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Post by scrappintoee on Dec 25, 2023 0:54:28 GMT
Sweet surprise today! This is part of a never-worn shirt I bought at Kohl's years ago. Kinda hidden in my closet, still had tags on it. I like to think Meaty and Sophie are happy to see me have such joy from them instead of being sad.
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Post by scrapmaven on Dec 25, 2023 2:40:36 GMT
Hey, you went out to dinner and you're doing a puzzle scrappintoee. That's reason to celebrate and not feel depressed. That's a huge step fwd. Be proud of yourselfa and just enjoy the moment. karenlou and KelleeM, I'm sorry to hear that your Christmas celebration was dampened by illness. KelleeM I hope that you feel fine, very fast. Get some great sleep tonight karenlou. I don't know where Santa is at the moment. I could go to Norad.com, but I do hope that he leaves lots of happiness and good stuff for 2024 for each and every one of you.
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quiltz
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Post by quiltz on Dec 25, 2023 3:12:52 GMT
scrapmavenHow a child's accidental call to a top-secret phone line launched NORAD's Santa Tracker This Christmas marks northern defence command's 68th year tracking Santa's sleigh. It began nearly 70 years ago when a five-year-old called a top-secret emergency line reserved for the U.S. president and four-star generals and asked, "Hello, is this Santa?" It was December 1955 — the height of the Cold War. The phone that rang was big and red, only to be used during an international emergency. That wrong number — and many others that followed because of a simple typo in a newspaper ad — ended up launching a mission like none other for the North American Aerospace Defense Command, NORAD: to develop a tracking system allowing families to follow Santa's journey around the world. Since then, the Santa Tracker has become a source of joy for millions of children. "This is a top secret line," explained Erin Gregory, curator of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum. "So when it rings, that [normally] means bad news." Amid the tense atmosphere of the Cold War, a call to the NORAD hotline could have meant an incoming attack. So when the phone rang that day in 1955, all eyes at the command centre turned to Col. Harry Shoup, the operations commander at the Continental Air Defence Command in Colorado, said Gregory. At first, Shoup thought it was a joke and confronted the child, who burst into tears. Shoup quickly switched gears and bellowed "Ho, Ho, Ho!" taking on the role of jolly old Saint Nick. As the story goes, Shoup later found out that Sears Roebuck & Co. had placed an advertisement in a Colorado Springs newspaper telling kids to call a phone number so they could talk to Santa. But there was a typo, and the kids who called the number reached NORAD's top-secret hotline instead. As a joke, one of Shoup's staff put an image of a reindeer and sleigh on the board they used to track airborne objects, explained Gregory. That was the beginning of the tradition we know of today. "So that's how it began — a typo and a joke," Gregory said.
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Post by scrapmaven on Dec 25, 2023 3:17:14 GMT
That's so cool, quiltz. Thank you for sharing that story. I just read it to my family and we all think it's a very cool story.
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