Not so notable Holidays

[Ozark Tracker]

you better wash that off, it might be like battery acid.

[Trinity]

"Ah kain' see!  AH KAIN' SEEEEE!"  Trinity screams as he runs in circles.

[Sod Buster]

The Haggis just sits there and smiles through the slit that Trinity made....and oozes more juice.

[Silver Creek Slim]

Slim comes too and sees Trinity screamin'. "Open yer eyes."

[Trinity]

Trinity stops running.  "Oh."

[litl rooster]

  This date.............................

1788.............Our friends downunder are celebrating "Australia day"  Merry no Happy no huhhhh G'dae


1838................ a day of mornin' or a day of moaning.  Tennessee passe's the first Probihition laws.  Jack had to lay himself off and move to the backwoods of Lynchburg


1863.......Gen. Joe Hooker takes command of the Army of the Potomac  (pay attention Trinity) imediately bus stops were put in all over downtown Alexandria

[litl rooster]

  Oh yeah on this Januarary date. The former President was known to say He had never had relationships with that woman..........7 weeks later he said.......Oh that woman?

[Silver Creek Slim]

Kinda forgetful fer bein' that young. 

Slim

[litl rooster]

Kinda forgetful fer bein' that young. 

Slim

What were we talking about?

[Silver Creek Slim]

What was yer question? 

Slim

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Selective hearing/ selective memory...............

[Trinity]

  This date.............................

1788.............Our friends downunder are celebrating "Australia day"  Merry no Happy no huhhhh G'dae


1838................ a day of mornin' or a day of moaning.  Tennessee passe's the first Probihition laws.  Jack had to lay himself off and move to the backwoods of Lynchburg


1863.......Gen. Joe Hooker takes command of the Army of the Potomac  (pay attention Trinity) imediately bus stops were put in all over downtown Alexandria

"A fahn gentleman, even if'n he is a yankee... an' even eeuf he deeud deee-feet Lee at chancelor's veeul.    Hey, you recon that's wah they callin' themsayulfs Hookahs now?"

[Ozark Tracker]

probably the very reason,    we raise up our galsses for one little drink in remeberance,  course we'll drink to almost anything

[Trinity]

Hey, you mentiond Anything.  Hair's a drank to that!

[Sod Buster]

From the Urban Dictionary:

hooker
a prostitute. Started in the Civil War when Gen. Hooker of the Union Army tried to protect his troops from VD by providing women to his corps of 20,000 men.
Orginally knows as Hooker's Girls.

[Trinity]

Hair's another drank to that!

[Sod Buster]

Actually the term predates him but he did apparently round up some prostitues near Washington, DC and some rumors state that he allowed his men to keep them in the barracks.

From Randomhouse.com:

The slang term hooker 'a prostitute, esp. a streetwalker' does not stem from the name of Maj. Gen. Joseph "Fighting Joe" Hooker (1814-79).

General Hooker was certainly known for his eccentricity; Ulysses S. Grant described him as "a dangerous man...not subordinate to his superiors." He was also known for the poor character of his men, who got into trouble for abuses of liquor on a fairly frequent basis. Popular stories attribute the word hooker to the general Hooker in several different ways; sometimes it is said that his men were especially desirous of prostitutes when on leave, and sometimes one hears that Hooker actually let his men keep prostitutes in the barracks.

However, Hooker is not responsible for the word hooker, simply because the word predates the Civil War by a good margin. The earliest known example of the word is found in 1845, in North Carolina: "If he comes by way of Norfolk he will find any number of pretty Hookers in the Brick row not far from French's hotel."

Another pre-Civil War example is found in the second edition of John Bartlett's Dictionary of Americanisms in 1859; Bartlett defines hooker as "A resident of the Hook, i.e. a strumpet, a sailor's trull." He goes on to make the unlikely speculation that the word is "So called from the number of houses of ill-fame frequented by sailors at the Hook (i.e., Corlear's Hook) in the city of New York."

Some historians have suggested that hooker was, if not coined, at least popularized during the Civil War, and that our general was indeed the cause of this popularization.

The true origin of hooker seems to be the earlier verb hook meaning 'to entice; swindle', and the agent suffix -er, with hooker thus meaning literally 'a person that entices; a swindler'.

[Trinity]

An' another drank to that!

[Ozark Tracker]

since we're a drinking to everything, just take a look at this new fangled camp fire utensile

[litl rooster]

  You going to eat all them weinies?