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I Think I'll Go For A Walk - Death Pool Thread

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Daniel Inouye is a major badass:

On April 21, 1945, Inouye was grievously wounded while leading an assault on a heavily-defended ridge near San Terenzo in Tuscany, Italy called Colle Musatello. The ridge served as a strongpoint along the strip of German fortifications known as the Gothic Line, which represented the last and most dogged line of German defensive works in Italy. As he led his platoon in a flanking maneuver, three German machine guns opened fire from covered positions just 40 yards away, pinning his men to the ground. Inouye stood up to attack and was shot in the stomach; ignoring his wound, he proceeded to attack and destroy the first machine gun nest with hand grenades and fire from his Thompson submachine gun. After being informed of the severity of his wound by his platoon sergeant, he refused treatment and rallied his men for an attack on the second machine gun position, which he also successfully destroyed before collapsing from blood loss.

As his squad distracted the third machine gunner, Inouye crawled toward the final bunker, eventually drawing within 10 yards. As he raised himself up and cocked his arm to throw his last grenade into the fighting position, a German inside fired a rifle grenade that struck him on the right elbow, severing most of his arm and leaving his own primed grenade reflexively "clenched in a fist that suddenly didn't belong to me anymore".[11] Inouye's horrified soldiers moved to his aid, but he shouted for them to keep back out of fear his severed fist would involuntarily relax and drop the grenade. As the German inside the bunker reloaded his rifle, Inouye pried the live grenade from his useless right hand and transferred it to his left. As the German aimed his rifle to finish him off, Inouye tossed the grenade off-hand into the bunker and destroyed it. He stumbled to his feet and continued forward, silencing the last German resistance with a one-handed burst from his Thompson before being wounded in the leg and tumbling unconscious to the bottom of the ridge. When he awoke to see the concerned men of his platoon hovering over him, his only comment before being carried away was to gruffly order them to return to their positions, since, as he pointed out, "nobody called off the war!"[12]

The remainder of Inouye's mutilated right arm was later amputated at a field hospital without proper anesthesia, as he had been given too much morphine at an aid station and it was feared any more would lower his blood pressure enough to kill him.[13]
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Jim Hayes, one of Aspen's original ski bums, age 92.

Unfortunately, I never had the pleasure meeting him when I lived there.

RIP Jim.

The Aspen of 1949-50 described by Hayes in the 2001 Aspen Times interview sounds like a ski bum's paradise.

“I lived in the Hotel Jerome until my money ran out,” Hayes said in the article. “About that time, I moved in with the group of boys who lived in the House of Joy. There were about eight young men. We were veterans of World War II. It was truly a house of joy — we skied all day and partied all night.”
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St. Clown said:
Robert Bork dies at 85. "He had a history of heart problems and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a lung condition."

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/12/19/robert-bork-former-supreme-court-nominee-dies/#ixzz2FVnRT8mD
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The Bork nomination fight was not one of the great moments in Senate history and set us on the path of the politics of destruction. In opposing the nomination,Ted Kennedy delivered himself of one of the most intemperate, innacurate and mean spirited speeches of the modern era. Notwithstanding whatever faults Judge Bork may have had, he never drowned anyone and then ran away.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNaasFvvFlE
 
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ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
Larry King. Not the one you're thinking of. Nyuk nyuk.
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Marvin Zindler, who "exposed" the chicken ranch, became the biggest local TV personality in the state of Texas. He morphed into a "terrible swift sword," righting wrongs and helping the poor. His nightly audience in Houston was in 7 figures! And his station was consistently in first place in the ratings. When the CBS affiliate was sold to new owners, the first thing they did was offer Marvin a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract (he declined).

Once a week he did a "restaurant" report in wich he embarrassed eateries that had been ticketed for "slime in the ice machine" and other infractions. Many dim bulbs in Houston, I am certain, thought Marvin did the investigating himself. Of course, these were public records of the health department. Bob Allen, the long time sports guy at Channel 13, used to joke about "throw down rat t*rds."

He posed as a friend of the poor. In fact, apart from "slime in the ice machine," his most famous slogan was "it's h*ll to be poor." He'd find the most pathetic situation he could, then offer help from an army of professionals only too willing to be portrayed as a good guy in front of over a million people! Free surgery. Free orthodontia. Free legal services, etc. These guys couldn't possibly afford to buy the advertising they got by doing a bit of pro bono work for Marvin.

Zindler had multiple face lifts. Each one carefully documented by his station. He wore a snow white toup. And customarily wore a white "god" suit. Accompanied by tinted shades. If it sounds like he was a pompous, self-serving, phony gas bag, you'd have it right on the nose. A PR director for the mayor told me Zindler once characterized his audience as "poor white trash and n-words."
 
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SteveP said:
The DJ's best friend, along with Stairway to Heaven.
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The radio cut for In a Gadda da Vida is only 2:39. Without buying the full Iron Butterfly album, you can only get the radio cut via download.
 
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SteveP said:
We always played the album cut back when we actually played album cuts on the air ;)
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IIRC, "MacArthur Park" was another DJ friendly cut. " Hmmmm, sounds like Ernie is taking a dump."

In the spirit of the season, let me tell again (yes, he said again) the story about a guy I knew who as a young man worked at LBJ's station in Austin. Anyone in the business can tell you what a harrowing experience it can be when the owner shows up. It's doubly harrowing when the owner also happens to be Vice President of the United States and rolls up in a motorcade accompanied by motorcycle cops with sirens and lights. If you're 19 or 20, that can be downright intimidating. Anyway, this guy had a roll of TP in the control room with him (SOP for most radio people) so he could give a little snort if necessary before cracking the mic. LBJ saw the TP and asked my buddy if that was company buttwipe (no, I brought it from home, you west Texas idiot) and my buddy said yes. Very shortly thereafter a memo came flying out of the head shed, making it clear that if you wanted to blow your nose, you'd better provide your own tissue!
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
I'm just catching up on this thread.

All I can say to that citation is, "Holy ****ing ****."
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"The Manchurian Candidate" ends with Frank Sinatra reading some actual Medal of Honor citations, then ad libs one for "poor" Raymond Shaw. What these guys do to earn that thing defies description. That's why we remember people like Alvin York and Audie Murphy and Daniel Inouye. What they did is way past extraordinary and usually gets in to the area of disbelief that anyone could or would do what they did.
 
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Old Pio said:
IIRC, "MacArthur Park" was another DJ friendly cut. " Hmmmm, sounds like Ernie is taking a dump."

In the spirit of the season, let me tell again (yes, he said again) the story about a guy I knew who as a young man worked at LBJ's station in Austin. Anyone in the business can tell you what a harrowing experience it can be when the owner shows up. It's doubly harrowing when the owner also happens to be Vice President of the United States and rolls up in a motorcade accompanied by motorcycle cops with sirens and lights. If you're 19 or 20, that can be downright intimidating. Anyway, this guy had a roll of TP in the control room with him (SOP for most radio people) so he could give a little snort if necessary before cracking the mic. LBJ saw the TP and asked my buddy if that was company buttwipe (no, I brought it from home, you west Texas idiot) and my buddy said yes. Very shortly thereafter a memo came flying out of the head shed, making it clear that if you wanted to blow your nose, you'd better provide your own tissue!
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Almost anything by Harry Chapin would qualify as DJ friendly i suppose.
 
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