Juneteenth

Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day, is an American holiday honoring African American heritage. It commemorates the announcement of the abolition of slavery in the U.S. State of Texas in 1865. Celebrated on June 19, the term is a portmanteau of June and nineteenth, and is recognized as a state holiday in 36 states of the United States.

Who Nose?

What makes someone do something like this?

After reading this story: Nose biter gets 10 years (for biting off the tip of a Clovis man's nose), I was reminded of a man I used to work for, several times on several different rigs. I could write for hours about him - he was quite a character - but will save that for another time. He fancied himself a pretty good brawler and bore several scars from past fights, one being a pretty good notch on one of his nostrils, about the size of half a dime coin. The old wound was from it being bitten by someone and I can't recall if I ever asked him if he won or lost the fight. I don't know why I didn't ask, or can't remember. That's been a long time ago, that'll have to be my excuse.

I do remember telling my dad about how tough this man was, how much of a fighter he was and described the scar to him. Pop mulled the information over for a few seconds and blithely replied:

"Doesn't sound like he's THAT tough if someone can hold him down and bite off his nose."

I've been in a few scraps in my life, won several, lost a couple, some were pretty severe both ways, but I never gave anyone the chance to bite off a piece of my nose. Guess I'm tougher than I thought I was.

Hope everyone nose that.

Waterloo

June 18th 1815

Wiki entry on the

Battle of Waterloo







Charge of the British Heavy Cavalry

From the 1970 release Waterloo



Always loved this old country tune:

Waterloo - Stonewall Jackson



And this reminds me of elle. -sigh-

Waterloo - ABBA



(description w/ vid)

Waterloo was recorded in Dec 1973. Abba chose it over Hasta Manana to be the Swedish entry for Eurovision 1974, as it was a happy uptempo rocking song with rhythm and energy, and all the group sing. Stig Anderson took a demo tape on holiday to the Canary Isles. Stig agonised for a week to find the right title, then produced the original Swedish lyrics in a few hours, constructing a story of Waterloo as a metaphor for a girl surrendering to the love of a suitor. The rest is history, it was the first time Sweden had won Eurovision. The song rapidly became a worldwide hit after this huge success in Brighton in April 1974, reaching no. 1 in England on May 4 1974. This tv performance is from November 1974.

When I hear or read about Napoleon, I think back to some grafitti I saw at the Canadian, TX. h.s. that read:

"This is where Napoleon pulled his Bonaparte."

Castrating My Dad

No, this isn't a post about that; it's about a post in this blog coming up near the top in a Yahoo search.

The post mentioned my dad and I castrating hogs and when the Yahoo search engine trawled this site, it picked up on those words "castrating" and "dad". I was "worried" that Google might have ToTG up near the top, but it's not on the first several pages for castrating dads OR hogs.

Thank Goodness.

The only time in my life I had even a scintilla of a thought about that was when my dad was taking female hormones as a treatment for his prostate cancer. Dad told me the Dr. said the medication would also have a detrimental effect on his sex drive. Since Pop was nearly 70 at the time... we both had a little laugh at that. (although I hope I'M more worried about getting sex than cancer if I reach that age) One of the side-effects was that he started growing hair on his head again after his hairline had been receding for years.

I'm growing bald now, but I wouldn't take the trade, y'know?

Just got me to wondering, though, about something that's highly subjective:

Which is more perverse, people looking for information/stories about castrating their dad, or someone wanting information on "sister's feet" ???

How Secure is Your Password?

Find out at the aptly named How Secure is My Password?

I'll admit I use only a few different passwords for nearly all my sign-in websites, a mixture of words, dates and places that mean something to me. I guess ONLY to me because the site says it'd take quite a while to bust it.



How Secure is My Password?

How to Pull a Tooth

With a rocket:

oscitant

oscitant \OS-i-tuhnt\ , adjective;
1. Yawning, as with drowsiness; gaping.
2. Drowsy or inattentive.
3. Dull, lazy, or negligent.

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I expect folks are pretty much oscitant after spending time reading this blog.