BS: April is a bad month

Subject: BS: April is a bad month
From: kendall
Date: 13 Apr 13 - 08:30 AM

Bad things happen in April:
April 20 Hitler was born
April 15 Titanic sank
April 12 FDR died
April 1861 Civil war broke out.
APRIL 15, Lincoln assassinated
The only thing I remember was the death of FDR. I was listening to the radio when it was announced, and I remember thinking, does this mean the end of our democratic form of government?


what else happened?

Subject: RE: BS: April is a bad month
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 13 Apr 13 - 08:47 AM

Well, my adored and still much mourned first wife Valerie was born. Today would in fact have been her 78th birthday. Whether that is good because of the wonderful half-century we had together or not because she is dead, I am not quite sure. And I am indeed blessed in having been rescued by my dearest present wife Emma.

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: April is a bad month
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Apr 13 - 09:13 AM

Well, TS Elliot would agree with you -

"APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding        
Lilacs out of the dead land..."

But Chaucer wouldn't.

Subject: RE: BS: April is a bad month
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Apr 13 - 09:15 AM

April 15: Kim Il Sung's birthday.
April 15: EC-121 surveillance plane shot down by North Korea (1969).
April 13: My mother died.
April 31: Kendall Morse's birthday.

Subject: RE: BS: April is a bad month
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 13 Apr 13 - 09:40 AM

Well, that is clever of Kendall, to have his birthday on a non-existent day!

Subject: RE: BS: April is a bad month
From: Jeri
Date: 13 Apr 13 - 09:43 AM

April 4: Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated.

Subject: RE: BS: April is a bad month
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Apr 13 - 10:00 AM

You can pick through the debris of April to find a few high spots:


Washington Irving was born (1783)

Dorthea Dix was born (1802)

My mother was born in April

The first weather satellite was launched (1960)

Pony Express started (1860)

Hank Aaron tied Babe Ruth's home run record (1974)

Booker T. Washington was born (1856)

Perry and Hensen reach the North Pole (1909)

Ponce de Leon got to Floria (1513)

Jackie Robinson joins the Dodgers, (1947)

First public motion picture screening (1894)

Ford Motor Company introduces the Mustang (1964)

Apollo 13 splashed down safely (1970)

William Shakespeare born (1564) (alas, he died the same day 1616)

Library of Congress established (1800)

Marconi and Murrow (both with an important role in radio) born 1874 and 1908, respectively

First Social Security checks issued (1937)

Subject: RE: BS: April is a bad month
From: GUEST,Stim
Date: 13 Apr 13 - 10:04 AM

Columbine, Waco, and the Oklahoma City bombing. And, though the Newtown shooting was in December, Adam Lanza was born on April 22.

Subject: RE: BS: April is a bad month
From: Charmion
Date: 13 Apr 13 - 10:13 AM

Spring tiptoes into the Ottawa Valley in April! Every damned year, even this one!

The one fact outweighs a lot of bad.

Subject: RE: BS: April is a bad month
From: number 6
Date: 13 Apr 13 - 10:27 AM

Well ... with all the negativity presented here regarding the month of April I present some of my own personal positives and high points regarding this month

my late father was born in this month. The finest human I have ever known.

my son was born in April. A son I am very proud of.

my son's youngest son was born in April. A little gem he is.

On April 3rd 1972 I married a wonderful, beautiful and a very special woman

I am very fortunate to have had and have these people in my life ... they have kept me in a positive direction, even when the all the world's negativity attempts to weigh upon my shoulders.

A big thanks from me to the month of April.

now kids ... go and pick another month, or months ... I'm sure you'll find all the negativity you want ... and more.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: April is a bad month
From: GUEST,crazy little woman
Date: 13 Apr 13 - 12:17 PM

Last night the Minnesota Twins had to wait for the grounds crew to scrape the snow off the ball field before they could play. What further evidence do we need?

Subject: RE: BS: April is a bad month
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Apr 13 - 12:22 PM

Excellent evidence, number 6!

Subject: RE: BS: April is a bad month
From: kendall
Date: 13 Apr 13 - 12:28 PM

I didn't start this thread as a contest!

Of course there are good things that happened in April, David Mallet was born on April 21.
BY the by, I was born in May.

Subject: RE: BS: April is a bad month
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Apr 13 - 12:52 PM

You may be right. I usually tend to get depressed around April-May.

Subject: RE: BS: April is a bad month
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 13 Apr 13 - 01:18 PM

I very definitely remember that on April 18, 1955 Albert Einstein died. (I was reading one of his books when the first announcement I heard came on the radio.)

And in the US April 15 has been the last date for filing Income Tax returns since about the same year the Titanic played with the iceberg.

John

Subject: RE: BS: April is a bad month
From: Ebbie
Date: 13 Apr 13 - 02:27 PM

I was 9 years old when FDR died; I remember the grade school principal announced it in the lunch room and requested that everyone stand for a moment of silence. I was very impressed; it was a little scary because of the somberness of all the adults. But I don't remember wondering about our democratic form of government. Kendall, you were evidently wise for your years.

Subject: RE: BS: April is a bad month
From: kendall
Date: 13 Apr 13 - 04:06 PM

According to some, too damn wise.

Subject: RE: BS: April is a bad month
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 13 Apr 13 - 05:46 PM

If you really were born on 31 April, as someone asserted above, then you were more than just wise, K ~~ you were miraculous!

〠~M~〠

Subject: RE: BS: April is a bad month
From: Joe_F
Date: 13 Apr 13 - 06:38 PM

"As through the calendar I delve
I pause to rejoice in April twelve.
Yea, be I in sickness or be I in health
My favorite date is April twelth."    -- Ogden Nash

He never says why, tho.

Subject: RE: BS: April is a bad month
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Apr 13 - 11:34 PM

Is it just a coincidence that Lincoln was assassinated, the Titanic sank, and Kim Il Sung's birthday are ALL on April 15?

I don't think so! What are they hiding and who are they? Kendall started this thread -- does HE know?

Subject: RE: BS: April is a bad month
From: GUEST,Stim
Date: 14 Apr 13 - 08:39 AM

Just this week, in Germantown, Maryland, an Army Recruiter killed one of his recruits, then himself, in Christianburg, Virginia, in Texas, a college student walked in to his school and started ran amok, stabbing people, and there seem to bave been two more random shootings that I can even get sort from the others. You can be dismissive if you want, Rapparee, but, for whatever reason, April seems to bring out the worst in some people.

Subject: RE: BS: April is a bad month
From: catspaw49
Date: 14 Apr 13 - 09:02 AM

Is Jacqui in England or something? This is a dumbass thread if I ever saw one. ANY month can have the same kind of list! You're on FB too much Kendall and crapping around with all those dumbass threads over there...........

Add the numbers and see if you get it right.
Name a sexual disease with a vowel in it.
If you like oral sex than share this.
If you want to save kitties and not see them die, like this post.
If you don't share this you will itch for 24 hours and your head will explode.

Not that we are running anything particularly good around here. All the fucked up armchair theology and campfire philosophy along with the worthless and endless political arguments is enough to give you a case of the shits. Lately I notice the thing we are most successful at is pissing each other off. I love ya' Kendall. Give us some of the old Kendall huh?

I'm gonna' go play Scrabble and Words with Friends for awhile. Try it......very relaxing.


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: April is a bad month
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 14 Apr 13 - 09:25 AM

Not that we are running anything particularly good? This is supposed to be a music site.

Recently I posted a MIDI for "The Appletree" because someone asked for it. Apparently nobody has ever played it or even listened to it.

Joe Offer just posted abc's for the lovely Mudgee Waltz from Australia. Apparently I'm the only person who has ever played it or said thanks.

I posted a MIDI for a nice piece for the Easter season from 'Christian Harmony.' Apparently nobody ever played it or even listened to it.

If you want a better experience at the Mudcat, Spaw, respond to the music and encourage the people who are working at sharing it.

Subject: RE: BS: April is a bad month
From: catspaw49
Date: 14 Apr 13 - 09:44 AM

It is in fact two differesnt sites and has been so for a long time. The music remains fine. I was referring to the BS.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: April is a bad month
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Apr 13 - 10:43 AM

Ya know what, Stim? If you want to start some stupid argument go elsewhere.

April is the cruellest month, breeding        
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing        
Memory and desire, stirring        
Dull roots with spring rain.        
Winter kept us warm, covering                 
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding        
A little life with dried tubers.        
Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee        
With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade,        
And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten,        
And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.        
Bin gar keine Russin, stamm' aus Litauen, echt deutsch.        
And when we were children, staying at the archduke's,        
My cousin's, he took me out on a sled,        
And I was frightened. He said, Marie,        
Marie, hold on tight. And down we went.        
In the mountains, there you feel free.        
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

Or if you prefer:

Whan that aprill with his shoures soote
The droghte of march hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
Tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the ram his halve cours yronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open ye
(so priketh hem nature in hir corages);
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,
And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes,
To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;
And specially from every shires ende
Of engelond to caunterbury they wende,
The hooly blisful martir for to seke,
That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke.
Bifil that in that seson on a day,
In southwerk at the tabard as I lay
Redy to wenden on my pilgrymage
To caunterbury with ful devout corage,
At nyght was come into that hostelrye
Wel nyne and twenty in a compaignye,
Of sondry folk, by aventure yfalle
In felaweshipe, and pilgrimes were they alle,
That toward caunterbury wolden ryde.

Subject: RE: BS: April is a bad month
From: Elmore
Date: 14 Apr 13 - 11:05 AM

April was a terrible month for my wife and me. My eldest step-son, a wonderful man died suddenly at age 53. My middle step-son, age 50, was terminated from his job.

Subject: RE: BS: April is a bad month
From: kendall
Date: 14 Apr 13 - 12:58 PM

Spaw, I threw out the bait and you took it!

Subject: RE: BS: April is a bad month
From: catspaw49
Date: 14 Apr 13 - 01:45 PM

You are indeed a great masturbator!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: April is a bad month
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 14 Apr 13 - 01:55 PM

April is a bad month this year here in Calgary.
Icy snow still on the lawns, ground frozen, and it's snowing today.

Thanks for the quotations, Raparree.

I won't comment on the other stuff written here, but I sympathize with some of his remarks.

Subject: RE: BS: April is a bad month
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 14 Apr 13 - 01:57 PM

"his"- I was referring to Catspaw.

Subject: RE: BS: April is a bad month
From: Jim McLean
Date: 14 Apr 13 - 04:12 PM

I was born on the 21st April, a birthday shared with the present Queen and that's all we have in common.

Subject: RE: BS: April is a bad month
From: kendall
Date: 14 Apr 13 - 05:22 PM

Bad things happen in every other month, but what do they have that compares with: the birth of Hitler, the sinking of Titanic, the death of FDR, the start of our civil war (600,000 casualties and the assassination of Abe Lincoln?

Subject: RE: BS: April is a bad month
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Apr 13 - 10:27 PM

Well, Gen'l Lee done went an' surrenered up ta Gen'l Grant in April. 'Course, Pee Gee Tee Beauregard started that fight in April by shootin' at Fort Sumter. An' Hitler up an' shot hisself in April.

Subject: RE: BS: April is a bad month
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 15 Apr 13 - 09:51 AM

Spaw. OK. I'm glad you were just referring to the BS section.

For us, this spring was a real rollercoaster. December and January were mild, then we were hit by a series of snowstorms which attacted national attention, they were so bad. One day in late March, it was 83 on a Thursday (a record) and it was trying to snow the next Tuesday.

However, things are looking up. The taxes are done and my snow peas are coming up. My tomato seedlings are growing under fluorescent lights, and as long as that doesn't attract the attention of the DEA, we'll be all right.

Subject: RE: BS: April is a bad month
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 15 Apr 13 - 12:31 PM

I get a refund! So April may be good after all.

Subject: RE: BS: April is a bad month
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 15 Apr 13 - 01:00 PM

I was born on 21 April as well, Jim. When I was a kid I used to think the 21 gun salute was for me! My wife was born on 16 April, same year as myself.

Subject: RE: BS: April is a bad month
From: GUEST,Stim
Date: 15 Apr 13 - 01:05 PM

And, I think, Christ was crucified in April.