Independence Day

Log Out | Topics | Search Moderators | Register | Edit Profile

Author Message terryc Senior Member Username: terryc Post Number: 2226 Registered: 11-2004 Posted on Friday, July 04, 2014 - 5:37 am:    Happy 4th July to all our american friends from the limeys over here LOL Have a great day...beer, bar-B-Q and fireworks sonicus Senior Member Username: sonicus Post Number: 3504 Registered: 5-2009 Posted on Friday, July 04, 2014 - 11:07 am:    Thanks Terry! slawie Senior Member Username: slawie Post Number: 642 Registered: 8-2002 Posted on Friday, July 04, 2014 - 4:13 pm:    Happy 4th of July from Oz as well. For us the day was so................yesterday ;) slawie pauldo Senior Member Username: pauldo Post Number: 1205 Registered: 6-2006 Posted on Friday, July 04, 2014 - 5:35 pm:    Thanks fellas. A day spent doing yard work and having my neighbor bring over grilled meat snacks! By the time we got done working, liquor store was closed - no beer! :-( No worries, I do have a bottle of small batch Booker's bourbon. :-D Happy Independence Day to all! dead_head Junior Username: dead_head Post Number: 17 Registered: 5-2014 Posted on Friday, July 04, 2014 - 8:30 pm:    Happy July 4th, everyone! We had to take a rain check on festivities here because of hurricane Arthur coming to town... cozmik_cowboy Senior Member Username: cozmik_cowboy Post Number: 1725 Registered: 10-2006 Posted on Friday, July 04, 2014 - 9:54 pm:    My D-I-L & grandson were visiting her folks, so we drove 2 hours & met in the middle for breakfast (Damn that kid's adorable!!! I am one happy Granddude!) then 2 hours another way to one of SWMBO's sisters for family , drink, way too much food, everyone who didn't have staples in their back swimming, the autistic great-nephew being chill - then an hour home to lay on an ice pack until the fireworks - visible from the front porch - started. Really good show this year. All in all, not bad. And the historian in me even refrained - until now - from pointing out that a more appropriate date would be July 2, when it was ratified, or August 2, when most of the signatures were affixed - only John Hancock signed July 4, 1776, and some signed years later - or at least January 14, when the Treaty of Paris made it real. Or, as I would argue, Sept 17, anniversary of the ratification of the Constitution - or again July 2, when the Civil Rights Act of 1964 made it almost true.......... OK, OK I'll shut up - Happy 4th to my countrymen, and happy whatever holiday may be close for our brothers & sisters from elsewhere. Peter