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Jul 05, 2007 5 Replies

they ran the whole revolution series today and it was ok. they got about 90% right which is above average for them. oddly, most of the 10% were errors about washington.


I saw the original of this painting:

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shouldn't break out in laughter in a art gallery. :-D

Pat

not woods funniest, but a good one.

They alway find some guy who looks like he's wearing wooden clothes to play GW. I liked Jeff Daniels' take on him--always the calmest man in the room.

I always liked Gore Vidal's observation that when you are the tallest person in the room, and wearing a full military officer's uniform, people tend to pick you to command things. :-)

Pat

I'm sure GW knew that when he wore one to the Continental Congress. I rather liked Barry Bostwick's Washington and I really liked Sally Fairfax. :)

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

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