Very Important Day In History

[Leo Tanner]

On this day we observe the event in which some guy with three boats accidentaly came across a large chunk of dirt an took credit fer bein the first one ta find it.


Leo

[Texas Lawdog]

It used to be a County Holiday for us, they did away with it and gave us Cesar Chavez Day instead.

[Leo Tanner]

All our banks are closed taday cause of ole Chris.  If I were of Norse or Chinese decent and needed ta get some cash taday, I'd be pi$$ed

     We have a Cesar Chavez highway down Marsal Will's way.  Thought it was strange cause most of the folks he was fightin fer wasn't payin the taxes it took ta build or maintain it.  But I guess that's just me.


Leo

[Ozark Tracker]

we got Columbus day, at least the mail didn't run    don't know bout that Cesar Chavez,  guessin he ain't from around here    course around here they celebrate several different than regular,  Martin Luther King day was still Robert E Lee's Birthday Celebration when we moved here,   
they put a slash in between the names now, just depends on what part of the state your in.

[Delmonico]

On this day we observe the event in which some guy with three boats accidentaly came across a large chunk of dirt an took credit fer bein the first one ta find it.


Leo

If the Eye-tall-yun in the employ of Spain would have did some checkin', there were folks who sorta knew it was here.

BTW I've been told nobody had any ideas the world was flat till that Longfella guy did another change of history in onna his poems.  Got it all wrong on Paul Revere ya know.

[Texas Lawdog]

I forgot about the banks being closed today. I'm waiting on my last check from the county to get here. Hopefully it will get here by the 15th.

[Trinity]

I'm chalkin' all that "world is round" bunk up together with the mess about the earth rotatin' around the sun.  

Some folks is just stoopid.

[Ozark Tracker]

you must be right, they done wrote it in a country song,   now we know they ain't wrong. 

There's an Elvis movie on the marquee sign
We've all seen at least three times
Everybody's broke, Bobby's got a buck
Put a dollar's worth of gas in his pickup truck
We're goin' ninty miles an hour down a dead end road
What's the hurre, son...where you gonna go?
We'ew gonna howl at the moon, shoot out the light
It's a small town Saturday night
It's a small town Saturday night

Lucy's got her lipstick on a little too bright
Bobby's gettin' drunk and lookin' for a fight
Liquor on his breath and trouble on his mind
And Lucy's just a kid along for the ride
Got a six-pack of beer and a bottle of wine
Gotta be bad just to have a good time
They're gonna howl at the moon, shoot out the light
It's a small town Saturday night
It's a small town Saturday night

Bobby told Lucy, "The world ain't round...
Drops off sharp at the edge of town
Lucy, you know the world must be flat
'Cause when people leave town, they never come back"
They go ninety miles an hour to the city limits sign
Put the pedal to the metal 'fore they chage their mind
They howl at the moon, shoot out the light
It's a small town Saturday night

They howl at the moon, shoot out the light
Yeah, it's a small town Saturday night
It's a small town Saturday night
It's a small town Saturday night

[Trinity]

See!  What'd Ah tail ya?

[Leo Tanner]

Well I don't see 'em closen the banks fer Mr. Vespucci either.  Guess they figured naming two of the worlds continents after him was enough.  Guess that's a pretty big honor, but at least they could mention it in the schools.

I'm chalkin' all that "world is round" bunk up together with the mess about the earth rotatin' around the sun.  

Some folks is just stoopid.

Leo

[Ozark Tracker]

I'm thinking we're just lucky they named them continents after his first name  Amerigo

we could'a be north and south Vespucci

[Texas Lawdog]

You're right about that OT.

[Leo Tanner]

Yeah, it would have been wierd throughout the years ta hear our enemys say, "Curse you Vespuccian dogs".
     It just don't have the right ring ta it.


Leo

[Texas Lawdog]

I sorta like Yankee Dogs.

[Lucky Irish Tom]

Hey Leo, wouldn't it be out of place for them to teach the truth in school? 

[Texas Lawdog]

I don't think that that's part of the program.

[litl rooster]

Hey Leo, wouldn't it be out of place for them to teach the truth in school? 

truth according to who?

[Texas Lawdog]

Their opinion of History.

[Ozark Tracker]

Just happened to notice this one.  33 years ago,  1975



by Gordon Lightfoot

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy.

With a load of iron ore - 26,000 tons more
Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty
That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed
When the gales of November came early

The ship was the pride of the American side
Coming back from some mill in Wisconson
As the big freighters go it was bigger than most
With a crew and the Captain well seasoned.

Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms
When they left fully loaded for Cleveland
And later that night when the ships bell rang
Could it be the North Wind they'd been feeling.

The wind in the wires made a tattletale sound
And a wave broke over the railing
And every man knew, as the Captain did, too,
T'was the witch of November come stealing.

The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait
When the gales of November came slashing
When afternoon came it was freezing rain
In the face of a hurricane West Wind

When supper time came the old cook came on deck
Saying fellows it's too rough to feed ya
At 7PM a main hatchway caved in
He said fellas it's been good to know ya.

The Captain wired in he had water coming in
And the good ship and crew was in peril
And later that night when his lights went out of sight
Came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Does anyone know where the love of God goes
When the words turn the minutes to hours
The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay
If they'd fifteen more miles behind her.

They might have split up or they might have capsized
They may have broke deep and took water
And all that remains is the faces and the names
Of the wives and the sons and the daughters.

Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
In the ruins of her ice water mansion
Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams,
The islands and bays are for sportsmen.

And farther below Lake Ontario
Takes in what Lake Erie can send her
And the iron boats go as the mariners all know
With the gales of November remembered.

In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed
In the Maritime Sailors' Cathedral
The church bell chimed, 'til it rang 29 times
For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald.

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
Superior, they say, never gives up her dead
When the gales of November come early.

[Texas Lawdog]

That song is 33 years old? My, how time flies when you're having fun.