A magician is performing nightly on a cruise ship, he loves his job with the exception of the parrot the captain always brings to watch his every show. The magician performs brilliantly, the audience loves him, but the parrot always gives away his tricks. “BRAWK!! the parrot goes, It’s in his hat!” or “BRAWK!! It’s up his sleeve!”.
One day, the magician has had it with the parrot’s shenanigans, so when the bird squawks up during one of his shows, the magician pulls out a gun and attempts to shoot the parrot. He misses, but ends up hitting a gas line, the entire ship explodes into a thousand pieces. In the aftermath, two unconscious survivors are floating on some timbers from the ship, the magician and the parrot.
Eventually they both wake up, look around and see nothing but water. Confused, the parrot says, “All right, you got me on that one, I’m stumped. What’d you do with the ship?”
I used to work as a computer programmer installing auto correct, but one day . . .
. . they fried me for no raisin.
Richard Baldwin Air Force
Deane Gates Air Force
Greg Stahl Air Force
Phil Zehren Air Force and Navy
Terry Fisher Air Force Reserve
Larry Reinmuth USAR
Steve Box Army
John Clayton Army
Ron Vineyard Army
Bob Walter Army
Darrell Collie Navy
Thom Kempf Navy (4 years)
Paul Renes Navy - USS Coral Sea CV-43
aircraft carrier
Bobby Still Navy
Fred "Rick" Whitaker Navy
Debra Wade Navy
Steve Hamlin * Deceased Army
Ricky Lowery * Deceased Marines
Janice Kuerston (Matlock) * Deceased Navy
Steven Shack (Guest) * Deceased Air Force
If we have over-looked someone who should be listed or if you'd like to leave a message to the class, let us know.
To the 1970 Sooner High Class,
I would personally like to express my appreciation, to all the men &
women of our 1970 Sooner High Class, who served their country.
I hope all of you have a great Veteran's Day.
Thank you for your service,
Thom Kempf- United States Navy
Sparty Plaque
UPDATE 10/23/2020 Great News!
It is reported that all known deceased classmates names will appear on the plaque. Now the search is on for all Teachers and Staff. If you know of anyone who should be on the list, please contact the people below.
Hi class of SHS 1970. My name is Pat Bertuzzi Middleton, Class of SHS '73 and I am helping Beth Marable, Class of 71 on the Sooner Memorial Plaque currently at the SHS Buffalos Sparty location. This memorial plaque lists names of deceased classmates and teachers from 1967 to 1982.
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Who says the Sooner Class of 1970 has grown too old to have fun!
Thanks to all who have chosen their own Pirate Name. Quite honestly, I wasn't sure that we'd have any takers, but was pleasantly surprised that we had quite a few join in the diversion from Covid-19, and it's not too late if you're so inclined.
So please welcome our (hopefully) new Pirates:
The Dangerous Margaret Rose
Plunderin' Squidlips O'Malley
Bodacious Rebecca "Bones" Morgan
Spyglass Black Boots Parker
Calamity Katrina Pearl
Arrh Ye Ready for this Saturday, Talk Like a Pirate Day?
Create Ye own Pirate Name Here and Post it to Our Newest Survey
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Talk Like a Pirate Day sails away annually on September 19th.
Argh me hearties! So yer ‘ere to learn the vast secrets of this sacred day that soon be upon us!?
You guessed it, we’re referring to ‘International Talk Like a Pirate Day’. If you’re here to get all the deets about when it is, why it is and what to do for it, then keep on reading!
Origins:
This celebration was started in June 1995 (more than twenty years ago!) A innovative Ol’ Chumbucket and Cap’n Slappy (formally known as John Baur and Mark Summers) sat down and decided to start the holiday as a fun way to dress up as pirates and talk like them too! Click Here for how it started
This day offers an opportunity to not only mess around but to give something back. People can dress up as pirates and raise money for charities, what’s better than that!? And remember, be sure to maintain a standard sword's length apart.
What Do I do?
This part is easy. Make sure you grab yourself an eye patch, bandana, baggy shirt and a little toy parrot or monkey (please do not stuff a real parrot). Make sure you use awful grammar and jump right into that accent. You could even have a pirate-themed party with edible gold coins and balloon sword fights! Don’t forget to get out Treasure Island or Pirates of the Caribbean if you’re not feeling as academic.
All you bilge rats, Aaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrgh! As you are out and about on September 19th, don’t be surprised if people are saying, “Ahoy Matie,” “Avast,” “Aye, Aye Capt’n,” “Land ho!” “Hornpipe,” and many other pirate-like phrases, because it’s International Talk Like a Pirate Day.
While ordering your coffee in the drive-thru, ask if they have change for gold bullion or pieces of eight. Try testing your pirate language out at the library when asking for the location of Moby Dick. The pirate language always fairs well in rough seas. Settle a debate with “I’m right or I’ll walk the plank!”
When the boss gives you a new project, “Aye, aye, Capt’n,” is the correct response. However, beware calling the boss any frothy names. The goal of the day is not to lose your job.
To polish your persona, practice a swagger, limp or squint. Long days at sea give pirates unique qualities.
Anchor’s away! Get your sea legs and a barrel o’ rum. Feel free to join in anytime with your own version of Pirate-ese. Learn more on how to talk like a piratehere, or here. or better yet, see our own" Talk Like a Pirate" Page normally under "Articles and Stories" it's now on the left side menu and features some of the best pirate music to be found.
Use #TalkLikeAPirateDay to share on social media.
Important Public Service Announcement:
Though this is a Pirate "imitation day," please do not rape, steal, pillage, brawl or force your boss to walk the plank. Actual pirates aren’t all that great, so best to go for the parody romanticised version!
No parrots were harmed in the making of this announcement.
A traveling salesman hit a rabbit while driving.
He pulled over and stopped, as did other drivers who witnessed the accident.
The traveling salesman went to his trunk, pulled out a bottle, walked to the rabbit and poured some of the liquid on the rabbit.
The rabbit popped up, shook itself, hopped about 10 feet, turned around and waved. It hopped another 10 feet, turned and waved. It kept doing this until it disappeared from sight.
The other people said, “That's the most amazing thing we've ever seen. What was in that bottle? What did you give the rabbit?”
The salesman answered, “Just some hair restorer with a permanent wave.”
Triple snare shots, rim shot and Cymbal Crash!
Turning carbon dioxide into liquid fuel. Scientists at the Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont Illinois, have discovered a new electrocatalyst that converts carbon dioxide (CO2) and water into ethanol with very high energy efficiency, high selectivity for the desired final product and low cost.
The team’s catalyst consists of atomically dispersed copper on a carbon-powder support. By an electrochemical reaction, this catalyst breaks down CO2 and water molecules and selectively reassembles the broken molecules into ethanol under an external electric field. The electrocatalytic selectivity, or ​“Faradaic efficiency,” of the process is over 90 percent, much higher than any other reported process. What is more, the catalyst operates stably over extended operation at low voltage. Read More
Here are a few for the Grandkids
How does Abraham make his tea?
Hebrews it!
Drum Roll and Cymbal Crash!
Did you hear the rumor about peanut butter?
I'm not going to spread it.
Did you hear about the two silkworms that were in a race?
They ended up in a tie.
If you think your microwave and your TV Spying on you is Bad . . .
Your vacuum cleaner has been gathering dirt on you for years . . .
The man who created auto-correct for cell phones has passed away ...
May he restaurant in piece, no peas, well . . . you know what I meme
This Day in History July 29, 1958
NASA Created
The U.S. Congress passes legislation establishing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), a civilian agency responsible for coordinating America’s activities in space, on July 29, 1958. NASA has since sponsored space expeditions, both human and mechanical, that have yielded vital information about the solar system and universe. It has also launched numerous earth-orbiting satellites that have been instrumental in everything from weather forecasting to navigation to global communications.
NASA was created in response to the Soviet Union’s October 4, 1957 launch of its first satellite, Sputnik I. The 183-pound, basketball-sized satellite orbited the earth in 98 minutes. The Sputnik launch caught Americans by surprise and sparked fears that the Soviets might also be capable of sending missiles with nuclear weapons from Europe to America. The United States prided itself on being at the forefront of technology, and, embarrassed, immediately began developing a response, signaling the start of the U.S.-Soviet space race.
On November 3, 1957, the Soviets launched Sputnik II, which carried a dog named Laika. In December, America attempted to launch a satellite of its own, called Vanguard, but it exploded shortly after takeoff. On January 31, 1958, things went better with Explorer I, the first U.S. satellite to successfully orbit the earth. In July of that year, Congress passed legislation officially establishing NASA from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and other government agencies, and confirming the country’s commitment to winning the space race. In May 1961, President John F. Kennedy declared that America should put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. On July 20, 1969, NASA’s Apollo 11 mission achieved that goal and made history when astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the moon, famously declaring “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
I gave my daughter a watch for her birthday. She thought it was pretty cool, and when she showed it to the next door neighbor, he asked, "That's a pretty watch you've got there! Does it tell you the time?"
She laughed and said, "No, this is an old-fashioned watch!
You have to look at it!"
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It depends upon your outlook on life, is the glass half empty or half full, where some see waste, others see creative genius!
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The Great Escape
I'll lead from behind!
I think I can, I think I can I think I can, I think I can
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Professor Xavier FINALLY gave me the telekinesis helmet - I’M thinking “Come to me!”
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"I feel lucky!" Make my day.
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Oops, I think I had too many carbs
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"True friends are never apart, maybe in distance, but not in heart"
We have a new Song Dedication from Thom Kempf for Ringo Starr on his 80th Birthday!
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Born: June 29th, 1900, Lyon, France Died: July 31st, 1944, over the Mediterranean coast of France
Known For : Originally a commerical pilot that flew from Africa from France, he also did flights in South America. He flew for the French Air Force at the beginning of the Second World War, and evacuated to the United States and Canada on France's capitulation to Nazi Germany. It was in America that he wrote his best known work: The Little Prince. His novels included Night Flight and Wind, Sand and Stars (both of which were written in the Thirties). He joined the Free French air force and took part in reconnaisance missions for the Allies.
Desert Crash:
On 30 December 1935, at 2:45 am, after 19 hours and 44 minutes in the air, Saint-Exupéry, along with his mechanic-navigator André Prévot, crashed in the Libyan desert, during an attempt to break the speed record in a Paris-to-Saigon air race and win a prize of 150,000 francs. The crash site is thought to have been near the Wadi Natrun valley, close to the Nile Delta. Both Saint-Exupéry and Prévot miraculously survived the crash, only to face rapid dehydration in the intense desert heat. Their maps were primitive and ambiguous, leaving them with no idea of their location. Lost among the sand dunes, their sole supplies consisted of some grapes, two oranges, a madeleine, a pint of coffee in a battered thermos and a half pint of white wine in another. They also had with them a small store of medicine: "a hundred grammes of ninety percent alcohol, the same of pure ether, and a small bottle of iodine." The pair had only one day's worth of fluids. They both saw mirages and experienced auditory hallucinations, which were quickly followed by more vivid hallucinations. By the second and third day, they were so dehydrated that they stopped sweating. On the fourth day, a Bedouin on a camel discovered them and administered a native rehydration treatment that saved their lives. The near brush with death would figure prominently in his 1939 memoir, Wind, Sand and Stars, winner of several awards. Saint-Exupéry's classic novella The Little Prince, which begins with a pilot being stranded in the desert, is, in part, a reference to this experience.
Death:
His plane disappeared in southern France and he was never seen again (a German pilot has since claimed the kill).
Quotes:
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
For an interesting story about Saint-Ex see our page
An original song about the effects of Shelter-in-Place self-quarantine on a music teacher.
Only 28 seconds long, and, yes, it is funny. But you must watch it to the ending!
1967 - The Beatles "All You Need Is Love," a song written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon/McCartney was first performed on a live global television link "Our World." "Our World" was the first ever, live, global satellite television production which was broadcast June 25, 1967. It was broadcast to 26 countries and watched by an estimated 350 to 400 million viewers. The project was conceived by BBC producer Aubrey Singer. The BBC had commissioned the Beatles to write a song for the UK's contribution to the program containing a simple message that could be easily understood by all nationalities.
The message The Beatles selected — All You Need Is Love.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: 06/21 - Class Creator continues to chase the gremlins which have plagued all the web sites they host since they migrated to a new data center. You may still see duplicate messages or comments (and associated notify emails), but we continue to clean up any glitches as we find them while they continue to search for the causes.
MArgaret has sent us a "Reaction Time Test."
This compares your reflexes to other people who have taken the test and assigns an "Age" to it.
How fast are your reflexes compared to other people?
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The music group "Chicago" once asked:
Does anybody really know what time it is?
Get the down to the Split Second, Absolutely Accurate Time from the
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Radio Station W.W.V. - Fort Collins, Colorado
If you've ever listened to WWV on a shortwave radio, you may have heard their station identification twice each hour. The text of that identification is as follows:
Broadcasting on Internationally Allocated standard carrier frequencies of two point five, five, ten, fifteen and twenty megahertz, providing time of day, standard time interval, and other related information. Inquiries regarding these transmissions may be directed to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Radio Station WWV, 2000 East County Road 58, Fort Collins, Colorado, 80524.
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World War, and evacuated to the United States and Canada on France's capitulation to Nazi Germany. It was in America that he wrote his best known work: The Little Prince. His novels included Night Flight and Wind, Sand and Stars (both of which were written in the Thirties). He joined the Free French air force and took part in reconnaisance missions for the Allies. 
