JcMack
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Today is National donut day. Free donut (singular) at a lot of chains. Have one on me.
Attention Mr. and Mrs. America and all the ships at sea
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Steve in Vermont
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While we're here, some trivia. Who said "Attention Mr. & Mrs. America......." and do you remember hearing it live? Careful, if you're sensitive about your age this could be revealing.
palmetto99
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Mmmmmm, donuts.
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JcMack
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YES!! I do, and I also bought Mathew Brady his first donut.
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Walter Winchell on radio in the1940s.
I stopped for a "Free Donut" but there was a big crowd of LEOs ahead of me.
I stopped for a "Free Donut" but there was a big crowd of LEOs ahead of me.
Damn Yankee
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I remember listening to Walter on a Zenith Radio during the war.
Lose lips sink ships.
Buy US War Bonds.
Lose lips sink ships.
Buy US War Bonds.
photoman
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I remember the Winchell's donut shop when I was a kid...
sipowicz
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And all you New Yorkers should get down on your knees and thank his Highness Mr. Bloomberg for not taking them away!
wheelgun28
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Shhhh, dont givem any ideas.
Soon they will only be allowed to sell donuts at 1.6 oz or less
feralmerril
Absent Comrade
When I was a kid going to trade school breakfast was a dozzen spudnuts and dinner was a sack of Mc donalds for a buck! Thats when I started to look like a suma wrestler!
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JcMack
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I went to Dunkin Donuts and got my free donut. They give a 10% senior discount at Dunkin, so Mr. Donut guy gave me .$08 back.
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Southern Maid are my kind of donuts. But, around here, if the Asian-Americans don't celebrate NDD, I'm out of luck.
Bob R
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I tried to go get my free donut, but, there was no parking available. 
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Fishslayer
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Donuts are OK as long as you're not washing 'em down with a 17 oz Coke. Obesity is a problem, don'tcha know...
How does somebody so incredibly stupid amass such a fortune?
Couldn't remember who said it but Walter Winchell sounds right. As I remember hearing it, it's: "Mr and Mrs NORTH America and all the ships at sea".
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JcMack
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Donuts are OK as long as you're not washing 'em down with a 17 oz Coke. Obesity is a problem, don'tcha know...
How does somebody so incredibly stupid amass such a fortune?
He probably owns a factory that sells 16 oz cups.
olcop
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Winchell
I found out many years later that he didn't even know Morse code, it was all for show.
olcop
I recall it as "Good Evening Mr. and Mrs. North and South America and all the ships at sea" Followed by the sound of a telegraph key,
I found out many years later that he didn't even know Morse code, it was all for show.
olcop
