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May 18 43 America - A Horse With No Name 42 David Bowie - Life on Mars? 42 Hawkwind - Silver Machine 39 Mott the Hoople - All The Young Dudes +4 36 Suzi Quatro - 48 Crash 34 Carly Simon - You’re So Vain 28 T. Rex - 20th Century Boy 28 The Shangri-Las - Leader of the Pack 27 David Bowie - Drive-In Saturday 18 Python Lee Jackson - In a Broken Dream 15 The Drifters - At The Club/Saturday Night At The Movies -6 13 Medicine Head - One and One is One 07 Limmie and the Family Cookin’ - You Can Do Magic

Hank Kudzik, who left high school in Bethlehem to join the Navy and served on a submarine that attacked Japanese warships in the epic Battle of Midway, died Saturday at a hospital in La Mesa, Calif. He was 99. His daughter, Wanda Frecks, said his heart had been failing. In 2022, he moved from Allen Township to the San Diego area to be with her. “America has lost a national treasure, one of the few left,” said Frecks, herself a Navy veteran. “He loved his country and served it well. He will be missed.” A gunners mate on the USS Nautilus, Kudzik went on eight patrols that included stalking the enemy in the pivotal clash at Midway, carrying Marines to Japanese-held Makin Island for a raid made famous in the 1943 film “Gung Ho!” and rescuing American nuns trapped on Bougainville Island. After that, he had six more patrols as chief gunner on the sub Gar. Last year, he was one of three Midway veterans who received standing ovations at a dinner marking the Pacific battle’s 81st anniversary, held on board the USS Midway Museum in San Diego. “I was frightened,” he said of his state of mind in 1942. “I wanted combat. I wanted to see what I could do.” In 2019, Kudzik got red-carpet treatment at the gala Hollywood premiere of the film “Midway,” which he gave a thumbs-up. Ten years earlier, he was the only Nautilus crew member present for the San Diego commissioning of the amphibious assault ship Makin Island. Show Caption of Expand Kudzik proudly wore his old uniform and could talk about his combat experiences for hours. He was a familiar face at the Lehigh Valley Veterans History Project Roundtable, the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum’s World War II Weekend near Reading and the Allentown Band’s annual tribute to veterans at Miller Symphony Hall. A son of Polish immigrants, Kudzik quit Liberty High School after Pearl Harbor. His first assignment on Oahu was helping to remove sailors’ bodies from the capsized battleship Oklahoma. He volunteered for submarine duty and got a berth on the Nautilus. He was just 17 when the big boat went after the Japanese at Midway. Early June 4, 1942, the first of four days of fighting, the Nautilus was strafed by an enemy plane and fired torpedoes at a battleship and destroyer. Hours later, the Nautilus attacked an aircraft carrier. A destroyer tracked the sub and dropped depth charges, causing underwater explosions louder than anything Kudzik had ever heard. He was in the control room, operating the trim manifold, which moves water from one tank to another to keep the boat level. An officer asked how much water was moved, but the boy was too rattled to speak. The captain saw Kudzik’s distress, put his arm around him and said, “You’re doing a good job.” When another charge went off close by, he patted Kudzik on the back and said, “Hang in there. We’re not going to sink.” The Nautilus fired three torpedoes at the carrier, but the first two missed and the third was a dud. Still, the Navy credited the sub with assisting dive-bombers from the carriers Enterprise and Yorktown in sinking three Japanese carriers. At home in Bethlehem after the war, Kudzik finished high school and married Jacqueline Boemio, a seamstress who made military uniforms during the war. They had two daughters, Wanda, a travel agent who was a Navy cryptologic technician, and Renae Behrens, a nurse. Jacqueline died in 2016. Renae died the next year. Kudzik was a Navy reservist for a dozen years and left the service as a chief petty officer. He worked for cement-industry supplier Fuller Co. as a draftsman and sales engineer, and retired in 1985. In 2012, he received an Audie Murphy Award, named after one of the most decorated American soldiers of World War II, from the American Veterans Center. The next year, he was honored at the Battle of Midway Commemoration in Washington. Frecks said a celebration of life will be held in the Lehigh Valley at a time and place to be announced. Her father will be interred in Bethlehem Memorial Park alongside Jacqueline. David Venditta is a freelance writer. Not only region barred but also behind a bloody paywall. I'm a sneaky bastard though on occasion.

This thread went to shit so long ago it hardly matters. Admins could just lock it until something actually noteworthy happened to him if they cared to. At least Kangaroo cocks are more interesting than mangoes - though ymmv.

Sort of - It would seem. You muck about for a couple of seconds and it's amazing the rabbit holes you find yourself burrowing down. And no, lets not start on rabbit porn, they do just fine without it apparently.

Oh, that explains the Kangaroo porn then. I thought there were a lot more, er, followers of it than mere chance would suggest.

Could well be so. But as far as I'm aware she's never confirmed it. Let's be honest, she's probably got a point with quite a lot of them, named or not.

Ok, pedant by proxy. It's a fine line. (oi fackoff tqr, as you well know, it's not like I'm any different).

Pedant.

14/5/2024 28 Hawkwind- Silver Machine 28 David Bowie- Life on Mars? +2 25 Suzi Quatro- 48 Crash 24 The Shangri-Las- Leader of the Pack 24 Mott the Hoople- All The Young Dudes +2 22 The Drifters — At The Club/Saturday Night At The Movies -2 22 Carly Simon- You’re So Vain 22 America- A Horse With No Name 22 T. Rex- 20th Century Boy 21 David Bowie- Drive-In Saturday 21 Python Lee Jackson- In a Broken Dream 20 Lindisfarne- Lady Eleanor 20 Medicine Head- One and One is One 20 Mungo Jerry- Alright, Alright, Alright 20 Limmie and the Family Cookin’- You Can Do Magic 20 David Bowie- Sorrow 20 Bobby “Boris” Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers- Monster Mash 19 Peter Skellern- You’re a Lady 19 David Cassidy- I Am a Clown/Some Kind of a Summer 19 Gilbert O’Sullivan- Alone Again (Naturally) 18 The Chi-Lites- Have You Seen Her -2 18 Perry Como- And I Love You So -2 14 David Essex- Rock On 12 Faron Young- It’s Four in the Morning 08 Michael Jackson- Rockin’ Robin Off the top of my head (and more for the youngsters as fellow oldies will doubtless already know...) Python Lee Jackson was actually an Australian band not a pseudonym for Rod Stewart. But since nobody can recall a single other thing they ever did, it's only ever remembered as being him even though he was technically a guest vocalist. You're so vain was purportedly written about Carly Simons ex Warren Beatty and whilst she has confirmed that parts of it are - she also stated it wasn't just him it actually was written about 3 different men and the other 2 remain unconfirmed. Stand for correction on that if my memory is a cheap cassette tape. In view of my previous ramblings - Life on Mars? was actually my first single. Not perfect maybe, but a fcks sight better than Puppy Love. Says me anyway.

My sisters first single. Puppy Love. I'd convinced our mother I needed a typewriter for some reason (still can't remember why)....almost my very first test of it was to use the red ribbon to type 'this is shit' on the white paper cover of that single. No, I'm not proud of my actions. (well ok, sort of, but - y'know) On the flip side, my sister later became a PF, Genesis, Peter Gabriel fan and says she didn't know what she was thinking.....

Because It's all he's got - grasping at extremely flimsy straws. In exactly the same way Rishi is trying the last resort boogieman of 'security'. Wankers.

Buoyed by others abiliity last night (heh, nice PB) and your optimism, I headed for the derby dales which according to this site are the least light polluted within a shout of me. Sadly all I saw was dimwit farmers silo's and barns lit up like xmas trees or various high beams of other clowns out looking for a place to park and gaze. High stratus clouds probably didn't help. Still, I gave the car a blast. Which was fun. Scotland 1 - East Midlands 0. Oh, and I missed the entire Euro song thing. Another plus - from my point of view anyway, even if not that of a lot hereabouts.

So they say. . And anyway, they're going to make burgers out of the leftovers of everything else because 'why wouldn't they?' they're in it for the money not the food quality. Even if technically it's not offal. I'm boring myself now. And fkin miles off topic.

This is what sells me these days and Slow Horses is just the ticket. I'm old, and the trope about there 'only being about 6 stories in total, everything new is just a variation' hits home too often with most things. Convoluted plot twists, end of episode cliff-hangers and the like just turn me off really, I find myself dis-assembling the style and the daft plots too much to really enjoy them at that level.

I even stopped buying burgers to cook, Tesco's rather than Sainsbury's but same thing. Burgers were 6 -8 quid a kilo, those minute steaks (thin things) are 9-10 quid a kilo and aren't 'eyeballs and arseholes'. In honesty I've tried to cut down on red meat altogether. To be fair, I'll still get McD on occasion if I'm in a rush or just cba. Now that everyone's comfortably asleep, 'here's Steve with the weather'.

And not a few here is a distinct possibility if history is anything to go by.

No idea at all why I should have felt reminded about this.... Yeah, ok - I do really.

Have you unblocked him again? Don't get me wrong, I've tried but it doesn't really work. You see replies and if unquoted you wonder what prompted them, and if quoted there was no point to the block in the first place. And Crem, he's absolutely spot on - pouring out pointless shite to tens or hundreds of people to counter your 'personal' mood swings is unutterably selfish, can you not see that?

Depending on the sort of thing that floats ones boat so to speak, I thought this was one of the best things to be produced in years. Oldman's laconic style is wonderous.

Nobody here is hoping for any such thing. But I'm damn sure it continues for us, give it a fucking rest will you? (and no boss, @Paul Bearer, I'm not deliberately winding him up here)

I thought it was a type of cheese.

I've wondered about her, she was a no-nonsense, concise and thoughtful poster who's content I've missed. That's not terribly old though, probably just wandered off as some do.

I know, well, I've seen it before of course, it's almost a bloody trope, I just didn't look back up this thread if it's there. If it's not it's valid isn't it? Even as a repetition of said trope. Anyway, he's not the only one of course, applies to teams even. IME it would seem that mostly it's the Scots and Welsh who 'start' this. And the English respond in kind a bit? Mystified me when I was younger. For some reason this doesn't seem to be the case with NI so much, (despite, or probably even because of 'the troubles'). It always seems to be reasonably good natured with the Scots that I've ever noticed, but I know of cases, apocryphal is a possibility, of it being genuinely felt and said by the Welsh. For the record, I love everybody (and twice on a Sunday)

It's variable depending on results. When Andy Murray wins, he's British. When he loses, he's a Scot.