There are songs that immediately whisk you away
to another place and time. This is one of them...
It's impossible to think this came out 50 years ago...
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make money. It really is one of the best bargains around here, I have eight of them already and I'm probably gonna grab a few more before Thanksgiving.
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Ya think maybe these guys'll finally figure out that they really aren't
The sad truth is a lot of them believe this...
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How different were our parents from us?
What a different generation they were - This is a great story.
Ruth Hensinger was married on July 12, 1947, wearing a dress made from the nylon parachute that saved her husband's life. Maj. Claude Hensinger, a B-29 pilot, was returning from a raid over Japan in August 1944 when his engine caught fire. When he proposed to Ruth after the war, he offered her the material from the parachute that saved him.
She worked with a seamstress to create the bodice and used the strings on the parachute to shorten the front of the dress and create a train in the back. The dress was also worn by their daughter and by their son’s bride before being donated to the Smithsonian.
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anywhere near as funny as their 300 fans think they are? It's always (sorta) fascinated me how every single one of these jerkoffs has to come off as a liberal hack-jobber. Is there no one in TV anywhere that has enough backbone to present a different -and more appropriate - story line? The country just proved they're nothing but a gaggle of jaggoffs.
Think they'll take the hint? Don't bet the ranch on it, Goober...
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Buy this for you wife because
you really do love her, and
because she didn't vote for Harris...
Click on the picture for more information on this beautiful bracelet.
It's a one of a kind gift - and it comes to you with free shipping!
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During WW2, the parachutes were made of silk (hence the phrase "hitting the silk" when jumping out of airplanes). There was, anecdotally, as scene from Band of Brothers when Lt Welsh was asked why he was carrying around his reserve chute and he responded that because it was silk he was going to send it to his fiancée so she could make her wedding dress from it.
ReplyDeleteLoved the Aldi bit! Glad I didn't have a mouth full of coffee when I read that. I'll never put a quarter in another
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Paul Carrack - one of the greatest voices in music.
ReplyDeleteTell your wife that the bracelets need to be at least 1 inch longer. my daughter is small, but the bracelet is tight on her wrist. Let us know when there is a size difference.
ReplyDeleteA fair number of wedding dresses were made out of parachute nylon right after WWII.... nice that one got into the Smithsonian.
ReplyDeleteFirst saw those core-charge shopping carts in N'Arlins, early 90s. WTF? Why were so many young O J lookalikes sculking around the grocery store parking lot? Those competitive, enterprising youngsters were strategically placing themselves in covert locations in case a shopper would unload their cart then leave it. Those Heisman trophy aspirants were competing with each other to see who could figure out which shopper would walk away from their quarter, then they had to develop skills to be able to retrieve the cart before their competitors. (These little guys were only 5-6-7? Where were their mothers?) Anyway, collecting the most quarters was only half the challenge. Now they had to make it all the way thru da' hood with their hard-earned money. No wonder so many outstanding athletes come from the ghettos.
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