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Happy Birthday to FOG & Ben
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FOG and Ben. Ben Has been rond a while!
Keith
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Yep, have a happy.
Ben, how long has it been since our paths first crossed in Death Valley? 30 years?
Ben, how long has it been since our paths first crossed in Death Valley? 30 years?
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Stripey357, too!
Good day for a birthday, guys!
Good day for a birthday, guys!
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You could probably say the same thing about Greystone U, a few miles out of Carson. The dean of students there was one of my Boss's dad.
Shortly after the Civil War, the State Legislature adjourned to the hotel, bar, and restaurant there. Things ended up getting so rowdy, none of them, even all put together, could came up with the damages to repair it. So they bought it for the state, and converted it to the state's first penitentiary.
I visited it when it was still the Maximum Security facility. One wing was three stories high, and on the first floor, at least inch thick bars were bowed out 6 inches or more from the weight above. Then we visited the Death Chamber. It had been the gas chamber but got shut down during the moritorium on death sentences, and then was too leaky when it was called on again. So they converted it over to use the needle.
Another thing to overload the brain was that death row was housed in the old quarry. Literally the cells were cut out of the hillside of stone used to build the walls.
It's now closed down and Ely is the new Max and does the executions. But going on the tour with the parole officers was an experience not forgotten.
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By the way, Happy Birthdays, boys.
Shortly after the Civil War, the State Legislature adjourned to the hotel, bar, and restaurant there. Things ended up getting so rowdy, none of them, even all put together, could came up with the damages to repair it. So they bought it for the state, and converted it to the state's first penitentiary.
I visited it when it was still the Maximum Security facility. One wing was three stories high, and on the first floor, at least inch thick bars were bowed out 6 inches or more from the weight above. Then we visited the Death Chamber. It had been the gas chamber but got shut down during the moritorium on death sentences, and then was too leaky when it was called on again. So they converted it over to use the needle.
Another thing to overload the brain was that death row was housed in the old quarry. Literally the cells were cut out of the hillside of stone used to build the walls.
It's now closed down and Ely is the new Max and does the executions. But going on the tour with the parole officers was an experience not forgotten.
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By the way, Happy Birthdays, boys.
Ben Arown-Awile
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Thanks for the good birthday vibes y'all.
I never thought I would live this long, but now that I have I have a new reverence for life.
I feel that I must accomplish something intellectually stimulating and spiritually enlightening.
I think I'll go out in the street, pull down my britches, and moon the neighbors.
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Bill, sometimes I cant remember if I ate lunch or not, but I can remember those Death Valley Days like they were yesterday.
I think thats probably because they marked the beginning of a long and very intense journey that in many ways defined the rest of my life.
I never thought I would live this long, but now that I have I have a new reverence for life.
I feel that I must accomplish something intellectually stimulating and spiritually enlightening.
I think I'll go out in the street, pull down my britches, and moon the neighbors.
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Bill, sometimes I cant remember if I ate lunch or not, but I can remember those Death Valley Days like they were yesterday.
I think thats probably because they marked the beginning of a long and very intense journey that in many ways defined the rest of my life.
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Thanks all!
I turned 32 today. Okay I won't go moon anybody... I sharpened my 18" Chitlangi instead (and no that is not innuendo!).
I turned 32 today. Okay I won't go moon anybody... I sharpened my 18" Chitlangi instead (and no that is not innuendo!).
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That's what my cousin's husband did to get rid of Jehovahs Witnesses after many times telling them they didn't want to be bothered, except he did it behind their full glass storm door.
They never had trouble with them again!!!!
I've never had a problem with 'em or I would do the same thing. However I have threatened to put up a sign by the door saying, "Every third X-tian shot, the second one just left."
People I don't know who bother me at home are just as bad, maybe worse, than the dayumed telemarketers!!!!
Happy B'day Stripey. If you have it listed I'm sorry I missed your name, if not then list it and perhaps it will be seen next year.
