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Posted by LC 0311 Sir Crunchie I.M.H., K.o.E. on October 8, 2012

Get out your thinking caps pups and let’s see who can answer the following (No google either.  Dead trees covered in squid piss or your own memory. Y’alls on the honor system)

What happened 94 years ago today?

*cue Jeopardy theme song*

 

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    LC Mike in Chi growls and barks:
    October 8, 2012 at 20:56

    The end of WWI…The beginning of the largest and most deadly avian flu outbreak?

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    LibraryGryffon growls and barks:
    October 8, 2012 at 20:59

    I came up blank so I checked with the spousal Old Coot, who could only think of the Russian Revolution or else the Halifax. He is now in the other room cheating, though we won’t post it.
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    Orion growls and barks:
    October 8, 2012 at 21:12

    October 1918, the Russian Revolution (or perhaps there’s a WWI Offensive you mean)

    Orion

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    LC 0311 Sir Crunchie I.M.H., K.o.E. growls and barks:
    October 8, 2012 at 21:35

    So far, oooh sorry. Don Pardo, please tell our contestants their parting gifts.

    “They really don’t wanna know crunchie. Suffice it to say that Radical Redneck and BC will be delivering them in person.”

    A small clue before bedtime. It happened on the Western Front during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.
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    Mike M growls and barks:
    October 8, 2012 at 21:53

    October, 1918 had me thinking Russian Revolution as well, but since the only way I was going to find out for sure was to cheat, I did. Very impressive.

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    L.C. Mope growls and barks:
    October 8, 2012 at 21:59

    Hmmm… The Silence is deafening.

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    LC Old Dog growls and barks:
    October 8, 2012 at 22:12

    Scratches the back of his redneck and mumbles, “Something to do with that Tennessee York boy iffen I remember correctly”.

    Them hill boys always could shoot! : :em02:
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    LC TerribleTroy growls and barks:
    October 8, 2012 at 22:19

    What is the Battle for Belleau Wood? (That my guess if I read crunchies clue properly).

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    Jaybear, Colonel of Imperial Ancient Artillery growls and barks:
    October 8, 2012 at 22:21

    I was going to say Belleau Wood, but that was a spring battle if I remember right…..

    gotta go with Old Dog on this one….

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    rickn8or growls and barks:
    October 8, 2012 at 22:22

    Like Mike M. I’ll confess to cheating.

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    LC Old Dog growls and barks:
    October 8, 2012 at 22:35

    I am kinda cheating! I grew up in the NC hills on the other side of the Great Smokey’s. When I was still a teenager (lost in the mists of time) there was still a thing called the “Alvin York Memorial Turkey Shoot” on the 8th of October.

    It was an old fashioned Turkey Shoot (meaning a target shoot with a turkey as the prize) with all proceeds going to charity.

    Shot in it and LOST, twice. :em05:
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    LC 0311 Sir Crunchie I.M.H., K.o.E. growls and barks:
    October 8, 2012 at 22:41

    LC Old Dog @ #:
    And we have a weener! On October 8, 1918 in a valley near Chatel Chéhéry, France, Sgt. (then Cpl.) Alvin C. York earned the Medal of Honor for leading seven surviving members of a 13 man patrol sent to infiltrate a hilltop German position that was holding up the advance of the 328th Infantry Regiment. In the process he killed 28 German soldiers (six with his 1911 as they charged him with fixed bayonets), captured 132 more, and silenced the machine guns which were holding up the advance.

    His citation reads;

    “After his platoon suffered heavy casualties and 3 other noncommissioned officers had become casualties, Cpl. York assumed command. Fearlessly leading 7 men, he charged with great daring a machine gun nest which was pouring deadly and incessant fire upon his platoon. In this heroic feat the machine gun nest was taken, together with 4 officers and 128 men and several guns.”

    For this action the deeply devout Christian York would receive not only the MoH, but the French Croix De Guerre and Legion of Honor, the Italian Croce di Guerra al Merite and the Montenegrin War Medal, among close to 50 other decorations. .
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    LC LOBO growls and barks:
    October 8, 2012 at 22:59

    Been seeing it all day today. His BAotW page. Do you need anymore reason NOT to fuck with my family ??

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    LC Light29ID growls and barks:
    October 8, 2012 at 23:44

    Another happy occasion on this date 9 Oct:

    Che Guevara is executed

    Capitalist T-shirt makers rejoiced

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    LC TerribleTroy growls and barks:
    October 9, 2012 at 07:01

    Wait…. don’t I get a prize for participating? I mean shit! My self esteem will suffer….

    /sarc

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    LC Ohio Right Wing Nut growls and barks:
    October 9, 2012 at 07:40

    I was gonna say DJ was born…I heard he was old :em05:

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    dcs2244 growls and barks:
    October 9, 2012 at 09:26

    Elements of the 27th and 40th Divisions of the National Guard under English General Haig broke the Hindenburg Line. My grandfather was there with the 27th; he din’t get any of them fancy medals Sergeant York got (he was a buck sgt, though) ;D

    Note: the assaults on the Line occurred over several months.

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    Princess Natasha, Resident Imperialist Warmonger growls and barks:
    October 9, 2012 at 15:29

    BTW, peeps, Russian revolution happened on Oct 25 “old style”, i.e. it actually occurred on Nov. 7, as Russia used to follow a different calendar before 1917, which was about 13 days behind the commonly used one.

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    LC Sir Rurik, K.o.E. growls and barks:
    October 9, 2012 at 18:22

    And also the Bolshevik Coup, as many better Russians now call it, happened 95 years ango not 94 years ago in 1917.

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    LC Cheapshot911, Dept. of Redneck Tech growls and barks:
    October 10, 2012 at 07:07

    Alvin was a conscientious objector until he saw his mates gettin’ tore up.
    B’ware the marksmanship of a Righteous Man.

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    bruce growls and barks:
    October 10, 2012 at 18:28

    york kicked some german ass and won the medal of honor.british general haig ,after screwing up at the some.figered out how to use tanks and broke through the german lines in the first successful tank battle ever.like dcs2244 said haig broke the german lines with tanks and warfare would never be the same after that.

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    Sir Fresh Sign growls and barks:
    October 12, 2012 at 12:23

    anybody want to see a Rogue’s Gallery of retarded protestors in san francisco, (but only 8 of them are FROM San Francisco)… this looks like DU types crossed with a Faces of Meth montage.

    http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/SF-housing-protesters-accused-of-burglary-3940759.php