Tag: birthday
It's OK -- I'm taking it back
MayorBob.
Posted to Etcetera on Thu Dec 18, 2008 at 07:10:25 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
What's in a name? The answer is plenty, if you're a food store selling decorated cakes not wishing to offend their clientele. Likewise, the answer is plenty, if you're a family with an absolute fascination for the Third Reich with a penchant for naming their kids after some of their heroes. Such was the dilemma when one family asked their local Shoprite to inscribe the name of their three-year-old on a birthday cake. No, they would not be wishing a happy birthday to a kid named Adolf Hitler and the entire Campbell clan of Holland Township, Pennsylvania is mad.
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The United States' Oldest Branch of the Military Turns 371
pO157.
Posted to Etcetera on Thu Dec 13, 2007 at 08:44:28 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Around the United States, and at military outposts around the world today, the 371st birthday of the United States National Guard was celebrated.
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