Swamp Angel

You're getting downvoted to hell for your comment, but as far as any records show, the only place there is any mention of a rocket attack on Long Binh on Christmas 1967 is this Facebook post.

Unfortunately, too many folks are all too eager to lap up a feel good story regardless of the facts.

You called this one 100% correctly.

eta: Here's a better (and more reliable) link to Bob Hope's work with the USO entertaining the troops.
For 40 Years, Bob Hope...

I can't really blame her for leaving Rome, GA for Costa Rica. At least Costa Rica doesn't smell like a paper mill. (If you blindfolded someone from Bogalusa and put them in Rome, GA they would think they were at their own home.)

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Copper unless 1943. Those were steel to save copper for WW2 ammunition.

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There were two copper 1943 pennies that supposedly made it into circulation per an old tale from the times. Apparently, finding either one of these two pennies in even "fair circulated" condition could net you a tidy sum from a serious collector.

It sure would be nice for this to be a meme page again rather than a "Bring Us Your X.com Links" thread. The folks on the Right are starting to get as wordy and unfunny as the Lefties have always been.

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The top 1% of the wealthiest wage earners pay zero tax.

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You're the latest of the folks whom I've heard spout off like this. I'm gonna give you the opportunity to prove your assertion is correct. Cite me a source with the backup to show this to be the case.

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The Bible testified to non-human intelligence thousands of years ago.

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Considering that the whole of creation was brought into existence by non-human intelligence I have no problem with this statement being taken as 100% accurate.

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Yeah, because searching for BBW porn must have become an overused passe' by now.

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You have me at a loss here. I have no idea what BBW porn is. I'm pretty certain it's probably not something that'd be appealing if it has to be abbreviated like that though.

"Corpulent"... I like that. I need to make use of that word more frequently.

Victim's name is mentioned as "Mykal Jones" which I'm gonna assume is pronounced "Michael". This leads me to another unfounded conclusion - I imagine he and the shooter were probably similar in regard to many physical and cultural attributes. Probably Canadians.

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I meant to write Hattiesburg. I'm going to blame my phone.

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That's fair. I can't type worth crap on my consarned phone. (And I ain't perticklerly good at it on a laptop neither.)

I lived in Sumrall, MS for a few years while working on my masters at Southern Miss. There were quite a few of our church congregation who lived near the test site and it seemed that every one of them was going through some stage of cancer. The folks who lived in other areas didn't seem to have that same high incidence. (This was in the early 1990's.)

Yesterday we had "May the Fourth" with ties to Star Wars.

Today, Cinco de Mayo and Taco Tuesday have lined up perfectly.

I fear that if we celebrate this rare occasion of Cinco de Mayo and Taco Tuesday with too much fervor we may wind up with tomorrow being another Star Wars reference with "Revenge of the Sixth".