Thanks, you guys.
I just couldn’t resist.
Take your nitpick to the people who enforce the ridiculous 5 minute editing window. The alternative is to clutter the threads with unnecessary re-posting to repair every typo, or else endure unnecessary nitpicks over typos that could not be repaired without exposing the board to some imaginary potential for abuse or impairment…
“Thanks” in your instance is a noun, like “greetings” which in certain contexts can be stated as a single word, implying that the thing exists.
Getting to the point, I agree that the one word statement, “Thanks,” is slangy and informal - to say “Thanks”, instead of “Thank you”.
But to say “We gave thanks”, that is neither slangy nor informal.
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Lewis Carroll (the pen name of Charles Dodgson) wrote about having to retell “the interminable Alice’s adventures” in his diary. He eventually turned it into a written novel, presenting it to Alice Liddell as an early Christmas gift in 1864. Alice had asked Dodgson to entertain her and her sisters while rowing to a picnic. By the time Dodgson self-published the final version of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in 1865, it had doubled in length, with new scenes including those with the Mad Hatter and the Cheshire Cat.
“Living Next Door to Alice” is a song co-written by Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman. Originally released by the Australian vocal harmony trio New World in 1972, the song charted at No. 35 on the Australian chart. The song later became a worldwide hit for British band Smokie. It spawned a more risqué version in 1995 by the Dutch band Gompie, titled “Alice, Who the Fuck Is Alice?”. Their version topped the charts in the Netherlands and Belgium (Flanders), and reached the top 10 in Austria, Germany, Norway and Switzerland. In the UK, the song peaked at number 17, but its sales topped 150,000 despite its low peak. The success of this version resulted in various similar versions, including a new recording by Smokie with blue comedian Roy ‘Chubby’ Brown. A dance version of “Alice, Who the Fuck Is Alice?” was released by The Steppers, reaching No. 2 on the Australian charts in September 1995.
Singer Tracy Chapman won a Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 1989 for her song, Fast Car.
Chapman was born in Cleveland, Ohio in March 1964. She was raised by her mother, who recognized Tracy’s love of music and, despite not having much money, bought her a ukulele when she was just three. Chapman began playing guitar and writing songs at the age of eight. She says that she may have been first inspired to play the guitar by the television show - brace yourselves! - * Hee Haw*.
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon during Hee Haw’s first season, between episodes 5 and 6.
Just as no one remembers that Clarence Chamberlin was the second man to fly an airplane across the Atlantic non-stop, no one remembers that the third and fourth men to walk on the Moon were Pete Conrad and Dick Gordon.
Three men have flown to the moon twice:
- Jim Lovell (Apollo 8, 13)
- John Young (Apollo 10, 16)
- Gene Cernan (Apollo 10, 17)
Six men have ridden the moon buggy on the moon:
- Apollo 15: Dave Scott, James Irwin
- Apollo 16: John Young, Charlie Duke
- Apollo 17: Gene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt
12 men have flown to the moon without walking on the moon:
- Apollo 8: Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, William Anders
- Apollo 10: Thomas Stafford
- Apollo 11: Michael Collins
- Apollo 12: Dick Gordon
- Apollo 13: Jim Lovell (twice), Fred Haise, Jack Swigert
- Apollo 14: Stuart Roosa
- Apollo 15: Alfred Worden
- Apollo 16: Ken Mattingly
- Apollo 17: Ronald Evans
Swiss mountaineer Ernst Schmied was the second man to climb Mount Everest, three years after Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay.
Australian aviator Bert Hinkler was the second man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. He flew from Brazil to Africa, thus being the first to fly solo across the southern Atlantic Ocean. Hinkler made his flight in 1931. Lindbergh made his solo Atlantic flight in 1927.
Wikipedia’s article on Bert Hinkler is mute on the destination in Africa flown by Hinkler’s trans-Atlantic flight. A contempoary AP dispatch on the completion of his flight states that he landed at Bathurst, French West Africa. But Bathurst (now Banjul) is, and was then, in The Gambia, which was a British colony, and not in FrenchWest Africa.
It would have been 35 miles closer to fly to Sierra Leone.
Bert Hinkler died in an airplane crash in the Apennine Mountains between Florence and Arezzo, Italy on 27 April 1933. He had survived the crash and died outside the wreckage. On Mussolini’s orders Hinkler was buried in Florence with full military honors.
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Burial:
Cimitero Evangelico degli Allori
Florence
Provincia di Firenze
Toscana, Italy
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Bert Hinkler died in an airplane crash in the Apennine Mountains between Florence and Arezzo, Italy [del]on 27 April[/del] in January 1933. He had survived the crash and died outside the wreckage. On Mussolini’s orders Hinkler was buried in Florence with full military honors.
Edit:
Burial:
Cimitero Evangelico degli Allori
Florence
Provincia di Firenze
Toscana, Italy
Edit 2: Hinkler died in Jan 1933. His body was found in Apr 1933.
Bert Hinkler died the day before my sister was born, so one or the other, but not both, of them has been alive every day for the past 124 years.
The small, 4-door Fiat 124 was a homely looking family sedan made between 1966 and 1974.
Humble image: Fiat 124 - Wikipedia
However for 2016 Fiat has revived the 124 nameplate for a sexy little 2-seat roadster to compete with Mazda’s MX-5 Miata: the Fiat 124 Spider.
Ciao bella!!
The 1949 Triumph 2000 Roadster was the last production car built with a rumble seat. The rumble seat was an arrangement whereby the trunk (or boot) opened up not into a storage compartment, but into a comfortable seating area for additional passengers. American carmakers discontinued the rumble seat after 1939.
The Mercedes-Benz 540K Spezial Roadster, introduced in 1936 and manufactured for only a few years until WWII production needs were demanded by Germany, is one of the most expensive cars in the world today. Recent samples have sold for $8M, $9M, and up over $11M.
Some images of this beautiful car: https://www.google.com/search?q=Mercedes-Benz+540K+Spezial+Roadster&client=safari&hl=en-us&prmd=sivn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwim1cbdi9nNAhUT6GMKHVC9DccQ_AUICCgC&biw=1024&bih=672
The 540K was designed by Hans Nibel, an engineer who worked under Dr. Ferdinand Porsche until he became Technical Director of Daimler-Benz AG in 1929 following Dr. Porsche’s resignation.
1936 was the second “Year of Three Kings” in England, where George V, Edward VIII, and George VI all reigned.
The first year of three kings was 1483. Edward IV died and was succeeded by his son Edward V, who was deposed later that year by Richard III.