Happy Birthday Roger Federer and DU's Own Sports Forumite TBF!!!!!

[joeybee12]

[a la izquierda]

1. Hah, I share a birthday with Roger Federer...

who knew?

[TBF]

6. I haven't met many folks born on 8/8

hope you had a good day!

[madinmaryland]

2. My best friend would have been 52 today...

He killed himself three years ago (gruesomely). Thanks for the reminder

[joeybee12]

3. Sorry...it's also my father's birthday...he made 93 but not 94!

[madinmaryland]

4. I remember you discussing your father last year. You two were close, iirc.

I'm going to see my Dad and his new wife tomorrow night on my way back to MD. He and his wife are 85. My mom died three years ago after a long battle with dimentia.

[joeybee12]

5. My father took two years after my mother died to get a girlfriend...

But the thought of ever getting married again was completely out of the question! It was weird, he could date, but no more than that, because he felt he would be cheating on my mother!

[El Supremo]

7. I didn't know about your mother.

Mine died five years ago from Alzheimers. I had been her guardian and conservator for six years. I scattered a lock of her hair on her parents graves in New Castle when I went back there two years ago.

Hey! The Rockies just scored four on the Buccos!

[madinmaryland]

8. Sorry to hear that about you mother...

BTW, I am in New Wilmington tonight. Gave up on the Bucco's game.

[El Supremo]

9. Is your new step-mother Amish?

There's a bunch of those... uh... people up there. Why don't you go see a Slippery Rock game this fall? They used to announce all their scores during Longhorn games for humor.

[madinmaryland]

10. Fucking Amish. I was driving out of town this morning, and one girl driving a buggy damn near

pulled out in front of me. And following another buggy, the horse almost flipped the buggy it was pulling.

Fucking Amish. Leaving shit piles all over the road!!

Fuck Slippery Rock, I going to see Ohio Northern this fall and probably a high school game or two. BTW, has Zac Dysert seen any action in training camp this year??

[El Supremo]

11. You are under the mistaken impression that I'm a Donkos fan.

Zac who? Oh, him! He'll probably get cut if Manning and Osweiler stay healthy.

And I hate the fucking Amish because they run puppy mills.

[madinmaryland]

13. *snort* Oh yeah. What is your favourite team this week (or this very day)????

You're a Chargers fan now? Sorry, but Dan Fouts is not going to come out of retirement!!

[El Supremo]

14. What about Lance Alworth?

The Cowpies could use him again.

on edit: Looks like a nice thunderstorm over Coors Field now. The game won't start for a while. Then it is heading for me!

[El Supremo]

12. My grandfather was a conductor with "The Standard Railroad of the World".

He transferred to Youngstown from New Castle in 1940. After we placed him in a nursing home in Dallas because of his dementia, he continued to give car switching orders to the other residents.

[madinmaryland]

15. My grandfather worked in the coal mines in Armstrong County until the early 40's, before

moving to get a union job in the "war machine". My other grandfather was a prison guard.



Genealogy is a pretty cool thing. An Aunt of my coal miner grandfather was a moonshiner and bootlegger. I guess that might explain a few things!!

[El Supremo]

16. The strategic need for railroads and coal kept a lot of people from suffering...

through the Depression. My grandfather was never out of work and my grandmother fed a lot of those who were.

[madinmaryland]

17. Even for those working in the mines, during the depression the work was not consistent.

It was very dangerous, also, as I had several gg-uncles who died in mine accidents.

My grandmother was a teacher which helped them get through the Depression, though being a woman made it harder for her to find work.