BN Pine Box Derby 3 (MAKE MONEY, IMPRESS YOUR FRIENDS...)

PHBeerman · Post by **PHBeerman** » April 14, 2005 12:11 pm

No action lately?

buffettbride · Post by **buffettbride** » April 14, 2005 12:11 pm

PHBeerman wrote:No action lately?

Not the Pine Box Derby kind anyway.

PHBeerman · Post by **PHBeerman** » April 14, 2005 12:12 pm

buffettbride wrote:
PHBeerman wrote:No action lately?
Not the Pine Box Derby kind anyway.

Umm Okay.

buffettbride · Post by **buffettbride** » April 14, 2005 12:13 pm

PHBeerman wrote:
buffettbride wrote:
PHBeerman wrote:No action lately?
Not the Pine Box Derby kind anyway.
Umm Okay.

What did you think I'd say???

bravedave · Post by **bravedave** » April 21, 2005 12:50 pm

Sail on Niels-Henning Oersted Pedersen, one of Denmark's best known jazz musicians... (btt from Pg8)

pair8head · Post by **pair8head** » April 21, 2005 12:52 pm

we need to keep this near the top.

MojosMama · Post by **MojosMama** » April 21, 2005 2:44 pm

When's Pine Box Derby 4 gonna start?

shakerofsalt · Post by **shakerofsalt** » April 21, 2005 2:45 pm

MojosMama wrote:When's Pine Box Derby 4 gonna start?

When someone from #3 kicks it.

MojosMama · Post by **MojosMama** » April 21, 2005 2:48 pm

shakerofsalt wrote:
MojosMama wrote:When's Pine Box Derby 4 gonna start?
When someone from #3 kicks it.

AHHHH....I was confused.......I was looking at the celebrity list from #2. Ooopsie.

pair8head · Post by **pair8head** » April 21, 2005 5:04 pm

MojosMama wrote:
shakerofsalt wrote:
MojosMama wrote:When's Pine Box Derby 4 gonna start?
When someone from #3 kicks it.
AHHHH....I was confused.......I was looking at the celebrity list from #2. Ooopsie.

Do you have a pick for round 3?

AlbatrossFlyer · Post by **AlbatrossFlyer** » April 22, 2005 10:21 am

eddie albert is 97 today. talk about 1 foot in the grave

st.somewhere · Post by **st.somewhere** » April 22, 2005 7:23 pm

I'm almost through with the Da Vanci Code. Let me tell ya... Had I read this book 2 months ago I never would have passed on the Pope. Christianity... Like the book says "<i>The best story ever sold...<i>"

bravedave · Post by **bravedave** » May 6, 2005 8:27 am

Col. David Hackworth, Hero of Vietnam War, Dies at 74

I didn't always agree with his views, but the man was brave, right up to the end.

RIP, Sir.

bravedave · Post by **bravedave** » May 6, 2005 8:37 am

Sorry. Registration required for that link.
Here's an excerpt:

David H. Hackworth, a much-decorated and highly unconventional former career Army officer who became a combat legend in Vietnam, and later enraged his superiors by lambasting the war on national television, died on Wednesday at a hospital in Tijuana, Mexico. He was 74.

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[At 14, he joined the merchant marine and served in the South Pacific. At 15, he paid someone to pose as his father and certify that he was old enough to join the Army. He...] won a battlefield commission at 20 to become the Korean War's youngest captain. He was America's youngest full colonel in Vietnam, and won a total of 91 medals, including two Distinguished Service Crosses, 10 Silver Stars, 8 Bronze Stars and 8 Purple Hearts.

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In Vietnam, he became an almost mythical figure, arriving in 1965 with the first group of American paratroopers and going on to command the helicopter unit that was later immortalized in the movie "Apocalypse Now." He drove his men so hard, he later wrote, that they put a $3,500 bounty on his head. Early in the war he wrote a primer on how best to fight the Vietcong.

His combat successes included wiping out 2,500 North Vietnamese soldiers while his troops suffered just 25 casualties.

In a 1971 interview with Nick Proffit of Newsweek, Gen. Creighton Abrams, a top commander in Vietnam, called Colonel Hackworth "the best battalion commander I ever saw in the United States Army."

General Abrams spoke shortly after Colonel Hackworth appeared on the ABC television program "Issues and Answers" and harshly criticized the conduct of the Vietnam War, saying it could not be won. He called the training inadequate and accused fellow officers of not understanding guerrilla warfare.

A report by the inspector general of the Army responded that Colonel Hackworth was derelict in his duties and had "acted without honor." General Abrams and other top officers moved to court-martial him, but eventually allowed him to resign with an honorable discharge.

Colonel Hackworth went to Australia, where he ...owned and ran an upscale restaurant. He also became a peace movement advocate. He later moved to Greenwich, Conn.

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After the war he volunteered for Korea, where he commanded an all-volunteer regiment known as the Wolfhound Raiders. In one battle he was shot in the head but refused to stop fighting. He received three Purple Hearts in Korea.

Long before the United States was visibly involved in Vietnam, he served there with the Special Forces. By April 1965 he was a confirmed career soldier and went back with the paratroopers, ready to fight a new kind of war. He commanded a Blackhawk "Air Cavalry" brigade in which pilots wore Civil War campaign hats and flew in helicopters with crossed swords painted on them.

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He became more and more independent, even rebellious, once threatening to take his troops to Canada if commanders persisted in talking about the use of nuclear weapons in Vietnam. He ran a bordello and a massage parlor to keep his men happy and relatively protected from a virulent strain of syphilis.
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Ward Just, in his introduction to Colonel Hackworth's "About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior" (Simon & Schuster, 1989), said, "This was the simple truth, but in the pusillanimous atmosphere of 1971, Hackworth was seen as insubordinate and treacherous. But not easily dismissed."
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PHBeerman · Post by **PHBeerman** » May 18, 2005 2:23 pm

Nobody had the Riddler?

CaptainP · Post by **CaptainP** » May 18, 2005 5:03 pm

PHBeerman wrote:Nobody had the Riddler?

Gorshin died?

AlbatrossFlyer · Post by **AlbatrossFlyer** » May 18, 2005 5:04 pm

CaptainP wrote:
PHBeerman wrote:Nobody had the Riddler?
Gorshin died?

yup....

CaptainP · Post by **CaptainP** » May 18, 2005 5:07 pm

Batman has not outlived all of the major villians except Catwoman.

bravedave · Post by **bravedave** » May 18, 2005 9:54 pm

Death Notices

Thanks, STS, for posting this link on your opening.
Reading the death notices makes me wonder who writes these things (and for what audience):

AP obituaries from 5/17/2005
Philip Spaulding, a naval architect who designed some of the world's largest ferry boats...
(the famous Captain Spaulding perhaps?)
Jose M. Lopez, the oldest living Hispanic recipient of the Medal of Honor...
(this would have been a better subhead on the 16th)

AP obituaries from 5/14/2005
The Rt. Rev. Hugh Montefiore, a Jewish-born Anglican archbishop and passionate environmentalist...
(Hope he had a big head too, cuz he wore a lot of hats)

AP obituaries from 5/13/2005
Jay Marshall, dean of the Society of American Magicians and the first entertainer to open for Frank Sinatra in Las Vegas...
(Now you see him...)

AlbatrossFlyer · Post by **AlbatrossFlyer** » May 19, 2005 4:23 pm

Former Chilean leader Gen. Augusto Pinochet was hospitalized at a military hospital in Santiago Thursday after suffering what was called a minor stroke, sources close to the general said.

i can only hope......