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posted 04 July 2009 02:11 AM
Happy Independence Day from the Brits.

(We're not bitter about it...) Big Grin


- Phil

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posted 04 July 2009 08:26 AMHide Post
quote:
Originally posted by philnic:
Happy Independence Day from the Brits.

(We're not bitter about it...) Big Grin


I honor you with a cuppa Earl Grey this morning. Later in the day I'll sit and watch Yankee Doodle Dandy.


John King Tarpinian
You know what you are, Mr. Bradbury? ... You are a poet! -- Aldous Huxley
 
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posted 04 July 2009 08:30 AMHide Post
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Originally posted by jkt:
I honor you with a cuppa Earl Grey this morning.

Or honour.


"Live Forever!"
 
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posted 04 July 2009 01:16 PMHide Post
I imagine there are times the Brits are glad to be rid of us. We were a pretty danged good team in WWII, weren't we?
 
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posted 04 July 2009 05:07 PMHide Post
I've what's become a tradition now for several years, i.e. listening to the great "Stan Freberg Presents The United States of America"!
 
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posted 04 July 2009 06:54 PMHide Post
I generally watch the film "Independence Day" for my 4th of July celebration. It's not Bradbury, but it's not bad. . .
 
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posted 04 July 2009 07:43 PMHide Post
quote:
Originally posted by philnic:
Happy Independence Day from the Brits.

God save the Queen!


"Live Forever!"
 
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posted 05 July 2009 12:28 AMHide Post
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Originally posted by Doug Spaulding:
quote:
Originally posted by philnic:
Happy Independence Day from the Brits.

God save the Queen!


Brian Williams of NBC News was sooo adorable reporting the finding of a rare copy of one of the first printings of the Declaration of Independence in an archive in England: "FYI, we voted for Independence, been nice knowing you, we'll always have Lexington and Concord."

FYI, I've been to Concord and Bunker Hill, anyone else?

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posted 05 July 2009 01:29 AMHide Post
quote:
Originally posted by Mr. Dark:
I imagine there are times the Brits are glad to be rid of us. We were a pretty danged good team in WWII, weren't we?


Yeah. "Overpaid, oversexed and over here!"
 
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posted 05 July 2009 03:08 AMHide Post
Please see the next item in this topic for a picture where my friend and I are meeting Ray Bradbury at a 4th of July event (2009). I am the one in the red shirt and my friend Steve is on the other side of Mr. Bradbury. I am starting to realize just how special it was to have met him on this particular day. Having met him briefly tonight, I looked back on his work and have decided that my favorite of his writings is "Something Wicked This Way Comes", which I first read at the exact right age for it to have the maximum impact... 13! It had such an impact that I wrote a song about it at that age!
 
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posted 05 July 2009 02:28 PMHide Post
July 4 is the time to remember Bradbury's magical fire balloons.
 
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