Post #282,347
4/19/07 9:16:59 AM
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Well...
This day is just like any other, because you missed it by half a week. ;-)
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #282,378
4/19/07 3:40:07 PM
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Besides, if I don't declare a birthday, it isn't! :)
But,I have to admit it's tough to keep up with it when I'm traveling. I happen to be at a campground in Uwharrie National Forest. The last part of the name suggests that there might be a problem finding a hole in the trees for my satellite dish to fix on "the bird".
Alex
When fascism comes to America, it'll be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross. -- Sinclair Lewis
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Post #282,379
4/19/07 3:43:50 PM
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You're just *trying* to make us all jealous. Aren't you?
If so, you're succeeding. :-)
[link|http://www.northcarolinaoutdoors.com/places/piedmont/birkhead.html|It looks very peaceful].
<sigh>
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #282,382
4/19/07 4:31:39 PM
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More interesting than I expected.
It is here that maybe the oldest mountain in America are located. Now only 1000 feet tall the [link|http://www.cs.unca.edu/nfsnc/recreation/uwharrie/index.htm|Uwharries] mountains were originally volcanic in origin and about 20,000 feet tall. They are a result of the collision of the Laurentian (North American) and African tectonic plates. Some animations of plate tectonics may be seen [link|http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/tectonics.html|here].
Also the first "gold rush" in the US was near here in 1799.
Alex
When fascism comes to America, it'll be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross. -- Sinclair Lewis
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Post #282,393
4/19/07 5:26:17 PM
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gonna take a scenic drive tomorrow
woodstock ga to
hwy92 west
278 west
74 west arrive memphis tn
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Post #282,396
4/19/07 5:46:35 PM
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You ain't nothing but a hound dog? :)
Alex
When fascism comes to America, it'll be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross. -- Sinclair Lewis
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Post #282,516
4/20/07 8:44:38 PM
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Half the board has a b'day this week or next.
We posture as apostles of fair play, as good sportsmen, as professional knights-errant-- and we throw beer bottles at the umpire when he refuses to cheat for our side...We save the black-and-tan republics from their native [statesmen]--and flood them with "deserving" democrats of our own. We deafen the world with our whoops for liberty--and submit to laws that destroy our most sacred rights...We play policeman and Sunday-school superintendent to half of Christendom--and lynch a darky every two days in our own backyard.
H.L. Mencken, 1914
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Post #282,526
4/20/07 9:02:32 PM
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Spring, mammels; Birth!
What a coincidence.
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Post #282,557
4/21/07 7:19:28 AM
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9 months; seems the mammals are most inspired in mid-summer.
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