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Happy Independence Day
« on: July 04, 2013, 09:12:26 AM »
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Re: Happy Independence Day
« Reply #1 on: July 04, 2013, 09:47:29 AM »
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Re: Happy Independence Day
« Reply #2 on: July 04, 2013, 11:14:51 AM »
Happy 4th.
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Re: Happy Independence Day
« Reply #3 on: July 04, 2013, 11:16:48 AM »
I'd like to thank our Vets for July 4th!   :rofl:
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Re: Happy Independence Day
« Reply #4 on: July 04, 2013, 11:53:29 AM »
Well, my wife and I totally failed. We went out for breakfast, and I ordered ENGLISH breakfast tea. :facepalm:  Then she ordered crab cakes BENEDICT, served on an ENGLISH muffin.

I am so sorry.  :'(
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Re: Happy Independence Day
« Reply #5 on: July 04, 2013, 11:56:13 AM »
Quote from: fistful on July 04, 2013, 11:53:29 AM
Well, my wife and I totally failed. We went out for breakfast, and I ordered ENGLISH breakfast tea. :facepalm:  Then she ordered crab cakes BENEDICT, served on an ENGLISH muffin.

I am so sorry.  :'(
Thats OK.

I'm making shepherds (cottage actually, but I still haven't gotten my wife to understand the difference....) pie for supper
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Re: Happy Independence Day
« Reply #6 on: July 04, 2013, 12:01:26 PM »
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Re: Happy Independence Day
« Reply #7 on: July 04, 2013, 12:07:08 PM »
I would like to reply to this thread, but there is a swarm of officers at my door harassing me.......
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Re: Happy Independence Day
« Reply #8 on: July 04, 2013, 12:12:29 PM »
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I would like to reply to this thread, but there is a swarm of officers at my door harassing me.......

Hell, I have some soldiers quartered in my home. (Yeah, I know, it's the Bill of Rights).
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Re: Happy Independence Day
« Reply #9 on: July 04, 2013, 12:37:52 PM »
Meet the new boss.

Same as the old boss.
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Re: Happy Independence Day
« Reply #10 on: July 04, 2013, 12:52:58 PM »
Quote from: tokugawa on July 04, 2013, 12:07:08 PM
I would like to reply to this thread, but there is a swarm of officers at my door harassing me.......

...and eating out your substance?
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Re: Happy Independence Day
« Reply #11 on: July 04, 2013, 01:17:28 PM »
Thank you for referring to it as Independence Day in your subject line.
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Re: Happy Independence Day
« Reply #12 on: July 04, 2013, 01:57:51 PM »
Quote from: Roo_ster on July 04, 2013, 01:17:28 PM
Thank you for referring to it as Independence Day in your subject line.

I've noticed that some people are particular about that. I'm not sure that it matters. I don't think "9-11" is a particularly disrespectful way to describe what happened on that day. On the other hand, "9-11" has always bugged me. I'm not sure what we should call that day, though.
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Re: Happy Independence Day
« Reply #13 on: July 04, 2013, 02:37:45 PM »
Quote from: fistful on July 04, 2013, 01:57:51 PM
I've noticed that some people are particular about that. I'm not sure that it matters. I don't think "9-11" is a particularly disrespectful way to describe what happened on that day. On the other hand, "9-11" has always bugged me. I'm not sure what we should call that day, though.

Well then, Happy 7-4 to everyone!


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Re: Happy Independence Day
« Reply #14 on: July 04, 2013, 02:42:29 PM »
I've always called it "September 11th".  I also hate 9-11. 
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Re: Happy Independence Day
« Reply #15 on: July 04, 2013, 02:56:32 PM »
Quote from: scout26 on July 04, 2013, 02:42:29 PM
I've always called it "September 11th".  I also hate 9-11. 

Word. Everybody, even terrorists, should hate that stupid date format.
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Re: Happy Independence Day
« Reply #16 on: July 04, 2013, 04:56:45 PM »
Quote from: fistful on July 04, 2013, 02:56:32 PM
Word. Everybody, even terrorists, should hate that stupid date format.

ddmmmyyyy
04JUL2013
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yyyy-mm-dd
2013-07-04
The latter sorts best.
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Re: Happy Independence Day
« Reply #17 on: July 04, 2013, 05:02:45 PM »
I read the Declaration aloud.  By the time I got to "our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor", I had tears streaming down my cheeks.  True story.
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Re: Happy Independence Day
« Reply #18 on: July 04, 2013, 05:18:01 PM »
Quote from: Gewehr98 on July 04, 2013, 11:16:48 AM
I'd like to thank our Vets for July 4th!   :rofl:

Please come back on November 11th.

Today is the day to celebrate radical discontents, rabble-rousers, and smugglers.

If it were not for that last, we might have had to throw a party for OWS today.

stay safe.
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Re: Happy Independence Day
« Reply #19 on: July 04, 2013, 05:28:09 PM »
Happy Independence From Tyrants Day!

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No salt
No sugary beverages over 16 ounces
No fireworks
No backpacks
No firearms

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Re: Happy Independence Day
« Reply #20 on: July 04, 2013, 05:48:51 PM »
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Re: Happy Independence Day
« Reply #21 on: July 04, 2013, 10:14:42 PM »
I'm headed over to the lake now to watch the fireworks; it's about 1/2 a mile, so it's faster to walk.  See y'all later.
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Re: Happy Independence Day
« Reply #22 on: July 04, 2013, 10:24:12 PM »
Calvin Coolidge on Independence Day.
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About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.

More Coolidge, thank you. 
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Re: Happy Independence Day
« Reply #23 on: July 04, 2013, 10:29:10 PM »
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*expletive deleted*ck it.  On bloody Independence Day no less.  Another step closer to the abyss.
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Re: Happy Independence Day
« Reply #24 on: July 04, 2013, 10:40:07 PM »
Stepdad is British.  We tell him "Happy Loser Day!"
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