In This Season Of Football, ... Who Has Heard of the Mosquito Bowl ? (Page 1/2)
cliffw NOV 27, 10:58 AM
I would rather you not Google the past WW II event. If no one has heard of it, after a couple of days, then do it.

I will come back and speak about the game.
maryjane NOV 27, 11:46 AM
I know about that game but will let you revisit the subject later.
Max The Chainsaw NOV 27, 11:35 PM

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Originally posted by cliffw:

I would rather you not Google the past WW II event. If no one has heard of it, after a couple of days, then do it.

I will come back and speak about the game.



Well, he greenies do want us eating bugs. sounds like a new menu item.
maryjane NOV 29, 10:27 AM
I'm sure you were in jest, but eating them is definitely NOT a good idea. disease transmission, especially between species. animal to human.
They inject a bit of their saliva as soon as they pierce the skin and that saliva has anti coagulant properties as well as making our blood at the bite site thinner to make it easier for them to drink.
Mosquitoes transmit bad things like malaria, West Nile, meningitis, several different encephalitis, chikungunya fever, dengue fever, yellow fever, and Rift Valley fever.
The moosquitoes get all of these from other people and/or from animal hosts.
Max The Chainsaw NOV 29, 01:40 PM

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Originally posted by maryjane:

I'm sure you were in jest,



You are correct, all in jest. But it is getting strange how absurd their thinking has gone in their quest to "Save the planet"
cliffw NOV 30, 04:30 PM

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Originally posted by maryjane:
I know about that game but will let you revisit the subject later.



I somehow did want to direct the subject to you. Mission accomplished, .

The Mosquito Bowl happened in WW 11. We sent a bunch of our young (brave) young men on a ... an unthinkable mission. To save the world.

Any who, we had a bunch of Marines over in the south Pacific. Somehow, between battles, they got bored, and like any of us, argued. Who was better.

Well, they said Marines don't argue, we fight. So they took it to the football field. Which they had to build, along with goal posts, and fought it out. They had programs printed, it was broadcast on Armed American Radio for all our service men.

I can't think of much more. I just heard about it. There is a book about it by the name of Mosquito Bowl (I think).

Oh yeah, many already were football standouts in school or college. After the war, I think 34 were signed by the NFL.

After their game, they went to Okinawa, to fight it out.

maryjane, I hope I did justice to the topic.
cliffw JAN 30, 02:24 PM
All right, another question.

Who has heard of Guns and Hoses ? The name is a play off of the rock band Guns and Roses.

If you google it, don't answer till later, let me do it.
maryjane FEB 01, 09:13 AM
Sounds interesting but no, never heard of it.
cliffw FEB 01, 10:25 AM
I happend to come across a tit bit about the Guns and Hoses bowl. Football was the sport.

The Guns are police departments, the Hoses are fire departments.

It turns out they do many sports, raising money for the communities or charities.
rinselberg FEB 01, 12:50 PM

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Originally posted by cliffw:
I happend to come across a tit bit about the Guns and Hoses bowl. Football was the sport.


I thought that could be one of those proverbial "Freudian slips", but behold; according to Google:

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In American and Canadian English, tidbit is the preferred spelling of the noun referring to (1) a choice morsel or (2) a pleasing bit of something. Titbit is preferred everywhere else.


I think this insertion of a space, which separates "titbit" into "tit" and "bit", is regarded as idiosyncratic and certainly frowned upon in academic publishing houses and the like.

A day hardly begun, and I've already learned something.

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