Tagged?
Oy, i've been tagged. Now i'm supposed to "Post 10 random things about yourself. Choose five people to tag and a reason you chose them and make sure to tell them. Don’t tag the person who tagged you."
Well, i can do the first part, but i don't know if i know 5 bloggers who have not yet been "tagged."
1 - I went to my first big league baseball game when i was two, in 1958. At the Polo Grounds. I don't know who the Giants played. I returned to the Polo Grounds to see the Mets many times in 62 and 63. I also saw the first game played at Shea Stadium in 1964.
2 - The earliest memory that i can date is Election Day 1960, walking with my mother and sister, in the stroller, to the polling place.
3 - I still remember walking home from 2nd grade with my neighbor John on that awful November day.
4 - I stopped saying the Pledge of Allegiance after Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated.
5 - In high school, i once ran the mile in under 5 minutes.
6 - First record: Herman's Hermits On Tour (with Henry VIII I am I am). First concert: Badfinger/Cactus at the Commack Arena. Although i'd seen Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna several times before i graduated from high school (in 1973) i didn't see the Grateful Dead for the first time until 1980. At the Frost Amphitheatre on Stanford's campus. A daytime show on Mother's Day. My college roommate made a couple of dozen counterfeit tickets. I got into the show with one. I saw the Dead four or five more times, always in California. I stopped going to shows when my 4 year old daughter knew more people at the show than i did.
7 - I've been arrested at political demonstrations twice. Once, at a Reagan State of the Union address protest organized by the late Mitch Snyder, i even gave my real name.
8 - I once walked from Orient Point to Stony Brook on the north Shore of Long Island. I took about a week, and slept in people's back yards and on the beach. All told, i've walked the entire breadth and length of Long Island, across both the Brooklyn and Queensboro Bridges, and from the Battery to the Cloisters in Manhattan.
9 - My first paying job was mowing lawns for a small, single proprietor landscaping service in Central Islip. My father was telling me i needed to have a summer job. So i picked this guy's name out of the phone book, told my father i had a job, and then called him up and talked him into hiring me.
10 - I once voted for a Republican.
Well, i can do the first part, but i don't know if i know 5 bloggers who have not yet been "tagged."
1 - I went to my first big league baseball game when i was two, in 1958. At the Polo Grounds. I don't know who the Giants played. I returned to the Polo Grounds to see the Mets many times in 62 and 63. I also saw the first game played at Shea Stadium in 1964.
2 - The earliest memory that i can date is Election Day 1960, walking with my mother and sister, in the stroller, to the polling place.
3 - I still remember walking home from 2nd grade with my neighbor John on that awful November day.
4 - I stopped saying the Pledge of Allegiance after Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated.
5 - In high school, i once ran the mile in under 5 minutes.
6 - First record: Herman's Hermits On Tour (with Henry VIII I am I am). First concert: Badfinger/Cactus at the Commack Arena. Although i'd seen Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna several times before i graduated from high school (in 1973) i didn't see the Grateful Dead for the first time until 1980. At the Frost Amphitheatre on Stanford's campus. A daytime show on Mother's Day. My college roommate made a couple of dozen counterfeit tickets. I got into the show with one. I saw the Dead four or five more times, always in California. I stopped going to shows when my 4 year old daughter knew more people at the show than i did.
7 - I've been arrested at political demonstrations twice. Once, at a Reagan State of the Union address protest organized by the late Mitch Snyder, i even gave my real name.
8 - I once walked from Orient Point to Stony Brook on the north Shore of Long Island. I took about a week, and slept in people's back yards and on the beach. All told, i've walked the entire breadth and length of Long Island, across both the Brooklyn and Queensboro Bridges, and from the Battery to the Cloisters in Manhattan.
9 - My first paying job was mowing lawns for a small, single proprietor landscaping service in Central Islip. My father was telling me i needed to have a summer job. So i picked this guy's name out of the phone book, told my father i had a job, and then called him up and talked him into hiring me.
10 - I once voted for a Republican.
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5 Comments:
"5 - In high school, i once ran the mile in under 5 minutes."
Dayum. Impressive.
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Marsosudiro, at 2:08 AM
Not so much. I finished 8th or 9th. I had a classmate who held the freshman record at 4:15 or 4:18 or some ridiculous time like that.
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Barry, at 7:15 AM
I stopped saying the Pledge of Allegiance after Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated
You're one of those unpatriotic Obamaniacs, aren't you? Bet you've stopped wearing your American flag pin, too. Your middle name is probably Hussein.
(But seriously...to this day, you don't say it, or, like, right afterwards you didn't say it for awhile? Not that I recall the last time I've said it...)
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toastie, at 2:41 AM
Well, considering that the pledge was written by a socialist, and the express purpose of it was to "teach obedience to the state as a virtue," i'm pretty comfortable with that decision.
I can't imagine that Benjamin Franklin would have ever led a recitation of anything like the pledge of allegiance. Doesn't the whole phrase and concept have the ring of Torquemada to it?
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Barry, at 9:12 AM
You'll appreciate this:
Dodgers to play exhibition game at L.A. Coliseum
Of course, I think it's just a little odd that the Dodgers and Red Sox are playing an exhibition game after the Red Sox already have played two games against the A's (in Japan) that have counted. So what if it's only 201 feet to the left-field fence? They ought to count this one.
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toastie, at 11:40 AM
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