Post #187,158
12/16/04 12:27:54 AM
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On this day in 1773, in Boston harbor,...
American colonists boarded a British ship and dumped chests of tea overboard in protest against tea taxes. Three years earlier Ludwig van Beethoven was born.
On this day, a few decades ago, was born our own Ashton Brown.
Happy birthday, Ashton!
Alex
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the
intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell
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Post #187,160
12/16/04 12:47:43 AM
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Ditto! Have a good one!!
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Post #187,161
12/16/04 1:05:13 AM
12/16/04 1:06:37 AM
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Re: On this day in 1773, in Boston harbor,...
And, my mother's ancestors were the makers of that tea. :)
The irony of it is, the other day, mom had us go buy her a really neat wooden truck, which was a replica of the Twining Tea company, circa 1702. :)
I remember my grandfather before he died, how he used to tell me all about the founding of the Twining Tea company, and how he was related to them, and that was the same tea dumped into the Boston Harbor. :)
I love history!
Edit: Oops, sent it too fast, (gotta watch that mouse). Anyway, Happy Birthday Ashton! Hope you have a birthday worthy of your words!
Brenda
"It's not where a person stands in time of comfort and security, but rather where they stand in times of strife and controversy that determine true friends."
(Quote sent to me by a true friend, author unknown).
Edited by Nightowl
Dec. 16, 2004, 01:06:37 AM EST
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Post #187,165
12/16/04 1:53:49 AM
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Con-cur:gratulations! :-)
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Post #187,167
12/16/04 1:57:25 AM
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"few"?
:-]
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Post #187,168
12/16/04 2:01:14 AM
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No, that was just the PR.
The real problem was the colonists already had plenty of tea in their warehouses and this additional shipment would cause a surplus severely damaging to their investment.
Of course, another entrepreneur went out in the morning and gathered all the waterproof chests from the harbor into his own warehouse. I don't know if any is left, but I understand for 200 years you could get a cup of tea in Boston with at least some original Boston Harbor tea content, if you were willing to pay the price.
The above information was revealed by the Smithsonian Institution in a series of exposés in Smithsonian Magazine during 1975. I sympathise with a patriotic letter writer who wrote, "I know all this must be true because you have all the documentation, but do you really have to bring all this up just before the bicentenial?"
Now the fact that PR spin from a commercial venture was a major contributor to starting a "war or liberation" - that would never happen in our enlightened era, would it?
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Post #187,169
12/16/04 2:27:49 AM
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WDYHASM?
If you really want it, I can make you a cup with some original Boston Harbor tea in it. Only $50 a cup.
No, you can't watch me make it. You're not allowed in the kitchen. Uhh ... health department regulations.
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Post #187,173
12/16/04 7:36:51 AM
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I have some absinthe to add to that tea if you wish
$22.50 a shot in Nawleans happy merry Ashton.
regards,
daemon
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Post #187,251
12/17/04 3:59:09 AM
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This seems to be all that's left
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Post #187,170
12/16/04 6:43:29 AM
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Happy Day!
Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #187,176
12/16/04 8:33:06 AM
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Happy Birthday, Ashton.
bcnu,
Mikem
Eine Leute. Eine Welt. Ein F\ufffdhrer.
(Just trying to be accepted in the New America)
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Post #187,179
12/16/04 9:04:06 AM
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Have a happy one Ashton
A good friend will come and bail you out of jail ... but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn...that was fun!"
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Post #187,180
12/16/04 9:31:18 AM
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Joyous natal observations to our own dance king
cha cha cha
:)
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Tell him you're not.
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Post #187,182
12/16/04 9:57:38 AM
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Ha! :-)
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Post #187,184
12/16/04 11:18:29 AM
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In celebration, Let's throw Ashton in the harbor...
...red letter day in history, to be sure.
Happy Birthday, oh purveyor of words.
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Post #187,186
12/16/04 11:20:34 AM
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:-)
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Post #187,191
12/16/04 12:42:57 PM
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In lieu of that, I had some Twining's Earl Grey tea...
(my favorite) after walking the dog this morning. Given that the Owl mentioned Twining's, I thought of Ashton as I drank the tea.
Alex
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the
intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell
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Post #187,283
12/17/04 10:57:58 AM
12/17/04 11:07:31 AM
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Wouldn't that be considered
water pollution?
;-)
Happy Birthday dude!
[Edit: added the new "joke" tag per ChrisR's [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=186931|post #186931]]
lincoln
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Edited by lincoln
Dec. 17, 2004, 11:05:16 AM EST
Edited by lincoln
Dec. 17, 2004, 11:07:31 AM EST
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Post #187,188
12/16/04 11:35:19 AM
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No wonder he's such a revolutionary...
Happy B-day, Ash!
"Here at Ortillery Command we have at our disposal hundred megawatt laser beams, mach 20 titanium rods and guided thermonuclear bombs. Some people say we think that we're God. We're not God. We just borrowed his 'SMITE' button for our fire control system."
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Post #187,204
12/16/04 3:09:28 PM
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Happy Birthday, Ashton!
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Post #187,222
12/16/04 4:28:58 PM
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I would try to say something appropriate...
But I'm not long-winded enough, and nobody else can sound like Ashton. Not even with random cha cha cha's thrown in.\r\n\r\nSo I'll stick to the tried and true, <b>Happy birthday, Ashton!</b>\r\n\r\nCheers,\r\nBen
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #187,228
12/16/04 6:09:27 PM
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I join with others
in wishing the incomparable Ashton many happy returns of the day.
cordially,
Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.
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Post #187,229
12/16/04 6:43:03 PM
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Now, lemme get this straight....
Which one happened first?!?
(Happy birthday, Ash!)
jb4
shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf. BULLSHIT
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Post #187,250
12/17/04 2:09:39 AM
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{Gosh}
Heh, thought mine'd sneak by, but
Nobody Ever Expects the Spanish a6l6e6x
Thanks for the palaver, all..
I feel positively gruntled, never mind the dis -
and descript.. not to mention ebriated.
a tad flappable?
As to who predeceased whom, well.. OK
Ludwig was my grandfather, not vice-versa..
(and Nijinski taught me the cha cha, before it was released)
Hope yer satisfied, er dignant.
ta ta ta
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