God Street!

[Midkiff]

<p><font size="2">I was cruising around San Antonio today, in this one month of nice weather per year that we have, when I came across the darndest thing - God Street!</font></p><p>&nbsp;<img src="http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m48/jdmidkiff/P3200001.jpg" border="0" width="800" height="600" /></p><p><font size="2"><font face="book antiqua,palatino" size="3">Bennington Street! Heaven!</font>&nbsp;</font></p><p><font size="2">I think I will sell my home and all my possessions and go buy a house on this street. Fuck the afterlife. I'm going to live in heaven right NOW!</font></p><p><font size="2">If that doesn't work out, maybe I'll just steal the sign and send it to Ron.</font></p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by jdmidkiff on 3-20-07 @ 9:53 PM</span>

[Midkiff]

<font size="3">Nothing?</font>

[landarch]

<p>Does that intersect (on the right-hand side, perhaps) with Whatley Avenue?&nbsp; I picture pearled gates at the residence on this corner lot, and a red-headed pasty faced St. Dave controlling admission.&nbsp; There's a long line at the gate because St, Douglas is having a hard time updating the public file.</p><p>Mass is daily from 12-3 with rosary nightly from 6-9.</p>

[Midkiff]

<strong>luvafroshows</strong> wrote:<br /><p>Does that intersect (on the right-hand side, perhaps) with Whatley Avenue?&nbsp; I picture pearled gates at the residence on this corner lot, and a red-headed pasty faced St. Dave controlling admission.&nbsp; There's a long line at the gate because St, Douglas is having a hard time updating the public file.</p><p>Mass is daily from 12-3 with rosary nightly from 6-9.</p><p>Well, it may not look like that right now, but it sure will by the time I get through with it. I'll friggin get street names changed and everything! I'll buy the corner house and build those gates, baby!</p><p>Thanks for reminding me of the Holy Mass. I will surely attend.</p>

[ralphbxny]

very cool!

[Bob Impact]

When we're looking for a new place, if one of them is on Bennington Street I will absolutely move in that very second.

[drjoek]

<p><img src="http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w307/drjoek/whately1.jpg" border="0" width="320" height="240" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Lets not forget about Fezzie.&nbsp;</p><p>Real sign and actual town in Massachusetts</p>

[A.J.]

<p>In Crystal City, VA:</p><h2>The Bennington</h2><p>1201 S. Eads St.&nbsp;<br /><br /><strong>Date Built:</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;1980</p><p><strong>Retail:</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; 4,656 sq.ft.</p><p><strong>Residential:</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;348 units</p><p><strong>Parking:</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;350 spaces</p><p><img src="http://www.arlingtonvirginiausa.com/images/aed/building_images/img_35001019.jpg" border="0" width="288" height="216" /></p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by A.J. on 3-21-07 @ 11:08 AM</span>

[Judge Smails]

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[angelinad128]

Cool!

[Dougie Brootal]

<strong>jdmidkiff</strong> wrote:<br /><font size="3">Nothing?</font> <p>if i had seen it before now, id say...KICK ASS!!!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>so without further adieu......</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>KICK ASS!!!</p>

[Midkiff]

<strong>Judge Smails</strong> wrote:<br /><img src="http://www.american-legion-post.us/300/Graphics/Ships/CV20.gif" border="0" width="378" height="379" /> <p><font size="3">Ha ha! I'm gonna buy that and put it on a shirt!</font></p>

[Judge Smails]

<p>I was looking at info. on the aircraft carrier USS Benninington.&nbsp; It served from 1944-1994.&nbsp; It's planes participated in the attack that sank the Japanese Battleship Yamato.&nbsp; It was used to recover the returning lunar command modules during the Apollo program.&nbsp; It was named after the town in Vermont and the site of the Revolutionary War Battle of Bennington.</p><p>The Battle of Bennington:</p><p><strong>In the spring of 1777 a British Army under General John Burgoyne started down the Hudson River from Canada. As Burgoyne marched south, patriot militia began to gather in Vermont and New Hampshire. John Stark, a veteran soldier, was given command of the 1500-man New Hampshire Brigade. Hearing that Burgoyne was planning a raid into Vermont, Stark marched his men to Bennington. There they were joined by militia regiments from Vermont and western Massachusetts. <br /><br />On August 11, Burgoyne sent out a mixed force of some 800 Canadians, Loyalists, Indians, British, and Hessian (German) mercenaries on a foraging expedition. This mostly-German force was harassed by small bands of militia, and its Hessian commander sent for reinforcements; he stopped to await them a few miles from Bennington. With the enemy force position on and around a large hill, General Stark decided to use his 2,000 militiamen to surround them. &quot;Yonder are the Redcoats,&quot; Stark is supposed to have said. &quot;We will defeat them or Molly Stark will sleep a widow tonight.&quot; <br /><br /><font style="background-color: #ffff99">Small bands of militiamen, pretending to be loyal Tories, worked their way behind enemy positions. When firing began, these men turned on the Hessians and Tories around them.</font> Those not killed fled into the woods, pursued by the militiamen. Other Americans surged up the hill to the Hessian breastworks, and for two hours the battle raged. Hessian commander was mortally wounded when, ammunition exhausted, he and his Dragoons attempted to hack their way off the hill with their swords. <br /><br />When the battle was at its height reinforcements arrived from Burgoyne. Luckily, the Vermont militia came up or about the same time to reinforce Stark, and again the fighting raged. American victory was assured when the militiamen drove off the Hessian reinforcements. </strong></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[ShelleBink]

There's Bennington Parkway in Franklin Park, NJ; I have some friends who live off of that road and every time I'd go there I'd giggle on the inside a lil bit.