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George Harrison will be upset that he didn't make the list.
...Isn't it a pity...Isn't it a shame...
George, Paul and John would have been the very next three on my list, but I could only pick four...
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| Robert Louis Stevenson, Born 1850
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| "When his father died in 1887, Stevenson felt free to follow the advice of his physician to try a complete change of climate, and he started with his mother and family for Colorado. But after landing in New York, they decided to spend the winter at Saranac Lake, New York, in the Adirondacks at a cure cottage now known as Stevenson Cottage. During the intensely cold winter Stevenson wrote some of his best essays, including Pulvis et Umbra, began The Master of Ballantrae..."
(Less than a two hours journey, as the crow flies toward the near eastern mountains.)
Great late night reading for a youth with adventure pulsing in his veins, "Jim," says he, "I reckon we're fouled, you and me, and we'll have to sign articles. I'd have had you but for that there lurch, but I don't have no luck, not I; and I reckon I'll have to strike, which comes hard, you see, for a master mariner to a ship's younker like you, Jim." |
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| Happy birthday, Boris!
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| A fine musician but more of the silent type... Born 1888: Harpo Marx (comedian & actor)
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| quote: Originally posted by Doug Spaulding: Happy birthday, Uncle 4E!
Anybody else going to House of Pies for lunch with their copy of Famous Monsters to read?
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| Imagine, a house made of pies! |
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Imagine, a house made of pies!
Better than having lunch at House of Cards. 
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| Seattle's Best was NOT coffee: Born 1942: Jimi Hendrix
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| Happy birthday to my friend Joe Dante!
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| Born 1898: C. S. Lewis
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| Mark Twain: 1835
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