Spark! Pro series - 28th September 2023

WiseOldelf · 2023-09-28T13:07:15.000Z

lamocon:

I swear there’s been like four meatloaf recipes just in the past couple of months. Is there a possibility that SpiceWorks is getting paid off by Big Meatloaf to push this agenda? Or is the universe telling me to finally turn my oven on?

I love meat loaf so much. Preferably not covered with tomato sauce or gravy.

WiseOldelf · 2023-09-28T13:15:10.000Z

GuruGabe1:

I came across a very interesting this day in history.

On September 28, 1918, in an incident that would go down in the lore of World War I history—although the details of the event are still unclear—Private Henry Tandey, a British soldier serving near the French village of Marcoing, reportedly encounters a wounded German soldier and declines to shoot him, sparing the life of 29-year-old Lance Corporal Adolf Hitler.

Tandey, a native of Warwickshire, took part in the First Battle of Ypres in October 1914 and the Battle of the Somme in 1916, where he was wounded in the leg. After being discharged from the hospital, he was transferred to the 9th Battalion in France and was wounded again during the Third Battle of Ypres at Passchendaele in the summer of 1917. From July to October 1918, Tandey served with the 5th Duke of Wellington Regiment; it was during this time that he took part in the successful British capture of Marcoing, for which he earned a Victoria Cross for “conspicuous bravery.”

As Tandey later told sources, during the final moments of that battle, as the German troops were in retreat, a wounded German soldier entered Tandey’s line of fire. “I took aim but couldn’t shoot a wounded man,” Tandey remembered, “so I let him go.” The German soldier nodded in thanks and disappeared.

Though sources do not exist to prove the exact whereabouts of Adolf Hitler on that day in 1918, an intriguing link emerged to suggest that he was in fact the soldier Tandey spared. A photograph that appeared in London newspapers of Tandey carrying a wounded soldier at Ypres in 1914 was later portrayed on canvas in a painting by the Italian artist Fortunino Matania glorifying the Allied war effort. As the story goes, when British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain traveled to Germany in 1938 to engage Hitler in a last-ditch effort to avoid another war in Europe, he was taken by the führer to his new country retreat in Bavaria. There, Hitler showed Chamberlain his copy of the Matania painting, commenting, “That’s the man who nearly shot me.”

The authenticity of the Tandey-Hitler encounter remains in dispute, though evidence does suggest that Hitler had a reproduction of the Matania painting as early as 1937—a strange acquisition for a man who had been furious and devastated by the German defeat at Allied hands in the Great War. Twice decorated as a soldier, Hitler was temporarily blinded by a mustard gas attack in Belgium in October 1918 and was in a military hospital in Pacewalk, Germany, when he received news of the German surrender. The experiences of battle—first glory and ultimately disillusion and despondence—would color the rest of Hitler’s life and career, as he admitted in 1941, after leading his country into another devastating conflict: “When I returned from the War, I brought back home with me my experiences at the front; out of them I built my National Socialist community.”

So, that is how close WWII was much different.

Ecrawf099:

UselessInfoMine:

Fourth. Not that it’s much to shout about, but I’ll take the little wins this week.

No judgement here. I celebrated a “5th” earlier this week.

Of gin?

Sorry, Confucius, I suffer from confusionism.

Inspirobot, I work in the education system, and if you cross me, I will hit you with the truth.

I can’t even think of a song because that SotD was just perfect. And haunting.

Cool story. While I personally wouldn’t shoot a wounded soldier either, it obviously (now) would have been better if he did.

spiceuser-vg5u5 · 2023-09-28T13:57:13.000Z

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mickspiegel4213 · 2023-09-28T13:57:18.000Z

Happy Birthday Hilary Duff!

God Bless Miles Davis!

Meatloaf! Yum! Homemade even better imo!

Inspirobot I guess education hurts you or haunts you! lol

HulkSmash · 2023-09-28T14:41:14.000Z

Today is National Drink Beer Day! Twist my arm!

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Also, Inspirobot I think you are wrong. lol

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it-monkey-mike · 2023-09-28T14:44:39.000Z

DailyLlama:

Panda-Marie:

DailyLlama I didn’t realize he had passed. RIP Ducky!

Panda-Marie it was only a couple of days ago

David McCallum: NCIS and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. actor dies aged 90 - BBC News

He also had a memorable episode of Babylon 5 where he was the guest star…

it-monkey-mike · 2023-09-28T14:55:27.000Z

WiseOldelf:

GuruGabe1:

I came across a very interesting this day in history.

On September 28, 1918, in an incident that would go down in the lore of World War I history—although the details of the event are still unclear—Private Henry Tandey, a British soldier serving near the French village of Marcoing, reportedly encounters a wounded German soldier and declines to shoot him, sparing the life of 29-year-old Lance Corporal Adolf Hitler.

Tandey, a native of Warwickshire, took part in the First Battle of Ypres in October 1914 and the Battle of the Somme in 1916, where he was wounded in the leg. After being discharged from the hospital, he was transferred to the 9th Battalion in France and was wounded again during the Third Battle of Ypres at Passchendaele in the summer of 1917. From July to October 1918, Tandey served with the 5th Duke of Wellington Regiment; it was during this time that he took part in the successful British capture of Marcoing, for which he earned a Victoria Cross for “conspicuous bravery.”

As Tandey later told sources, during the final moments of that battle, as the German troops were in retreat, a wounded German soldier entered Tandey’s line of fire. “I took aim but couldn’t shoot a wounded man,” Tandey remembered, “so I let him go.” The German soldier nodded in thanks and disappeared.

Though sources do not exist to prove the exact whereabouts of Adolf Hitler on that day in 1918, an intriguing link emerged to suggest that he was in fact the soldier Tandey spared. A photograph that appeared in London newspapers of Tandey carrying a wounded soldier at Ypres in 1914 was later portrayed on canvas in a painting by the Italian artist Fortunino Matania glorifying the Allied war effort. As the story goes, when British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain traveled to Germany in 1938 to engage Hitler in a last-ditch effort to avoid another war in Europe, he was taken by the führer to his new country retreat in Bavaria. There, Hitler showed Chamberlain his copy of the Matania painting, commenting, “That’s the man who nearly shot me.”

The authenticity of the Tandey-Hitler encounter remains in dispute, though evidence does suggest that Hitler had a reproduction of the Matania painting as early as 1937—a strange acquisition for a man who had been furious and devastated by the German defeat at Allied hands in the Great War. Twice decorated as a soldier, Hitler was temporarily blinded by a mustard gas attack in Belgium in October 1918 and was in a military hospital in Pacewalk, Germany, when he received news of the German surrender. The experiences of battle—first glory and ultimately disillusion and despondence—would color the rest of Hitler’s life and career, as he admitted in 1941, after leading his country into another devastating conflict: “When I returned from the War, I brought back home with me my experiences at the front; out of them I built my National Socialist community.”

So, that is how close WWII was much different.

Ecrawf099:

UselessInfoMine:

Fourth. Not that it’s much to shout about, but I’ll take the little wins this week.

No judgement here. I celebrated a “5th” earlier this week.

Of gin?

Sorry, Confucius, I suffer from confusionism.

Inspirobot, I work in the education system, and if you cross me, I will hit you with the truth.

I can’t even think of a song because that SotD was just perfect. And haunting.

Cool story. While I personally wouldn’t shoot a wounded soldier either, it obviously (now) would have been better if he did.

I understand your point but, there is no guarantee that killing Hitler during WWI would have prevented WWII.

There are plenty of stories telling how someone was removed to prevent something from happening and someone else stepped up to take their place leaving events relatively unchanged in the grand scheme of things.

shreddie · 2023-09-28T15:55:26.000Z

Panda-Marie:

DailyLlama I didn’t realize he had passed. RIP Ducky!

Hello ismoonastar - don’t worry about not being first - we can’t all post at 3 am.

Unrelated for today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCB95WrqApk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0dxhSPoBjY

(NSFW, but what I’ve been having run thru my mind):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrgpZ0fUixs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GurkREc-q4I

OOOO MY… Sha Na Na… Takes me back. Thanks

@panda-marie

shreddie · 2023-09-28T16:02:36.000Z

I am fairly certain that Confucius would study me and look and ponder and come back with “I got nothing”

Great to be a man that leaves them speechless. The joys of being a wonderful mess and being ok with it.

ismoonastarSep 28, 2023 at 1:36 AM

nooooo…! (last again)

It’s ok… I will send you the link to our support group for those of us not first. =P

@jameswalker20 @ismoonastar

Panda-Marie · 2023-09-28T16:11:17.000Z

@shreddie yes please - share the love (for us that are not first).

Speaking of sharing, check out the newest additions to the Panduck family:

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I also received the AMAZING @mikedecamp bobblehead, but it’s SO COOL that I’m unable to load it to my post. (That or I’m mashing the wrong keys).

Panda-Marie · 2023-09-28T16:14:16.000Z

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Would you look at that? I found the ‘any’ key

@mikedecamp

mike-eaton · 2023-09-28T16:15:49.000Z

Panda-Marie:

Shreddie yes please - share the love (for us that are not first).

Speaking of sharing, check out the newest additions to the Panduck family:

I also received the AMAZING Mike (Eaton) bobblehead, but it’s SO COOL that I’m unable to load it to my post. (That or I’m mashing the wrong keys).

I got you!

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badger1 · 2023-09-28T17:43:10.000Z

…and now I’m off to research why Jewish bakeries are a greater source of ignition and/or more flammable than Islamic or Christian (or Confucian, even) bakeries…I’ll report back on my findings…

gurugabe1 · 2023-09-28T17:50:12.000Z

Mike (Eaton):

Panda-Marie:

Shreddie yes please - share the love (for us that are not first).

Speaking of sharing, check out the newest additions to the Panduck family:

I also received the AMAZING Mike (Eaton) bobblehead, but it’s SO COOL that I’m unable to load it to my post. (That or I’m mashing the wrong keys).

I got you!

Those are SO COOL! I am envious. But who is Devil Duck giving a little **** in the face?

@mikedecamp @panda-marie

mike-eaton · 2023-09-28T17:55:51.000Z

GuruGabe1:

Mike (Eaton):

Panda-Marie:

Shreddie yes please - share the love (for us that are not first).

Speaking of sharing, check out the newest additions to the Panduck family:

I also received the AMAZING Mike (Eaton) bobblehead, but it’s SO COOL that I’m unable to load it to my post. (That or I’m mashing the wrong keys).

I got you!

Those are SO COOL! I am envious. But who is Devil Duck giving a little **** in the face?

The one in the back shall not be named but i will share this: Where is David now? #WhereIsDavidNow

There are still some Mike bobbleheads left BTW.

@gurugabe1

gurugabe1 · 2023-09-28T18:16:31.000Z

Mike (Eaton):

GuruGabe1:

Mike (Eaton):

Panda-Marie:

Shreddie yes please - share the love (for us that are not first).

Speaking of sharing, check out the newest additions to the Panduck family:

I also received the AMAZING Mike (Eaton) bobblehead, but it’s SO COOL that I’m unable to load it to my post. (That or I’m mashing the wrong keys).

I got you!

Those are SO COOL! I am envious. But who is Devil Duck giving a little **** in the face?

The one in the back shall not be named but i will share this: Where is David now? #WhereIsDavidNow

There are still some Mike bobbleheads left BTW.

You can keep the Tripp Lite. As soon as available after SpiceWord, I need the @mikedecamp bobblehead and the SpiceRex. I can never make the journey to SpiceWorld due to health reasons so I get to miss out on most of the cool swag.

WiseOldelf · 2023-09-28T19:16:11.000Z

IT Monkey Mike:

WiseOldelf:

GuruGabe1:

I came across a very interesting this day in history.

On September 28, 1918, in an incident that would go down in the lore of World War I history—although the details of the event are still unclear—Private Henry Tandey, a British soldier serving near the French village of Marcoing, reportedly encounters a wounded German soldier and declines to shoot him, sparing the life of 29-year-old Lance Corporal Adolf Hitler.

Tandey, a native of Warwickshire, took part in the First Battle of Ypres in October 1914 and the Battle of the Somme in 1916, where he was wounded in the leg. After being discharged from the hospital, he was transferred to the 9th Battalion in France and was wounded again during the Third Battle of Ypres at Passchendaele in the summer of 1917. From July to October 1918, Tandey served with the 5th Duke of Wellington Regiment; it was during this time that he took part in the successful British capture of Marcoing, for which he earned a Victoria Cross for “conspicuous bravery.”

As Tandey later told sources, during the final moments of that battle, as the German troops were in retreat, a wounded German soldier entered Tandey’s line of fire. “I took aim but couldn’t shoot a wounded man,” Tandey remembered, “so I let him go.” The German soldier nodded in thanks and disappeared.

Though sources do not exist to prove the exact whereabouts of Adolf Hitler on that day in 1918, an intriguing link emerged to suggest that he was in fact the soldier Tandey spared. A photograph that appeared in London newspapers of Tandey carrying a wounded soldier at Ypres in 1914 was later portrayed on canvas in a painting by the Italian artist Fortunino Matania glorifying the Allied war effort. As the story goes, when British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain traveled to Germany in 1938 to engage Hitler in a last-ditch effort to avoid another war in Europe, he was taken by the führer to his new country retreat in Bavaria. There, Hitler showed Chamberlain his copy of the Matania painting, commenting, “That’s the man who nearly shot me.”

The authenticity of the Tandey-Hitler encounter remains in dispute, though evidence does suggest that Hitler had a reproduction of the Matania painting as early as 1937—a strange acquisition for a man who had been furious and devastated by the German defeat at Allied hands in the Great War. Twice decorated as a soldier, Hitler was temporarily blinded by a mustard gas attack in Belgium in October 1918 and was in a military hospital in Pacewalk, Germany, when he received news of the German surrender. The experiences of battle—first glory and ultimately disillusion and despondence—would color the rest of Hitler’s life and career, as he admitted in 1941, after leading his country into another devastating conflict: “When I returned from the War, I brought back home with me my experiences at the front; out of them I built my National Socialist community.”

So, that is how close WWII was much different.

Ecrawf099:

UselessInfoMine:

Fourth. Not that it’s much to shout about, but I’ll take the little wins this week.

No judgement here. I celebrated a “5th” earlier this week.

Of gin?

Sorry, Confucius, I suffer from confusionism.

Inspirobot, I work in the education system, and if you cross me, I will hit you with the truth.

I can’t even think of a song because that SotD was just perfect. And haunting.

Cool story. While I personally wouldn’t shoot a wounded soldier either, it obviously (now) would have been better if he did.

I understand your point but, there is no guarantee that killing Hitler during WWI would have prevented WWII.

There are plenty of stories telling how someone was removed to prevent something from happening and someone else stepped up to take their place leaving events relatively unchanged in the grand scheme of things.

So true.

redrumrudy · 2023-09-28T20:55:08.000Z

EdT:

On September 28, 1542, the Spanish explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo arrives in San Diego Bay while searching for the Strait of Anian, a mythical all-water route across North America

And this is why the city of San Diego has the Cabrillo Freeway, which passes under the Cabrillo Bridge. Further west, at the southern tip of Point Loma – which is where Cabrillo first set foot on land here – is the Cabrillo National Monument, which also has the Point Loma Lighthouse and since it’s up about 400 feet above sea level, has awesome views of downtown San Diego. And the San Diego Maritime Museum has a full-sized, fully-functional replica of the San Salvador, Cabrillo’s flagship.

At the Cabrillo National Monument there’s a larger-than-life-size statue of Juan Cabrillo – or maybe we should say “João Cabrilho”? The statue was donated by the Portuguese government, and there is still an ongoing debate among historians as to whether he was Spanish or Portuguese.

So yes, San Diego still remembers Juan Cabrillo, whichever nationality he was, and so does the state of California since the state has officially designated September 28 as “Cabrillo Day” since 1935.

Me and the family go there several times a year. The wife likes lighthouses. Of note, lighthouse keepers were short back then. I’m 73" and cannot stand straight inside the structure. Don’t forget the tide pools.

edt · 2023-09-28T21:05:17.000Z

IT Monkey Mike:

WiseOldelf:

GuruGabe1:

I came across a very interesting this day in history.

On September 28, 1918, in an incident that would go down in the lore of World War I history—although the details of the event are still unclear—Private Henry Tandey, a British soldier serving near the French village of Marcoing, reportedly encounters a wounded German soldier and declines to shoot him, sparing the life of 29-year-old Lance Corporal Adolf Hitler.

Tandey, a native of Warwickshire, took part in the First Battle of Ypres in October 1914 and the Battle of the Somme in 1916, where he was wounded in the leg. After being discharged from the hospital, he was transferred to the 9th Battalion in France and was wounded again during the Third Battle of Ypres at Passchendaele in the summer of 1917. From July to October 1918, Tandey served with the 5th Duke of Wellington Regiment; it was during this time that he took part in the successful British capture of Marcoing, for which he earned a Victoria Cross for “conspicuous bravery.”

As Tandey later told sources, during the final moments of that battle, as the German troops were in retreat, a wounded German soldier entered Tandey’s line of fire. “I took aim but couldn’t shoot a wounded man,” Tandey remembered, “so I let him go.” The German soldier nodded in thanks and disappeared.

Though sources do not exist to prove the exact whereabouts of Adolf Hitler on that day in 1918, an intriguing link emerged to suggest that he was in fact the soldier Tandey spared. A photograph that appeared in London newspapers of Tandey carrying a wounded soldier at Ypres in 1914 was later portrayed on canvas in a painting by the Italian artist Fortunino Matania glorifying the Allied war effort. As the story goes, when British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain traveled to Germany in 1938 to engage Hitler in a last-ditch effort to avoid another war in Europe, he was taken by the führer to his new country retreat in Bavaria. There, Hitler showed Chamberlain his copy of the Matania painting, commenting, “That’s the man who nearly shot me.”

The authenticity of the Tandey-Hitler encounter remains in dispute, though evidence does suggest that Hitler had a reproduction of the Matania painting as early as 1937—a strange acquisition for a man who had been furious and devastated by the German defeat at Allied hands in the Great War. Twice decorated as a soldier, Hitler was temporarily blinded by a mustard gas attack in Belgium in October 1918 and was in a military hospital in Pacewalk, Germany, when he received news of the German surrender. The experiences of battle—first glory and ultimately disillusion and despondence—would color the rest of Hitler’s life and career, as he admitted in 1941, after leading his country into another devastating conflict: “When I returned from the War, I brought back home with me my experiences at the front; out of them I built my National Socialist community.”

So, that is how close WWII was much different.

Ecrawf099:

UselessInfoMine:

Fourth. Not that it’s much to shout about, but I’ll take the little wins this week.

No judgement here. I celebrated a “5th” earlier this week.

Of gin?

Sorry, Confucius, I suffer from confusionism.

Inspirobot, I work in the education system, and if you cross me, I will hit you with the truth.

I can’t even think of a song because that SotD was just perfect. And haunting.

Cool story. While I personally wouldn’t shoot a wounded soldier either, it obviously (now) would have been better if he did.

I understand your point but, there is no guarantee that killing Hitler during WWI would have prevented WWII.

There are plenty of stories telling how someone was removed to prevent something from happening and someone else stepped up to take their place leaving events relatively unchanged in the grand scheme of things.

Ah yes, the “Great Men” theory of history vs. the “Great Forces” theory of history…

edt · 2023-09-28T21:07:18.000Z

redrumrudy:

EdT:

On September 28, 1542, the Spanish explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo arrives in San Diego Bay while searching for the Strait of Anian, a mythical all-water route across North America

And this is why the city of San Diego has the Cabrillo Freeway, which passes under the Cabrillo Bridge. Further west, at the southern tip of Point Loma – which is where Cabrillo first set foot on land here – is the Cabrillo National Monument, which also has the Point Loma Lighthouse and since it’s up about 400 feet above sea level, has awesome views of downtown San Diego. And the San Diego Maritime Museum has a full-sized, fully-functional replica of the San Salvador, Cabrillo’s flagship.

At the Cabrillo National Monument there’s a larger-than-life-size statue of Juan Cabrillo – or maybe we should say “João Cabrilho”? The statue was donated by the Portuguese government, and there is still an ongoing debate among historians as to whether he was Spanish or Portuguese.

So yes, San Diego still remembers Juan Cabrillo, whichever nationality he was, and so does the state of California since the state has officially designated September 28 as “Cabrillo Day” since 1935.

Me and the family go there several times a year. The wife likes lighthouses. Of note, lighthouse keepers were short back then. I’m 73" and cannot stand straight inside the structure. Don’t forget the tide pools.

I haven’t been to the lighthouse in several years, but I’m planning to take my brother when he visits next month (the old “if you’re a visitor you only go to these places when you have company” thing).