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The Daily F Bomb, Friday 3/1/13

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Good morning, Bombed Ones!  I haven’t heard anything new on silks since his one comment that took him forever to type. We’ll give him time.

Can you believe it’s March already? I should stop joking about getting my Christmas shopping done and get started on it.

Interrogatories

We Americans are mostly mutts. How many nationalities are you aware of in your family history? Who is the most recent immigrant in your family? Do you know who the earliest is? Did you have mumps, measles, chicken pox and any other usual childhood diseases? Gas or electric? Which is your favorite (and most indulged) of the seven deadly sins?

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On This Day

In 1565, the city of Rio de Janeiro was founded.

In 1781, the Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation.

In 1790, Congress authorized the first U.S. census. (Tyranny!)

In 1867, Nebraska became the 37th state.

In 1872, Congress authorized creation of Yellowstone National Park. (Socialism!)

In 1954, Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire from the gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives, wounding five congressmen. I’m sure this was their God-given right as responsible gun owners.

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps. (Communism!)

In 1968, Country musicians Johnny Cash and June Carter were married.

In 1974, former Nixon White House aides H.R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman and former Attorney General John Mitchell were indicted on obstruction of justice charges related to the Watergate break-in.

In 1981, Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands began a hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland. (He died 65 days later.)

In 2003, suspected Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was captured by CIA and Pakistani agents near Islamabad.

In 2005, a closely divided Supreme Court outlawed the death penalty for juvenile criminals.

Born on This Day

1494 – Il Bacchiacca, [Franceso Ubertini], Italian painter (d. 1557)

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1644 – Simon Foucher, French philosopher (d. 1696)

1683 – Caroline of Ansbach, Queen of Great Britain (d. 1737)

1810 РFr̩d̩ric Chopin, Polish composer (d. 1849)

1842 – Nikolaos Gyzis, Greek painter (d. 1901)

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1863 – Alexander Golovin, Russian painter (d. 1930)

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1885 – Lionel Atwill, English actor (d. 1946)

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1886 – Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian painter and poet (d. 1980)

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1893 – Mercedes de Acosta, American socialite and legendary lover of numerous female movie stars. (d. 1968)

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1904 – Glenn Miller, American bandleader (d. 1944)

1906 – Camilla Spira, German actress (d. 1997)

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1907 – Lois Moran, American actress (d. 1990)

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1910 – David Niven, English actor (d. 1983)

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1914 – Ralph Ellison, American writer (d. 1994)

1922 – William Gaines, American publisher (MAD Magazine) (d. 1992)

1927 – Harry Belafonte, American actor and musician

1927 – Robert Bork, rejected Supreme Court candidate (d. 2012)

1934 – Joan Hackett, American actress (d. 1983)

1934 – Jean-Michel Folon, Belgian painter (d. 2005)

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1935 – Robert Conrad, American actor

1944 – Roger Daltrey, English musician (The Who)

1948 – Burning Spear (Winston Rodney), Jamaican singer and musician

1952 – Nevada Barr, American author

1954 – Ron Howard, American actor and director

1958 – Nik Kershaw, English musician (Warning – VERY 80s)

1962 – Bill Leen, American musician (Gin Blossoms)

1965 – Mary Lou Lord, American singer/songwriter

1969 – Javier Bardem, Spanish actor

1969 – Dafydd Ieuan, Welsh drummer (Super Furry Animals)

Died on This Day

1792 – Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1747)

1895 – Pauline Musters, shortest woman ever (b. 1876)

1920 – John H. Bankhead, U.S. Senator (b. 1842)

1932 – Frank Teschemacher, American jazz clarinetist (b. 1906)

1974 – Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist (The Jazz Messengers) (b. 1935)

1979 – Dolores Costello, American actress (b. 1903)

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1980 – Wilhelmina, Dutch-American model (b. 1940)

1984 – Jackie Coogan, American actor (b. 1914)

1998 – Archie Goodwin, American comic book writer, editor and artist (b. 1937)

2012 – Andrew Breitbart, American angry white man and conservative political commentator (b. 1969)

Today is

National Pig Day

Self-Injury Awareness Day

National Peanut Butter Lover’s Day

National Fruit Compote Day

Share a Smile Day

National Dance Teacher Appreciation Day

This Month is

Irish-American Month

Music in Our Schools Month

National Caffeine Awareness Month

National Celery Month

National Craft Month

National Flour Month

National Frozen Food Month

National Noodle Month

National Nutrition Month

National Peanut Month

National Sauce Month

National Women’s History Month

Red Cross Month

Social Worker’s Month


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  2. plf515

    We Americans are mostly mutts. How many nationalities are you aware of in your family history?

    My grandparents and greatgrandparents were all Eastern European Jews. Some came from what was then Russia. Others from places that have changed country a few times.

    Who is the most recent immigrant in your family?

    My father’s father got here in the early 20th century.

    Do you know who the earliest is?

    My mother’s father’s father came in the mid 19th century.



    Did you have mumps, measles, chicken pox and any other usual childhood diseases?

    Yes. I forget which. Pretty sure I had chicken pox. I think I had mumps.

    Gas or electric?

    For stoves? Cars? Heat? What?



    Which is your favorite (and most indulged) of the seven deadly sins?

    Oh, OK, I’ll Google. Let’s see:

    Lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, pride.

    Hmmm. Weird list. Thank God I’m an atheist Jew. I don’t regard most of these as sinful, although acting on them in certain ways can be bad. I think “sinful” (at least in human relations) means “treating other people as objects”. Lust is fun. Gluttony – OK, that’s not a good thing. Greed – not a good thing. Sloth – I can go for slothful, if it’s not carried too far. Wrath can be healthy, if it’s acted on in sensible ways. Envy – I don’t get envious. Pride isn’t a sin, pride is a sign of mental health.  

  3. blue jersey mom

    How many nationalities are you aware of in your family history? As far as I can tell, all my relatives came from England, Scotland, and Ireland.

    Who is the most recent immigrant in your family? My grandmother was born in Canada, but she was a US citizen. My great-grandparents emigrated from England in the 19th century.

    Do you know who the earliest is? Many of my dad’s ancestors came over in the 1600s, including my Harlan ancestors. Justice John Marshall Harlan (the “great dissenter” and the one vote against Plessy v. Ferguson)is my cousin. One of my ancestors was born in Jamestown in 1635.

    Did you have mumps, measles, chicken pox and any other usual childhood diseases? Yes.

    Gas or electric? Gas, for sure.

    Which is your favorite (and most indulged) of the seven deadly sins? It is a tie between sloth and gluttony.

  4. Jk2003

    We Americans are mostly mutts. How many nationalities are you aware of in your family history? Who is the most recent immigrant in your family? Do you know who the earliest is? Did you have mumps, measles, chicken pox and any other usual childhood diseases? Gas or electric? Which is your favorite (and most indulged) of the seven deadly sins?

    Nationalities:  Irish, English, Native American, Scottish

    Most recent immigrant:  my maternal grandmother was born in Ireland and then came to live here after her mother died.  Her dad had come over and started a newspaper in Michigan.  i never met him – my mom says he was scary!  

    Earliest:  don’t know, must be on my dads side but don’t know specifics.

    Childhood dz:  I didn’t have any of those.  When I was n kindergarten I remember being sent into the room of my friend who had them to get it over with but i never got them.  Before I had kids they did a titer and I have immunity from them, just never broke out. My worst illness came from being vaccinated before we moved to Germany.  My brother and I could not stop throwing up.

    Gas or electric:  gas

    Seven deadly sins:  probably wrath.  I have a temper.  I wish I didn’t.  I would like to engage in some sloth this weekend but I don’t know if it is in the cards.

  5. Gee

    We Americans are mostly mutts. How many nationalities are you aware of in your family history? Who is the most recent immigrant in your family? Do you know who the earliest is? Did you have mumps, measles, chicken pox and any other usual childhood diseases? Gas or electric? Which is your favorite (and most indulged) of the seven deadly sins?

    English, French (Huguenot), and German.  I’ve rooted around in Ancestry.com, and that’s all I found.  WASPs everywhere.

    Most recent immigrant would be somebody on my mother’s side, but I’m not sure who or when.  Nineteenth Century, perhaps.  Hers is the side with the French and the Germans.  But I’d love to get my DNA done to see if I could find more interesting stuff.

    The earliest one I know of was a Davis who came into Connecticut in the 1600s.  Not on the Mayflower, but not long after.  He or his son moved to Virginia, and the Davises were there, most of them, until my little branch of the family moved to Cumberland, MD.

    I think I had all the diseases.  Two kinds of measles, I think.  Thank Salk for the polio vaccine.  We managed to avoid that one.

    Gas.

    Tossup between lust and gluttony.

  6. pittiepat

    We Americans are mostly mutts. How many nationalities are you aware of in your family history?  Mostly English with just a splash of French and Scottish.

    Who is the most recent immigrant in your family?  My great great grandparents who came from Yorkshire in 1839.

    Do you know who the earliest is?  11th & 12th grandparents on the Mayflower.  (I know, I know but they really did).

    Did you have mumps, measles, chicken pox and any other usual childhood diseases?  All of them. Since I had chicken pox, I’ve also had shingles.

    Gas or electric?  Depends.

    Which is your favorite (and most indulged) of the seven deadly sins?  Since I’m basically a lazy cow I’ll have to say sloth.

  7. michelewln

    Really pretty out today.

    How many nationalities are you aware of in your family history? Dad’s side English, Scotch, German, and Irish. Mom’s side Irish, Pennsylvania Dutch, and Cherokee

    Who is the most recent immigrant in your family? Robert Wiseman in 1800

    Do you know who the earliest is? Francois Lucas in the late 1600s

    Did you have mumps, measles, chicken pox and any other usual childhood diseases? Yes to all of them. All of them given to me by my older brother.

    Gas or electric? I prefer gas for the stove top and electric for the oven.

    Which is your favorite (and most indulged) of the seven deadly sins? Lust after all I am asking for Viggo Mortensen for my birthday. 😉

  8. JG in MD

    How many nationalities are you aware of in your family history? There are only two, English and Protestant Irish. Total WASP. Blarney yes, stiff upper lip no.

    Who is the most recent immigrant in your family? My father’s grandfather from Northern Ireland circa 1860

    Do you know who the earliest is? Thomas Allanson, Lord of Christian Temple Manor in Maryland, immigrated 1658. Maryland was very weird.

    Did you have mumps, measles, chicken pox and any other usual childhood diseases? Measles and chicken pox.

    Gas or electric? Gas stove. Definitely.

    Which is your favorite (and most indulged) of the seven deadly sins? Sloth.

  9. raina

    Don’t get me wrong, it’s an essential ingredient in cooking, but by itself, well, other than crudites or with a cream cheese/walnut topping, they’re so meh. LOL. Celery trivia: Sanford, FL, infamous of late for the Trayvon shooting was once considered the Celery capital of the world and is nicknamed Celery City.

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    Swiss, French, Prussian, English, Welsh, Dutch, and likely Irish, just based on one surname. That’s just off the top of my head. Well, mostly European.

    Most recent immigrants: my Swiss great grandparents got here in 1892.

    My surname, the earliest record is 1740ish, but some other branches were here 1650ish.

    Yes to all childhood diseases.

    We have gas for heating and cooking, electricity for everything else. I like gas for oven cooking and electricity for stovetop cooking.

    Gee, IDK, gluttony prolly.  

  10. Lorinda Pike

    I hope Silky is feeling better.

    This guy (Lionel Atwill, fourth pic from the top) looks like Kevin Spacey to me…

    Answers…

    How many nationalities are you aware of in your family history? Native American, Irish, English, Scottish. But if you go backwards in the Scottish line, you find they were immigrants too – originally Vikings who visited and were allowed to stay.

    Who is the most recent immigrant in your family? I have no idea. Probably the Irish bunch, who apparently got here looking for potatoes.

    Do you know who the earliest is? See “Native American”…that would be my paternal great-grandparents, or at least their families. My great-grandfather is on the Dawes Rolls.

    Did you have mumps, measles, chicken pox and any other usual childhood diseases? All of the above, plus a bout with scarlet fever.

    Gas or electric?

    Both. I like volts for light and electronics and maybe the oven. Gas is good for the stovetop though. And central heat, although my preference is a soapstone woodstove, which I can’t have just now

    Which is your favorite (and most indulged) of the seven deadly sins? Sloth first, then gluttony. I’m usually too tired for the other five.

    ;-D

  12. Jim in IA

    National Pig Day? For us in IA, we ought to be celebrating. I scared a pig to death as a kid. It jumped up as I rounded the corner and ran headlong into a fence. Broke its neck.

    Answer to one of your questions…I definitely have gas.

    Gotta get back to work now. Have an interesting day.

  14. slksfca

    …to summon up enough concentrative powers to come online and hang out. And I just couldn’t quite manage it. Part of the problem when you’re recovering from surgery is that an endless parade of individuals is coming in just to say hi. But usually they want something from you, and so I spent a few hours yesterday in haltingly taking my first steps with the bionic hip   in place.

    And then there was the river of narcotics rampaging through my poor body. Today the’ve cut me off somewhat so I’m more clear-headed, if less free from surgery’s not inconsequential pain. ;-p

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