Play ball!
The Bloomington Bird Lady: “Subject: Those Twins.
Author: Bulletin Board
The glory of their time — when Kirby and Herbie, Bruno and the Rat, Sweet Music and Bert, Lauds and Lombo, Gags and Gladdy, Smalls and T.K. all ate the Breakfast of Champions!
It happens every spring . . . though in the rarest autumn!
Where We Live Division
Lola: “With the major-league baseball season starting, here is a reminder of how much fun it was and how good it felt when our Minnesota Twins won the 1987 World Series.
What this country had been (or hadn’t been) needing (II)
In the very early days of Bulletin Board (which began, by the way, 28 years ago yesterday, as Walt of Wayzata noted), Bright Spot of South St. Paul said that the wearing of a baseball cap backwards is “the universal symbol of a fool.”
We’ve thought of that observation a thousand times since, whenever we have seen someone other than a relative wearing his (or, or course, her) cap with the bill to the rear. Continue reading “What this country had been (or hadn’t been) needing (II)”
What this country had been (or hadn’t been) needing (I)
Just thinking about golf (as always) on this early-spring (late-winter here in Minnesota) day.
Meet the big dork of the Don Squad!
Forty-five nanoseconds of fame
Including: Oh, and was his face red! — and: It’s a small world (Especially Around Here Division)
Jim Fitzsimons of St. Paul: “Subject: Don Vogel, Chris Mars, and a big dork (that would be me).
“In the early- to mid-’90s, I was quite a fan of talk-radio personality Don Vogel. I used to listen to his afternoon drive-time show every day. Through listening to Don’s show, I learned that local artist/musician Chris Mars, the original drummer of critics’ darlings The Replacements, was also a member of the Don Squad. That’s what Don called his fans.
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