GOOD MORNING
Good morning to all you good hearted, yet deplorable Dawgs…..Wednesday….June 24th……..Today is National Pralines Day…..There is a little store on River Street in Savannah that has some of the best pralines this ole Dawg has ever consumed…..Superb…..Mouth Watering……Problem is, I gain five pounds just walking thru the front door…..Take care fellow Dawgs……..
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 Thomas H. Paris……..
(following from Bill Murphy reporting for The Times Newspaper , Gainesville, Ga regard Tom Paris being inducted into the Gainesville Athletics Hall of Fame)
Tom Paris Sr. had bountiful athletic success at Gainesville High in the 1920s.
From 1923-25 he anchored the Red Elephants at quarterback, going 29-0 during his final three seasons. In basketball, he was a scrappy 5-foot, 7-inch forward who was a three-year captain for Gainesville High. Paris was also a state-champion hurdler who won numerous district championships for the track and field squad. He was also captain of the baseball team, playing second base and center field.
Paris, who died at age 92 in 1998, will be inducted with the first class of the Gainesville Athletics Hall of Fame.
Paris finished his high school career with a staggering 16 varsity letters.
However, one day stuck out for Paris, as he recalled later in life. In 1924, Paris led the unbeaten Gainesville football program into a matchup against Athens High for the North Georgia Championship at Sanford Stadium. Despite entering the game as huge underdogs, the Red Elephants jumped to a 20-0 lead on Paris’ touchdown throw to Guy Sanders on a fake field goal. Gainesville managed the hold on to the lead, winning 20-12, for its second straight North Georgia title.
With Paris as quarterback, Gainesville would win three straight North Georgia titles, during a time when there wasn’t a state championship game.
During that three-year run, Gainesville outscored the competition 1,200-63.
After high school, Paris attended the University of Georgia on an athletic scholarship, playing football all four years. He played extensively during his career as the Bulldogs’ quarterback.
In 1929, Paris was quarterback as Georgia upset highly-favored Yale, 15-0, in the first game Georgia played at Sanford Stadium in front of a then-record crowd of 33,000.
After college, Paris founded Paris-Dunlap Hardware Co., where he served as president until his retirement. He was named Man of the Year by the Gainesville Rotary Club in 1948, and he was instrumental in the construction of the Chattahoochee Golf Course in 1958. The Rotary Club honored him for his many years of service by establishing the annual Tom Paris Golf Tournament. In 1961, he was inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame, and he served for many years on the University of Georgia athletic board.
“My grandfather certainly loved athletics and he was proud of his record at Gainesville,” his grandson, Thomas Paris III (Trey) said. “But what stands out to me was his love of family and community, his business acumen, and the quiet and humble way he conducted himself, always with honesty, integrity and fair play."
Thomas H. Paris…….a DGD…….May he RIP…….
SOME STUFF ON THIS DATE
1497 John Cabot became the first European to set foot in North America since the Vikings.
1647 Margaret Brent, demands a voice and a vote for herself in the Maryland colonial assembly.
1664 - New Jersey, named after the Isle of Jersey, was founded.
1675 - King Philip's War began when Indians massacre colonists at Swansee, Plymouth colony.
1717 The world's first Masonic Grand Lodge is established
1795 William Smellie, the Scottish compiler of the first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, died in Edinburgh.
1813 Battle of Beaver Dam-British and Indian forces defeat U.S. forces
1817 1st coffee planted in Hawaii on Kona coast
1844 - Charles Goodyear was granted U.S. patent #3,633 for vulcanized rubber.
1861 - Federal gunboats attacked Confederate batteries at Mathias Point, Virginia.
1861 Tennessee becomes 11th (& last) state to secede from US
1864 Colorado Governor John Evans warns that all peaceful Native Americans in the region must report to the Sand Creek reservation or risk being attacked, creating the conditions that will lead to the infamous Sand Creek Massacre
1869 - Mary Ellen "Mammy" Pleasant officially became the Vodoo Queen in San Francisco, California
1882 NL expels umpire Richard Higham for dishonesty
1894 Decision to hold modern Olympics every 4 years
1896 - Booker T. Washington became the first African American to receive an honorary MA degree from Howard University.
1898 American troops, drive Spanish forces from La Guasimas Cuba
1901 Jewish National Fund starts
1910 - The Japanese army invaded Korea.
1915 800 dies as excursion steamer Eastland capsizes in Chicago
1922 - The American Professional Football Association took the name of The National Football League.
1930 1st radar detection of planes, Anacostia DC
1931 - The Soviet Union and Afghanistan signed a treaty of neutrality
1938 500 ton meteorite lands near Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
1939 Pan Am's 1st U.S. to England flight
1940 - TV cameras were used for the first time in a political convention as the Republicans convened in Philadelphia, PA.
1941 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt pledged all possible support to the Soviet Union.
1947 - Kenneth Arnold reported seeing flying saucers over Mt. Rainier, Washington.
1948 - The Soviet Union began the Berlin Blockade.
1948 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia nominates New York Governor Thomas Dewey
1949 Cargo airlines 1st licensed by U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board
1949 "Hopalong Cassidy" becomes 1st network western (NBC)
1953 - John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier announced their engagement.
1955 - Soviet MIG's down a U.S. Navy patrol plane over the Bering Strait.
1956 "Steve Allen Show," returns on NBC-TV
1957 "I Love Lucy," last airs on CBS-TV
1964 - The Federal Trade Commission announced that starting in 1965, cigarette manufactures would be required to include warnings on their packaging about the harmful effects of smoking.
1968 - "Resurrection City," a shantytown constructed as part of the Poor People's March on Washington D.C., was closed down by authorities.
1970 Bobby Murcer ties record of 4 consecutive home runs
1970 - The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly to repeal the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
1970 - The movie "Myra Breckinridge" premiered.
1971 - The National Basketball Association modified its four-year eligibility rule to allow for collegiate hardship cases.
1972 Wake Island becomes unincorporated territory of U.S., U.S. Air Force
1973 Marlene Raymond (15), limboes under a flaming bar at 6 1/8"
1975 Eastern 727 crashes at JFK Airport New York, kills 113
1977 IRS reveals Jimmy Carter paid no taxes in 1976
1979 Rickey Henderson debuts for Oakland and steals his 1st base
1980 Affirmed wins $500,000 Hollywood Cup, 1st horse to win $2 million
1982 Equal Rights Amendment goes down to defeat
1982 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that no president could be sued for damages connected with actions taken while serving as President of the United States.
1983 Don Sutton becomes 8th pitcher to strikeout 3,000 batters
1984 Joe Morgan sets career home run mark for 2nd basemen with #265
1986 - The Empire State Building was designated a National Historic Landmark.
1986 Guy Hunt elected 1st Republican governor of Alabama in 112 years
1987 CFL's Montreal Alouettes fold
1989 Cards Vince Coleman steals record 39th and 40th consecutive bases
1991 NHL adopts instant-replay and tenth of second clock in final minut
1992 John Gotti begins life sentence in jail
1992 Billy Joel, gets an honorary diploma from Hicksville High School at 43
1993 Yale University computer science professor David Gelernter is seriously injured while opening his mail when a padded envelope explodes in his hands.
1994 Sally Fields files for divorce from 2nd husband Alan Greisman
1997 Mark McGwire his a 538 foot home run
1997 Melissa Drexler, 18, charged with killing her baby during her prom
1997 - The U.S. Air Force released a report titled "The Roswell Report, Case Closed" that dismissed the claims that an alien spacecraft had crashed in Roswell, NM, in 1947.
1997 Walt Disney Corporation orders one of its subsidiary record labels to recall 100,000 already shipped copies of an album by a recently signed artist—Insane Clown Posse—on the day of its planned release. The issue at hand: the graphic nature of the Detroit “horror-core” rap duo’s lyrics.
1998 - AT&T Corp. struck a deal to buy cable TV giant Tele-Communications Inc. for $31.7 billion.
1998 - Walt Disney World Resort admitted its 600-millionth guest.
2002 Africa's worst ever train disaster kills 281
2002 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that juries, not judges, must make the decision to give a convicted killer the death penalty.
2005 The actor Tom Cruise has an infamous interview with Matt Lauer, host of NBC’s morning talk show Today
2010 - Apple released the iPhone 4.
2010 Australian politician Julia Gillard was sworn in as Australia's first female prime minister.
2012 The last known Pinta Island Tortoise, Lonesome George, is found dead in the Galapagos Islands
2014 Rebekah Brooks has been declared not guilty, and Editor Andy Coulson has been pronounced guilty in the 'News of the World' phone hacking case
SOME MUSIC ON THIS DATE
1945 Colin Blunstone (lead singer of The Zombies) is born in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England.
1947 Mick Fleetwood (drummer for Fleetwood Mac) is born in Redruth, Cornwall, England, though he'll grow up in locales around the world due to his father's career as a Royal Air Force fighter pilot.
1948 Patrick Moraz (keyboardist for Yes, The Moody Blues) is born in Morges, Switzerland.
1949 John Illsley (bass guitarist for Dire Straits) is born in Leicester, England.
1961 Curt Smith (bass guitarist, vocalist for Tears for Fears) is born in Bath, Somerset, England.
1966 The Supremes record "Love Is Like an Itching In My Heart."
1974 Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama" was released.
1992 Billy Joel graduates! He finally gets his high school diploma from Hicksville High School in Long Island, New York. He didn't graduate with his class in 1967 because of a missed English credit.
2010 JoJo Billingsley (backing vocalist for Lynyrd Skynyrd) dies of cancer at age 58…..Ma y she RIP……….
SOME FOLKS THAT DIED ON THIS DATE
1997 Brian Keith, actor (Family Affair), commits suicide at 75
1987 Jackie Gleason, comedian (Honeymooners), dies of colon cancer at 71
1908 Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President, 1885 - 1889, 1893 - 1897, dies at 71
SOME FOLKS BORN ON THIS DATE
Jack Dempsey 1895 – Boxer
Billy Casper 1931 - Golfer
Michele Lee 1942 - Actress ("Knots Landing"), singer, dancer
Mick Fleetwood 1947 - Musician
Jeff Beck 1944 - Musician (Yardbirds)
Colin Blunstone 1945 - Singer, songwriter (The Zombies)
John Illsley 1949 - Musician (Dire Straits)
Nancy Allen 1950 - Actress
Curt Smith 1961 - Musician (Tears For Fears)
AOTD
Another one I’ve been holding in my file folder…….Short and sweet today……Mike Bloomberg, step your pompous @$$ up on the podium, put that crown of shame on your bloated head, for I now anoint you @$$Hole of the Day……How that US Presidential Campaign that you tried to buy work out for you…….To be so rich, you’re a stupid schumk……One more thing Mikey, you can KMA………
HAPPY TRAILS FOLKS
As always folks, I hope each of you have a Great Bulldawg Day.......GATA.....THWGT......MAGA......Go Dawgs......God Bless........
That’s All Folks………………
Good morning to all you good hearted, yet deplorable Dawgs…..Wednesday….June 24th……..Today is National Pralines Day…..There is a little store on River Street in Savannah that has some of the best pralines this ole Dawg has ever consumed…..Superb…..Mouth Watering……Problem is, I gain five pounds just walking thru the front door…..Take care fellow Dawgs……..
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 Thomas H. Paris……..
(following from Bill Murphy reporting for The Times Newspaper , Gainesville, Ga regard Tom Paris being inducted into the Gainesville Athletics Hall of Fame)
Tom Paris Sr. had bountiful athletic success at Gainesville High in the 1920s.
From 1923-25 he anchored the Red Elephants at quarterback, going 29-0 during his final three seasons. In basketball, he was a scrappy 5-foot, 7-inch forward who was a three-year captain for Gainesville High. Paris was also a state-champion hurdler who won numerous district championships for the track and field squad. He was also captain of the baseball team, playing second base and center field.
Paris, who died at age 92 in 1998, will be inducted with the first class of the Gainesville Athletics Hall of Fame.
Paris finished his high school career with a staggering 16 varsity letters.
However, one day stuck out for Paris, as he recalled later in life. In 1924, Paris led the unbeaten Gainesville football program into a matchup against Athens High for the North Georgia Championship at Sanford Stadium. Despite entering the game as huge underdogs, the Red Elephants jumped to a 20-0 lead on Paris’ touchdown throw to Guy Sanders on a fake field goal. Gainesville managed the hold on to the lead, winning 20-12, for its second straight North Georgia title.
With Paris as quarterback, Gainesville would win three straight North Georgia titles, during a time when there wasn’t a state championship game.
During that three-year run, Gainesville outscored the competition 1,200-63.
After high school, Paris attended the University of Georgia on an athletic scholarship, playing football all four years. He played extensively during his career as the Bulldogs’ quarterback.
In 1929, Paris was quarterback as Georgia upset highly-favored Yale, 15-0, in the first game Georgia played at Sanford Stadium in front of a then-record crowd of 33,000.
After college, Paris founded Paris-Dunlap Hardware Co., where he served as president until his retirement. He was named Man of the Year by the Gainesville Rotary Club in 1948, and he was instrumental in the construction of the Chattahoochee Golf Course in 1958. The Rotary Club honored him for his many years of service by establishing the annual Tom Paris Golf Tournament. In 1961, he was inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame, and he served for many years on the University of Georgia athletic board.
“My grandfather certainly loved athletics and he was proud of his record at Gainesville,” his grandson, Thomas Paris III (Trey) said. “But what stands out to me was his love of family and community, his business acumen, and the quiet and humble way he conducted himself, always with honesty, integrity and fair play."
Thomas H. Paris…….a DGD…….May he RIP…….
SOME STUFF ON THIS DATE
1497 John Cabot became the first European to set foot in North America since the Vikings.
1647 Margaret Brent, demands a voice and a vote for herself in the Maryland colonial assembly.
1664 - New Jersey, named after the Isle of Jersey, was founded.
1675 - King Philip's War began when Indians massacre colonists at Swansee, Plymouth colony.
1717 The world's first Masonic Grand Lodge is established
1795 William Smellie, the Scottish compiler of the first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, died in Edinburgh.
1813 Battle of Beaver Dam-British and Indian forces defeat U.S. forces
1817 1st coffee planted in Hawaii on Kona coast
1844 - Charles Goodyear was granted U.S. patent #3,633 for vulcanized rubber.
1861 - Federal gunboats attacked Confederate batteries at Mathias Point, Virginia.
1861 Tennessee becomes 11th (& last) state to secede from US
1864 Colorado Governor John Evans warns that all peaceful Native Americans in the region must report to the Sand Creek reservation or risk being attacked, creating the conditions that will lead to the infamous Sand Creek Massacre
1869 - Mary Ellen "Mammy" Pleasant officially became the Vodoo Queen in San Francisco, California
1882 NL expels umpire Richard Higham for dishonesty
1894 Decision to hold modern Olympics every 4 years
1896 - Booker T. Washington became the first African American to receive an honorary MA degree from Howard University.
1898 American troops, drive Spanish forces from La Guasimas Cuba
1901 Jewish National Fund starts
1910 - The Japanese army invaded Korea.
1915 800 dies as excursion steamer Eastland capsizes in Chicago
1922 - The American Professional Football Association took the name of The National Football League.
1930 1st radar detection of planes, Anacostia DC
1931 - The Soviet Union and Afghanistan signed a treaty of neutrality
1938 500 ton meteorite lands near Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
1939 Pan Am's 1st U.S. to England flight
1940 - TV cameras were used for the first time in a political convention as the Republicans convened in Philadelphia, PA.
1941 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt pledged all possible support to the Soviet Union.
1947 - Kenneth Arnold reported seeing flying saucers over Mt. Rainier, Washington.
1948 - The Soviet Union began the Berlin Blockade.
1948 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia nominates New York Governor Thomas Dewey
1949 Cargo airlines 1st licensed by U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board
1949 "Hopalong Cassidy" becomes 1st network western (NBC)
1953 - John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier announced their engagement.
1955 - Soviet MIG's down a U.S. Navy patrol plane over the Bering Strait.
1956 "Steve Allen Show," returns on NBC-TV
1957 "I Love Lucy," last airs on CBS-TV
1964 - The Federal Trade Commission announced that starting in 1965, cigarette manufactures would be required to include warnings on their packaging about the harmful effects of smoking.
1968 - "Resurrection City," a shantytown constructed as part of the Poor People's March on Washington D.C., was closed down by authorities.
1970 Bobby Murcer ties record of 4 consecutive home runs
1970 - The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly to repeal the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
1970 - The movie "Myra Breckinridge" premiered.
1971 - The National Basketball Association modified its four-year eligibility rule to allow for collegiate hardship cases.
1972 Wake Island becomes unincorporated territory of U.S., U.S. Air Force
1973 Marlene Raymond (15), limboes under a flaming bar at 6 1/8"
1975 Eastern 727 crashes at JFK Airport New York, kills 113
1977 IRS reveals Jimmy Carter paid no taxes in 1976
1979 Rickey Henderson debuts for Oakland and steals his 1st base
1980 Affirmed wins $500,000 Hollywood Cup, 1st horse to win $2 million
1982 Equal Rights Amendment goes down to defeat
1982 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that no president could be sued for damages connected with actions taken while serving as President of the United States.
1983 Don Sutton becomes 8th pitcher to strikeout 3,000 batters
1984 Joe Morgan sets career home run mark for 2nd basemen with #265
1986 - The Empire State Building was designated a National Historic Landmark.
1986 Guy Hunt elected 1st Republican governor of Alabama in 112 years
1987 CFL's Montreal Alouettes fold
1989 Cards Vince Coleman steals record 39th and 40th consecutive bases
1991 NHL adopts instant-replay and tenth of second clock in final minut
1992 John Gotti begins life sentence in jail
1992 Billy Joel, gets an honorary diploma from Hicksville High School at 43
1993 Yale University computer science professor David Gelernter is seriously injured while opening his mail when a padded envelope explodes in his hands.
1994 Sally Fields files for divorce from 2nd husband Alan Greisman
1997 Mark McGwire his a 538 foot home run
1997 Melissa Drexler, 18, charged with killing her baby during her prom
1997 - The U.S. Air Force released a report titled "The Roswell Report, Case Closed" that dismissed the claims that an alien spacecraft had crashed in Roswell, NM, in 1947.
1997 Walt Disney Corporation orders one of its subsidiary record labels to recall 100,000 already shipped copies of an album by a recently signed artist—Insane Clown Posse—on the day of its planned release. The issue at hand: the graphic nature of the Detroit “horror-core” rap duo’s lyrics.
1998 - AT&T Corp. struck a deal to buy cable TV giant Tele-Communications Inc. for $31.7 billion.
1998 - Walt Disney World Resort admitted its 600-millionth guest.
2002 Africa's worst ever train disaster kills 281
2002 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that juries, not judges, must make the decision to give a convicted killer the death penalty.
2005 The actor Tom Cruise has an infamous interview with Matt Lauer, host of NBC’s morning talk show Today
2010 - Apple released the iPhone 4.
2010 Australian politician Julia Gillard was sworn in as Australia's first female prime minister.
2012 The last known Pinta Island Tortoise, Lonesome George, is found dead in the Galapagos Islands
2014 Rebekah Brooks has been declared not guilty, and Editor Andy Coulson has been pronounced guilty in the 'News of the World' phone hacking case
SOME MUSIC ON THIS DATE
1945 Colin Blunstone (lead singer of The Zombies) is born in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England.
1947 Mick Fleetwood (drummer for Fleetwood Mac) is born in Redruth, Cornwall, England, though he'll grow up in locales around the world due to his father's career as a Royal Air Force fighter pilot.
1948 Patrick Moraz (keyboardist for Yes, The Moody Blues) is born in Morges, Switzerland.
1949 John Illsley (bass guitarist for Dire Straits) is born in Leicester, England.
1961 Curt Smith (bass guitarist, vocalist for Tears for Fears) is born in Bath, Somerset, England.
1966 The Supremes record "Love Is Like an Itching In My Heart."
1974 Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama" was released.
1992 Billy Joel graduates! He finally gets his high school diploma from Hicksville High School in Long Island, New York. He didn't graduate with his class in 1967 because of a missed English credit.
2010 JoJo Billingsley (backing vocalist for Lynyrd Skynyrd) dies of cancer at age 58…..Ma y she RIP……….
SOME FOLKS THAT DIED ON THIS DATE
1997 Brian Keith, actor (Family Affair), commits suicide at 75
1987 Jackie Gleason, comedian (Honeymooners), dies of colon cancer at 71
1908 Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President, 1885 - 1889, 1893 - 1897, dies at 71
SOME FOLKS BORN ON THIS DATE
Jack Dempsey 1895 – Boxer
Billy Casper 1931 - Golfer
Michele Lee 1942 - Actress ("Knots Landing"), singer, dancer
Mick Fleetwood 1947 - Musician
Jeff Beck 1944 - Musician (Yardbirds)
Colin Blunstone 1945 - Singer, songwriter (The Zombies)
John Illsley 1949 - Musician (Dire Straits)
Nancy Allen 1950 - Actress
Curt Smith 1961 - Musician (Tears For Fears)
AOTD
Another one I’ve been holding in my file folder…….Short and sweet today……Mike Bloomberg, step your pompous @$$ up on the podium, put that crown of shame on your bloated head, for I now anoint you @$$Hole of the Day……How that US Presidential Campaign that you tried to buy work out for you…….To be so rich, you’re a stupid schumk……One more thing Mikey, you can KMA………
HAPPY TRAILS FOLKS
As always folks, I hope each of you have a Great Bulldawg Day.......GATA.....THWGT......MAGA......Go Dawgs......God Bless........
That’s All Folks………………
