why do they put "1989" on the back of brewer hats? what happened in 1989?
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1989 was the 20th anniversary for the brewers
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Apparently Johnny Grabowski was the first player to wear that number for the Yankees.  The number is retired for Bill Dickey and Yogi Berra, and has been since '72.
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It's basically your 4th of July (except it's celebrated on the 1st, of course).\n\nIt is the date of Confederation. On July 1, 1867, Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick (former British colonies) got together to form the Dominion of Canada. (But of course, a lot of people use it as an excuse to party and get drunk. Not that there's anything wrong with that)\n\nP.S. the poster below is wrong.
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A cap isn't an acronym for any word. It simply means anytime a player has worn a jersey representing their country on the field. Like anytime Ronaldinho wears a Brazil jersey he recieves one cap and the same thing when David Beckham wears a England jersey. Back in the day players in England would actually recieve real caps (hats) just for memorbillia purposes but they don't hand them out anymore. I don't know why.....
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Turner is right. Lets go Rangers is not.\n\nThe hats are donated to charities, if they are in good condition. They do NOT keep them on display. Imagine how many nasty used hats a professional team would have to display! And why would multi-million dollar orginizations sell used hats, for the $1 a peice they would get??? And who would buy them???\n\nA little known fact is that if there is a hat-trick, you can get a new free hat from the souvenir shop after claiming that you threw yours out on the ice.
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1991, I believe, but it has been updated, clarified, and amended since then.\n\nGoogle the entire term for more info.
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Believe it or not, I made it up back in 1977. I have received no credit for it. I should have patented it or something back then. I visited California in 1977 and some large bug was trying to bite me. I finally gave up trying to swat it and said "Go ahead and BITE ME you ##%%$% bug". My whole family laughed and I told them to BITE ME too and the saying was born. All my cousins started saying it and it spread like wild fire in California. It really caught on in the later 1980's and then the Simpsons added it to their show in the 1990's. As they say the rest is history.
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A BUNCH OF REDNECKS BOUGHT THEM AT AN AUCTION. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY DID WITH IT:-)
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Old english bar owners.  Figuring out evenings profits by measuring their "pints and quarts" sold vs. inventory left to insure there wasn't waste or thievery.\n\nBTW - "whet your whistle" came from the same time period where beer mugs used to literally have a whistle on them.  Patrons would blow them when they wanted the bar wench to refill their steins with more beer!  :)  (And now you know the REST of the story)....
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According to www.military-net.com, the ball on top is called a TRUK it represents the shot fired 19th April 1775 fired at Lexington Mass. \n\nThere are some myths about ornaments used at the head of a flag pole. Some crazies started a myth in the 1950s that the round ball commonly found on the head of outdoor flag poles in the United States contained a razor, lighter, or flare to be used in the event of a Soviet takeover to destroy the flag. This is of course sheer fantasy. The balls were in use long before there was a Cold War. Besides that, getting at the ball would have required considerable effort. Another myth is that the flat headed finials were designed to provide landing guidance for Alien space vehicles. The fact that those caps had been used long before Alien vehicles were contemplated is explained by saying that individual aliens were commonly sent ahead of the main wave by several generations so that humans wouldn't think any thing unusual about flat headed flag poles. \nPhil Abbey, 7 October 1998 \n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nOne myth, apparently created during the Cold War, is that the ball at the top of a U.S. flagpole contains three items, all intended to keep the communists from capturing the flag. These are most commonly said to be a razor blade (to cut the flag from the halyards), a match (to light it), and a bullet (to shoot the attackers).\n\nAlthough this is absurd on the face of it, there seems to be no end to the line of morons who believe it. I'm not calling anyone else who questions this myth a moron -- they're to be applauded for having the good sense to question it. It's those who believe it without questioning it that need to be put away. So the following points are intended for use by those who are confronted with this idiocy in answering the true believers:\n\nThere have been balls on flagpoles for centuries, long before there were communists or, for that matter, self-contained bullets or friction matches. They're there because someone discovered that flagpoles look better with a ball on top. (No, not to keep birds from perching--birds have no trouble at all perching on the ball on a flagpole.) \nIf you want to destroy the flag, why not just lower it by the halyards the normal way and use materials readily available on the ground to destroy it, or better yet take it with you? As opposed to trying to cut it apart and burn it while hanging from the top of the pole like a monkey. \nOK, so you don't want to lower the flag because that would signify surrender. How on earth would you retrieve what's in the ball in the face of an enemy assault? Assuming you don't have a ladder(if you do, why can't you find some matches?), there are only two ways up -- climb the pole or have oneself hoisted up on the halyard. Maybe a professional acrobat could do the former, given time; we're talking about shinnying up a smooth metal pole or pulling yourself up a narrow rope 50 feet (15 meters) or higher, all with enemy troops shooting at you. \nLet's suppose you're going up by being hoisted on the halyard. As you do that, the flag comes down--whoops, you've just surrendered. Anyway, the flag is now at ground level, so your friends can detach it using the clips and escape with it or destroy it as described above. You don't have any friends on the ground? Then how did you get to the top of the pole? Just try pulling yourself up a flagpole some time and see how easy that is. \nWhy the bullet? Are your friends on the ground just standing around watching, or are they fighting back? Oh, right, you're all alone and you're a world-class gymnast who can just climb up the pole or halyard 50 feet or more under fire. OK, well then, if you have a gun with you (that coincidentally is of the right caliber for the bullet), why didn't you load it before you started up? And a single bullet to deal with the Red h
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Mel Parnell wore #17 in 1947 for the Boston Red Sox. It's at this page on the bottom.
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This has to be a joke. Is it because the Pirates lost the opener??? (Ironically, to the Brewers).
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There are actually varying dates, depending on the coin. I'd say it became totally official on July 30, 1956 when it was signed as our national motto. Of course, it started appearing in various forms on our mints as far back as April 22, 1864.\n\nI used a US Treasury web site. Never knew it went that far back. I thought it was from the 1950's. Love this stuff!
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I assume you mean the blue badge with the gold tools. It is no longer authorized. I believe it went away in the mid 90's. The entire badge is now blue.
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Oh gawd..a few years ago, by b/f signed us up to work for a marketing firm.  we were paid to drive around wisconsin in a vintage VW Bug painted up with the Mug Root Beer logo.  We handed out samples of root beer at grocery stores and air shows.  It was humiliating....driving down the highway, getting passed by old people and being stared at.
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Many supposed origins- my pick is because Marines in the eary 19th century wore tall covers resembling jars, thus jarhead.  Never in my time in did I ever hear the word used by Marines except in derogatory terms.\n\nUPALLNITE- Teufelhunden is plural, "devil dog" is teufelhund- you F*cking Jarhead.
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A simple web search revealed:\nhttp://tennessee.gov/sos/symbols/timeline.htm