"MikeZ" <Mike.Gets.His@gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Apr 18, 8:37 am, Miss Elaine Eos <M...@your-pants.PlayNaked.com>
wrote:
> Have you ever had one of those days when you thought "man, what a great
> day for an ASC-er..."? Well, apparently, so did 5 sets of parents,
> "back in the day"...
>
> Smoke one each for Dave "coolbluewa...@gmail.com" York, Michael Arends,
> Don "CigarPirate" Payne, Ken "oldman" Miller and Eric "EricE" Epner,
> whose parents all know a good ASC day when they see one.
>
> Elsewhere in history...
>
> Apr 18 1906
> A devastating earthquake strikes San Francisco at 5:13 a.m., followed by
> a major aftershock three hours later. More than 3,000 people are killed
> from either collapsing structures or any of the 59 separate fires which
> burn over the next three days. In the downtown area, the U.S. Army is
> forced to dynamite whole city blocks in order to contain the flames, due
> to the lack of water pressure.
>
> Apr 18 1955
> Nobel Prize recipient Albert Einstein dies in his hospital bed from a
> ruptured aortic aneurysm. Seven hours later, his brain is plunked into a
> jar of formalin and taken away by the pathologist. It will remain
> missing for 23 years.
>
> Apr 18 1983
> 62 people are killed and more than 100 injured in a suicide bombing
> against the U.S. Embassy in Beirut. The attacker used a van packed with
> one ton of high explosives. Included among the dead is the CIA's entire
> Middle East bureau. The group Islamic Jihad claims responsibility,
> although the intelligence community believes it was actually the work of
> Hezbollah.
>
> Apr 18 1988
> American auto worker John Demjanjuk is convicted of crimes against
> humanity by an Israeli court. They determined that he was Treblinka's
> notorious "Ivan the Terrible." The court sentences him to hang one week
> later, but the conviction is later overturned when it appears to have
> been a case of mistaken identity. In 2002, a U.S. federal court later
> strips Demjanjuk of his citizenship after it rules that he did in fact
> work as a Nazi prison guard, although at Sobibor, Majdanek, and
> Flossenburg.
>
> --
> Please take off your pants or I won't read your e-mail.
> I will not, no matter how "good" the deal, patronise any business which
> sends
> unsolicited commercial e-mail or that advertises in discussion newsgroups.
Absolutly none of those people post in ASC!
Saw Michael Arends at HARD the year before and he often checks in -- but
infrequently posts.
Regards, Richard