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Dookus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-14-04 12:05 AM
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Wow... a photograph of Dolly Madison
from 1848
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elperromagico Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-14-04 12:10 AM
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1. There's also one of her with James K. Polk.
Taken outside the White House, I believe.
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Dookus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-14-04 12:13 AM
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3. wow
it never occurred to me that she lived long enough to have been photographed.
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WannaJumpMyScooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-14-04 12:12 AM
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2. Here's a newer picture, she looks much more, well
edible in it...
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Dookus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-14-04 12:14 AM
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4. oooh you....
why I oughtta...
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elperromagico Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-14-04 12:14 AM
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5. Zingers are made out of PEOPLE!!!
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Syrinx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-14-04 12:17 AM
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6. looks like a bunny rabbit hanging out of her nose
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Dookus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-14-04 12:18 AM
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7. yes
back then, bunnies were used when you ran out of snuff. Dolly was famously known as a bunny-snorter.
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elperromagico Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-14-04 12:20 AM
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8. Actually, that's James Madison sitting on her lip.
He was rather short, you know. *chortle chortle*
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Syrinx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-14-04 12:21 AM
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9. hah! funny
My great-grandma used snuff. I'm glad that practice has pretty much died off. ;)
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WannaJumpMyScooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-14-04 12:39 AM
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10. So, who is that in the background? Strom Thurmond?
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