BS: Not another trivia thread

Subject: RE: BS: Not another trivia thread
From: kendall
Date: 27 Feb 09 - 08:59 AM

The answer is: Millinocket.

Subject: RE: BS: Not another trivia thread
From: Bill D
Date: 23 Feb 09 - 01:57 PM

☺ maybe...maybe not...

Subject: RE: BS: Not another trivia thread
From: Amos
Date: 23 Feb 09 - 01:50 PM

And most of it not really healthy...

Subject: RE: BS: Not another trivia thread
From: Bill D
Date: 23 Feb 09 - 01:37 PM

The only thing I looked up was "Old Soldiers"... I have a mind like flypaper...lots of stuff sticks, but randomly.

Subject: RE: BS: Not another trivia thread
From: kendall
Date: 23 Feb 09 - 01:33 PM

Raparie, if it was so easy why didn't you answer them?
Bill, the initials were right so I assume you know.
Now be honest, did you look them up before posting?

Ok Raparie, H. Hamlin's father was a pediatrician, yet he nearly died as an infant. As a last resort, they took him to an Indian healer who saved the baby's life. There is a town in Maine that bears the healer's name. What is it?

Subject: RE: BS: Not another trivia thread
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 23 Feb 09 - 12:35 PM

Not Gene Autry et.al either--thy wrote (if they are the writers) a song based on MacArthur's speech based on this:

"Back in the early 1900s in Britain there was a phrase - still heard from time to time - 'old soldiers never die, they just fade away'. This may have come from a music hall song, but I'm far from sure. Just a suggestion as to a possible origin.

: : : From Eric Partridge's "Dictionary of Catch Phrases American and British":

: : : "'old soldiers never die: they simply fade away' has been extracted from the British Army's C20 parody of the song 'Kind Thoughts Can Never Die' and the tune adopted from it . . . This immortal ditty appeared in John Brophy and Eric Partridge, 'Songs and Slang of the British Soldier: 1914-1918,' 1930, and has been preserved in 'The Long Trail,' lamentably out of print in Britain, but to be reprinted in the US.
: : : It was 'given its first familiarity in US in a speech by General MacArthur on his recall from Korea; still not forgotten' (Prof. John W. Clark, 1977)."

www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/12/messages/859.html

I had thought to attribute it to Kipling, but have not found that to be the case.

Subject: RE: BS: Not another trivia thread
From: Bill D
Date: 23 Feb 09 - 12:17 PM

Ok... the guys who wrote the song (Gene Autry, William Burch and Carl Cotner) actually 'said' it.

Subject: RE: BS: Not another trivia thread
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 23 Feb 09 - 11:53 AM

MacArthur neither wrote nor said, "Old soldiers never die; they just fade away." In his Farewell Speech to Congress he paraphrased the song, (anon) "Old Soldiers Never Die". Here is the close of that speech:
"And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty."

The entire speech is extremely moving and deserves to be in books of famous speeches (MO).

Subject: RE: BS: Not another trivia thread
From: Bill D
Date: 23 Feb 09 - 11:27 AM

Who said: "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." FDR
"    "   ""Those nattering nabobs of negativity" STA
"    " "The vice presidency aint worth a bucket of warm piss" (Changed to "Spit") JNG

" "Old soldiers never die; they just fade away." DMcA

"Who was Abraham Lincoln's first vice president?" HH

""Millions for defense; not one cent for tribute"" **Robert Goodloe Harper** (look it up!)

Subject: RE: BS: Not another trivia thread
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 23 Feb 09 - 10:23 AM

Old soldiers never die, they just smell that way.

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: Not another trivia thread
From: Mrrzy
Date: 23 Feb 09 - 10:11 AM

And trivia means three roads in Latin. Whenever 3 roads met, they put up notices with little bits of news...

Subject: RE: BS: Not another trivia thread
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Feb 09 - 09:30 AM

No, I already answered them.

Ask some hard ones, willya?

Subject: RE: BS: Not another trivia thread
From: kendall
Date: 23 Feb 09 - 09:27 AM

No takers? Too much for you?

Subject: BS: Not another trivia thread
From: kendall
Date: 23 Feb 09 - 06:21 AM

Here's an easy one:

Who said: "We have nothing to fear but fear itself."
"    "   ""Those nattering nabobs of negativity"
"    " "The vice presidency aint worth a bucket of warm piss" (Changed to "Spit"

Who said, "In the final analysis, a soldier's pack is not as heavy as a slave's chains."

"    " "Old soldiers never die; they just fade away."
"      " "Millions for defense; not one cent for tribute"

Who was Abraham Lincoln's first vice president?
Finish this: "Hoover Hoover is the man, throw ---------in the garbage can.

Who was "That damned cowboy in the White House"?


Who is this? "His intellect is like the Platte River; a mile wide and a foot deep."