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Happening Today: Smokey Bear Celebrates His 78th Birthday
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Posted on 08/09/2022 3:43:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
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posted on
08/09/2022 5:31:08 PM PDT
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Ol' Dan Tucker
(For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard., -- Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4)
To: nickcarraway; corkoman
To: nickcarraway
When I was a child I was a big Smokey fan. I would get excited every time I saw a Smokey sign along the road during family vacations. One day my older brother told me a story about Ruff the Bear. Seems Ruff was Smokey’s older brother who during the fire pushed Smokey up the tree so that Smokey lived but unfortunately, for Ruff, not so much. He tells me now how I cried when he told the story. I think he even sent the story somewhere for publication but was (obviously) rejected. Anyway, at 64, I still get excited about seeing Smokey the Bear signs and wonder if there really was a Ruff the Bear.
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posted on
08/09/2022 5:49:11 PM PDT
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willk
(Local news media. Just as dangerous as national media.)
To: nickcarraway
Pretty funny.
We’ve been cramming in “Emergency!” Shows from the ‘70s and particularly the other day, I was noting how they had Smokey all over the place, esp. in an episode where they are stuck in the “boonies” with an Outland fire station.
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posted on
08/09/2022 6:36:10 PM PDT
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the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV.)
To: corkoman
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posted on
08/09/2022 7:14:01 PM PDT
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Boiler Plate
("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
To: nickcarraway
i actually have a picture of him around here someplace i took in 1964 at the zoo...
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posted on
08/09/2022 7:22:42 PM PDT
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Chode
(there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
08/09/2022 11:25:38 PM PDT
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clearcarbon
(Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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posted on
08/16/2022 5:39:49 AM PDT
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SJackson
(nations that are barren of liberties are also barren of groceries, Louis Fisher)
To: ifinnegan
Throw in a human beat-box and a few M-Fs and it would be brought up to date.
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posted on
08/16/2022 7:59:47 AM PDT
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gundog
( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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