Fiorello LaGuardia Appreciation Thread.

madinmaryland

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Thu Nov-19-09 02:57 PM
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Fiorello LaGuardia Appreciation Thread.

Edited on Thu Nov-19-09 03:15 PM by madinmaryland

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JustABozoOnThisBus

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Thu Nov-19-09 03:05 PM
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1. .... and out march the spelling nazis.

:rofl:

But, hey, how many people get airports named for them?

:hi:

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madinmaryland

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Thu Nov-19-09 03:15 PM
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5. D'oh!

Thanks!

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rcrush

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Thu Nov-19-09 03:09 PM
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2. Is he the fat guy?

Edited on Thu Nov-19-09 03:09 PM by rcrush

Or the bald guy?

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madinmaryland

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Thu Nov-19-09 03:15 PM
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3. If you don't know who the bald guy is, you don't belong on DU!!

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rcrush

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Thu Nov-19-09 03:15 PM
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4. George Clooney?

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madinmaryland

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Thu Nov-19-09 03:16 PM
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6. Are you Series? You don't know who the guy in the car is??

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Chan790

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Thu Nov-19-09 03:20 PM
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8. LaGuardia is the fat guy...

Edited on Thu Nov-19-09 03:24 PM by Chan790

something that no longer exists: a liberal Republican. A strong proponent of the New Deal and friend of FDR, he was commonly known in his time as The Conscience of the Twenties.

You can learn all about him: (He's one of the few people who I think has a fairly-great Wikipedia page in terms of a brief overview.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiorello_H._La_Guardia

Edit: He along with Theodore Roosevelt is one of my heroes. Angry conviction-filled politicians who did the right thing consistently over pragmatic objections from both the opposition and within their own parties.

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madinmaryland

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Thu Nov-19-09 03:33 PM
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9. ..

The other guy is Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

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Chan790

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Thu Nov-19-09 03:37 PM
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10. I know that.

:eyes:

I figured if I gave him the hard one he'd figure out the easy one himself...since I stopped just short of telling him by pointing out that they were good friends.

Still...I'm concerned that if I went and stood in front of the Library of Congress and polled random DC residents that most also could not ID FDR.

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NJmaverick

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Thu Nov-19-09 03:18 PM
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7. His airport's runways are too short

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