Mint years.

[paigevz]

So what else is new? Hi Ash! I'll brb, gotta switch to laptop.

 

[ashjohnson80]

I'm cold.

 

[paigevz]

Put some clothes on.

 

[ashjohnson80]

I got clothes on!

 

[paigevz]

I got clothes on!

Oh. Well, that's unusual isn't it???? Wrap up in a blanket then.

 

[ashjohnson80]

Oh. Well, that's unusual isn't it???? Wrap up in a blanket then.

When my DH was in high school he used to streak grocery stores. Somebody has videos of it.

 

[paigevz]

Really? Sounds like your kind of guy. How does he feel about the videos being out there??

 

[ashjohnson80]

Really? Sounds like your kind of guy. How does he feel about the videos being out there??

he likes it.

 

[paigevz]

he likes it.

 

[paigevz]

1948. Think I'll google that year and see what I get.

MAJOR EVENTS:
Mahatma Gandhi assassinated in India
House Un-American Activities Committee accuses Alger Hiss of spying for the Soviet Union
Communists seize power in Czechoslovakia
U.S. Congress ratifies Marshall Plan, approving $17 billion in European aid
State of Israel created; admits over 200,000 European war refugees
Soviet Union seals off land routes to Berlin; West responds with massive airlift of provisions
President Harry S Truman re-elected in upset over Thomas E. Dewey
President Truman integrates the U.S. Armed Forces


BUSINESS & ECONOMY:
U.S. continues to cope with severe postwar inflation while rocked by labor unrest
United Auto Workers succeed in linking wage increases to cost-of-living index in contract with General Motors
Congress enacts federal rent controls


SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY:
Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male is the first large-scale study of individuals' sexual habits, with stunning revelations about infidelity, homosexuality and other issues
U.S. government conducts extensive missile tests in New Mexico desert
200-inch telescope at Mount Palomar begins operation
Cortisone introduced as an arthritis treatment
"Big bang" theory of the universe's origin postulated
Orville Wright dies


SPORTS:
World Series: Cleveland over Boston, 4-2
Olympics held in London
"Citation" wins Preakness, Belmont and Kentucky Derby
Boxer Joe Louis retires
Babe Ruth dies


ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT:
Movies: Hamlet, Macbeth (Orson Welles), The Naked City, Oliver Twist, The Fallen Idol
Songs: Nature Boy, Buttons and Bows, All I Want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth
TV Shows: Howdy Doody, Philco TV Playhouse, Toast of the Town, Kraft Television Theatre, Meet the Press
Books: The Big Fisherman, Lloyd C. Douglas; Crusade in Europe, Dwight D. Eisenhower; Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton; The Ides of March, Thorton Wilder; Tales of the South Pacific, James Michener; The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer
Long-playing (33-1/3 RPM) record invented
Boxing and wrestling are TV's prime attractions


EVERYDAY LIFE:
Selective Service inaugurated, providing a continuous peacetime military draft until repealed in 1973
New York's Idlewild Airport opens (renamed JFK Airport in 1963)
Swiss outdoorsman George de Mestral invents Velcro
Noted food critic Duncan Hines founds a company to make prepackaged cake mixes


FUN FACTS:
Popcorn sold on a mass scale for the first time
"Scrabble" introduced

 

[paigevz]

1964, 1976, 1995, 2000.

Can anyone see a pattern in those numbers????

 

[paigevz]

Money! It's a blast! I don't know these other words here.....

 

[paigevz]

Allrighty then. Found myself a place to hook up and everybody's asleep from too much turkey or getting ready for tomorrow.

So, is anybody wanting to check pockets??

I have found a 2004 quarter. That's the same year I joined the DIS boards.

 

[paigevz]

Hmmm, too organized.

Better!!!