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23 Feb 09 - 06:21 AM (#2573577) Subject: BS: Not another trivia thread From: kendall 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." |
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23 Feb 09 - 09:27 AM (#2573691) Subject: RE: BS: Not another trivia thread From: kendall No takers? Too much for you? |
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23 Feb 09 - 09:30 AM (#2573693) Subject: RE: BS: Not another trivia thread From: Rapparee No, I already answered them. Ask some hard ones, willya? |
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23 Feb 09 - 10:11 AM (#2573726) Subject: RE: BS: Not another trivia thread From: Mrrzy And trivia means three roads in Latin. Whenever 3 roads met, they put up notices with little bits of news... |
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23 Feb 09 - 10:23 AM (#2573741) Subject: RE: BS: Not another trivia thread From: Dave Hanson Old soldiers never die, they just smell that way. Dave H |
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23 Feb 09 - 11:27 AM (#2573812) Subject: RE: BS: Not another trivia thread From: Bill D 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!) |
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23 Feb 09 - 11:53 AM (#2573836) Subject: RE: BS: Not another trivia thread From: John on the Sunset Coast 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). |
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23 Feb 09 - 12:17 PM (#2573859) Subject: RE: BS: Not another trivia thread From: Bill D Ok... the guys who wrote the song (Gene Autry, William Burch and Carl Cotner) actually 'said' it. |
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23 Feb 09 - 12:35 PM (#2573879) Subject: RE: BS: Not another trivia thread From: John on the Sunset Coast 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. |
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23 Feb 09 - 01:33 PM (#2573941) Subject: RE: BS: Not another trivia thread From: kendall 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? |
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23 Feb 09 - 01:37 PM (#2573946) Subject: RE: BS: Not another trivia thread From: Bill D The only thing I looked up was "Old Soldiers"... I have a mind like flypaper...lots of stuff sticks, but randomly. |
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23 Feb 09 - 01:50 PM (#2573963) Subject: RE: BS: Not another trivia thread From: Amos And most of it not really healthy... |
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23 Feb 09 - 01:57 PM (#2573970) Subject: RE: BS: Not another trivia thread From: Bill D ☺ maybe...maybe not... |
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27 Feb 09 - 08:59 AM (#2577174) Subject: RE: BS: Not another trivia thread From: kendall The answer is: Millinocket. |