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1. 5 days ago on Fred Basset

   I mentioned Rudolf Hess.

2. 5 days ago on JumpStart

   A number of players have done that: George Pipgras, Babe Pinelli, Hank O’Day, and Bill Kunkel come to mind.

   They just loved the game, even though they couldn’t play it anymore.

3. 5 days ago on JumpStart

   Exactly right…he hung on with the Athletics long after Connie Mack sold his best stars.

4. 5 days ago on JumpStart

   That is correct…I believe Eddie never actually got his degree from Gettysburg College, but I have to look that up in my biography of him.

   Did Gettysburg still face Bucknell at that time? In Eddie’s day, it was a big rivalry.

5. 6 days ago on Luann

   I think that Stef fakes it when she’s intimate with Kip.

   I think she fakes it when she’s entertaining herself, too….

6. 6 days ago on Luann

   I think you’re right….Kenneth Mars, Gene Wilder, Cloris Leachman, Teri Garr, Madeline Kahn, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman…Gene Hackman is still with us, and so, of course, is both the director and that famous Gargoyle, Mel Brooks.

   His appearance in the movie was as the Gargoyle outside the castle.

7. 6 days ago on Peanuts

   Next, she will play the Hmmmmmmmonica…..

8. 6 days ago on Fred Basset

   Oddly enough, only two people actually got the axe IN the Tower. Anne Boleyn was one of them.

   I forget the other.

   Most people who faced the glitter of the executioner’s axe made the hike up to nearby Tower Hill, where they paid the Axeman some coins to ensure that he made a clean cut.

   At that time, execution for high treason was often the standard end to a politician’s career.

   The last man to be held as a prisoner in the Tower of London was the one and only Rudolf Hess. He was put there for a few days while the British authorities figured out a more permanent arrangement for “Fraulein Anna,” as top Nazis called the nutter.

   Hess was not put in a cell…he stayed in one of the Beefeaters’ quarters. A detachment of Scots Guards provided professional protection.

9. 6 days ago on Red and Rover

   Tomorrow, I’m coming to work as the scariest thing I can think of.

   An insurance salesman.

   LOL

10. 6 days ago on JumpStart

    They got rid of one of the more annoying Civil War “museums” in Gettysburg, a gigantic 1950s tower that dominated the battlefield. Great view, but it spoiled the look of the terrain.

    The oddest tourist distraction in Gettysburg — I have been there five times and could go 10 more — is the “ghost walking tours” by night. A woman in a period costume, holding a lantern, leads a group of tourists through the streets of the town, showing them buildings and sites that are reputedly haunted by the ghosts of men who died in the battle.

    One of my favorite historic markers there is the one that honors “Gettysburg Eddie” Plank, the Hall of Fame pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics. He kept facing his college rival, Bucknell’s Christy Mathewson of the New York Giants, in the World Series, and only won the final duel. Grandpa saw those games in 1911 and 1913.

    After winning 300 games, he came home to Gettysburg, where he had attended college, and ran a gas station. The building is still there. Now it’s apartments. In front of the building is a historic marker honoring Eddie. I posed next to it, wearing my reproduction 1922 World Champion New York Giants hat.

    There is a restaurant there called “Gettysburg Eddie’s,” and the waitress was astonished when I told her that Grandpa had seen the man pitch, live, and in person.