• Post Type: Backblast
  • When: 05/27/2023
  • AO: Gashouse
  • QIC: Linus
  • FNG's:
  • PAX: Roscoe, EZ Rider, Whoopee, Clavin, JJ, Stroganoff

Disclaimer
Pledge
Nutria’s got Painlab
Warm-up:
SSH – 1 in cadence

To the church:
The Thang:
Memorial Day trivia and exercise and fun
Behind church-Trivia and Run circle after each
SSH- 25 IC
Squats-25
Merkins-20
LBC-25
Calf raise-30

 Shotgun Street Sprints – Solo

Round 2 with trivia
Dips-2
Big Boy -10
5 burpees
20 Heels to heaven
15 CDD

Street Sprints-Partner

Partner1/Partner2
1-Lunge walk/2-Run a distance and collect your partner…..then rinse and repeat using…..
Bearcrawl
Inchworm
Bunny Hop

Triple Nickel-
5 Merkins
Bear Crawl
5 CDD
Modified to pacify Linus

Very Slight Small Round of Mary-IC
Flutters
LBC
American Hammers
I vaguely do not recall that the cadence went something like this……….
123-1
123-2
123-3
Ger-man-y-4
Por-no-graphy-5
good-for-you-6
good-for-me-7
can’t-un-see-8
Cure-ED-9
get-VD-10
vase-a-line-11
your-the-show-12
room-219-13
123-14
123-15
123-16
‘123-Halt’

so, imagine for a moment (or just do it, but only with you and a mirror) taking your left hand at a slanting stroke and thrust it towards the outside of your hip.  Repeat the same with your right hand for practice and then take both of those puppies and perform simultaneously, karate chops to the outside of your haunches all while maintaining an ‘that’s right’ persona and go ahead and add that geriatric pelvic thrust.  Say ‘hmmph’ as you do so.  Careful, you don’t want to throw out your back.  That my friends is a remedy for Sandy V, possibly ED, and a host of other ailments and is called ‘Getting the Biotch out of Whoopee’s Britches’.  One would normally say do not try this at home, but arguably this is probably the only place you should try this.  And alone, leave your M out of this one.  Clothes on is optional.  Keep your clothes on.  Say it loud, HEY BIOTCH!

Announcements:
Murph Monday Morning, 7:00 am, Martha’s
Memorial Day recognition ceremony Monday morning 10:00 am, Gaston Memorial Park (cemetery on New Hope Rd.), Gaston Symphony Band playing

Prayers:
Hunchback
Vacations
Brownstreak

Happy Memorial Day Weekend to all.  Trivia for your reading pleasure attached here.  Unverified facts mind you.

Question: What city is known as the birthplace of Memorial Day?
Answer: Waterloo, New York

Question: Memorial Day was originally known as what?
Answer: Decoration Day

Question: Memorial Day was first recognized on what date?
Answer: May 30, 1868

Question: When was Memorial Day named as such by the federal government?
Answer: 1971

Question: What act moved Memorial Day from May 30 to the last Monday in May each year?
Answer: The Uniform Monday Holiday Act

Question: When did Memorial Day move from May 30 to the last Monday in May?
Answer: 1971

Question: Who spoke at the first Memorial Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery?
Answer: Ohio Congressman James A. Garfield

Question: When was the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery established?
Answer: Nov. 11, 1921

Question: What poem inspired the tradition of wearing and planting poppy blossoms for Memorial Day?
Answer: “In Flanders Fields” by John McCrae, M.D.

Question: “In Flanders Fields” was inspired by a battle in which war?
Answer: World War I (Bonus points if you also named the battle: the Second Battle of Ypres)

Question: The National Moment of Remembrance takes place at what time each Memorial Day?
Answer: 3 p.m. local time

Question: Which president signed the National Moment of Remembrance Act?
Answer: President Bill Clinton

Question: Memorial Day initially only honored the fallen from which war?
Answer: The American Civil War

Question: Who is credited with creating Memorial Day?
Answer: General John A. Logan

Question: How should American flags mark Memorial Day?
Answer: At half-staff from sunrise until noon, then at full staff until sundown

Question: When was “Taps” written?
Answer: 1862 (Bonus points if you also said who wrote it: General Daniel Butterfield). 

Question: Memorial Day is held in May for what reason?
Answer: So flowers will be in bloom to decorate soldiers’ graves

Question: How many participants decorated graves for the first Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery?
Answer: 5,000

Question: How many fallen soldiers were honored at the first Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery?
Answer: 20,000

Question: Which historical monument was dedicated on Memorial Day in 1922?
Answer: The Lincoln Memorial

Question: How many total Americans died in the Civil War?
Answer: About 620,000

Question: About how many people visit Arlington National Cemetery each year?
Answer: More than three million

Question: When there was a shortage of natural poppies in 1924, which city was the first to manufacture artificial poppies?
Answer: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Question: The annual biker rally in Washington, D.C. each Memorial Day is called what?
Answer: The Rolling Thunder Run

Question: The Rolling Thunder Run is aimed at raising awareness of what?
Answer: The POW-MIA (prisoners of war and soldiers missing in action) issue