Three Birthdays Today!

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Today has the distinction of being the birthday of three of my favorite people, people who have, one way or another, influenced my life greatly.

The Jaded Minstrel, himself, sadly taken from us only a few years ago, Warren Zevon.

Mister Bad Example also shares a birthday with one of the hardest working, yet greatly under appreciated actors of our or any time, Ernest "Give 'em Hell, Pike!" Borgnine.

Then there's Jeep, born nine years ago today. Where has the time gone?

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