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Posted on 10/9/25 at 2:19 am to OK Roughneck
Today in History: October 9
0028 BC
The Temple of Apollo is dedicated on the Palatine Hill in Rome.
1760
Austrian and Russian troops enter Berlin and begin burning structures and looting.
1781
Americans begin shelling the British surrounded at Yorktown.
1888
The Washington Monument, designed by Robert Mills, opens to the public.
1949
Harvard Law School begins admitting women.
1950
U.N. forces, led by the First Cavalry Division, cross the 38th parallel in South Korea and begin attacking northward towards the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.
1999
Last flight of the Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbird" stealth reconnaissance aircraft.
2006
North Korea reportedly tests its first nuclear device.
2019
Nearly 1 million people in northern California have their power cut by Pacific Gas and Electric to prevent wildfires amid high winds
2022
Brightest cosmic explosion ever seen - a gamma ray burst 2.4 billion light years away, thought to be a massive star collapsing to form a black hole in a 1 in 10,000 year event
Today in History: Born on October 9
1873
Charles Rudolph Walgreen, "the father of the modern drugstore."
1940
John Lennon, musician, singer, songwriter; one of the Beatles ("Imagine," "Give Peace a Chance").
JOTD
Russia is invading Finland
During the invasion a Russian general and his troops come to a hill.
They hear a voice shouting: "One Fin can beat ten Russians!"
The general laughs about it and sends ten of his troops to go kill whoever is on the other side of the hill. There is alot of noise and shooting and after a while silence comes and none of the Russians return.
The voice speaks once again saying: "One Fin can beat 100 Russians!"
The general is a little upset by now and sends 150 of his troops to go for sure. Once again there is alot of noise and shooting and once again none of the Russians return.
The Voice speaks again: "One fin can beat 1000 Russians!"
The general is fuming and sends 1000 of his best men. The noise and shooting lasts way longer this time and as silence almost settled again one Russian comes crawling back over the hill bleeding from a wound.
He says: "I beg you, don't send any more troops, it's a trap! There are two of them!
Posted on 10/9/25 at 5:04 am to Armymann50
Morning all
Posted on 10/9/25 at 6:19 am to kywildcatfanone
Good morning
Posted on 10/9/25 at 2:16 pm to Rockbrc
Afternoon All 
Day forever since the last rain.
Day forever since the last rain.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 2:31 pm to Armymann50
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Russia is invading Finland
That joke is not far from the truth. During the Winter War, the Soviet's hilariously stupid invasion of Finland, there are documented cases of entire Soviet divisions being destroy by Finnish battalions. And yes, a couple of accounts of a single Finnish company wiping out a Soviet division.
Posted on 10/10/25 at 5:14 am to Arksulli
Morning all
Posted on 10/10/25 at 5:25 am to kywildcatfanone
Good morning
Posted on 10/10/25 at 3:21 pm to Rockbrc
Afternoon All 
Tomorrow's football Saturday.
Tomorrow's football Saturday.
Posted on 10/11/25 at 12:15 am to OK Roughneck
Morning All hopefully today we 
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Posted on 10/11/25 at 3:22 am to OK Roughneck
Today in History: October 11
1531
The Catholics defeat the Protestants at Kappel during Switzerland's second civil war.
1795
In graditude for putting down a rebellion in the streets of Paris, France's National Convention appoints Napoleon Bonaparte second in command of the Army of the Interior.
1862
The Confederate Congress in Richmond passes a draft law allowing anyone owning 20 or more slaves to be exempt from military service. This law confirms many southerners opinion that they are in a 'rich man's war and a poor man's fight.'
1877
Outlaw Wild Bill Longley, who killed at least a dozen men, is hanged, but it took two tries; on the first try, the rope slipped and his knees drug the ground.
1899
South African Boers, settler from the Netherlands, declare war on Great Britain.
1906
San Francisco school board orders the segregation of Oriental schoolchildren, inciting Japanese outrage.
1950
The Federal Communications Commission authorizes the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) to begin commercial color TV broadcasts.
1968
Apollo 7, with three men aboard, is successfully launched from Cape Kennedy.
1972
Race riot breaks out aboard carrier USS Kitty Hawk off Vietnam during Operation Linebacker.
1975
Saturday Night Live comedy-variety show premiers on NBC, with guest host comedian George Carlin and special guests Janis Ian, Andy Kaufman and Billy Preston; at this writing (2013) the show is still running.
1984
Astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan, part of the crew of Space Shuttle Challenger, becomes the first American woman to walk in space.
1991
Confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas begin.
2000
NASA launches its 100th Space Shuttle mission.
2001
The Polaroid Corporation, which had provided shutterbugs with photo prints in minutes with its "instant cameras" since 1947, files for bankruptcy.
2018
World's new longest flight flies from Singapore to Newark Airport, New Jersey takes 17 hours 52 mins
2020
India records more than 7 million cases of COVID-19
2021
Australia's largest city Sydney ends its 107-day lockdown, with restrictions easing for fully vaccinated people
2023
Wild beavers re-introduced to Ealing, London, from Scotland after being absence from the city for 400 years
Today in History: Born on October 11
1918
Jerome Robbins, choreographer, won Oscar for West Side Story.
1932
Dottie West, influential female country singer, songwriter; won Grammy for "Here Comes My Baby Back Again" (1965).
1946
Daryl Hall, singer, songwriter, musician, producer; lead vocalist of Hall & Oates ("Rich Girl," "Maneater").
JOTD
Two girls from Thailand asked me if I wanted to sleep with them.
They said that it would be like winning the Lottery.
To my horror they were right, we had six matching balls.
Posted on 10/11/25 at 5:01 am to Armymann50
Good morning
Posted on 10/11/25 at 5:45 am to Rockbrc
Morning all
Posted on 10/11/25 at 10:01 am to Armymann50
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1862
The Confederate Congress in Richmond passes a draft law allowing anyone owning 20 or more slaves to be exempt from military service. This law confirms many southerners opinion that they are in a 'rich man's war and a poor man's fight.'
The South relied on its large, and dirt poor, white population to fight the Civil War. As the war drug on the Confederates resorted to press ganging white men into the fight just to have enough warm bodies.
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1899
South African Boers, settler from the Netherlands, declare war on Great Britain.
The Boers, it should be noted, were just about the most ill tempered and obnoxious European settlers the world has seen. Only Belgium and Spain were bigger a-holes to the natives. *coughs* Elon Musk, it should be noted, is Boer descended.
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2001
The Polaroid Corporation, which had provided shutterbugs with photo prints in minutes with its "instant cameras" since 1947, files for bankruptcy.
Polaroid, it should be noted, was an initial leader in digital media. They were quite a bit more advanced out of the starting gate than anyone else. But they decided to stick to what they knew best, film, and were wiped out by the internet age.
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JOTD
The Thais, it should be noted, despise transsexuals. Yes, I know, the country most known for its TS population loathes them. The trend started in the 60s when rich Westerners and Japanese sex tourists flocked to the country in search of "lady boys." If you are gay, or willing to be gay for pay, you can make a good living with a quick breast implant. If you don't die from AIDS. The locals, however, despise you.
Thailand as a whole has a major issue with the sex trade. On one hand they are a deeply conservative nation... putting your hands on another person's head is sacrilege for example. On the other hand, the foreign sex tourists make up a huge chunk of the national income.
Posted on 10/11/25 at 5:40 pm to OK Roughneck
Our OL is GARBAGE
Posted on 10/12/25 at 5:50 am to OK Roughneck
Good morning
Posted on 10/12/25 at 5:54 am to OK Roughneck
I would say put those OL boys on a finishing ration to beef ‘em up but they look big enough—they do seem a bit compromised otherwise
Posted on 10/12/25 at 6:04 am to Rockbrc
Morning all
Posted on 10/12/25 at 6:44 am to kywildcatfanone
Today in History: October 12
1492
Christopher Columbus and his crew land in the Bahamas.
1576
Rudolf II, the king of Hungary and Bohemia, succeeds his father, Maximillian II, as Holy Roman Emperor.
1609
The song "Three Blind Mice" is published in London, believed to be the earliest printed secular song.
1809
Meriwether Lewis, of the Lewis and Clark expedition, dies under mysterious circumstances in Tennessee.
1872
Apache leader Cochise signs a peace treaty with General Howard in Arizona Territory.
1900
The first modern submarine is commissioned by the U.S. Navy as the USS Holland, named for its designer John Philip Holland
1933
Alcatraz Island is made a federal maximum security prison.
1943
The U.S. Fifth Army begins an assault crossing of the Volturno River in Italy.
1960
Inejiro Asanuma, leaders of the Japan Socialist Party, is assassinated during a live TV broadcast.
1964
1964 USSR launches Voskhod I, first spacecraft with multi-person crew; it is also the first mission in which the crew did not wear space suits.
1971
The House of Representatives passes the Equal Rights Amendment 354-23.
1999
The Day of Six Billion: the proclaimed 6 billionth living human in the world is born
2000
Suicide bombers at Aden, Yemen, damage USS Cole; 17 crew members killed and over 35 wounded.
2002
Terrorist bombers kill over 200 and wound over 300 more at the Sari Club in Kuta, Bali.
2020
UK PM Boris Johnson announces a new three-tier system for COVID-19 restrictions as cases surge
2023
Roman scrolls burnt in Mt Vesuvius eruption at Herculaneum read for the first time, after computer-science student develops machine-learning algorithm - first word deciphered is purple
Today in History: Born on October 12
1537
Edward VI, the only son of Henry VIII by his third wife Jane Seymour.
1947
Chris Wallace, former host/moderator of Meet the Press, currently (2013) host of Fox News Sunday; the three-time Emmy winner is the only person thus far to host more than one major Sunday political talk show.
1949
Carlos the Jackal (Ilich Ramirez Sanches), one of the most infamous political terrorists of the 1970s; currently (2013) serving a life term in France.
1968
Hugh Jackman, actor; well known for his recurring role as Wolverine in the X-Men films, his many awards include a Golden Globe (Les Miserables, 2013) and a Tony Award Special Award for Extraordinary Contribution to the Theatre Community (2012).
JOTD
A guy walks into a bar with a .44 magnum a yells "who the frick fricked my wife!".
Everybody's silent for a second, then a guy in the back of the bar says "you havent got enough bullets mate"
Posted on 10/12/25 at 12:31 pm to Rockbrc
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I would say put those OL boys on a finishing ration to beef ‘em up but they look big enough—they do seem a bit compromised otherwise
I think as many as there are that are constantly injured they may need put down and start over.
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