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	08/04/09 - NNHS Newsletter - Pretty Fly (for a White Guy) “Real love is more than a physical feeling. If there's even the slightest doubt in your head about a guy, then forget about it. It's not real.” - Ethan Embry (b. 13 June 1978)

Dear Friends and Schoolmates,

   "And now for something completely different"...

BONUS - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7-E1qTVJgE - Pretty Fly (for a White Guy) - The Offspring, 1998

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Fly_(for_a_White_Guy):

"Beginning with a sample of the quasi-German nonsense phrase "Gunter glieben glauchen globen" from Def Leppard's song "Rock of Ages," chanted as a replacement for the traditional "1, 2, 3, 4" to start the recording, the song ridicules a "wannabe gangsta" (or "wangster") who is immersed in hip-hop culture not because he truly loves it, but because it is trendy, makes him feel tough ("friends say he's tryin' too hard, and he's not quite hip/but in his own mind, he's the - he's the dopest trip") and makes it seem that he can get all the girls ("and all the girlies say I'm pretty fly - for a white guy"). The song openly mocks the middle-class suburban youths who listen to rap music for this reason."

40 YEARS AGO TODAY:

Monday, August 04, 1969 - Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, U.S. representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy began secret peace negotiations. They eventually failed as neither side could agree to any terms.

Monday, August 04, 1969 - Musician and singer Max Cavalera (Sepultura and Soulfly) was born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

HEALTH ALERT:

  From My Friend, Judy Cress Bowermaster (Litchfield HS, IL - '58) of IL - 08/03/09, 10:43 PM - "again?":

   YOWZERONI!!! Judy-Judy-Judy! I keep telling you, you gotta take care of yourself, 'cause there's nothing left in your body to break! We're praying for you!

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/requests-prayers.html

THIS WEEK'S BIRTHDAYS:

   Happy Birthday today to The United States Coast Guard - 1790 AND Colleen Luke Barton ('57) of England!

   Happy Birthday tomorrow to Barbara Kemp Bostwick ('57) AND   Frank Friedland ('60) of VA!

   Happy Birthday this week to:

UPDATE ON "THE PROBLEM":

    From John Murden ('60) of VA - 08/03/09 - "Reported Attack Site":

Carol,

I am getting a message that NNHS65 is a "reported attack site".  Is this part of the issues you have been experiencing? Is someone piggy-backing on the site?

Lots of luck!

John
  Yes, John, that is the entire issue!  Some of you are still being blocked from viewing the site out of safety concerns.  Most of y'all are not.  Our server, 00freehost.com also hosts many, many other sites.  Six of them are having malware "issues".  Here's the latest from Google: 

What happened when Google visited this site?

Of the 419 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 86 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2009-08-03, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2009-07-30.

   Surely things will be better soon.....

   Thanks, John!

  From Ruth Ann Reece Horace ('67) of FL - 08/03/09 - "Missed you":

I have really missed the newsletters.  I sure hope the site is up and running soon.  My computer won't access it at all. 

I left Florida on the 30th with my dear friend, Stacy.  She was going to visit her family in Denver and Salt Lake City.  I  jokingly told her I would hide in her plastic crates and jump out in Denver, so I could come visit my daughter in Colorado Springs.  She invited me along, changed her route and dropped me right at Kimmy's door.  And wouldn't let me pay for any travel expenses.  She said she owes it to me (not), and besides I'm a better navigator than her Labbie dog.  I'll be here until the 19th when I fly home to Florida.  It is beautiful here and seeing Kimmy (my baby) after so many months is great.  Her husband, Chris, is in Afghanistan and she needed the boost.

Hope they get things fixed soon.

Thanks for all you do.

Love ya,
Ruthie

   Oh, Ruthie, how wonderful for you! That's just fabulous!

   Thanks, Lady, I hope things clear up soon with the cyber censors soon, too! Present conditions are making me even nutsier than usual!

    From Glenn Dye ('60) of TX - 08/03/09 - " AREVA Inc. FLASH 110: Newport News Groundbreaking; Live Webcast - 07/22/09":

www.us.Areva-NP.com/CRR

AREVA North America colleagues,

AREVA CEO Anne Lauvergeon, along with Virginia Governor Tim Kaine, Newport News Mayor Joe Frank, and Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding President Mike Petters, will host a groundbreaking ceremony today at 6:00 p.m. EST, kicking off construction of the AREVA Newport News facility where heavy components for AREVA’s EPR™ reactor will be manufactured.  Please see attached FLASH for more information.

Note that the groundbreaking event will be webcast live from the Newport News site, beginning at 6:00 p.m. EST.  To view, go to the Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding Web site at <http://www.sb.northropgrumman.com/index.html> and select “Live Webcast” next to the AREVA logo.

   WOWZERONI!!! Thanks, Glenn!

  From Ronni Green Cristol ('64) of MD - 08/02/09 - "Jimmy Krikales":

Hi Carol,

I was recently in Newport News visiting my mother and we drove up to the River Room seafood restaurant in Yorktown where Jimmy Krikales is cooking like he did at Nick's for years. The dinner was wonderful and he was very interested when I told  him he had been mentioned in one of your newsletters.  I promised to send him the edition but can't remember the date you printed the info.  Is there some way you can help me out with this?  I want to say it was some time in May or June but can't seem to locate it.

Hope all is well with you and thanks again for your wonderful site always full of great news.

Ronni Green Cristol

   Oh, WOW - how COOL! Thanks, Ronni!

   Like you, I would have thought it was back in May, but actually it began with the 4th of July edition (most appropriate, wouldn't you say??), and for several more Newsletters as well.  The entire thread is posted on the Nick's page, but the conversation was featured on five Newsletters:

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/nicks-seafood.html 

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/07-04-09-NNHS-Happy-Independence-Day.html

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/07-05-09-NNHS-Rhapsody-in-Blue.html

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/07-07-09-NNHS-Gustav-Mahlers-149th-Birthday.html 

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/07-09-09-NNHS-White-Cliffs-of-Dover.html

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/07-10-09-NNHS-Blue.html

   Please give Jimmy our regards and thanks for all the great memories of good food, and give your mama our love.

  From Ruth Ann Reece Horace ('67) of FL - 08/03/09 - "Mustard":

Mustard


I Love Mustard. (This is a true story. If you have children you will probably relate to this father).
 
As ham sandwiches go, it was perfection: a thick slab of ham on a fresh bun with crisp lettuce and plenty of expensive, light brown, Gourmet Mustard.
 
The corners of my jaw aching in anticipation, I carried it to the table in our backyard, picked it up with both hands, but was stopped by my wife suddenly at my side.
 
Here, hold Johnny (our six-week-old son) while I get my sandwich,' she said.
 
I had him balanced between my left elbow and shoulder and was reaching again for the ham sandwich when I noticed a streak of mustard on my fingers.
 
I love mustard.
 
I had no napkin.
 
I licked it off.
 
It was not mustard.
 
No man ever put a baby down faster.
 
It was the first and only time I have sprinted with my tongue protruding out.

With a washcloth in each hand, I did the sort of routine shoeshine boys do, only I did it on my tongue.
 
Later, after she stopped crying from laughing so hard, my wife said, "Now you know why they call that fancy mustard Poupon.''

   EEWWW! Thanks, Ruthie!

2. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, September 18, 19, and 20, 2009 - The Warwick High School Class of 1959 will hold its 50-Year Reunion at the Marriott Newport News at City Center, Newport News, VA. For details, contact WHSREUNION1959@aol.com - WHS CLASS OF 1959
  
3. Friday and Saturday, October 9 and 10, 2009 - The Class of 1964 will hold its 45-Year Reunion - For details, see: http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/reunion2009-64.html - CLASS OF 1964

4. Friday and Saturday, August 6 and 7, 2010 - The NNHS Class of 1970 will hold its 40-Year Reunion. Friday night they will all meet at RJ's; Saturday night will be at the Kiln Creek Golf & Country Club. For details, contact Carol Comer Cutler at ca23comerww@aol.com. - CLASS OF 1970

  Y'all take good care of each other!  TYPHOONS FOREVER!  We'll Always Have Buckroe!