Post by: CigarBanter on July 27, 2018, 12:01:38 AM
Post by: LuvTooGolf on July 27, 2018, 05:54:56 AM
Post by: Travellin Dave on July 27, 2018, 06:47:27 AM
Post by: LuvTooGolf on July 27, 2018, 06:48:29 AM
TGIF!Morning, HomeForNowDave.
Post by: Travellin Dave on July 27, 2018, 06:50:23 AM
So right you are.TGIF!Morning, HomeForNowDave.
Post by: Travellin Dave on July 27, 2018, 06:50:43 AM
Post by: LuvTooGolf on July 27, 2018, 07:02:10 AM
Folks must be sleeping in today.Guess so.
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Post by: A Friend of Charlie on July 27, 2018, 07:18:52 AM
Good morning, Daves.Folks must be sleeping in today.Guess so.
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Post by: Travellin Dave on July 27, 2018, 07:26:21 AM
Today’s Highlight in History:
On July 27, 1974, the House Judiciary Committee voted 27-11 to adopt the first of three articles of impeachment against President Richard Nixon, charging he had personally engaged in a course of conduct designed to obstruct justice in the Watergate case.
On this date:
In 1789, President George Washington signed a measure establishing the Department of Foreign Affairs, forerunner of the Department of State.
In 1866, Cyrus W. Field finished laying out the first successful underwater telegraph cable between North America and Europe (a previous cable in 1858 burned out after only a few weeks’ use).
In 1909, during the first official test of the U.S. Army’s first airplane, Orville Wright flew himself and a passenger, Lt. Frank Lahm, above Fort Myer, Va., for one hour and 12 minutes.
In 1921, Canadian researcher Frederick Banting and his assistant, Charles Best, succeeded in isolating the hormone insulin at the University of Toronto.
In 1942, during World War II, the First Battle of El Alamein in Egypt ended in a draw as Allied forces stalled the progress of Axis invaders. (The Allies went on to win a clear victory over the Axis in the Second Battle of El Alamein later that year.)
In 1953, the Korean War armistice was signed at Panmunjom, ending three years of fighting.
In 1960, Vice President Richard M. Nixon was nominated for president on the first ballot at the Republican national convention in Chicago.
In 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed the Kerner Commission to assess the causes of urban rioting, the same day black militant H. Rap Brown told a press conference in Washington that violence was “as American as cherry pie.”
In 1980, on day 267 of the Iranian hostage crisis, the deposed Shah of Iran died at a military hospital outside Cairo, Egypt, at age 60.
In 1981, 6-year-old Adam Walsh was abducted from a department store in Hollywood, Fla., and was later murdered. (His father, John Walsh, became a well-known crime victims’ advocate.)
In 1996, terror struck the Atlanta Olympics as a pipe bomb exploded at Centennial Olympic Park, directly killing one person and injuring 111. (Anti-government extremist Eric Rudolph later pleaded guilty to the bombing, exonerating security guard Richard Jewell, who had been wrongly suspected.)
In 2003, comedian Bob Hope died in Toluca Lake, California, at age 100.
Post by: Travellin Dave on July 27, 2018, 07:26:51 AM
Five years ago: Security forces and armed men clashed with supporters of Egypt’s ousted president, Mohammed Morsi, killing at least 80 people. More than a thousand inmates escaped a prison in Libya as protesters stormed political party offices across the country. Former Louisiana congresswoman Lindy Boggs, 97, died in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
One year ago: New White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci, in an interview published by The New Yorker, attacked chief of staff Reince Priebus and other White House officials in sometimes profane terms. (A day later, President Donald Trump announced that Priebus was being replaced by John Kelly. Scaramucci himself was ousted on July 31.) The Boy Scouts’ chief executive apologized to those offended by the aggressive political rhetoric in President Donald Trump’s recent speech to the Scouts’ national jamboree. As stock in Amazon hit an all-time high, CEO Jeff Bezos briefly became the world’s richest man; Microsoft founder Bill Gates reclaimed the lead by afternoon as Amazon stock fell nearly 1 percent for the day.
Post by: Travellin Dave on July 27, 2018, 07:29:22 AM
TV producer Norman Lear is 90.
Actor Jerry Van Dyke is 81.
Sportscaster Irv Cross is 73.
Actor John Pleshette is 70.
Singer Bobbie Gentry is 68.
Actress-director Betty Thomas is 64.
Olympic gold medal figure skater Peggy Fleming is 64.
Singer Maureen McGovern is 63.
Actress Janet Eilber is 61.
Rock musician Tris Imboden (Chicago) is 61.
Actress Roxanne Hart is 58.
Country musician Duncan Cameron is 56.
Comedian-actress-writer Carol Leifer is 56.
Comedian Bill Engvall is 55.
Jazz singer Karrin Allyson is 50.
Country singer Stacy Dean Campbell is 45.
Rock singer Juliana Hatfield is 45.
Actor Julian McMahon is 44.
Comedian Maya Rudolph is 40.
Rock musician Abe Cunningham is 39.
Singer-songwriter Pete Yorn is 38.
MLB player Alex Rodriguez is 37.
Actor Seamus Dever is 36.
Actor Jonathan Rhys (rees) Meyers is 35.
Actor Blair Redford is 29.
Singer Cheyenne Kimball is 22.
Post by: Travellin Dave on July 27, 2018, 07:29:59 AM
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on July 27, 2018, 08:06:20 AM
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on July 27, 2018, 08:57:40 AM
Today's Birthdays:
TV producer Norman Lear is 90.
Recently heard him interviewed and he still has his wits about him. More than I can say for the folks around here.
Post by: FloridaDean on July 27, 2018, 08:57:43 AM
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on July 27, 2018, 09:00:10 AM
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on July 27, 2018, 09:01:00 AM
I'd like to say good morning but I can't I'm having a hard time seeing so I'll probably going to take a break for a couple of weeks until my eyes get fixed thank God for this speech to typeWorks pretty well. You ought to think about using it more often.
Post by: LuvTooGolf on July 27, 2018, 09:02:55 AM
LALTSI'd like to say good morning but I can't I'm having a hard time seeing so I'll probably going to take a break for a couple of weeks until my eyes get fixed thank God for this speech to typeWorks pretty well. You ought to think about using it more often.
Post by: LuvTooGolf on July 27, 2018, 09:03:26 AM
ZzzzzzI'll be hitting the links bright and early tomorrow, so if you hear any faint cursing on the breeze, you'll know it came from the west.
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on July 27, 2018, 09:25:06 AM
Living up to your moniker. I'm impressed.ZzzzzzI'll be hitting the links bright and early tomorrow, so if you hear any faint cursing on the breeze, you'll know it came from the west.
Post by: razgueado on July 27, 2018, 09:28:32 AM
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on July 27, 2018, 09:35:53 AM
Morning, muchachos...from onboard the Tertian Quid in the Port of Everett Marina. Everett is a dump of a town, but they have a really nice marina.Good morning, Bret. It's gotta be better than being at work. AmIright?
Post by: razgueado on July 27, 2018, 09:48:11 AM
Yup(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180727/dd7ddf7c685b1ee4d3dd8399d8f17274.jpg)Morning, muchachos...from onboard the Tertian Quid in the Port of Everett Marina. Everett is a dump of a town, but they have a really nice marina.Good morning, Bret. It's gotta be better than being at work. AmIright?
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on July 27, 2018, 10:13:34 AM
Beautiful! Looks like you and SCTex are both on the water today.Yup(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180727/dd7ddf7c685b1ee4d3dd8399d8f17274.jpg)Morning, muchachos...from onboard the Tertian Quid in the Port of Everett Marina. Everett is a dump of a town, but they have a really nice marina.Good morning, Bret. It's gotta be better than being at work. AmIright?
Don't feed the fish.
Post by: Travellin Dave on July 27, 2018, 10:38:41 AM
Yea, but that's what makes us fun!Today's Birthdays:
TV producer Norman Lear is 90.
Recently heard him interviewed and he still has his wits about him. More than I can say for the folks around here.
Post by: Travellin Dave on July 27, 2018, 10:41:30 AM
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Post by: Travellin Dave on July 27, 2018, 10:59:06 AM
Post by: razgueado on July 27, 2018, 11:02:11 AM
Morning BoatswainRaz.Bo'sun my ass. I'm the damned XO.
Post by: razgueado on July 27, 2018, 11:03:10 AM
Gonna be a rousing post day today for sure.Well here. From yesterday.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180727/6891b8132702826be4fa48a38ae65f1d.jpg)
Post by: flip from jersey on July 27, 2018, 11:29:24 AM
a buy a dozen donuts, get a dozen glazed donuts for $1. There was a long line, in their Penn Station shop
this morning, and they were out of donuts! So I stopped by Tim Horton's on my way out of Penn, and
got a couple of 40 packs of Timbits(think Dunkin munchkins). So stop by the desk for some.
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on July 27, 2018, 11:51:48 AM
Ok I have some Timbits, by my desk this morning. Today is Krispy Kreme's birthday, so they haveI may just do that...
a buy a dozen donuts, get a dozen glazed donuts for $1. There was a long line, in their Penn Station shop
this morning, and they were out of donuts! So I stopped by Tim Horton's on my way out of Penn, and
got a couple of 40 packs of Timbits(think Dunkin munchkins). So stop by the desk for some.
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on July 27, 2018, 11:53:36 AM
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Post by: Travellin Dave on July 27, 2018, 12:14:07 PM
Whatever you say Mr. CourvoisierMorning BoatswainRaz.Bo'sun my ass. I'm the damned XO.
Post by: flip from jersey on July 27, 2018, 12:15:46 PM
OK, I tried image search and Google claims it's a lizard. Obviously, they got that one wrong. What say you outdoor kinda folks? This thing is the size of a small mouse.those are cicada shells, I believe. You only see them once ever 7 years.
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What is frightening is the cicada killing wasp, which preys on them.
Post by: Travellin Dave on July 27, 2018, 12:16:12 PM
OK, I tried image search and Google claims it's a lizard. Obviously, they got that one wrong. What say you outdoor kinda folks? This thing is the size of a small mouse.It is the shell shed by cicada's after they emerge from the ground then the adult dries its wings and flies away to make those classic summertime sounds.
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Post by: Travellin Dave on July 27, 2018, 12:20:15 PM
Individual periodic types of cicada's have cycles of 13 or 17 years. Some have abbreviated cycles. There are also annual cicadas so every summer there are some. It is thought that the cycles are meant as a way of starving out their predators, like the cicada killer.OK, I tried image search and Google claims it's a lizard. Obviously, they got that one wrong. What say you outdoor kinda folks? This thing is the size of a small mouse.those are cicada shells, I believe. You only see them once ever 7 years.
(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180727/0a154e5e7687eb6a36d76a02126de412.jpg)
What is frightening is the cicada killing wasp, which preys on them.
Post by: Threebean on July 27, 2018, 12:29:26 PM
OK, I tried image search and Google claims it's a lizard. Obviously, they got that one wrong. What say you outdoor kinda folks? This thing is the size of a small mouse.It's an alien invasion. Best to go hide in your safe space until you get the all clear.
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Post by: LuvTooGolf on July 27, 2018, 12:42:41 PM
This is clearly the correct answer.OK, I tried image search and Google claims it's a lizard. Obviously, they got that one wrong. What say you outdoor kinda folks? This thing is the size of a small mouse.It's an alien invasion. Best to go hide in your safe space until you get the all clear.
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Post by: ss2 on July 27, 2018, 12:59:12 PM
Yep, Cicadas, but there is a specie that comes back every year. The 7 year ones i've seen are smaller and orange & black striped, while the yearly ones around my way are bigger and green. the 7 year ones come as swarms of thousands, but the yearly ones are more individual with only a handful around at a time. good afternoon all!OK, I tried image search and Google claims it's a lizard. Obviously, they got that one wrong. What say you outdoor kinda folks? This thing is the size of a small mouse.those are cicada shells, I believe. You only see them once ever 7 years.
(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180727/0a154e5e7687eb6a36d76a02126de412.jpg)
What is frightening is the cicada killing wasp, which preys on them.
Post by: Threebean on July 27, 2018, 01:03:34 PM
Afternoon, Sam, welcome to insectbanter.com.Yep, Cicadas, but there is a specie that comes back every year. The 7 year ones i've seen are smaller and orange & black striped, while the yearly ones around my way are bigger and green. the 7 year ones come as swarms of thousands, but the yearly ones are more individual with only a handful around at a time. good afternoon all!OK, I tried image search and Google claims it's a lizard. Obviously, they got that one wrong. What say you outdoor kinda folks? This thing is the size of a small mouse.those are cicada shells, I believe. You only see them once ever 7 years.
(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180727/0a154e5e7687eb6a36d76a02126de412.jpg)
What is frightening is the cicada killing wasp, which preys on them.
(https://static.iris.net.co/semana/upload/images/2013/5/25/344408_115719_1.jpg)
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on July 27, 2018, 01:11:16 PM
Post by: Threebean on July 27, 2018, 01:27:00 PM
I appreciate all the answers. Clearly, you all are better than Google.Well, duh...
Post by: flip from jersey on July 27, 2018, 01:49:45 PM
it don't take much...I appreciate all the answers. Clearly, you all are better than Google.Well, duh...
Post by: flip from jersey on July 27, 2018, 02:02:52 PM
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on July 27, 2018, 02:06:00 PM
I'm going to Huzzah before LTG!What? I believe that's not allowed.
Post by: flip from jersey on July 27, 2018, 02:09:56 PM
screw him, if he can't take a joke!I'm going to Huzzah before LTG!What? I believe that's not allowed.
Post by: LuvTooGolf on July 27, 2018, 02:10:43 PM
I'm going to Huzzah before LTG!Hazzuh yourself!
Post by: LuvTooGolf on July 27, 2018, 02:11:07 PM
Someone check the banter by-laws, please.I'm going to Huzzah before LTG!What? I believe that's not allowed.
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on July 27, 2018, 03:27:47 PM
Still scouring the books but it appears Flip is in violation.Someone check the banter by-laws, please.I'm going to Huzzah before LTG!What? I believe that's not allowed.
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on July 27, 2018, 03:54:36 PM
Post by: Travellin Dave on July 27, 2018, 04:00:15 PM
I appreciate all the answers. Clearly, you all are better than Google.That's what we're here for...always an opportunity for education, whether it's about cicadas, cigars, cataracts, golf or shaggin' seniors.
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on July 27, 2018, 04:27:56 PM
True dat.I appreciate all the answers. Clearly, you all are better than Google.That's what we're here for...always an opportunity for education, whether it's about cicadas, cigars, cataracts, golf or shaggin' seniors.
Post by: South Carolina Redfish on July 27, 2018, 04:35:23 PM
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Post by: A Friend of Charlie on July 27, 2018, 06:15:33 PM
Wish me luck on my commute.
Post by: Travellin Dave on July 27, 2018, 07:21:26 PM
I am looking at the finest rack I have ever seen👀Need some photographic evidence.