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I've added a new entry to my book, "Smile! (Groan?) You Know You Love These!"  : "Fingertips & Pat Benatar" |
| Loved Pat Benatar's Love is A Battlefield in 1983. Haven't heard her for a long time. Thanks. |
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| I've added a new entry to my book, "Smile! (Groan?) You Know You Love These!" : "Insults From Bygone Eras & .38 Special" |
| I've added a new entry to my book, "Smile! (Groan?) You Know You Love These!" : "Breaking News & The New Vaudeville Band" |
| I've added a new entry to my book, "Smile! (Groan?) You Know You Love These!" : "Getting Old & Bob Seger" |
| I know this is dangerous for me to do, but lasr night while slowly waking up, I had this thought. Suppose that back when America was only 13 colonies, that we kept our word with Native Amerians when signing treaties. In other words, the Native Americans granted us the land (of the 13 colonies) we were alreay on, but westward expansion would not be allowed. We've signed treaties with every Indian Nation, only to later break that treaty in one way or another. So suppose we kept our word and didn't expand westward? Imagine it's 2024, and America is 13 states, only 13 states. Our country extends West to the Appalachian mountains, no further. What would the world be like? Would there have been a Civil War? How would this affect WWI, WWII, or the Korean War? Imagine a different world. Can you write about it? I'm not sure I ca, so wanted to ask you! |
Massive Friendly Derg  - I also thought one was supposed to say "Native American" - when I was in school we were taught the phrase "American Indians" but I understand that is not PC now to say that |
| If the US had remained only 13 states and kept our word, there still would've been a Civil War. Slavery was a controversial issue even at the time. In fact in our current timeline, the west, while divided up on the Mason-Dixon line into free and slave states/territories, was far removed from most of the Civil War.(except one weird as heck conspiracy to revive the Confederacy in New Mexico.) But if we'd had only 13 states, I'm not sure there would've been much difference in the outcome of the Civil War. In the time between the signing of the living document we call The Constitution, we were far from the only European Colonies. Spain held Florida and the almost the entire Carribean at the time. The French were still in charge of what would become Canada as well as territories to the west that the US acquired in the Louisiana purchase. That doesn't even begin to be the tip of the issue. Politics, people and the fact that each state in those 13 would've had vastly different opinions on how to deal with Indigenous peoples that they saw as less than civilized on what the European settlers considered their land.(despite the fact that the seven very organized tribes had signed those treaties they didn't think about property rights the way even Europeans did back then. Inigonous peoples didn't think anyone could own the land. It was there for everyone from their point of view.) The 13 states would be facing raids from Spanish Privateers because thats just how Spain—and other European Naval powers rolled back then. They would have still had the "Indian Schools" to try and turn the native population into Europeans. (Just ask the college of William and Mary in Virginia.) I'm not sure extermination would've been as rampant without manifest destiny. Still there's always douche bags in power at some point. I'm not so sure that the War of 1812 would've been won. Which would also change the Union's fate. Don't ask me how. If France by some miracle had managed to hold on to its Colonies to the West by the World Wars, I believe it would've been which side they allied with that decided the fate of the US. Either we would've been taken over by the Axis powers or be indebted to France for our freedom. Supposing Germany took over the Western half of the North America. I believe they would've exterminated the Indiginous populations by forced sterilization and a far worse Genocide than resulted from Manifest Destiny. Would a Korean War happen? I don't know. |
| I've added a new entry to my book, "Smile! (Groan?) You Know You Love These!" : "Change A Light Bulb & My Favorite Flashmob" |
| I've added a new entry to my book, "Smile! (Groan?) You Know You Love These!" : "Helium Isotope & Quincy Jones" |
| I've added a new entry to my book, "Smile! (Groan?) You Know You Love These!" : "Organic Vegetables & The Verve" |
| I've added a new entry to my book, "Smile! (Groan?) You Know You Love These!" : "Four vs Three Illusion & The Traveling Wilburys" |
| I've added a new entry to my book, "Smile! (Groan?) You Know You Love These!" : "Good In Bed & George Thorogood" |
| My ex-Father-In-Law (yes, we are still close friends and always will be) sent me this today. An elderly Italian man who lived on the outskirts of Rimini, Italy, went to the local church for confession. When the priest slid open the panel in the confessional, the man said: "Father, during World War II, a beautiful Jewish woman from our neighborhood knocked urgently on my door and asked me to hide her from the Nazis. So, I hid her in my attic." The priest replied: "That was a wonderful thing you did, and you have no need to confess that." "There is more to tell, Father. She started to repay me with sexual favors. This happened several times a week, and sometimes twice on Sundays." The priest said, "That was a long time ago and by doing what you did, you placed the two of you in great danger, but two people under those circumstances can easily succumb to the weakness of the flesh. However, if you are truly sorry for your actions, you are indeed forgiven." "Thank you, Father. That's a great load off my mind. I do have one more question." "And what is that?" asked the priest. "Should I tell her the war is over?'' |
| I've added a new entry to my book, "Smile! (Groan?) You Know You Love These!" : "Knock Knock & Bobby "Boris" Pickett" |
| I've added a new entry to my book, "Smile! (Groan?) You Know You Love These!" : "Mirrors & The Ventures" |
| "Walk, Don't Run" may have been their first wide-release single, but I'd 'venture' a guess that, owing to a certain police procedural set in the Aloha State, their best-known song was "Hawaii Five-O". |
| Omg! "Run Don't Walk" was the song my parents used to play tag around the couch with me when I was a toddler. So nostalgic. |
Write_Mikey_Write!  - And that must mean why cops are sometimes called 5-0. As in mischievous kids screaming 5-0! and running away. I've always used the phrase 'Walking Feet' when kids are running. It's a positive message since most kids don't listen to 'don't do..." |
| I've added a new entry to my book, "Smile! (Groan?) You Know You Love These!" : "Avoidable & Anita Ward" |
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