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Posted on 12/4/25 at 4:07 am to OK Roughneck
Posted on 12/4/25 at 4:07 am to OK Roughneck
Today in History: December 4
1110
Syrian harbor city Saida (Sidon) surrenders to Crusaders
1619
38 colonists from Berkeley Parish, England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God. Considered by many the first Thanksgiving in the Americas.
1861
The U.S. Senate, voting 36 to 0, expels Senator John C. Brekinridge of Kentucky because of his joining the Confederate Army.
1872
The U.S. brigantine Marie Celeste is found adrift and deserted with its cargo intact, in the Atlantic Ocean between the Azores and Portugal.
1941
Operation Taifun (Typhoon), which was launched by the German armies on October 2, 1941, as a prelude to taking Moscow, is halted because of freezing temperatures and lack of serviceable aircraft.
1947
Tennessee William's play A Streetcar Named Desire premieres on Broadway starring Marlon Brando and Jessica Tandy.
1950
The University of Tennessee defies court rulings by rejecting five Negro applicants.
1977
Jean-Bédel Bokassa crowns himself Emperor of the Central African Empire in a lavish ceremony costing US$20 million - one third of the nation's budget
1981
President Ronald Reagan broadens the power of the CIA by allowing spying in the United States.
1992
US Pres. George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 troops to Somalia during the Somali Civil War.
2014
Ukraine and Pro-Russian rebels agree to cease fire in the eastern war zone, beginning December 9
2017
US President Donald Trump scales back Utah National Parks - Bears Ears National Monument (85%), Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (50%)
2022
Mt Semeru, Indonesia’s highest volcano, erupts releasing gas clouds and rivers of lava on the island of Java
Born on December 4
1937
Max Baer Jr., actor, screenwriter, director, producer; best know for his role as Jethro on The Beverly Hillbillies TV series
1949
Jeff Bridges, actor, producer; won Academy Award for Best Actor as Otis "Bad" Blake in Crazy Heart (2009).
Joke of the Day
Gorilla removal service.
This guy wakes up one morning to find a gorilla in a tree near his house. He looks in the phone book for a gorilla removal service until he finds one.
"Is it a boy or girl Gorilla?" the service guy asks.
"Boy," is the man's response.
"Oh yeah, I can do it. I'll be right there", says the service guy. An hour later the service guy shows up with a stick, a Chihuahua, a shotgun, and a pair of handcuffs. He then gives the man some instructions: "Now, I'm going to climb this tree and poke the gorilla with the stick until he falls. When he does, the trained Chihuahua will bite the gorilla's testicles off. The gorilla will then cross his hands to protect himself and allow you to put the handcuffs on him."
The man asks, "What do I do with the shotgun?"
The service guy replies, "If I fall out of the tree before the gorilla, shoot the Chihuahua."
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Posted on 12/4/25 at 4:34 am to Armymann50
Morning all
Posted on 12/4/25 at 4:39 am to kywildcatfanone
Good morning
Posted on 12/4/25 at 7:08 pm to Rockbrc
Evening All 
Posted on 12/5/25 at 12:07 am to OK Roughneck
Good evening
Roughneck, I don’t want August back but the wind and the sleet today made me look back with a smidgen of fondness.
Roughneck, I don’t want August back but the wind and the sleet today made me look back with a smidgen of fondness.
Posted on 12/5/25 at 4:48 am to Rockbrc
Morning all,
Knee replacement day. Appreciate your prayers.
Knee replacement day. Appreciate your prayers.
Posted on 12/5/25 at 8:14 pm to kywildcatfanone
Prayers Sent and hope it went well and you have a Speedy recovery.
Posted on 12/5/25 at 8:19 pm to OK Roughneck
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Roughneck, I don’t want August back but the wind and the sleet today made me look back with a smidgen of fondness.
Supposed to be nice here next week 50' and 60's I'm getting a bunch of stuff painted for the new barn, gates and panels.
Trying like crazy to get things caught up so I can watch a bunch of bowl games before the seasons finally over. January through August DRAGS.
Posted on 12/5/25 at 8:47 pm to OK Roughneck
Thank you sir. Long day, but home now.
Posted on 12/5/25 at 8:59 pm to kywildcatfanone
Glad you survived !! 
WOW thats crazy they didn't keep you overnight after having a surgery like that.
You one tough guy.
WOW thats crazy they didn't keep you overnight after having a surgery like that.
You one tough guy.
This post was edited on 12/5/25 at 9:01 pm
Posted on 12/5/25 at 9:24 pm to OK Roughneck
I had to be there at 10:45. Didn't get surgery till about 4pm. Woke me up at 5:30. I had the shakes really bad, and they gave me meds. Said it was the anesthesia. Once over that they dressed me, walked me to the bathroom, then back to the room and discharged me.
Got home and ate some food, watched Kentucky get blown out by Gonzaga and the volleyball team win their regional to advance to the sweet 16.
Tomorrow and Sunday will be bad days after the nerve block wears off.
Got home and ate some food, watched Kentucky get blown out by Gonzaga and the volleyball team win their regional to advance to the sweet 16.
Tomorrow and Sunday will be bad days after the nerve block wears off.
Posted on 12/5/25 at 9:33 pm to kywildcatfanone
You had a full day !!
Hope it's not as bad as you think it will be.
Enjoy a weekend of football and make the family wait on you.
Hope it's not as bad as you think it will be.
Enjoy a weekend of football and make the family wait on you.
Posted on 12/5/25 at 10:06 pm to OK Roughneck
Wildcat, that’s impressive.
Posted on 12/6/25 at 6:26 am to Rockbrc
Today in History: December 6
1240
Mongols led by Batu Khan occupy and destroy Kyiv after an 8 day siege; out of 50,000 people in the city only 2,000 survive
1492
Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Santo Domingo in search of gold.
1776
Phi Beta Kappa, the first scholastic fraternity, is founded at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg.
1862
President Abraham Lincoln orders the hanging of 39 of the 303 convicted Indians who participated in the Sioux Uprising in Minnesota. They are to be hanged on December 26.
1865
The 13th Amendment is ratified, abolishing slavery.
1921
Ireland's 26 southern counties become independent from Britain forming the Irish Free State.
1947
Florida's Everglades National Park is established.
1964 "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" 1st airs on TV
1969
Hells Angels, hired to provide security at a Rolling Stones concert at the Altamont Speedway in California, beat to death concert-goer Meredith Hunter.
2021
Former Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi sentenced to four years (later reduced to two) for inciting public unrest and breaching Covid-19 protocols
2021
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announces a COVID-19 mandate for all private employers effective December 27, to combat Omicron, 1st in the country
2022
Donald Trump's real estate company Trump Organization convicted of tax fraud in New York
2023
South Fork Wind, the first large-scale offshore wind farm begins supplying electricity to the US, 35 miles off Montauk
Born on December 6
1952
Charles Bronson (Michael Gordon Peterson), criminal often called "the most violent prisoner in Britain" by the British Press.
1972
Sarah Rafferty American actress (Donna-Suits; Chicago Med), born in New Canaan, Connecticut
JOTD
A couple is trying to have a kid
they haven't been able to have a child for over a year so they go see a doctor. He has them do all the tests, sperm, blood and so on.
After a week they get a call from the doctor's office, the results are in. So they go. The doctor comes in and sits down. He looks at the lab results, looks at them. Looks back at the lab results and then back at them again.
And then he says: "Gentlemen, you cannot be serious."
Posted on 12/6/25 at 6:54 am to Armymann50
Good morning
Posted on 12/6/25 at 7:04 am to Rockbrc
Morning all,
Last night was decent, slept off and on. Nerve block still active. PT comes at 9am this morning to start me on that. Nervous about it. Thanks for your thoughts and prayers.
Last night was decent, slept off and on. Nerve block still active. PT comes at 9am this morning to start me on that. Nervous about it. Thanks for your thoughts and prayers.
Posted on 12/6/25 at 12:09 pm to kywildcatfanone
Glad you had a decent night you never know how things will go after surgery.
Hope things continue as well as they have.
Afternoon ALL
Hope things continue as well as they have.
Afternoon ALL
Posted on 12/6/25 at 2:21 pm to kywildcatfanone
Had a buddy get his done last year said he will not do the other one.
Posted on 12/6/25 at 3:15 pm to Armymann50
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Had a buddy get his done last year said he will not do the other one.
Really, bad experience? Surgery or PT? Time will tell with me.. my other knee probably has a year left.
Posted on 12/6/25 at 3:42 pm to Armymann50
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1240
Mongols led by Batu Khan occupy and destroy Kyiv after an 8 day siege; out of 50,000 people in the city only 2,000 survive
The Mongols were sort of the anti-Romans (oddly enough the Eastern Romans were allies of theirs) in that they went from nothing to overlords of a fair chunk of the globe almost over night, faded almost as quickly, and left Successor Kingdoms that slowly faded away.
A supersized Alexander the Great with less homosexuality and more random wiping out entire populations.
They were, once the Mongol Empire collapsed, absorbed fairly quickly in China and India. Oh, their successor states hung on for a while, but they were just locals using the name.
Where they really had a lasting impact was in Russia. The Russians had direct Mongol rule for the longest time and the country that finally crawled out on top was Muscovy, which postulated the question "What if we were the Mongols but worse at war and more willing to commit atrocities?"
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