US bombs Kyushu Japan1946 US Open Men's Golf, Canterbury GC: World War II veteran Lloyd Mangrum defeats Byron Nelson and Vic Ghezzi in 36 playoff holes to win his only major title

1947 1st network news-Dumont's "News from Washington"

1949 Gas turbine-electric locomotive demonstrated at Erie, Pennsylvania

1951 US Open Men's Golf, Oakland Hills CC: Ben Hogan wins his second consecutive US Open title, 2 strokes ahead of runner-up Clayton Heafner

1953 Despite Johnny Mize 2,000th hit, NY Yankees lose ending an 18 game winning streak and also ending St Louis Brown 14 game losing streak

1956 US Open Men's Golf, Oak Hill CC: Cary Middlecoff wins his second Open title, 1 stroke ahead of runners-up Julius Boros and Ben Hogan

1956 Gogi Grant's "The Wayward Wind" hits #1 in America, where it stays for eight weeks.



1959 The Ultimate Warrior [James Brian Hellwig], professional wrestler, was born in Crawfordsville, Indiana (d. 2014)

1960 "Psycho", psychological horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins, and Vera Miles, opens in New York City

1961 Dave Garroway is fired as Today Show host

1961 Discoverer 25 launched

1962 2 US army officers killed in Saigon

1962 Gary U.S. Bonds appears on US TV for the first time, performing on American Bandstand.



1963 Soviet space mission Vostok 6 is launched with Valentina Tereshkova onboard, who becomes the 1st woman in space

1966 Rowan & Martin host The Dean Martin Show, Summer Series, on NBC-TV

1966 20th Tony Awards: Marat/Sade & Man of La Mancha win

1967 50,000 attend first day of the Monterey International Pop Festival - beginning of the Summer of Love

1968 US Open Golf, Oak Hill CC: Lee Trevino wins his first major title by 4 shots from Jack Nicklaus; first to play sub-70 golf in Open history

1969 Supreme Court rules suspension of Adam Clayton Powell Jr from House

1970 Race riots in Miami Florida

1971 Racial disturbance in Jacksonville, Florida

1974 US Open Men's Golf, Winged Foot GC: Hale Irwin's score of 287 (+7) is good enough for the first of his 3 Open titles, 2 strokes ahead of runner-up Forrest Fezler

1974 French Open Men's Tennis: Björn Borg of Sweden wins first career Grand Slam title; beats Manuel Orantes of Spain 2-6, 6-7, 6-0, 6-1, 6-1

1975 Bucks trade Kareem Abdul-Jabber and Walt Wesley to LA for 4 players

1975 Randy Farland finds a 14-leaf clover near Sioux Falls, SD

1975 Supreme Court rules uniform minimum legal fees are a violation

1977 Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates

1978 Film "Grease" opens, starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, based on the 1971 musical

1979 "Logical Song" by Supertramp peaks at #6



1979 Carl Yastrzemski hits his 1,000th extra base hit

1980 Musical comedy film "Blues Brothers" with Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi premieres in Chicago



1980 US Supreme Court rules new forms of life created in labs could be patents

1984 Edwin Moses wins his 100th consecutive 400-meter hurdles race

1985 US Open Men's Golf, Oakland Hills CC: 1978 champion Andy North wins by 1 stroke ahead of runners-up Dave Barr, T C Chen and Denis Watson

1985 Willie Banks of USA sets triple jump record (58 feet 11 inches) in Indianapolis

1987 Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, opens

1987 New York City subway gunman Bernhard Getz acquitted on all but gun possession charges after shooting 4 black youths who tried to rob him

1988 In Santa Barbara, CA, a team of 32 divers begin cycling underwater on a standard tricycle, to complete 116.66 mi in 75 hrs 20 mins

1989 "Ghostbusters II" directed by Ivan Reitman, starring Bill Murry and Dan Aykroyd premieres

1989 Only 17 holes-in-one recorded since US open began, today 4 more are made all on 6th hole (Weaver, Wiebe, Pate & Price)

1990 The Swedish pop duo Roxette earns their third chart-topper when their breakup ballad "It Must Have Been Love" from the Pretty Woman soundtrack hits #1.



1990 "U Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer peaks at #8



1991 Otis Nixon steals NL record 6 bases in 1 day

1992 Caspar Weinberger (Sec of Def 1981-87), indicted on Iran-contra charge

1992 Jeff King is 5th to be thrown out twice trying to steal in an inning

1992 Red Sox Mark Reardon sets record of 342 saves (vs Yanks 1-0)

1992 Longest salami is 68'9 & 25 circumference, weighed 1,492lbs/5oz in Flekkefjord, Norway

1993 The US Postal Service issues a booklet of commemorative rock and roll stamps featuring Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Otis Redding, Bill Haley, Ritchie Valens, Clyde McPhatter, and Dinah Washington.



1993 Ken Griffey Jr slugs his 100th career home run in Seattle

1995 "Batman Forever" opens with a record $528 million weekend starring Val Kilmer, Chris O'Donnell, Tommy Lee Jones and Nicole Kidman

1995 Marlins outfielder Andre Dawson hits his 400th NL career HR (429)

1995 Salt Lake City awarded the XIX Winter Olympics in 2002

1996 50th NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Seat Supersonic, 4 games to 2

1996 US Open Men's Golf, Oakland Hills GC: Steve Jones wins his lone major title, 1 stroke ahead of runners-up Tom Lehman and Davis Love III

1997 John Wolters (drummer for Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show) dies of cancer at age 52.



1997 31st Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson & LeAnn Rimes are the big winners



1998 Stanley Cup Final, MCI Center, Washington, D.C.: Detroit Red Wings go back-to-back, defeating debutant finalists Washington Capitals, 4-1 for a 4-0 series sweep

1999 Phil Collins gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.



2000 Israel complies with UN Security Council Resolution 425 after 22 years, which calls on Israel to completely withdraw from Lebanon. Israel withdraws from all of Lebanon, except the disputed Sheba Farms

2002 US Open Men's Golf, Bethpage State Park: Tiger Woods wins his second Open title, 3 shots ahead of runner-up Phil Mickelson

2008 US Open Men's Golf, Torrey Pines GC: Tiger Woods wins his 3rd US Open and 14th major title, beating Rocco Mediate on the 1st hole of sudden-death, following a Monday 18-hole playoff

2012 Coca-Cola begins business in Myanmar after 60 years

2013 US Open Men's Golf, Merion GC: Englishman Justin Rose wins his first major title, 2 strokes ahead of runners-up Jason Day and Phil Mickelson

2015 TV personality and Real estate mogul Donald Trump launches his campaign for the Republican nomination for US President at Trump Towers

2015 69th NBA Championship: Golden State Warriors beat Cleveland Cavaliers, 4 games to 2

2016 Philadelphia is the first US city to pass a tax on sweetened drinks

2017 US President Donald Trump reinstates Cuban travel and business restrictions after they were loosened by President Obama

2017 Amazon announces it is buying Whole Foods for $13.7 billion

2018 World Cup: Video Assistant Referee (VAR) technology is used for the first time, awarding France a penalty in 2-1 win over Australia in Kaza

2019 India imposes retaliatory tariffs on 28 US goods

2019 US Open Men's Golf, Pebble Beach GL: American Gary Woodland claims his first major title with a 3 stroke victory over defending champion Brooks Koepka

2019 24 Hours of Le Mans: 2-time World F1 champion Fernando Alonso along with Swiss driver Sébastien Buemi and Japan's Kazuki Nakajima win back-to-back titles for Toyota Gazoo Racing

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

 

[DawgHammarskjold]

just between us hippies, I think it is Tuesday

 

[redclayhound]

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SOME FOLKS WHO DIED ON THIS DATE:

1878 Crawford Williamson Long, American surgeon and pioneer (use of ether as an anesthetic in surgery), dies at 62

1959 George Reeves, actor (Superman, Gone with the Wind), commits suicide by shooting himself in the head at 45

1970 Brian Piccolo, American football player

1996 Mel Allen, American sportscaster (NY Yankees), dies at 83

2014 Tony Gwynn, American Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder (8-time NL batting champion), dies of salivary gland cancer at 54

2017 Stephen Furst, American actor (Flounder-Animal House) dies from diabetes complications at 63

2018 Donald Ritchie, Scottish ultrarunner who set a world record, running 100 miles in 11:51:11 in 1979, dies of health complications at 73




SOME FOLKS BORN ON THIS DATE:

1829 Geronimo, Apache leader and resistance fighter, born in No-doyohn Canon, Mexico (d. 1909)

1842 David Herold, American pharmacist's assistant who was part of the conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln, born in Maryland (d. 1865)

1888 Bobby Clark, vaudevillan (World's funniest circus clown)

1890 Stan Laurel, [Arthur Stanley Jefferson], English comedian (Laurel & Hardy films), born in Ulverston, England (d. 1965)

1896 Jean Peugeot, French auto manufacturer (Peugeot)

1907 Jack Albertson, American actor (Chico and the Man, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory), born in Malden, Massachusetts (d. 1981)

1932 Ralph Robins, CEO (Rolls-Royce)

1933 Ken Johnson, MLB player - 1st pitcher to lose a complete game nine-inning no-hitter, born in West Palm Beach, Florida (d. 2015)

1937 August Busch III, CEO (Anheuser-Busch, St Louis Cards)

1939 Billy "Crash" Craddock, American country singer (Boom Boom Baby, Rub It In), born in Greensboro, North Carolina

1941 Lamont Dozier, songwriter (Dozier-Holland-Dozier), born in Detroit, Michigan

1942 Eddie Levert, vocalist (O'Jays-For the Love of Money), born in Canton, Ohio

1943 Joan Van Ark, American actress and director (Valene-Dallas, Knots Landing), born in NYC, New York

1951 Roberto Durán, Panamanian boxer (4-weight world champion), born in El Chorrillo. Panama

1955 Tree Rollins, NBA center (Cleveland Cavaliers), born in Winter Haven, Florida

1959 The Ultimate Warrior [James Brian Hellwig], professional wrestler, born in Crawfordsville, Indiana (d. 2014)

1962 Wally Joyner, American baseball player

1970 Phil Mickelson, American golfer (5-time PGA Tour major winner, US Masters 2004, 06, 10), born in San Diego, California

1971 Tupac Shakur, American rapper and actor (Juice, Bullet), born in East Harlem, New York (d. 1996)



TODAY’S @$$HOLE OF THE DAY:

Another one today that I’ve had on the backburner……Henry (Hank) Calvin Johnson Jr. (born October 2, 1954) is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Georgia's 4th congressional district since 2007……He is a member of the Democratic Party……The district is based in DeKalb County, a largely suburban county east of Atlanta……It also includes portions of Gwinnett, Newton, and all of Rockdale counties……..He is one of only three Buddhists, along with Hawaii Senator Mazie Hirono and former Hawaii Representative Colleen Hanabusa, to serve in the United States Congress…..

Johnson received his B.A. degree from Clark College (now Clark Atlanta University) in 1976 and his J.D. degree from Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law in Houston in 1979; he practiced law in Decatur, Georgia, for more than 25 years…….

To the point…….

"My fear is that the whole island (of Guam) will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize." -Democrat Congressman Hank Johnson

"Don't fear the terrorists." -Hank Johnson

“Programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and job retraining help Americans get back on their feet when they are down and out and laid off through no fault of their own”….- Hank Johnson

“We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations”…..Hank Johnson

“Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections……Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder”…….Hank Johnson

“The idea that corporations have the same First Amendment protections of free speech as people is troubling……..Corporations are not people…….They don't attend our schools, get married and have children……..They don't vote in our elections”……..Hank Johnson

There’s many many more, but I’ll rest my case on these two facts……

Rep. Johnson was voted "Worst Speaker" and by congressional staffers…….

Rep. Johnson was voted "Most Clueless" and by congressional staffers…….

Sorry to pick on the idiots today, but it’s embarrassing as heck to be from the same state Attorney Johnson is from…..He the AOTD for embarrassing fellow Georgians…..Step up on the podium sir, put thar crown of shame on your head…..I now anoint you @$$Hole of the day…..And you can KMA too…And, Guam ain’t gonna capsize……The Navy has taken your advise and attached additional corks on the bottom of the island……


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Message to all: I think it only appropriate that you folks join in on the fun of crowning an AOTD…….In fact, I’m inviting each of you to do so…….Just give me the AOTD candidate’s name, and 2,3,4 paragraphs stating your case why he/she is an @$$Hole…….Send it by UGASports mail…….I’m anxiously awaiting your participation……And, it would help me out…..Thx, redclayhound…….

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

 

[redclayhound]

just between us hippies, I think it is Tuesday

Yeah, I sure screwed up......Thx for the heads up......Bad start to my day, but I'm laughing about it........

 

[JudgeLarryDawg]

just between us hippies, I think it is Tuesday

 

[EufaulaDawg]

Thoroughly enjoyed the ramblings this AM. Thanks for this
daily gain of knowledge rch.
I clicked on Love Train and got to hear a couple more while
reading.....extra treat with the coffee.

 

[JudgeLarryDawg]

Bravo. Thank you, rch.

Cracker Jacks introduced on this date, now your never hear of them. It appears baseball is about to go the same route.

 

[Vandydog]

Thanks RCH! I am now restocked with valuable information.. All of those years that I worked for Pepsi Cola, I didn't know that it was a healthful product, shame on me. Lynn Lott was a great Dawg golfer.

 

[deadduckdawg]

1991 Otis Nixon steals NL record 6 bases in 1 day

On the morning of this day, Otis Nixon scored an ounce of pharmaceutical coke.

Great Ramblings today, rch. I'm only halfway through and enjoying them.