Rockpile – 2-22-2017

We have new leaders in our 9-pin tournament. Jordan Wink was on  fire this past Friday night and put together a 934 series/with handicap. Jeff Oseby from New Richmond put up a 903 series.

In doubles competition, we have a three-way tie for the lead. The Jordan Wink-Dave Hurtgen Team along with two other teams all have doubles score of 1788.

On the Thursday Night Ladies league, Viv Lindstrom rolled a 225 game, while Peg Heutmaker bowled a 223 game. Carrie Graves also did well with a 210 game.

Back When

• 1962 Song of the Day: “Roses Are Red My Love” – Bobby Vinton

• 1964 Song of the Day: “Hello Dolly” – Louis Armstrong

• 1967 Song of the Day: “The Letter” – The Box Tops

• 1969 Song of the Day: “Sugar, Sugar” – The Archies

• 1970 Song of the Day: “Close to You” – The Carpenters

Events

• 1792 – George Washington signed an act to create the U.S. Post Office.

• 1911 – The first self-starter was installed, in a Cadillac.

• 1933 – Newsweek was first published.

• 1958 – Football star Frank Gifford signed a seven-year contract with Warner Bros.

• 1965 – Comedian Joan Rivers made her first guest appearance on the Tonight Show, starring Johnny Carson.

• 1972 – President Nixon became the first President to visit China.

• 2007 – 8,962 people made snow angels in Bismark, North Dakota, claiming the Guinness World Record for the “Most People Making Snow Angels in One Place”.

Smile

Have you ever been guilty of looking at others your own age and thinking, “Surely I can’t look that old!” Well…you’ll love this one.

My name is Alice, and I was sitting in the waiting room for my first appointment with a new dentist.

I noticed his DDS diploma on the wall, which bore his full name.

Suddenly, I remembered a tall, handsome, dark-haired boy with the same name had been in my high school class some 40-odd years ago.

Could he be the same guy that I had a secret crush on, way back then?

Upon seeing him, however, I quickly discarded any such thought. This balding, gray-haired man with the deeply lined face was way too old to have been my classmate.

After he examined my teeth, I asked him if he had attended Morgan Park High School.

“Yes. Yes, I did. I’m a Mustang,” he gleamed with pride.

“When did you graduate?” I asked.

He answered, “In 1967…why do you ask?”

“You were in my class!” I exclaimed.

He looked at me closely. Then that ugly, old, bald, wrinkle-faced, gray-haired, decrepit old coot asked me, “What did you teach?!!!”

Birdie with a yellow bill, hopped upon my window sill, cocked a shining eye and says: “What do you have in the bag, Smarty….pants???” Bee Boop!! 

The week’s Rockpile Readers of the Week: Linda and Helen Krizan of Glenwood City, Wisconsin. 

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Leaker’s Place
P.O. Box 213
Glenwood City, WI 54013
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