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oh yeah, i'm with you on that one!

A moment for my favorite cheap and tasty red...Riunite Lambrusco.

Give it a try. If you don't like it, send me the rest of the bottle!

A moment then for South Africa's most popular cheap red wine: Tassenberg. It is even rumoured to contain real chameleon juice...

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Take a moment for my grandfather, who would have been 109 years old today. He graduated from the Palmer Chiropractic School before graduating from high school. He later got his mechanical engineering degree in a class environment where he needed to fashion a working internal combustion engine from a block of iron. That's right, designing forms, forging and molding parts, and running it under a load to pass. He was also in the National Guard and was a member of the last mounted cavalry unit in the US. He got to keep his horse, Ace, when he retired. In WWII he was too old to serve, so he taught snipers stateside, as he was a champion marksman in his day.

 

But I most fondly think of him for his 32 patents during his time working for Western Electric. He got paid $1 from the company for each patent, as his ideas were their intellectual property. Included on his list are; the electric soldering iron, the first phone with an internal bell, several advances in switchboard technology, technology used within the trans-Atlantic cables, the first custom leather work belt worn by telephone repairmen and several other time saving doo-dads.

 

So every Ground Hogs Day I take a moment to reflect, and wish I could have known him better. He had my dad when he was 40. And my dad had me when he was 32, so I only remember him as a very old man. Standing about 5'2", with white hair and a hunched back. Maybe the most perceptive man I ever met. And his influence on my father has made him a role model for me, and continues to my kids today.

 

Happy Birthday Grandpa! I know you don't mind me using that "cold-heat" contraption I got for Christmas!

 

Bill

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take a damn moment for Robert Nesta Marley, (A.K.A. Bob)

 

He would be 61 today.

 

February the 6th.

 

god ol' Bob

thanks for the advice . . .

 

:Waldo: :Waldo: :confused:

ALL of it!

 

Such an intelligent being . . .

 

Much Love to the music and the men behind it . . .

 

 

uoY knahT

 

nospmohT neroL-

 

edit: that night, for ridiculous spelling errors

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Take a moment for anyone who has been killed as a result of a newspaper cartoon, and for those killed for things even more nonsensical, and for those who might get past their ignorance.

 

 

(Sorry, I guess that's 3 moments...)

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