THE THREAD

[rtrapasso]

TODAY'S NIK SIGHTING:

was made by this little panda... [X(] note the fear at seeing Logboy!!

[Yava]

Ok Dixie you have the turn[:)]

[rogueusmc]

ORIGINAL: Yava

I think it's going to rain...

Been there, done that...still doing it actually[8|]

[rtrapasso]

July 4 is the "beer-drinkiest day" of the year (in USA)...

[Yava]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

July 4 is the "beer-drinkiest day" of the year (in USA)...

Can't be... I would be there already[:D][:D][:D]

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: rogueusmc

ORIGINAL: Yava

I think it's going to rain...

Been there, done that...still doing it actually[8|]

Yes, it is getting a tad soggy here... when it rains here now (several times per day lately) - the soil is saturated... the water stands in the yard, and floods the roads when it starts to run off. [:(]

[rtrapasso]

Well, off to watch the town parade (decorated lawn tractors, trucks and such...[:D])

[RUPD3658]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

July 4 is the "beer-drinkiest day" of the year (in USA)...

Also the most dangerous day of the year to be on the road. Coincidence?

[RUPD3658]

ORIGINAL: USS America

ORIGINAL: rogueusmc

ORIGINAL: USS America

1989, the year I left for my first deployment on that beauty over there, to my left. 

I graduated High School that year...[:D]

Looks like '89 was a pretty good year. The day before we returned home to Norfolk onboard USS America, the Berlin Wall fell. At that point our job was finished. [8D]

Good year for me too. I graduated college and started the police academy. Only 7 years, one month, and 10 days until I can retire. (2 years, one month, and 10 days if they really piss me off and I go at 20[:'(])

[goodboyladdie]

Is that number in your forum name your shield number?

[RUPD3658]

ORIGINAL: goodboyladdie

Is that number in your forum name your shield number?

Other way around. My badge# is 3658

[RUPD3658]

Ha! No subject line defacement today Bobo[:-]

[Dixie]

Good afternoon all [:)]

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Dixie

Good afternoon all [:)]

Howdie, Dixie!!

[niceguy2005]

ORIGINAL: Dixie

Good afternoon all [:)]

ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY THREAD[&o]

Afternoon govnah'

[rtrapasso]

i have returned from the glorious Fourth of July parade - 15 vehicles (including 5-6 firetrucks, ambulances) decorated and driving through one neighborhood... i got convinced to ride on a truck with myh niece... she had a super-soaker and would squirt the crowd.

The car in front of use was throwing candy... she'd wait until everyone was picking up the treats and then zap them!!! [X(] [:D]

The "big excitement" was (apparently) when the fire department got a call in the middle of the parade... i guess they told them to "deal with it" because no trucks left the parade (first things first!!!) [:D]

[niceguy2005]

Anybody have any plans for the 4th? I'm heading over to a friends house that overlooks the city...we intend to watch people's houses burst into flames as they misuse illegal fireworks. [:D]

[niceguy2005]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso
The car in front of use was throwing candy... she'd wait until everyone was picking up the treats and then zap them!!! [X(] [:D]

Ah. It's good to see that the younger generation appreciates a good dastardly plan.

[rtrapasso]

Year 70:

The building of the Colosseum starts (approximate date).

Frontinus is praetor of Rome.

Pliny the Elder served as procurator in Gallia Narbonensis.

June 5 - Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem.

August 4 - Roman General and future Emperor Titus destroys the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, leaving erect only the famous Western Wall. Rome stations troops in Jerusalem and abolishes the Jewish high priesthood and Sanhedrin. This becomes known as the Fall of Jerusalem, a conclusive event in the First Jewish-Roman War. Following this event, the Jewish religious leadership moves from Jerusalem to Jamnia (present day Yavne), and the destruction is mourned annually as the Jewish fast of Tisha B'Av.

Neapolis (present day Nablus) is founded in Iudaea Province.

Roman legions V Alaudae and XV Primigenia are destroyed during the Batavian rebellion. Later, Quintus Petillius Cerialis puts down the Batavian rebellion of Gaius Julius Civilis.

Roman legions I Germanica and IIII Macedonica are disbanded, II Audiutrix is created.

Later Roman Emperor Domitian marries Domitia Longina.

Romans make a punitive expedition against Garamantes - they are forced to have an official relationship with the Empire.

Annexation of the island of Samothrace by the Roman Empire under Vespasian.

India sees the end of the Hellenistic dynasties.

Expedition by the Roman Septimius Flaccus in the South of Egypt. He probably reaches Sudan.

Ze-Hakèlé (Zoscales in Greek) becomes king of Aksum.

[rtrapasso]

70 BC

August - In Rome, Cicero prosecutes former governor Verres; Verres exiles himself to Marseille before the trial is over.

Pompey and Marcus Licinius Crassus become consul.

The office of censor is reinstated in the Roman Republic.

Lucullus captures Sinop, then invades Armenia.

Phraates III becomes the King of Parthia