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And THAT is posting #10,000!

Cake and Bubbly for all!

Woohoo!

























I wonder what book?


(Also, this post number is the longest palindromic number so far in this thread.)

I post twentied.

It's not entirely my fault. The LEDs indicated I was there were no posts after 10000.

Here's one I'm proud of.


In 1942, the BBC banned the song, Deep In The Heart of Texas, as they considered the melody so infectious they were worried wartime factory workers would stop what they were doing to clap along.

Donald Trump is the 45th American President.

The 10th American President was called John Tyler. He was born in 1790. He has 2 Grandchildren that are still alive!

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/01/26/grandchildren-john-tyler-americas-10th-president-are-still-alive.html

The New Orleans home of Judah P Benjamin, Secretary of State for the Confederate States of America, is now a strip club.

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/106227/the-forgotten-confederate-jew

Does that fact emanate from primary research? We need to be told.

Not on my part.

But in the article, we discover that attendees of the 2010 Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly flocked to the strip club/historical site and demanded tours. Much to the bemusement of the manager and her staff.

A useless fact in response to post 10007. A very short distance south of Tampa Bay, on the Manatee River, there is a surviving antebellum mansion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamble_Plantation_Historic_State_Park

Although the home stood for many years as a gutted ruin, it has been restored and it is open as a museum and historic site.

It is best known for being the place Judah P Benjamin hid out while arraigning his departure from the country.

F S

Yeah, but I bet they don't allow pole dancing in there...

I bet they do.

I seriously doubt they have a written rule prohibiting pole dancing.

You never know until you try.

I want to see you try suggesting pole dancing to the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

I'd win. I'm a member of the DAR.

I tried to post a reply, but got the dreaded 505 error,

The last time I was there they had a pole about 30 feet long. It was mounted through the top of the sugar mill. There was a sign that said it used to be turned by a pair of oxen to grind the sugarcane into syrup. The pole is almost horizontal so it might be tricky for a dance.

Are you sure all of the modern DAR's are prudes?

I once read about a librarian's contest asking if you cold have only one thing to read on a desert island, what would you pick. The winning answer was 'A tattooed sailor'

F S

I ment to say UDC

This thread has a lot to answer for:

https://h2g2.com/entry/A87885481

Oops! Try again: A87885481

Benny looks more like a mole than a badger.

I didn't draw him.