SIDEBAR #51 - Arias/Alexander forum

[Itsy]

http://deadspin.com/this-is-what-it-would-look-like-if-american-pharoah-rac-1709988755

I thought this was kinda cool. It is a side by side comparison of Secretariat's 1973 Belmont win and American Pharoah's win. Secretariat was hand ridden where American Pharoah was shown the whip in the stretch. Enjoy!

I've been watching lots of the Secretariat videos on you tube this racing season (another former horse owner & always a horse lover here. My horse had Count Fleet as a great- however-many grand sire. I've lost his papers in all of the moves over the years ). Did you see the one where they compared him against Man 'O War? Good one to watch. There will probably never be another horse like him (Secretariat) but I was punching the air when AmPh won the Belmont.

That is the best way to potty train puppies, but you don't need to press on their belly's It's the natural way because your taking them out the way their body's function. Too many pet owners don't understand or follow how a dog works,

Maybe not - to each their own. But mine usually learned with this method within days after I thought of it. The ones before had more accidents. My last dog had to be put down last year. She was a month short of being 15. Not sure yet if I'm going to get another. Have 2 inside cats so if I do, it'll have to be a puppy so they can teach it who is boss, lol.

 

[Itsy]

An interesting day here. We had a retrial for a guy who murdered an elderly woman in 2009. Verdict was overturned due to juror instruction. He was found guilty again today and lunged for an officer and spit at the prosecutor. Local station has footage. My dad is a bailiff, at the age of 83, and was right in the middle of it! I've only saw grainy footage so far but will post a link later. My dad...my hero!

Go, dad!! Mine was my hero, too. Taken too soon by Alzheimer's. Still miss him every day....

 

[GigiG]

An interesting day here. We had a retrial for a guy who murdered an elderly woman in 2009. Verdict was overturned due to juror instruction. He was found guilty again today and lunged for an officer and spit at the prosecutor. Local station has footage. My dad is a bailiff, at the age of 83, and was right in the middle of it! I've only saw grainy footage so far but will post a link later. My dad...my hero!

Bravo, Wagara's dad!

 

[GigiG]

I've been watching lots of the Secretariat videos on you tube this racing season (another former horse owner & always a horse lover here. My horse had Count Fleet as a great- however-many grand sire. I've lost his papers in all of the moves over the years ). Did you see the one where they compared him against Man 'O War? Good one to watch. There will probably never be another horse like him (Secretariat) but I was punching the air when AmPh won the Belmont.




Maybe not - to each their own. But mine usually learned with this method within days after I thought of it. The ones before had more accidents. My last dog had to be put down last year. She was a month short of being 15. Not sure yet if I'm going to get another. Have 2 inside cats so if I do, it'll have to be a puppy so they can teach it who is boss, lol.

BBM

Have you guys seen the recent findings that having cats around young children has been linked to schizophrenia!?

Sorry, too lazy/tired to post a link, but it was quite disturbing. Apparently, it's connected to mites that are common to outdoor cats.

So, no bad on you, Itsy, since your cats are indoors. But as someone who once regularly took in feral cats and "domesticated" them (haha, as if), your post reminded me of how upsetting that news was.

Just glad my adult kids have turned out okay!

 

[ILikeToBendPages]

The very first winner.


1919 - Sir Barton wins the Belmont Stakes becoming the first horse to capture the Triple Crown.


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[Spellbound]

Ok, I have created a thread here at WS - hope to see some of you there!!

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...y-Darla-Renee-Jackson&p=11842600#post11842600

I'm in! Thanks.

 

[ILikeToBendPages]

I guess they had no girlfriend jailers to help them out.



1962 - Brothers John and Clarence Anglin and fellow inmate Frank Morris escape from Alcatraz Island prison, the only ones to do so

[video=youtube;U-VkbV7Ux0Q]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=U-VkbV7Ux0Q[/video]

 

[Itsy]

My GiGi, with one of her cats - still miss her, too. :anguish: (Her hind left knee had surgery on it when she was a puppy & she was never off the leash).

 

[ILikeToBendPages]

2004 - Ronald Reagan's funeral is held at Washington National Cathedral.

[video=youtube;N9zjR_Hm1Z0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=N9zjR_Hm1Z0[/video]



(I felt so sorry for Betty Ford being drug back and forth for the lying in state for President Ford's funeral. She looked so frail and tired.)

 

[ILikeToBendPages]

There used to be Saturday midnight movies for 99 cent and they'd play the Marx brothers and old Flash Gordon movies. Then there was Reefer Madness that didn't scare anyone from smoking. All you had to do was stand in the theater and you'd get stoned. It was a Mexican family theater during the evening and when the families came out they held their children close. Wow that and the Gas Pipe -



1937 - Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" released

[video=youtube;icq2KvONMPA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=icq2KvONMPA[/video]

 

[Itsy]

Lolol

 

[Spellbound]

My GiGi, with one of her cats - still miss her, too. :anguish: (Her hind left knee had surgery on it when she was a puppy & she was never off the leash).

That is such a sweet picture. your cat has beautiful colors. Gigi reminds me of my son's dog, who carried their baby kitten around for at least five years, as if he was the mother. That cat could crawl all over the dog. What cool buddies.

 

[ILikeToBendPages]

1967 - Israel and Syria agreed to a cease-fire that ended the Six-Day War. (Did you know you can place a note in the Wailing Wall? I do through Aish. You can also watch a live telecast twenty four hours a day.

[video=youtube;wLrBKYzt0II]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=wLrBKYzt0II[/video]

 

[Itsy]

That is such a sweet picture. your cat has beautiful colors. Gigi reminds me of my son's dog, who carried their baby kitten around for at least five years, as if he was the mother. That cat could crawl all over the dog. What cool buddies.

Thanks, GiGi was a mom, too - she would bathe & play with the cats. When they were little and learning to crawl up the side of the bed or the sofa, she would push them up with her nose. Wish I'd ever been able to get a picture of that! KoKo (other cat) slept with her at night and got depressed after she died. Dammit always sleeps with me. None of my others did after they got out of "kitten hood" - she's nearly 3 now.

 

[Itsy]

Huge, very smart cat! I'll have to post some of her antics someday. Off to bed for me now.

 

[franquerolane]

One reason I'm not buying this. We have had rare high humidity levels in Arizona this week. A swamp cooler is not effective with higher humidity. She's lying her azz off.

 

[ILikeToBendPages]

It's TGIF - the heat is building in the metroplex. Last week it was nice in the high seventies and low eighties, and now yesterday it's ninety five. The ac has come on , and after a nice shower I climb into bed with fresh washed sheets, two nice fluffy pillows and my summer quilt on the bed. I can sleep late and have breakfast when I want. No swamp coolers, no every three days a you get shower, no not getting to choose from a menu in what you want to eat.Life is good.


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[coffeejunkie]

linkic

 

[coffeejunkie]

DID YOU KNOW $$MONEY$$

80% of millionaires drive used cars.

A million dollars' worth of $100 bills weighs only 22 pounds!

About 10% of U.S. households pay their bills in cash.

America once issued a 5-cent bill!

Americans spend more than 5.4 billion dollars on their pets each year!

Each 5 m.p.h. you drive over 60 m.p.h. is like paying an additional $.10 a gallon for gas!

Each day, more than $40 Trillion Dollars changes hands worldwide.

If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

In 1987 American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating one olive from its First Class salads.

In 1999, Pepsi, Inc. paid $0.00 in income tax!

In the U.S., more than 10% of lottery prizes go unclaimed!

It costs about 3 cents to make a $1 bill in the United States.

Just one in three consumers pays off his or her credit card bill every month.

Martha Stewart became a billionaire while in prison.

More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!

Nearly 30% of female lottery winners hide their winning ticket in their bras.

Oil tycoon, John D. Rockefeller, was the world's first billionaire.

On average, the life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months.

Paper money is not made from wood pulp but from cotton. This means that it will not disintegrate as fast if it is put in the laundry.

Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875.

The Australian $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100 notes are made out of plastic.

The Bank of America was originally the Bank of Italy!

The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.

The creator of the NIKE Swoosh symbol was paid only $35 for the design.

The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

There are more female than male millionaires in the United States.

To sell your home faster, and for more money, paint it yellow.

WAL-MART generates $3,000,000.00 in revenues every 7 minutes!

Warner Chappel Music owns the copyright to the song 'Happy Birthday'. They make over $1 million in royalties every year from the commercial use of the song.

The oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 a gallon.

 

[coffeejunkie]

Fun Facts 'Left Handed' or 'Southpaws'

4 of the 5 original designers of the Macintosh computer were left-handed.

88% of all humans are right handed.

Almost 40% of the top tennis pros are left-handed

In the late l890's Left handed people got the nickname of southpaw.

It is said that most left handed people are deeper thinkers and more creative.

It is thought to be bad luck to pass a drink to another person with your left-hand.

Left-handed people are better at sports that require good spatial judgment and fast reaction, compared to right-handed individuals.

Left-Hander's Day is August 13th.

Left-handers adjust more readily to seeing underwater.

Many famous people are identified as being left handed such as Leonardo Da Vinci, Ringo Starr, Isaac Newton, Alexander the Great, Joan of Arc, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Bill Clinton, Charlie Chaplin, Robert Redford and Tom Cruise.

More men are left handed than women.

More than 2,500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.

Most left-handers draw figures facing to the right.

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.

The three candidates who ran in the 1992 U.S. presidential election, George Bush, Bill Clinton and Ross Perot were all left-handed.

There is a high tendency in twins for one to be left-handed.


DID YOU KNOW Cleopatra
Cleopatra believed she was the daughter of Egyptian goddess Isis and the bite of an asp would take her to the gods.
Cleopatra came to power in Egypt at the age of 17.
Cleopatra could speak 9 different languages.
Cleopatra had four children, namely Caesarion aka Ptolemy Caesar (son of Julius Caesar) and Alexander Helios, Cleopatra Selene II and Ptolemy Philadelphus (children of Mark Antony).
Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
Cleopatra was actually Cleopatra VII, and was the last pharaoh of Egypt, because Rome took over following her death.
Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
Cleopatra's reign was for 21 years, from 51 BC to 30 BC.
Cleopatras real name was Auletes!
In the entire 300-year old Ptolemaic dynasty, Cleopatra was the only Pharaoh who could speak Egyptian.