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To all you Raiders out there, a good old fashioned

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!

Where is everyone? It's been really lonely on this site lately. What we need are some fireworks to liven things up...

KA BOOM, KA BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM.

07/04/13 06:48 PM

#3914

Happy 4th of July to all of us Americans! I spoke to Denny Alexander and he is seeing a surgeon to have a little operation soon. I wish him the best of luck!

Linda

07/04/13 06:50 PM

#3915

Suzi:

It was nice to talk to you the other day. I'm so pleased that Dave got good results! That's something to really celebrate!

Linda

07/04/13 09:39 PM

#3916

I don't know the details, buy YEA Dave and Suzi. From Linda's message, I gather this is good news. We can all use some of that.

07/08/13 09:27 PM

#3917

Patti Miller:

Thanks for calling to tell me that Wendell Alexander died. I was able to contact their children. I appreciate you going out of your way to let me know.

Love ya, Linda

07/12/13 04:10 PM

#3918

Ed Stanfield

Linda,

Sorry to be so late responding to you. I was gone for a week in Virginia visitiing Civil War battlefields but now am home.

The governor basically rewrote the CC bill as passed by the legislature using his amendatory veto power, then the legislature by an overwelming margin, overrode the veto, so yes, Illinois will become the last state to allow her citizens to protect themselves outside their homes, provided they come up with the money for the training and the license and of course pass an FBI background check. As usual, the criminals will bypass those steps

07/12/13 08:05 PM

#3919

Hey Ed:

While you were in Virginia, were you by Appamatox? That is just 6 miles from Bristow, VA where my family settled when they first came to the US. We are English, Irish, Scot, French, and then they met the Cherokee's and I am part of them too! I think that qualifies for Heinz 57 doesn't it?

Hope you had a great time!

Linda

07/13/13 10:20 AM

#3920

Ed Stanfield

Linda,

I spent a day at Appomattox and am wearing a shirt I purchased there as I type this.

My Uncle's grandfather (no blood ties to me) was a flag of truce bearer there. He was a Confederate major at age 19 nad a former student of Stonewall Jackson while a student at VMI I arranged to have an old photograph redone and sent a copy to the historian there and it now hangs on their wall of honor in the visitor's center. He was also governor of Alabama and later a federal judge..

07/13/13 11:47 AM

#3921

Ed, glad you're back because I love reading your stories. Tell us more. I still marvel at our visit to Camp Butler. You taught me so much that day. I wish others would get in here. Maybe you can inspire them. Only a month from our next mini-reunion...so I'm sure I'll see you there on Aug. 17.

Linda, any chance you'll be able to join us this year?

07/13/13 04:36 PM

#3922

Mel:

I will be there Aug. 2014 for our 50th. This year is impossible. Hope to see you all then!

Linda

07/14/13 12:04 AM

#3923

Linda,

Awwwwwww!!!

07/16/13 07:27 PM

#3924

You think English is easy??

I think a retired English teacher was bored...THIS IS GREAT!

Read all the way to the end.................
This took a lot of work to put together!

1) The bandage was wound around the wound.

2) The farm was used to produce produce.

3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.

4) We must polish the Polish furniture..

5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.

6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert..

7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.

8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.

9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.

10) I did not object to the object.

11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.

12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.

13) They were too close to the door to close it.

14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.

15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.

16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.

17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.

18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear..

19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.

20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France . Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig..

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.

PS. - Why doesn't 'Buick' rhyme with 'quick' ?

You lovers of the English language might enjoy this .

There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is'UP.'

It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP ?
At a meeting, why does a topic come UP?
Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to writeUP a report?
We call UP our friends.
And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver; we warm UP the leftovers and clean UPthe kitchen.
We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car.
At other times the little word has real special meaning.
People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses.
To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special.
A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP.
We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.

We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP!
To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in the dictionary.
In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions.
If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used.
It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more
When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP.
When the sun comes out we say it is clearingUP.
When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP.
When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP.

One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP,
for now my time is UP,
so.......it is time to shut UP!
Now it's UP to you what you do with this email.

Homographs are words of like spelling but with more than one meaning.

A homograph that is also pronounced differently is a heteronym

And with this I just give up. Vic

07/17/13 01:11 AM

#3925

I changed that last uo to up why did the sight change it back to uo, and now they will not let me change it.

07/17/13 10:56 AM

#3926

I don't know Vic, it came UP just fine on my screen. Very funny and thought provoking. I bet Patty Lehr has some thoughts on this.

07/19/13 01:26 AM

#3927

That is becouse a person we all like (Jack) went in and fixed it

07/19/13 01:31 AM

#3928

If all is going well I will be in Bloomington after Sept 8or9TH! That is all I know at this time.

07/20/13 09:31 PM

#3929

OK, I don't get it. Looks a lot like it's just Helen, Vic, Ed, Linda, Suzi and me on here. You guys want to get together for a hand of poker? Really, I could post some really goofy stuff here (I mean it would get lots of attention!!!), but it seemed a better idea to just ask, "How is everyone's summer going?"

I miss you guys. The next time you check raiders64, please leave a message. At least we'll know you're still out there.

Anyone coming to the mini-reunion on Aug. 17?

Max, Jack, Rod, Gerry, Holly and all the others, where are you?

07/21/13 08:32 PM

#3930

Hello everyone!

Just returned from seeing my son's family with 3 grandsons. I'm exhausted. Playing softball and soccer with a 14 and 9 year olds are one thing. But with that dirty word 'age', I find that I only sleep best in my own bed! Do the rest of you experience problems sleeping in a different environment? This must be what 'over the hill' means!

Love to all!

Linda

07/22/13 06:06 PM

#3931

Gerald (Jerry) Plummer

Mel,

Don't know if I'm the Gerry you mention since I'm Jerry, but having a great summer. Between Santa Cruz, Lake Tahoe and watching the grandkids at swim meets, Kathy and I have been on the move!! Trust all is well for any other Raiders including those named Gerry. LOL!

Jerry Plummer

07/23/13 09:15 AM

#3932

Dear Mr. Plummer,

You ARE the Jerry (27) I (43) had in mind. Never could figure out how G's convert to J's. When I took Spanish with Mrs. Wood, it always came out "Herry, Hairy or Harry." Ditto LOL

Thanks for the summer update. Funny to think about you and all those classmates with grandkids who are doing all the stuff we used to do. You were always half fish, so I bet you love watching those kids racing.

I can't remember if I posted this photo before, but since you answered the challenge, thought it might be suitable for the occasion. Good to hear your news...let's hope others are seeing this and jump back in.

07/23/13 10:23 AM

#3933

Gerald (Jerry) Plummer

Mel,

Are you certain? Having no recollection of the float, picture, shirt, helmet or event, two possible scenarios are in play:

1. I have attained the pinnicle of senior moments.

2. The 60s were harder on me than I thought.

Regardless, appreciate the sentiment but you need to destroy those old pictures. By the way, the "G" and the "j" I attribute to my parents twisted sense of humor.

07/23/13 11:21 AM

#3934

Jerry, it's probably No. 2. haha

The photo is labeled and besides, who could forget a profile like that? Definitely you on the left. As I remember, we built two homecoming floats at Marcia Rodwell's house on Sunset Rd. The one in our sr. year was a giant chicken with flapping wings with the caption "Don't count your chickens before they're hatched." I think me, Marv, Bill Rusk and one other guy were inside the chicken flapping its wings like oarsmen on a Viking ship. The one pictured here was from our jr. year. There's another pic of it on p. 20 of the 1963 Aepix.

There is a new theory out there that we don't actually remember an event, we only remember the last time we thought about it. Strange, no? So, I'm pretty sure there is nothing wrong with your memory.

07/23/13 05:51 PM

#3935

Are You Smarter Than A 60 Year Old?

THIS MAY BE HARDER THAN YOU MAY THINK. THE

ANSWERS WILL BE ON THE TIP OF YOUR TONGUE, BUT YOU JUST CAN'T QUITE REMEMBER

THE CORRECT ANSWER.

DON'T LOOK BELOW FOR THE ANSWERS UNTIL YOU HAVE TRIED IT OUT.

A TEST FOR 'OLDER' KIDS. I was picky who I sent this to. It had to be those who might

actually remember. So have some fun my sharp-witted friends. This is a test

for us 'older kids'! The answers are printed below, (after the questions)

but don't cheat! answer them first.....

01. After the Lone Ranger saved the day and rode off into the sunset, the

grateful citizens would ask, Who was that masked man? Invariably, someone

would answer, I don't know, but he left this behind. What did he leave

behind?________________.

02. When the Beatles first came to the U.S. In early 1964, we all watched

them on The ____ ___________ Show.

03. 'Get your kicks, __ _________ _______.'

04. 'The story you are about to see is true. The names have been changed to

___________________.'

05. 'In the jungle, the mighty jungle, ________________.'

06. After the Twist, The Mashed Potato, and the Watusi, we 'danced' under a

stick that was lowered as low as we could go in a dance called the

'_____________.'

07. Nestle's makes the very best . .. . . _______________.'

08. Satchmo was America 's 'Ambassador of Goodwill.' Our parents shared this

great jazz trumpet player with us. His name was _________________.

09. What takes a licking and keeps on ticking? _______________.

10. Red Skeleton's hobo character was named __________________ and Red

always ended his television show by saying, 'Good Night, and '________

________... '

11. Some Americans who protested the Vietnam War did so by burning

their______________.

12. The cute little car with the engine in the back and the trunk in the

front was called the VW. What other names did it go by? ____________

&_______________.

13. In 1971, singer Don MacLean sang a song about, 'the day the music died.'

This was a tribute to ___________________.

14. We can remember the first satellite placed into orbit. The Russians did

it. It was called ___________________.

15. One of the big fads of the late 50's and 60's was a large plastic ring

that we twirled around our waist. It was called the __________

______________.

16. Remember LS/MFT _____ _____/_____ _____ _____?

17. Hey Kids! What time is it? It's _____ ______ _____!

18. Who knows what secrets lie in the hearts of men? The _____ Knows!

19. There was a song that came out in the 60's that was "a grave yard

smash". It's name was the ______ ______!

20. Alka Seltzer used a "boy with a tablet on his head" as it's

Logo/Representative. What was the boy's name? ________

ANSWERS:

01.The Lone Ranger left behind a silver bullet.

02. The Ed Sullivan Show

03. On Route 66

04.To protect the innocent.

05.The Lion Sleeps Tonight

06. The limbo

07. Chocolate

08. Louis Armstrong

09. The Timex watch

10. Freddy, The Freeloader and 'Good Night and God Bless.'

11. Draft cards (Bras were also burned. Not flags, as some have guessed)

12. Beetle or Bug

13. Buddy Holly

14. Sputnik

15. Hoola-hoop

16. Lucky Strike/Means Fine Tobacco

17. Howdy Doody Time

18. Shadow

19.Monster Mash

20. Speedy

07/23/13 06:04 PM

#3936