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Looks great, I too was collecting them for a few years but wound up depositing them into the bank not too long ago.

I do have several full rolls of the early states that my father had bought from the US Mint. I think I have the first 5 or 6 states in that manor.

So did she reconize you or you her? It would be nice if she stop by and said hi.

I was standing there leaning against the wall just waiting for my name to show up on the board or prescriptions that were ready to be picked up and she recognized me.

Sheesh, talk about small world.

Yes, it is indeed.

It really was a 'chance meeting', I just decided at the last minute to drive to Hampton (about 45 minutes away from me) rather than just driving 10 minutes to a small out patient clinic. Really it's a one in a million chance that I'll even feel like making that 45 minute drive and add on top of that the annoyance of poison ivy all over both arms and me deciding to make that drive is even less likely lol

At the end of last week I was working out in my yard and got into a batch of poison ivy without realizing it, so for the past several days I've been suffering the wrath of the ivy.

This morning, after a fitful night of trying to sleep I decided to drive out to the VA Hospital to see what they could do for me. As I was waiting by the pharmacy to pick up the meds that I was prescribed I was approached by Odie. So after 6+ years of having the board online I've had my first random meeting with a board member.

So Odie if you get a chance to log in and see this, it was a pleasure meeting you this morning and if I didn't seem too talkative I was suffering the Wrath of the Ivy as you saw on my arms lol.

Perhaps it may be so, but, for me, it's not really so an issue. Anyhoo, as I say, I have only good things overall about the whole redo...

Me too, I have nothing but praise. The voice thing is a tad annoying... if annoying is even the right word. I just think they have her voice too prominent above the music.

I am a fan of the actors who played the roles, so it does suck that Billy and Katey won't return. Been a fan of Billy since he voiced Stimpy (eventually Ren as well) and of course Katey as Peg Bundy

 

Exactly.

 

I'll watch and give the new actors a chance but they'd better be very very good.

But what if it's in an alternate timeline?

It's been awhile since I've seen this, but it's always fun to watch over again.

Yeah, back in the 80's I about wore my tape out watching it lol

I have this show on an old Beta tape someplace and was thinking of digging it out to put on YouTube, but I ran across it today and don't need to search for my tape now. Anyway, I thought everyone might enjoy it. It's from 1983, within a year of Star Trek II coming out.

How about soft shell crabs? I've only had them a couple times myself, and that was more than 20 years ago.

I don't think I've ever seen a single episode. If I have then it didn't leave a very lasting impression. I generally don't watch cartoons anymore anyway. That pretty much went out around 1983 or 1984.

I have all of TAS on DVD but haven't even watched it since I got it.

Does anyone here have any specific memories of the landing? I myself watched it, or at least my father always told me that he made sure I was pointed at the TV so that I'd see it anyway. I was only a little over 4 months old at the time.

A good friend of mine told me about how he saw it happen, he had been wounded in fighting in Vietnam by a granade and was in the hospital at China Beach and watched it on TV there.

This is the third in a series of eleven polls.

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the day when the Lunar Module named Eagle came to rest on the Sea Of Tranquility and 4 hours later Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made their historic walk in the sun.

On July 20th 1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to actually land on another 'world', open the hatch and step outside. Neil Armstrong was the first human to set foot on the moon, but Buzz Aldrin was actually the first person to speak from the moon. Those first words spoken while in contact with the moon were simple, un-historic and strictly meant for Neil Armstrong's use and for NASA as well. They were "Contact Light", which was to announce to Neil and NASA that the lunar module had touched the surface and signal Armstrong to shut the engine down.

Looks like you and I were posting about this right around the same time.

Yes, and Picard posted in the right forum

Actually, this thread was moved from 'Off Topic' into 'Celebrity Deaths' by Alterego.

As for where I posted it... I, as the owner of the site determined that the death of Walter Cronkite warranted a front page (portal) posting.

Looks like you and I were posting about this right around the same time.

It's almost a shame that he couldn't hold on for 3 more days and pass away on the 20th. He was such a fan of NASA that it would almost have been fitting for him to pass on the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

http://wcbstv.com/local/Walter.Cronkite.CBS.2.1050695.html

CBS Legend Walter Cronkite Dies At 92

 

Walter Cronkite, the iconic broadcast journalist who was dubbed the "most trusted man in America" during his time as the face of "The CBS Evening News," has passed away. He was 92.

 

Cronkite anchored the CBS News flagship broadcast from 1962 to 1981, signing off each broadcast with his trademark, "And that's the way it is..."

 

And for two turbulent decades – the '60s and '70s – Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr., told us the way it was when the news was good, and when it was awful:

 

"The flash -- apparently official: President Kennedy died at 1:00 p.m Central Standard Time -- 2 o'clock Eastern Standard Time -- some 38 minutes ago," he said, his glasses in hand, his voice cracking with emotion, in the moments after John F. Kennedy's assassination.

 

He had a temper – when he saw correspondent Dan Rather getting roughed up at the tumultuous 1968 Democratic National Convention, he called those trying to push Rather away "a bunch of thugs." That same year, he would share another opinion, with far greater impact, in his documentary, "Report From Vietnam."

 

"It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate," he said to his viewers then.

 

In an interview years later, he said he was only doing his job of telling the way it is.

 

"I simply told people what I thought about the state of the war in Vietnam and it was that we better get out of it," he said.

 

When Cronkite declared the Vietnam war unwinnable, President Lyndon B. Johnson said, "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost Middle America."

 

In fact, polls found Cronkite the "most trusted man in America," and presidents knew it. He was even awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Jimmy Carter in 1981.

 

It was the political conventions that thrust Cronkite into the limelight and propelled him into the "Evening News" anchor chair in 1962. His believability helped keep him there.

 

"We came to trust him, we came to believe him. One of the most important things that happened to television journalism was Walter Cronkite," colleague Mike Wallace said years ago.

 

And Cronkite certainly paved the way for the many honorable broadcast journalists who have since followed. Even Cronkite himself believed he lacked the talent seen in many personalities today.

 

"I don't think if I were competing today with the anchor people out there I'd get a chance of getting on the air," he once said in an interview.

 

He got on the air the old fashioned way. Some newspapering in Texas, then radio announcing in Kansas City, and later a UPI correspondent during World War II. He was chief correspondent reporting from the Nuremberg war crimes trials and joined the infant CBS Television News operation in 1950.

 

For 65 years, wife Betsy, whom he married in 1940, was by his side. They had worked together at KCMO in Kansas City. He called her "the most gorgeous creature I'd ever seen in my life." She died in March of 2005 at the age of 89.

 

Many have wondered how his signature closing line came to be. Since the news was expanding to 30 minutes back in 1963, Cronkite thought to himself, Why couldn't I have a signature line?

 

"And that's the way it is, Monday, September the 2nd, 1963," was the first time he'd say those very famous words.

 

And that is the way it was until Cronkite signed off the "Evening News" on Friday, March 6, 1981. He had been forced to retire by a CBS policy, no longer in effect, that required retirement at age 65.

 

He did other television after that, along with some writing, and he even contributed liberal opinion online. But for most of us, Cronkite chronicled the way were, and if we believed in him, so did he in us.

 

"If there's anything I've learned, it is that we Americans do have a way of rising to the challenges that confront us. Just when it seems we're most divided, we suddenly show our remarkable solidarity," he once said.

 

CRONKITE REMEMBERED

 

In 2006, CBS celebrated Cronkite's 90th birthday with a primetime special in which his former colleagues and longtime friends honored his legendary career.

 

CBS News colleagues Don Hewitt, Dan Rather, Morley Safer and Mike Wallace took viewers behind the headlines that Cronkite masterfully reported to reveal the professionalism, dedication and extraordinary influence of the man they knew so well.

 

Competitors Ted Koppel, Diane Sawyer and Barbara Walters, as well as the newest generation of anchors -- Katie Couric, Charles Gibson and Brian Williams -- spoke about the unique role Cronkite played in American culture and how he continued to influence them in the modern era of electronic journalism.

 

But, lest viewers think "the most trusted man in America" was one-dimensional and singularly obsessed with the news, some of Cronkite's personal friends, including actor/comedian Robin Williams, actor/director George Clooney and Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart, as well as President Bill Clinton and filmmaker Spike Lee, shared poignant personal thoughts and revealing recollections of the newsman's "other side."

 

Of Cronkite's unique journalistic abilities, Koppel said, "There is no way you can analyze it. You can't send it out to CSI and say, 'all right, look at the DNA of Walter Cronkite and how do we replace that or replicate it?'"

 

On his memorable live report of President John F. Kennedy's death on Nov. 22, 1963:"He had to take a moment; take off his glasses. When that happens, you realize a whole nation can't speak," said Robin Williams.

 

Said Couric: "He handled it as a human being first and an anchorman second, and I think in times like that, that's what you want."

 

"It was a very frightened country. Walter became not only everybody's anchorman, he was everybody's minister, priest and rabbi," said Hewitt. "He calmed America down."

 

"I think that the day President Kennedy died was the day that television news as we now know it was born, for all intents and purposes," said Dan Rather. "And Walter Cronkite was a very important part of making it so."

 

Of Cronkite's coverage of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, Lee said, "Walter was one of the few people in power positions that got behind that and pushed the story. In Birmingham, Ala., 1963...four little girls were murdered...The fact that it was four little girls, the fact that it took place in a church, on a Sunday -- that really shook people up. America needed to look deep into itself, and this is one of the pivotal moments."

 

On Cronkite's coverage of the Vietnam War: "It pained him to have to say what he thought about Vietnam, but he also understood how isolating the White House can be and how people can get to the point where they don't hear discordant voices," said Clinton. "And he thought he knew what the truth was, and he thought he had an obligation to tell it."

 

"He changed the history of the war overnight because it was, for that time period in general, a young person's protest. And it became everyone else's wrong war at that point," Clooney said.

 

Said Safer: "It is...remarkable that one anchorman, one reporter, one journalist...could really affect the political fate of the country... But they didn't call Walter the most trusted man in America for nothing."

 

Of Cronkite's coverage of the space program and man landing on the moon, Couric said, "Here was something everyone could rally around, and I think Walter Cronkite's embrace of that program gave people American heroes at a time when they really needed them."

 

And of Cronkite's "other" side?

 

"I invited him to a Grateful Dead show...and it was Walter Cronkite at the soundboard at Madison Square Garden," said drummer Mickey Hart. "And he came back at halftime and I introduced him to Jerry [Garcia], and he said, 'I was thinking of a thousand reasons to leave early. But I can't think of one now!'"

 

"The best time to be with Walter is when he...was with [his late wife] Betsy," remembered Robin Williams. "You know and one cocktail...because they both get kind of wonderfully salty and funny."

 

Williams added, "To see him conducting the orchestra...that was a great thing to see. That was another skill he had [that] I didn't know [about]. If, all of a sudden, he put on skates at that moment, I'd go, 'Okay, a double axel.' [in Cronkite's voice:] 'I think I can do it. It seems appropriate.'"

 

Clinton and Clooney, perhaps, put it best. Clinton said, "He's a truly wonderful man, an old-fashioned gentleman, but a ferocious, ferocious citizen. He cares about things still."

 

Clooney added, "Every once in awhile, you get someone who is the exact right person at the exact right moment. In fact, I think we were just very lucky that it happened to be him."

I know there's no canon to support this, but I'd wonder if the TOS temporal events are not what got Starfleet started with the TI office. 'CITY' certainly would make the brass shudder, to think what one person, no matter their intent, could do to the timeline....in the Alan Dean Foster treatment of 'Yesteryear', the Guardian's planet is described, in the wake of its discovery, as supporting, with considerable effort by the Federation, ground-based p installations, and missile tubes to defend it from conquest by hostiles who could easily alter history....in addition to an orbital facilty I believe to protect the planet...

You have to remember though that Enterprise, Daniels and the Temporal Cold War were all before TOS. So by the time of Kirk they'd already know about time travel and the ramifications of it.

Wow!....Wouldn't want to meet THAT crab in a dark alley....lol. But....being from Baltimore....crabs are part of my regular diet.

Yeah, with that crab above you could make a meal on just one claw lol

Being from Maryland (originally) crabs were always a part of the summer menu in my house. I even worked in a crab house for about 6 months back in 1986.

Anyway, if you like crabs check this one out. It's a Tazmanian King Crab:

Brett should retire. Period.

No, I think he should play another 10 years. Play for the Vikings for a couple, the the Bears and heck maybe even the Lions...

And why would you want that? (she asks, already knowing the anwer)

 

No special reason... :)

 

uh huh

If the Eagles don't/can't get to and win the Super Bowl then I'll root for the Vikings to do it (if Favre's there). Eagles fans have been forced to share Reggie White with the Packers for the sole reason that they won a Super Bowl while he played there. If Favre can go someplace else and win a Super Bowl then Packers fans will see what it's like to have to share a team hero/legend with some other fanbase/franchise.

I was watching Trials and Tribble-ations yesterday and O'Brien wanted to go and buy who he thought was Kirk a drink. It was pointed out to him that they couldn't directly interact with anyone and O'Brien said "Yeah, we don't want to risk changing the timeline". "THE" timeline, singular. He didn't say "We can't risk creating a new timeline", he said they couldn't risk changing the timeline.

There are instances where the term "alternate timeline" is brought up, but it has always been the implication that an "alternate timeline" meant that the original timeline no longer existed. It replaces the original timeline.

I really am interested to hear any canon explanations on why there's a Temporal Prime Directive and a Temporal Investigations section if the case is that an 'alternate timeline' only branches off of the original rather than replacing the original.

I fully accept the concept that the red matter caused Spock and Nero to not only time travel but to time travel to an alternate/mirror universe thereby nothing at all happens in "our Star Trek past" it all happens in an alternate universe's past. If that's the explanation for what happened then I'm completely fine with it. I'm disappointed that they made this an alternate universe movie, but I accept it and hope (though don't expect) that they will make a "TOS Universe" movie down the road. I know that won't happen, but it's my hope just like it's my hope that someday they'll make a DS9 movie.

They (the writers and director) should have just had the balls to come right out and say that this would be an alternate universe movie rather than trying to make everyone think it was a TOS universe movie.

I haven't voted yet, but if the option was there I'd vote "I believe it's a different timeline IN an alternate/mirror universe".

VBG, you should add St. Augustine to your next visit - a lot of it is really touristy (ie the Fountain of Youth) but the old fort and a lot of the architecture is worth seeing.

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I haven't looked at a map of Florida for a while but is that near Lake Okeechobee or is it further north?

 

It's in Northern Fla. - South of Jacksonville on the coast

 

st augustine

For some reason I was thinking the 'Fountain of youth' was near Okeechobee. Anyway, I might just do that and visit. I'm hoping to get down to Florida within the next year or 2 depending on my school schedule (I'm going back to college this fall). If I do go then I'll probably drive down which means I'll be able to route my drive through there.

I love Becker, so I wouldn't consider it crap.

 

It's all about the money, she eventually left Becker for money reasons as well

Maybe it got better after the first few episodes then, the one I watched was the 6th episode aired (I looked it up) and I didn't laugh at a single 'joke' in it. I couldn't imagine sitting through many more episodes.

As for it being about money, I don't know. I think she said that a lot of it (leaving DS9) had to do with the work load of a 1 hour show and having no life outside of work.

To me, it just seems like going from working as a top manager in a major industry to working as a cashier in McDonald's. Nothing wrong with being a cashier at McDonald's, but it's a major step down. I really hope she got a major raise to go from DS9 to Becker though.

Brett should retire. Period.

No, I think he should play another 10 years. Play for the Vikings for a couple, the the Bears and heck maybe even the Lions...

And why would you want that? (she asks, already knowing the anwer)

No special reason... :)

VBG, you should add St. Augustine to your next visit - a lot of it is really touristy (ie the Fountain of Youth) but the old fort and a lot of the architecture is worth seeing.

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I haven't looked at a map of Florida for a while but is that near Lake Okeechobee or is it further north?