DECEMBER 2008 ISSUE #57

TO OUR JEWISH WARRIORS, WE WISH YOU A HAPPY HANUKKAH!

Worthless info - If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also
have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar .

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We’re preparing for our annual Smoke Signals Christmas Xtra. Send us your funny,

interesting or poignant holiday stories, cartoons, jokes, and links along with pictures of
how you and your loved ones celebrate the holidays. Click to mail

Want to send a card to a soldier, do NOT send it to Walter Reed. Do this

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Memories – Send you Central Memories to PAULA

WHAT ARE YOUR TRAVEL PLANS? Click to mail

See what Phil and Sheri did in the ‘Land Down Under’ Click for pics. Also check out Sharon and
Butch Emmons as they travel Scotland Click for pics , while Jeanne and Jim Beech eat and
cruise the eastern Caribbean. Click for pics.

WARNINGS TO WARRIORS – from Smoke Signals medical advisor Dr. Vinny Boombatz
Try this winter game plan to ease symptoms of depression. Click for help

SAY WHAT?!!

" …a cross between a hemorrhoid and a toothache."

Democratic strategist Paul Begala, describing Rohm Emanuel's aggressive style

FROM THE LAUGH TRACK from the sick mind of Bettye Jo Olive

A man in New York City calls his son in Phoenix the day before Thanksgiving and says, 'I hate to
ruin your day, but I have to tell you that your mother and I are divorcing; forty-five years of misery is
enough.'

'Pop, what are you talking about?' the son screams.

We can't stand the sight of each other any longer,’ the father says. 'We're sick of each other, and I'm
sick of talking about this, so you call your sister in Chicago and tell her.'

Frantic, the son calls his sister, who explodes on the phone.  'Like heck they're getting divorced,' she
shouts, 'I'll take care of this!'

She calls NYC immediately, and screams at her father,

'You are NOT getting divorced. Don't do a single thing until I get there. I'm calling my brother back,
and we'll both be there tomorrow. Until then, don't do a thing, DO YOU HEAR ME?' and hangs up.

The old man hangs up his phone and turns to his wife.

'It's all set,’ he says, 'the kids are coming for Thanksgiving ...and they're paying their own way!’

IN THE NEWS WITH VIEWS send news of new jobs, retirement, kids, grandkids,

ANYTHING OF INTEREST going on in your life to SMOKE SIGNALS

Oct. 11th - Lynn Allison, who has been working with the Church of Christ in Donetsk, Ukraine for ten
years, wed Victor Stephanovich Tretyakov on October 11^th Click for pics

Oct. 30th – SupperClub Our annual Halloween event was held at the Pig-N-Whistle the Thursday before

Halloween. In addition to the cast of ‘Regulars’, three Warriors made their inaugural appearance, two of

them in keeping with the Halloween theme. Tom Porter,’66, along with Frank Gongleski '62 and

Helen Garner Hiatt '61 give all indication of becoming regulars at our events. Click for pics

On a serious note, two of our Regulars are need of our thoughts and prayers. Sara Buring, wife of

Raymond Buring, CHS’61 continues her struggle against cancer. Johnny ‘Dark’ Dougherty,

husband of Cynthia Cowgill Dougherty, CHS’64 has been readmitted to the hospital with complications

following bypass surgery.

Nov. 12th - Alex Ward, CHS’65, reports that with the merger of Sirius and XM Radio, Pink & Black
Days will be moved to the following times: Tuesday evening Midnight Eastern, 9Pm Pacific. Sunday
6PM Eastern, 3PM Pacific. Alex will follow the legendary Norm N. Nite on the Sunday show.

Alex’s ”Pig & Whistle Oldies Party” has changed venues to TJ Mulliganns in the Pinch on North
Main on the 3^rd Sat each month from 7-11pm. TJ’ s offers a huge dance floor and very reasonable food
and drink prices.

NEWS FOR THE OUT-OF-TOWNER for more, visit THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL

Nov. 4th – State Stays RED. Bucking the national trend, Tennessee Republicans captured both
houses of the General Assembly for the first time since reconstruction.

Oct. 29th. According to the CA, over the last two years, the Memphis City School System has spent
$5.3 million to lease 7759 laptop computers. After four months of use last year, the system reports
that 1792 of these computers have disappeared.

OCT. 31st. – With a 13-9 loss to Craigmont, the Central Warriors brought a merciful end to their 9-1
season. Central’s only win came midway through the season with a squeaker over Overton, 27-26

Nov. 11th – An irate mother, upset over the bullying of her daughter, boarded a West Side Middle
school bus and threatened the students with a gun.

Nov. – The investigation into the corrupt administration of mayor Herenton continues with many of his
aides appearing before a federal Grand Jury.

LINKS YOU’LL LOVE
Although these links never contain material that would be considered obscene, some links may occasionally
contain content that might be offensive to some. Henceforth, they will appear BLACK in color.

Crazy is as crazy does. State flowers-beautiful Male dippers fined, female-no

Google 411 Gin the dancing dog. Battle Hymn of the Republic busselle Surf channels

A look back in history GUYS, DON'T DARE CLICK HERE!

HENRY’S CORNER

Speaking of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance”, we were, weren’t we? This
1962 John Ford classic marked the first film pairing of two of the greatest
actors in history, John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart. The plot revolves around the
flashback by lawyer turned Senator, Ranse Stoddard (Stewart) who returns to
the Wild West town of Shinbone to attend the funeral of his longtime friend Tom
Doniphon (Wayne). Stoddard’s star rose after he confronted the town bully,

Liberty Valance played flawlessly by Lee Marvin. Unbeknownst, even to Stoddard, Doniphon actually
fired the fatal bullet that killed Valance; a shot Stoddard was credited for. Other stellar appearances
in the film include Vera Miles, Edmond O’Brien, Andy Devine, Ken Murray, John Carradine, Denver
Pyle, Strother Martin, and Lee Van Cleef.

The shooting was done in B/W as opposed to Technicolor supposedly to reduce production cost and
to obfuscate the age difference between Wayne (54) and Stewart (53) who were both playing
considerably younger characters. Valance was the last of Ford’s B/W films. It also was the first film
in which Wayne’s character refers to someone as “Pilgrim”. He did 23 times in Valance. Contrary to
generally held beliefs, the only other time Wayne used the term was in McLintock and then only
once.

Edith Head’s wardrobe won the film a nomination for a 1963 Academy Award for “Best Costume
Design”. The movie inspired the Burt Bacharach Hal David hit song, ”The Man Who Shot Liberty
Valance” sung by Gene Pitney and recorded a number of months after the film was released.

The Name Game - The Hollywood Argyles, whose one hit, ”Alley Oop” charted #1 in June of 1960,
was actually soloist Gary Paxton backed-up by friends and studio musicians. Since Paxton was
then under contract to Brent Records under the name of Flip of the duo Skip and Flip, he chose
the Argyle name because the Lute recording studio was at the corner of Hollywood Blvd. and
Argyle St.

While we’re playing the “Name Game”, the one-hit-wonders Jarmels, “A Little Bit Of Soap”, derived
their name from a street in Harlem.

“Mony, Mony” by Tommy James and the Shondells was inspired by a Mutual Of New York billboard.

The ’70 band, Lynard Skynyrd was named after the band’s Jr. high school gym teacher, Leonard
Skinner. And the ‘80’s REO Speedwagon, “Take It On The Run”, was named after a 1911 fire truck.

IMPORTANT LINKS ON THE CHS WEBSITE

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Email addresses for our troops. CLICK FOR OUR TROOPS PG.
Our tribe’s ’61 & ’62 homeroom pics. CLICK FOR PICS
Alumni page for warriors of all years. CLICK FOR ALUMNI PAGE
Send us your thoughts. CLICK FOR OPINION PAGE
Send us some laughs. CLICK FOR LAUGH PAGE.