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Our Daily Thread 6-28-13

Good Morning!

It’s finally Friday! 🙂

And on this day in 1776 American Colonists repulsed a British sea attack on Charleston, SC.

In 1778 Mary “Molly Pitcher” Hays McCauley, wife of an American artilleryman, carried water to the soldiers during the Battle of Monmouth and, supposedly, took her husband’s place at his gun after he was overcome with heat.

In 1894 Congress made Labor Day a U.S. national holiday.

In 1919 the Treaty of Versailles was signed ending World War I exactly five years after it began.

In 1939 Pan American Airways began the first transatlantic passenger service.

In 1938 Congress created the Federal Housing Administration (FHA).

In 1976 the first women entered the U.S. Air Force Academy.

And in 1997 Mike Tyson was disqualified for biting Evander Holyfield’s ear after three rounds of their WBA heavyweight title fight. 😯

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Quote of the Day

“Humor is just another defense against the universe.”

Mel Brooks

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It’s George Morgan’s birthday. So here he is with an old Buck Owens song.

And on this day in 1978 members of this band were named Deputy Ambassadors of Goodwill by Unicef.

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Anyone have a QoD for us?

158 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 6-28-13”

  7. Good mornin AJ, I promise to listen to some of your music next week when in the land of free internet. It is hard to come up with a question of the day in the evening! I had a big praise as received some mail that I needed for my trip next week just as the post office was getting ready to close today. With a 6am pickup on Monday, this was my last chance.

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  15. Here’s a question that I would have thought was totally ridiculous except that there have actually been letters to the editor in the York Daily News about it. Do you think it’s rude to use your car’s remote to lock your doors considering that the sound of the horn might startle someone who’s walking by at the time? My first thought was, “Is this a great country, or what, when that is the worse thing you can think of to write into the newspaper about?”

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  17. That is such a funny question and so far from any reality over here. My Toyota van is a rattling 1988 model and the locks are manual. Folks I give rides to forget that you have to carefully hold the door handle in order to lock the door

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  19. No, Linda, I do not think it is rude.
    I am going to a family reunion this weekend only I don’t know anyone that will be there. If this isn’t convoluted I don’t know what is. Mr P’s brother is ten year older than him. This is the family of the brother’s ex-girlfriend from high school/college. She was always nice to Mr. P and they haven’t seen each other in years. He knew a lot of her family and it seems the relationship was serious enough that she has some of Mr. P’s mother’s things to give him.
    Who knows? It is Alabama/Florida so I can possibly rake up a distant relative of my own if I talk to someone long enough.

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  20. Had an interesting evening last night. After a high of 102 yesterday, a thunderstorm blew in. The winds were very high. Very impressive indeed. So much so, I discovered the back door dead bolt was not seating in its mortise. The back door blew open. I did a temporary fix this morning. We will see how the weather fairs today. Later folks. Off to work and then back to painting the back room, then policing up the house. I have a long drive ahead of me towing that trailer.

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  21. It isn’t rude to use the remote to lock your door.
    However, I have heard, via e-mails that it isn’t wise. The remote sends out a radio signal. There are people who can intercept that signal and discover the code that opens the door. I never use the remote to lock the door. The lock is on the armrest and I push it, almost as a reflex, as I leave the car.
    I got an e-mail that says that you should keep your car keys close to bed every night. If someone breaks in, hit the alarm. Your car horn will sound almost forever.

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  22. Good afternoon to you all 😉

    Linda, I had gotten used to the sound of automatic locks. Silly thing to complain about. I remember when remote starters came out and our farming friends got their big pickups (four-wheel drive, extended cabs, etc.) with the feature. Some people found it intimidating to be walking past a large vehicle that suddenly started up, engine roaring and lights flashing, with no one in it, but I don’t recall any letters to the editor on the subject.

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  24. I wonder if today’s comics will have the one in today’s paper. It shows Putin holding a rat named Snowden just our of reach of a cat named Obama.
    Very illustrative. Putin is doing that deliberately.
    Obama was going ro “reset” our relations with Russia.

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  28. We have a 1993 Taurus with manual locks and window cranks (also a 1979 Ford pickup), but the rest of our vehicles have automatic locks. My husband actually prefers manual locks to automatic because there’s less to go wrong and they’re easier to fix when they do.

    I don’t mind manual locks, but it’s easier when I’ve got several children with me to have automatic locks because then I don’t have to go around unlocking a bunch of doors when we come back out to our locked vehicle from wherever we had been.

    Also, back in my college days, I used to sometimes worry about someone coming up behind me after dark while I was standing at my car trying to unlock the door after a night class (I never lived on campus, and lived far enough away that I had to drive). Automatic locks would have been nice in those days, to be able to get in my car quickly and go and not have to worry about that, although it never happened.

    I don’t have much reason to drive at night anymore, but when I do, then I prefer driving something with automatic locks.

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  29. Chas, that is so funny that you posted on the prayer thread. I couldn’t figure out where you were! and over here the girls were fighting it out.

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  30. Yesterday, I was told that my president was visiting Senegal. I was completely confused until they said his name. Then, I hastened to set the record straight 😆

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  31. Ok ya’ll…all this talk about locks and cars….my Qod….what was your first car…make, year, model…color…memories!
    Mine….62 Chevy Impala…White exterior…red interior….loved loved loved that car! wish I still had it…my Daddy loved that car too! I get my enthusiasm for old cars from my Dad…upon the seeing of an old car driving down the road..I just break out into a big ‘ol smile! 🙂

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  32. That was a huge cultural faux pas for the US president: http://www.worldmag.com/2013/06/senegal_president_resists_obama_s_call_for_gay_rights. But you knew that.

    You must all be thinking about the SCOTUS decision on DOMA (too many acronyms). I know how you feel. I have been there, and as a sensitive teen, when a similar decision was handed down, I thought the world was coming crashing down around me. That is why I love Psalms like the one AJ posted on the prayer thread – because they are true. I learned many things from my experience, but the most important was this – Christ was right when He said, “He that loses his life shall find it.” The Church’s worst fears of being silenced have not materialized in Canada, but I had to let go of my dreams of a conventional, secure lifestyle during that crisis. As much as I still hope for certain things in my future, I value what my unconventional, outwardly insecure life has brought me so far. “He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord.” Psalm 112:7

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  33. Roscuro,

    You know that when our rights to free speech are being threatened, that the ACLU will step in and rectify it?

    Right?

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  34. From the article above:
    “Senegal is one of the most stable democracies in Africa and one of the strongest partners that we have in the region,” Obama said. “It’s moving in the right direction with reforms to deepen democratic institutions.”

    Which is why it’s surprising that the president hasn’t done everything in his power to subvert their democracy and destabilize the country.

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  35. roscuro, thanks for the 11:01 post, really so true. And on the bright side, perhaps now we can move on from this issue being so front and center. I’m absolutely weary of it all.

    I think what’s bothered me as a journalist (again) is just seeing how poorly the issue has been (and continues to be) covered in the press. Where I work, we can’t seem to write enough stories about it — 2 days worth, story after story, every angle. What’s interesting is it’s been very hard to scare up a contrary opinion for quotes. We conscientious objectors appear to have been sufficiently cowed into silence on the matter.

    I think there has been a bit of a chilling effect on speech, at least in my part of the country — a colleague yesterday was marveling at how amazing and wonderful it was to see old high school friends “coming out” on fb in response to the Supreme Court decisions (and one of my college friends declared she was proposing to her significant other as well).

    I realized, though, that what you weren’t seeing on fb were posts from anyone on other other side. Silence for the most part as everyone else celebrated. Because there just is no legitimate other side to this issue, you know. 😉 It seems like normally smart folks have finally just lost their heads. Oh well, enough about all that! God is in His heaven and we have been blessed with His grace.

    First car: 1968 well-used VW Beetle, baby blue, named “Monday” (bought it on a Monday in 1971-2, somewhere around there, I was in college). Black, no-frills interior, no fancy extras. Bouncy. I loved that little car SO much. 🙂 Cute-cute-cute.

    Interesting morning here with the ladies jockeying for first and Chas wandering lost in the blog desert somewhere, looking for a thread.

    And I do have a friend who told me she was bothered by the noise of the remote keys, which was a new concept to me. She also hates dryer sheets which I love, though. 🙂

    I have to use my remote key before the engine in my Jeep will even start. I think it’s called a sentinel key or system or something, but that’s how it came. And opening or starting it from the remote brings out only a little “beep!” not a horn blast (which happens when I lock it remotely).

    I heard the thing about keeping your keys near your bed at night, too, just in case of midnight break-ins, but I never do. I hang them on a hook near the door or I’d never find them again. But it’s actually kind of a good idea.

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  36. When I was a teenager, my parents had the fanciest car they’d ever had, an Olds 98 with power windows and door locks. The doors could be locked and unlocked either manually or with a button. My mom had somehow gotten the idea that using the power locks would “wear them out,” so we were forbidden to use them.

    So here we were, three teens and pre-teens with elderly parents (when I was 15, Dad was 65 and Mom was 57) who had power locks but refused to use them. Instead, Dad would get into the car and close his door, and then reach over and unlock Mom’s door. Mom would get in, settle herself, turn around, and unlock the door behind her. The child waiting at that door would get in and reach over and unlock the final passenger door.

    Obviously that is the way all families did it before power locks . . . but when we had power locks, and when we had parents who were older and moved fairly slowly, it was maddening for teenagers. It’s funny now (the absurd sort of funny), but in Phoenix’s hot sun, it wasn’t at all funny then. It was like insisting on using a manual typewriter and carbon paper when you have access to a computer and a good printer.

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  37. My first car (in 1987) was a white 1980 AMC Concord my brother encouraged me to buy from an auction for $500. I didn’t attend the auction, he did, but he told me this car had been unclaimed and I could buy it at the “winning” price if I wanted it. I hesitated since it had 113,000 miles on it, but he told me it would probably be a very good car for me. It had its quirks, but it was indeed a good car. And I sold it two years later when I was going to college, for $50 less than I paid for it, to a woman who loved AMCs so much that she bought any that she saw at a good price. (I don’t think they were making them anymore. She already had two or maybe three, and this was nine years old by that time, or maybe ten since it was August and they start making the next year’s models pretty early.)

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  38. I just would like to point out that even though the time stamp was 7:05 this morning when we three were positioning for first…it was 5:05 my time…doesn’t that count for something!!!???? 🙂

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  39. NancyJill’s QoD: I can’t remember the year I was given my first car. It was a used model. It had space for four in the front, as it was a camper van. The camper portion had a double door back entrance, with a small porch where a motorcycle could be stored. There was a bathroom with a removable sink and toilet, and a ladder to the loft beds above the cab. The roof had a rack to put a rowboat. I had a lot of fun driving it around and I haven’t had a vehicle to match it since. The make? FischerPrice :-p

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  41. It is said that a woman remembers her first kiss. A man remembers his first car.
    I’ve told you before, when I got my third stripe, I bought a car. It was a 1950 Chevy club coupe fully equipped with radio and heater. It also had a clock that didn’t work. I added turn signals later.
    It was a neat car for a young guy to have. This was in 1951. It cost $1500, which I paid for at $85/mo. I courted Elvera in it. I brought Chuck home in it. I finally sold it to a friend for $50.00. His wife wanted him to buy it so he wouldn’t mess with their good car. I heard later that he got a speeding ticket in Texas in that car. Made me feel good.
    I had a friend who had a Packard straight 8. It was slow getting off from the lights, but it would really move across the plains of Montana.

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  43. My first car was a 1966 Mustang. It didn’t burn oil, it slung oil. Her name was BeBe. We had fun. Second car was a1984 Honda Prelude 5 speed. He liked to go fast. We talked ourselves out of a few speeding tickets.
    I don’t remember my first kiss.

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  44. QoD: First car, a high school graduation gift from my parents, was a little 4-speed red Honda Civic. Don’t ask me what year (my husband would know, but he’s not here right now). I graduated in 1980, and the car was a used model, so 70’s-something.

    Not roomy by any means. It was a blast driving, though, when my bowling teammates and I would cram into it when it was my turn to drive. There was more elbowing and shoving than there is here racing to be first. 😀

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  46. ’73 Super Beetle, sky blue with sunroof. Did a few things I shouldn’t have in that car, like a 60 mph turnover on black ice. 😯

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  49. First car: 1964 Pontiac GTO. It was fun. My 2008 Mustang GT reminds me of the GTO.

    I just bought a new Kia Forte (last year’s model) with manual door locks and roll-up windows. Get ’em while they last.

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  52. I had a 1972 2 door Ford Pinto station wagon. Room to sleep in when a friend and I went to Glacier National Park. But not good when I started having kids because the back seat was so hard to reach and so low that even in car seats, they couldn’t see out. I didn’t want to go into debt and the Lord provided that my Dad bought it and asked if I wanted to buy it from him and I paid off some property he had.

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  54. Morning, Chas. The greetings here are fun. At this time of day you say “morning”, but I love the afternoon, anytime after noon, where you say, “apinun” or it sounds like happy noon.

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  56. Jo- I don’t think there ever was a four door pinto. Imagine how small the back doors would have been!

    My brother gave me his car as my first: A green 1967 2 door Ford Fairlane. It had factory air conditioning! In those days, it was rather common not to have factory air. I had a 66 Dodge later on that had add-on a/c, which meant the passenger had this huge box hanging down from the dash board. It made for much less leg room in the passenger seat.

    I also remember in Arizona you could buy an evaporative cooler for your car. You filled the base of it with water and then hanged it over the window, sort of like the old drive-in movie theater speakers, except it was outside the car, actually. As you drove, the force of the air turned the fan blades, which blew air over the water to cool the air, then into the car. We never had one, but I still remember seeing them. One couldn’t use them in a humid climate, though.

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  61. 60…nobody interrupt me now, I’m going to 62 and trying to get “You’re posting too quickly. Slow down.” for the second time today. 😉

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  73. Chas is going to have something to say about this in the morning. He’ll be looking to see if we’re spilling any secrets. 😉

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  76. Jo, do ya think we’ve dominated the beginning and ending of the thread today? I’m going to be gone tomorrow, so it would seem I’m making up for that today.

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  77. Yup, we’ve got it covered. Where do you live? I forget. I will easily stay up until 9 tonight so will try to beat Cheryl for number 1 as long as Chas stays on the prayer thread

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  80. oh, that reminds me, time to go to the weight room and work out. I skipped yesterday and went and waited at the post office to see if I could find my missing mail

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  81. You asked me where I live? (This is maybe the secret Chas is waiting to see if I’ll divulge.) I actually haven’t revealed online in very specific terms where exactly I live. My husband would rather I not. I have given a few general hints here and there, though — talking about snow and stuff like that. So I’m not exactly in the South. 😉 In fact, we had snow in May this year. 😯

    That’s all I’m tellin’ 🙂

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  85. I’m home alone tonight – hubby is working nights this long Canada Day weekend. He’ll be marching in the parade come Monday. He used to ride horses in the annual parades but, sadly, there are no horses here for him to ride.

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  111. Kare, that isn’t a good enough excuse when he has left people like 6 Arrows around. He should have left someone responsible to be in charge, or some people will tear the whole place up and blame it on innocent people like me.

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  117. Crazy – some people take their soccer very seriously. I won’t chase you off the field – I can’t run that far, but 6arrows might!

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  141. It would seem all the trouble began at 21:52:12 with Cheryl saying this: “Come on, people. If I’m going to get 67, 88, and 100, I need some participation here!”

    Be careful what you hope for! 😉

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  151. yup, it’s official I got 150 and there is no competition left out there and it is only 4:30 in the afternoon here, but I will quit talking to myself and wait for 9pm tonight when you all get back on.

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  155. Not me! I didn’t get any. I left when it started getting ugly. None of it was my fault. And Misten is a good dog, so keep her out of it! (Unless you’re offering cheese, then she wants to be involved.)

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  156. So AJ comes back to find overturned furniture, unleashed dogs running amok and cake on the walls.

    We should all be ashamed of ourselves.

    Um, so when’s your next vacation, AJ?

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  158. wait, y’all are posting on the next day. I thought that I had the last word. Yup, AJ, it was quite a party, just couldn’t seem to stop, we just kept setting each other off. There would be a lull and then the giggling would begin again.

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