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Sunday, November 24, 2013, 3:53:13 AM- Yes I do this.....

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Most Recent Comment:	"ha ha ha, yep! " - Elle40

Saturday, November 23, 2013, 3:05:52 AM- From a request for a song

A man who was too young to remember November 22, 1963 reminded me of April 4 and June 5, 1968. This blog is for you Tux

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Most Recent Comment:	"always bought a tear to my eye too" - Safire13

Friday, November 22, 2013, 7:55:56 PM- 50 years ago

Late 1963 was a time far removed from what we know today. On one hand it was a more innocent time. On the other, it was a time of extreme worry about being annihilated from some leader having one vodka too many. On this date in 1963 I was a third grader. Little did I know how different my life would be over the coming three days and the following year. Our school consisted of 7 classrooms and a couple janitor closets used as the offices, carved out of a very old junior high school. A musty monument of steel, asbestos floor tiles, and granite; to the turn of the century. It was somewhere around 2 pm EST when the intercom came on. Yes this sounded just like the intercom in Peanuts. To this day I think the teachers and administration speak code. Much like the Apache and Sioux Nations code talkers from WWII. It sounds muffled to kids but the teachers know what is being said. Our teacher left the room, returning visibly shaken.

We were told to leave the room. Now usually when it was an emergency test, a siren would ring then we would go to the mezzanine level overlooking the gym We would bend over, stick our head in our ass, and hope we did not see a bright flash of light or an earth shattering kaboom. No, this time we went into the commons area. Where a TV set was set up. This was a 19inch black and white TV. Television in 1963 was not what it is today, at best it would be considered a toddler. There were no 24 hour news channels; it would be almost 20 years before the boom in cable TV. There was no streaming live video, Al Gore had not invented the internet yet (that’s a joke son, a joke). In our town of 75,000 people we had one TV station. It was a NBC affiliate so every night we watch Chet Huntley and David Brinkley give the news (usually smoking as they did) for all of 15 minutes. That and the Today Show was all the news NBC had at the time. If TV was a toddler then TV news was an infant.

So we sat there, cross legged on the floor, wondering what was going on. A couple teachers were sobbing. Except for that, it was an eerie silence. There was no sound coming from the Jr High areas. No class change bells were ringing. The Principal turned the TV on. After a short period time a talking head came on. To this day I don’t know who it was. But they were confirming that “…at approximately 12:30 pm CST today, President Kennedy was shot in Dallas.” I was only 9 years old at the time with no idea the impact this would have over the rest of my life. But I knew this was a horrible event. The rest of the time sitting on floor is a haze. Various people on TV blabbing away. The reported chaos as the reporters scrambled to get information. Remote live TV reporting was pretty much a newborn.

We sat there waiting for our buses. Yes I was bussed to a school for segregation purposes. You couldn’t have maybe 35 white kids going to an all-black school, even in Northwest Ohio, in 1963. The neighborhood kids were released early. But our bus driver, a hellfire and brimstone Baptist preacher, was also in the Guard. So he went to the Armory. With the school bus. So we sat. Watching the reports on TV. Some conflicting. Some flat out wrong. Our Principal told us they were trying to reach our parents to see if someone could pick us up. Again 1963. Most of us who had phones were on party lines. I got to sit cross legged on the floor, waiting for someone to get me, when it was announced that the acting press secretary would make an announcement. That announcement was John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, was dead.

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Most Recent Comment:	"I wasn't born, but can only imagine the horror of the time. I've watched countless hours of tv footage, conspiracy theorists, the magic bullet theory and the grassy knoll fixation. The killing of anyone is abhorrent, I DETEST guns of any kind with a passion . I understand the need for law enforcement to be armed with some kind of weapon, no neccesarily a gun." - Elle40

Thursday, November 21, 2013, 8:12:18 PM- A pig, a pug, and a cat

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Most Recent Comment:	"PUG PORN!!! they are all cute!" - free2bladyV

Wednesday, November 20, 2013, 7:03:35 PM- I am as normal as you

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Tuesday, November 19, 2013, 11:44:50 PM- Somedays I need to be reminded of this........

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Monday, November 18, 2013, 2:30:52 AM- Sunday Night Football theme (over the years)

It started with Pink - this version is real close to the song it was based on (Joan Jetts 'I hate myself')

Then we moved to the Faith Hill version

And finally we get Carrie Underwood

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Most Recent Comment:	"i love all of them!!!! Its music and its football! lets play!" - free2bladyV

Friday, November 15, 2013, 2:19:48 AM- You are out talking picture then this elk comes along.......

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Most Recent Comment:	"i saw this on face book too...an animal that big in my face would scare the shit outta me!" - free2bladyV

Monday, November 11, 2013, 12:12:57 AM- The witch of November come stealing.............

For personal reasons.

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Most Recent Comment:	"Truly love anything Gordon sings. I hope the reasons were good ones honey xx" - Whispermyname

Friday, November 8, 2013, 1:17:16 AM- Yahoo has corrected this

This morning I was glancing at Yahoo news while getting ready for an interview. I about died when I saw the teaser paragraph for a Spongebob episode

SpongeBob SquarePants loses his job
Everyone's favorite sea sponge is being laid by the Krusty Krab, a new trailer shows. How will he take the bad news? »

This has now been corrected to read "laid off...", but for a short while it did give new meaning to Krabby Patty

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Most Recent Comment:	"As tight as Krusty is with his money, he does know he'll have to pay Sponge Bob unemployment benefits doesn't he. Don't worry, the next show Sponge Bob will have his job back" - chargingram