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  • DaddysKat
    3,554 Posts
    Wed, Feb 5 2014 1:25 PM

    Any sports fans out there care to ponder a guess as to whose birthday it is ... specifically the two I mentioned earlier?????

    Come on ... if you follow MLB or the NFL, these two people should be well known to you.

  • WigerToods2010
    8,445 Posts
    Wed, Feb 5 2014 5:43 PM

    DaddysKat:
    One played MLB baseball ... went by the name of "Hank" when he played.

    He's got the same surname as a certain EP's middle name!

    I know who it is but not after yer baws, Kat.

    DaddysKat:
    The other played NFL football ... a QB, coached by "the man in the hat".  

    Got him too...Same initials as a famous pop star with a rather large nose and a penchant for peroxide blondes.

    Imagine lil ole moi knowing all this American Sport trivia without even using Google.

    Aye..imagine it indeed.

    :O)

     

  • DaddysKat
    3,554 Posts
    Wed, Feb 5 2014 6:04 PM

    Sports Trivia answers:

    Henry "Hank" Aaron is 80 today

    Roger Staubach is 72.

    And the trivia answer for the free sleeve of golf balls ... The adding machine, patented in 1850.

    Thanks Wiger for your participation.

  • SweetiePie
    4,925 Posts
    Thu, Feb 6 2014 7:57 AM

    February 6

    1665-1714  Anne Stuart, Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland

    But then in 1707, the Acts of Union between England & Scotland formed the United Kingdom of Great Britain...still the Queen but was indeed the last Monarch of The House of Stuart...some descriptions? OK...fat, constantly pregnant, under the influence of favourites...not a fool but not wise, nor entertaining in conversation...very ignorant, very fearful, very little judgement and surrounded by many artful people...BUT BEHOLD! it is a wonderful chair.

    1732-1782 General Charles Lee

    Born in England, was a British soldier during the seven years war, also fought for Poland, returned to America to buy an estate in Virginia, became a General in the Continental Army with eyes for being its Commander in Chief (it went to George Washington, thank God), was captured by the infamous Banastre Tarleton, was released only to screw-up an important battle, was kicked out of the Army, then said "Cheerio"

    1748-1830 Adam Weishaupt

    Founder of the Order of Illuminati...that is enough

    1756-1836 Aaron Burr

    Well, I'll try...extremely high IQ with a pure gold education to match...always top of the class...arrogant doesn't cut it...his ego was larger than the andromeda. Sadly, his name is in place as our 3rd Vice President. He was always( in his opinion ) the biggest head in the room even when Jefferson & Hamilton were present...a thing called delusional...Duel. A strange thing. You get into a beef, set up a duel with loaded pistols to gain satisfaction, face each other and fire above and away toward the head of each other (miss) and receive the satisfaction and settle the beef....well, Hamilton aimed high right and missed, Burr, not properly aimed, screemed a lead ball through the spine of Hamilton...Duel Burr...an SOB & a son of a gun...at least no one could stand him.

    OH, there is a candy-bar named after Teddy Roosevelt's baby girl Ruth

     

     

     

  • SweetiePie
    4,925 Posts
    Thu, Feb 6 2014 1:13 PM

    OK, I know what you are thinking...How could she not mention The Sultan of Swat?

    1895- George Herman Ruth "The Babe" ?

    No, you were thinking of how stupid I was to forget...the one and only

    Inventer, Founder and Chief Cook & Bottle Washer of...MURDER INC.!!!

    Yep, 1897- Louis "Lepke" ("little louis" in Yiddish) Buchalter

    Hitman, racketeer, bootlegger & extortionist (he could do it all, baby) was born in NYC and received his education in the Lower East Side, The Cheshire Reformatory, Sing Sing, Auburn Prison, Leavenworth, then back to Sing Sing to complete his education. He was associates of Jake Shapiro,Tommy Luchese, Albert Anastasia, along with a host of others. He can claim Dutch Shultz as one of his hits, and proudly claim to be the only Mob Boss to receive the death sentence for murder. In 1931, he married the former Betty Wasserman and both were active at Union Temple and Kol Israel Synagogue in Brooklyn.  Sing Sing was his last stop after sitting down in a chair he found quite shocking. He now rests at Mount Hebron Cemetary in Flushing NY. 

  • SweetiePie
    4,925 Posts
    Fri, Feb 7 2014 6:33 AM

    SweetiePie:

    OK, I know what you are thinking...How could she not mention The Sultan of Swat?

    1895- George Herman Ruth "The Babe" ?

    Well, no one corrected me. I did it on purpose to see if anyone reads this crap

    The Sultan of Swat was Walter Hagen, not Babe Ruth. I left out Ronald Reagen to see if any one would haze me...no dice. So, just quickie, "who cares ?" Sir Thomas More stuff for now.

    1102- Empress Matilda, Princess of England

    1478-Sir Thomas More, England

    1804- John Deere, Vermont Blacksmith & Founder of Deere an Co.

    1812- Charles Dickens, England

    ~SP~

  • DaddysKat
    3,554 Posts
    Fri, Feb 7 2014 8:12 AM

    7th February,

    Actors:

    Ashton Kutcher is 36

    James Spader is 54

    Miguel Ferrer is 59

    Graham Mctavish is 53

    Jason Gedrick is 49

    and Victor Webster is 41

    Comedians:

    Chris Rock is 49

    Eddie Izzard is 52

    Robert Smigel is 54

    Athletes:

    Steve Nash is 40

    Steven Stamkos is 24

    Isaiah Thomas is 25

    Jawan Howard is 41

    and Chris Mears is 21

    Singers/Musicians:

    Garth Brooks is 52      (love the song, "The Dance")

    David Bryan is also 52

    and saxophonist King Curtis is 80

    Also ...

    Felix the Cat is 78

    and the game Monopoly is 79!

     

     

  • SweetiePie
    4,925 Posts
    Sat, Feb 8 2014 6:50 AM

    JANUARY 8

    412 - St. Proclus, Patriarch of Constantinople

    1820 - William Tecumseh Sherman ("Cump" to his troops) Major General Confederate Army

    1828 - Jules Verne

    1920 - Lana Turner

    1931 - James Dean

    1944 - Bunky Henry

    Oh, and if you want to know anything about Pebble Beach I've played it 11 times.

  • DaddysKat
    3,554 Posts
    Sat, Feb 8 2014 11:51 AM

    8 February,

    A special shout-out to a future music composer and Saxophonist ... my cousin Derek, who is 22 today!

    Also on 8 February ...

    Actors/Actresses:

    Nick Nolte is 73

    Jack Lemmon is 89

    Mary Steenburgen is 61

    Ted Koppel is 74

    Gary Coleman is 46

    Writer John Grisham is 59 

    Musicians:

    Bill Evans (saxophonist) is 56

    John Williams (composer) is 82

    Vince Neil (singer) is 53

    Jeremy Davis (Bassist) is 29

    David Phoenix Farrell (Bassist) is 37

    and ...

    Walt Disney Studios is 88 today!

     

  • SweetiePie
    4,925 Posts
    Sun, Feb 9 2014 6:42 AM

    February 9

    1404 - Constantine XI Dragases, last Byzantine Emperor

    1533 - Shimazo Yoshihisa, JAPANESE SAMURAI

    1748 - Luther Martin, American Patriot

    1773 - William Henry Harrison, 9th President ( after his innaugaration speech of three hours in cold, sleet-weather, a sore throat came along, he got sick, and dropped dead 30 days later.)

    1902 - Gertrude Schlotz-Klink, German Womens Leader

    1933 - JO ANN PRENTICE, LPGA

    1942 - Carole King (Klein)

    1958 - SANDY LYLE, hAGGIS lOVER & Green Jacket Owner

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