re: GMT

Looks, like the gumps are posting soft porn over in the SEC score board

hell I've posted worse and wasn't given a time out.

Today in History: November 24

1859 Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life. The first printing of 1,250 copies sells out in a single day.

1863 In the Battle Above the Clouds, Union Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker's forces take Lookout Mountain, near Chattanooga, Tennessee.

1864 Kit Carson and his 1st Cavalry, New Mexico Volunteers, attack a camp of Kiowa Indians in the First Battle of Adobe Walls.

1874 Joseph Glidden receives a patent for barbed wire.

1950 UN troops begin an assault into the rest of North Korea, hoping to end the Korean War by Christmas.

1963 Jack Ruby fatally shoots the accused assassin of President Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, in the garage of the Dallas Police Department.

1979 The United States admits that thousands of troops in Vietnam were exposed to the toxic Agent Orange.

1995 Ireland votes 50.28% to 49.72% to end its 70-year-old ban on divorce.

2018 Taiwanese voters vote against referendums to legalise same-sex marriage

2020 COVID-19 surge in the US gathers further pace with death toll of 2,200 highest since May and new cases averaging 175,000 a day

2021 Sweden's first female Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson resigns after 12 hours in the job after her coalition government falls apart


Born on November 24

1888 Dale Carnegie, author of How to Win Friends and Influence People.

1946 Ted Bundy, serial killer; he confessed to 30 murders between 1974-78, but the total could be much higher.

1949 Linda Tripp, who secretly recorded Monica Lewinsky's confidential phone calls about Lewinsky's affair with then-President Bill Clinton.

JOTD

I was in a very busy Whole Foods and saw this beautiful young woman shopping.

I asked her, "I can't seem to find my wife, can I talk to you?"
"Sure, but how can that help?"
"Once she sees me talking to you, I'll bet you anything she'll appear out of fricking nowhere."

Congrats on the big win

Morning boys.

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Congrats on the big win

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Thanks !! I never relaxed during the game till we hit the 2 minute mark in the 4th quarter. It's been an odd crazy year and up to that point I thought anything can still happen.

Good Morning All and God Bless Ya !!

On this day November 25

2348 BC
Biblical scholars have long asserted this to be the day of the Great Deluge, or Flood.

1839
Cyclone slams southeastern India with high winds and a 40-foot storm surge, destroying the city of Coringa. Storm waves sweep inland, destroying 20,000 ships and killing an estimated 300,000 people.

1946
The U.S. Supreme Court grants the Oregon Indians land payment rights from the U.S. government.

1951
A truce line between U.N. troops and North Korea is mapped out at the peace talks in Panmunjom, Korea.

1986
Iran-Contra affair erupts as President Reagan reveals a secret arms deal

1987
Typhoon Nina sticks the Philippines with 165 mph winds and a devastating storm surge and causes over 1,030 deaths.

2020
Dead and buried mink reported rising from the ground due to bloating, after a hurried cull of millions of COVID-19 infected animals in Denmark

2021 Germany's COVID-19 death toll passes 100,000 (Robert Koch Institute) amid its highest surge in infections yet

2021
India has more girls than boys for the first time in its history and its population boom is ending, according to new government survey


Born on November 25

1960
John F. Kennedy Jr., elder son of US Pres. John F. Kennedy (assassinated three days before JFK Jr.'s third birthday); co-founded George magazine in 1995; died in plane crash, July 16, 1999.

1971
Christina Applegate, actress (Married . . . with Children, Samantha Who? TV series).


Joke of the day

I got a vasectomy but my girlfriend still got pregnant.

Apparently, all a vasectomy does is change the color of the baby.

Good morning

Good morning folks.

Today in History November 26

43 BC
Second Triumvirate alliance of Roman leaders formed by Octavian (later Caesar Augustus), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony

1688
Louis XIV declares war on the Netherlands.

1825
The Kappa Alpha Society, the second American college Greek-letter fraternity, is founded.

1901
The Hope diamond is brought to New York.

1979
Oil deposits equaling OPEC reserves are found in Venezuela.

1983
At London's Heathrow Airport, almost 6,800 gold bars worth nearly £26 million stolen from Brinks-MAT vault.

2000
Republican candidate George W. Bush is certified the winner of Florida's electoral votes, giving him enough electoral votes to defeat Democrat Al Gore Jr. for the US presidency, despite losing the popular vote.

2020
Turkey gives life sentences to 337 military officers and others involved in 2016 coup

2021 WHO labels COVID-19 variant Omicron a "variant of concern", with its dozens of new mutations, after it emerges in Botswana and South Africa

2022
2,500 people pose naked for photographer Spencer Tunick on Australia's Bondi Beach to raise awareness of skin cancer

Born on November 26


1922
Charles M. Shultz, American cartoonist who created "Peanuts" starring Charlie Brown.

1895
Bill Wilson co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous

1939
Tina Turner, singer, dancer , actress ("What's Love Got to Do with It").


JOTD

An elderly couple goes to Burger King, where they carefully split a burger and fries. A trucker takes pity on them and offers to buy the wife her own meal.''It's all right,'' says the husband. ''We share everything.''A few minutes later, the trucker notices that the wife hasn't taken a bite. ''I really wouldn't mind buying your wife her own meal,'' he insists.''She'll eat,'' the husband assures him. ''We share everything.''Unconvinced, the trucker implores the wife, ''Why aren't you eating?''The wife snaps, ''Because I'm waiting for the teeth!''