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Joe Louis is a towering hero in my book. So was Jesse Owens who put the lie to Adolph Hitler and his aryans. Let’s not forget the sheer grit of Jackie Robinson too (and Pee wee Reese for that matter).
6years- sweet story!
yeah – i noticed that too!! they keep that ugly chick with the orange plaid shit up there for ages though!
Posted by: dirty_hipster at July 7, 2009 4:27 PM
dh, that’s someone’s son you’re talking about.
etson, I’d be forced to respect a classy tribute like that.
sixyears…I hang out at HD hoping that hot guy from Yard Crashers or whatever it’s called wants to come home with me and redo my yard!!!!! 🙂
“And to bring it all home, the first AA model is definitely the ebst. She flutters away WAY too quickly.”
yeah – i noticed that too!! they keep that ugly chick with the orange plaid shit up there for ages though!
I’m being a bit more facetious, ENY.
Speaking of sports, HOW “BOUT THOSE PHILLIES?? And, that awful showing by the Mets!!!!
I was in Home Depot today and heard a cart rolling very fast down the aisle toward me, with someone squealing “WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE” in a really high-pitched voice. I turned around expecting to see a parent pushing a kid, but no, it was just a fat middle-aged balding guy having fun by himself. I later caught him rocking out by the light bulbs.
quote: “I was embarrassed the way the British public reacted after Diana died.”
ditto,
The week after Diana died, the working men’s club up the road from where I lived in SE London paid tribute by attaching several massive Queen of Hearts playing cards to the front of the building. The kind used on ‘Play your Cards Right’.
“McNamara was the main proponent of the Vietnam War and that’s where Tiger’s father and mother met.”
True. Yet had Charles Sifford (and Joe Louis – yes, that Joe Louis) not worked, sacrificed and risked their personal safety to desegregate golf courses and tournaments across the U.S., Tiger Woods would be an unknown.