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[CigarBanter]

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[A Friend of Charlie]

You can blame DST for the early flip.  I'm running on fumes here and I'm not waiting around another 30 minutes.  Therefore welcome to Thursday!

[Bad Dad]

You can blame DST for the early flip.  I'm running on fumes here and I'm not waiting around another 30 minutes.  Therefore welcome to Thursday!

I don't blame you.  I can't see how you stay up this late just to flip a computer screen anyway...?

[Travellin Dave]

You can blame DST for the early flip.  I'm running on fumes here and I'm not waiting around another 30 minutes.  Therefore welcome to Thursday!

I don't blame you.  I can't see how you stay up this late just to flip a computer screen anyway...?

Early flip indeed you tired old goat!

[Bad Dad]

How ya doing Dave...?

[Bad Dad]

I'm heading to bed.  Good night all...!

[Travellin Dave]

Nite BD.

[Travellin Dave]

Time to make room for Mr. Chip.  Nite all.

[LSUFAN]

Good morning guys.

[LSUFAN]

4 AVO Maduro Robusto (5.0"x50)
         10/39.99
 3 PDR 1878 Cubano Especial Capa Madura
          5/19.50
 2 Diesel Uncut
         10/27.50
 1 Rocky Patel Catch 22
          5/19.99

[LSUFAN]

5 E.P. Carrillo Dark Rituals Robusto (5.0"x50)
          5/23.50
 4 AVO Maduro Robusto (5.0"x50)
         10/39.99
 3 PDR 1878 Cubano Especial Capa Madura
          5/19.50
 2 Diesel Uncut
         10/27.50
 1 Rocky Patel Catch 22
          5/19.99

[LSUFAN]

On this day in history ..
1000 - Odo of Lagery elected as Pope Urban II, replacing Victor III
1054 - Pope Leo IX escapes captivity & returns to Rome
1144 - Gherardo Caccianemici elected Pope Lucius II, succeeding Callistus II
1350 - Orvieto city says it will behead & burn Jewish-Christian couples
1365 - University of Vienna founded
1496 - Jews are expelled from Syria
1572 - LuĦs Vaz de Camoes publishes "Os LusĦados" in Portugal
1587 - English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower
1594 - Company of Distant established for business on East-Indies
1597 - England routes troops to Amiens
1609 - Bermuda becomes an English colony
1619 - Dutch settlement on Java changes name to Batavia
1622 - Ignatius of Loyola declared a saint
1642 - Abel Tasman is 1st European in New Zealand
1664 - 1st naturalization act in American colonies
1664 - New Jersey becomes a British colony
1689 - Former English King James II lands in Ireland
1737 - Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy
1755 - 1st steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine
1773 - Jeanne Baptiste Pointe de Sable found settlement now known as Chicago
1789 - US Post Office established
1799 - Austria declares war on France

[LSUFAN]

1848 - 2nd republic established in France
1849 - 1st gold seekers arrive in Nicaragua en route to Calif
1850 - 1st US $20 gold piece issued
1857 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Simon Boccanegra," premieres in Venice
1860 - Congress accepts Pre-emption Bill: free land in West for colonists
1865 - Affair near Lone Jack, Missouri
1867 - Last French troops leave Mexico
1868 - Britain annexed Basutoland in Africa
1868 - Congress abolishes manufacturer's tax
1868 - Great Britain annexes Basutoland in Africa
1877 - British annex Walvis Bay in southern Africa
1877 - Great Britain annexes Walvis Bay at Cape colony
1884 - Mississippi establishes 1st US state college for women
1888 - 2nd day of the Great blizzard of '88 in NE US (400 die)
1889 - Battle at Metema (Gallabad): Ethiopian Emperor Yohannes IV, defeated
1889 - Start of South Africa's 1st Test, v England, Port Elizabeth
1894 - Pittsburgh issues free season tickets for ladies on Tuesday & Friday
1896 - 1st movie in Netherlands (Kalverstr 220)
1897 - Vincent d'Indy's opera "Fervaal," premieres in Brussel
1900 - President Steyn of Orange-Free state flees from Bloemfontein
1901 - Ground is broken for Boston's 1st AL ballpark (Huntington Ave Grounds)
1903 - NY Highlanders (Yankees) approved as members of AL
1904 - 1st main line electric train in UK (Liverpool to Southport)
1904 - Andrew Carnegie establishes Carnegie Hero Fund
1906 - Heavy storm ravages Dutch west coast
1908 - Stanley Cup: Mont Wanderers sweep Win Maple Leafs in 2 games
1910 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers beat Berlin (Kitchener), 7-3
1912 - Capt Albert Berry performs 1st parachute jump from an airplane
1912 - Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) forms in Savannah, by Juliette Gordon Low
1912 - Helen Hayes Theater opens at 238 W 44th St NYC
1913 - Foundation stone of the Australian capital in Canberra laid
1916 - French airship sinks British submarine D3
1917 - Russian Dumas sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets
1917 - Stalin, Kamenev & Muranov arrives in St Petersburg
1919 - Austrian National Meeting affirms Anschluss (incorporate into Germany)
1919 - George Bernard Shaw's "Augustus Does His Bit," premieres in NYC

[LSUFAN]

1925 - British govt of Baldwin refuses to ratify Geneva agreement
1926 - Denmark begins unilateral disarmament
1926 - Pope Pius XI names J E van Roey archbishop of Malines Belgium
1930 - Mohandas Gandhi begins 200m (300km) march protesting British salt tax
1930 - Stella Walsh sets record for the 220-yard dash (0:26.1)
1933 - FDR conducts his 1st "fireside chat"
1934 - Acting Pres Constantine P„ts commits coup in Tallinn Estonia
1934 - Josip Broz (Tito) freed from jail
1934 - Paul Hindemith's "Mathis der Maler," premieres in Berlin
1935 - England establishes 30 MPH speed limit for towns & villages
1938 - Nazi Germany invades Austria (Anschluss)
1939 - Pope Pius XII crowned in Vatican ceremonies
1940 - Finland surrenders to Russia during WW II, gives Karelische Isthmus
1941 - German occupiers confiscate AVRO studios in Netherlands
1942 - British troops vacate the Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal
1943 - Soviet troops liberate Wjasma
1945 - 30 Amsterdammers executed by nazi occupiers
1945 - British Empire celebrates it's 1st British Empire Day
1945 - Italy's Communist Party (CPI) calls for armed uprising in Italy
1945 - NY is 1st to prohibit discrimination by race & creed in employment
1945 - USSR returns Transylvania to Romania

[LSUFAN]

1946 - Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland
1947 - "Chocolate Soldier" opens at Century Theater NYC for 69 performances
1947 - Belgian govt of Huysmans resigns
1947 - Pres Truman introduces Truman-doctrine to fight communism
1948 - -5ĝF lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March
1950 - Belgium votes (58%) for return of King Leopold III
1950 - Pope Pius XII encyclical "On combating atheistic propaganda"
1951 - Baseball Commish Happy Chandler loses fight (9-7) to stay in office
1951 - Communist troops driven out of Seoul
1954 - 1st performance of Arnold Sch”nberg's "Moses und Aaron"
1956 - Dow Jones closes above 500 for 1st time (500.24)
1957 - German DR accepts 22 Russian divisions
1958 - British Empire Day is renamed "Commonwealth Day"
1959 - Dutch Liberal Party wins 2nd parliamentary elections
1959 - US House joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood
1961 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Miami Golf Open
1962 - Dutch Premier De Quay announces secret talks with Indonesia
1963 - Beatles perform as a trio, John Lennon is ill with a cold
1963 - Bob Dylan cancels "Ed Sullivan Show" television appearance
1964 - 6th Grammy Awards: Days of Wine & Roses, Striesand wins 2
1964 - Jimmy Hoffa sentenced to 8 years
1964 - Malcolm X resigns from Nation of Islam
1964 - SN Behrmann's "But for Whom Charlie," premieres in NYC
1964 - WKAB TV channel 32 in Montgomery, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1966 - Bobby Hull's 51st goal of season, sets record
1966 - Jockey Johnny Longden retires after 40 years (6,032 wins)
1966 - Love's 1st album released "Love"
1966 - Pioneer Plaza dedicated [SF?]
1966 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 - Austria's Reinhold Bachler ski jumps 505 feet
1967 - Indonesian congress deprives president Sukarno of authority
1968 - Mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1968 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 - 11th Grammy Awards: Mrs Robinson, By the Time I Get to Phoenix wins
1969 - 120 joints found at George & Patti Harrison's home
1969 - Paul McCartney marries Linda Louise Eastman in London
1970 - US lowers voting age from 21 to 18
1971 - Rolling Stone Mick Jagger marries Bianca P‚rez Morena de Macias
1971 - Syrian premier Hafez Assad elected president
1971 - Turkish Government of Demirel forced to resign by Army
1972 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Lady Eve Golf Open