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The Daily F Bomb, Thursday 5/30/13

Interrogatories

Croissants – plain, filled, sweet?

What is your idea of perfect happiness?

What commonplace personal habit do you find most annoying?

What habit do you have that you wish you didn’t have?

What is your greatest extravagance?

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On This Day

In 1431, Joan of Arc was burned at the stake.

In 1536, Henry VIII married Jane Seymour, who had been lady-in-waiting to his previous wives, giving new meaning to that term.

In 1854, Nebraska and Kansas were officially established as territories.

In 1834, Portugese Minister of Justice Joaquim Antonio de Aguiar pulled a Henry VIII and ruled that “all convents, monasteries, colleges, hospices and any other houses of the regular religious orders” were extinguished, and all their properties were taken over by the state. This action earned him the name “Friar Killer.”

In 1922, the Lincoln Memorial was dedicated.

In 1937, Chicago police shot and killed 10 unarmed demonstrators during a Steel Workers strike.

In 2012, war criminal Charles Taylor, former Liberian president, received a 50 year prison sentence for his part in the atrocities committed during Sierra Leone’s civil war.

Born on This Day

1220 – Saint Alexander Nevsky (d.1263)

1623 – Wallerant Vaillant, Flemish painter (d. 1677)

1786 – John Lewis Krimmel, US painter (d. 1821)

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1844 – Félix Arnaudin, French poet and photographer (d. 1921)

1836 – Aleksander Kotsis, Polish painter (d. 1877)

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1846 – Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian goldsmith and jeweler (d. 1920)

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1848 – Rudolf Ribarz, Austrian landscape painter (d. 1904)

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1862 – Anton Ažbe, Slovenian painter (d. 1905)

1879 – Vanessa Bell, English painter who also happened to be Virginia Woolf’s sister (d. 1961)

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1892 – Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (d. 1972)

1896 – Howard Hawks, American director (d. 1977)

1899 – Irving Thalberg, American film producer (d. 1936)

1901 – Cornelia Otis Skinner, American writer and actress (d. 1979)

1902 – Stepin Fetchit (real name Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry), controversial African-American actor (d. 1985)

1908 – Mel Blanc, American voice actor (d. 1989)

1909 – Benny Goodman, American clarinetist, songwriter, and bandleader (d. 1986)

1926 – Christine Jorgensen, the first person widely known to have undergone sex reassignment surgery (d. 1989)

1928 – Pro Hart, Australian painter (d. 2006)

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1936 – Keir Dullea, American actor

1939 – Michael J. Pollard, American actor

1944 – Lenny Davidson, English guitarist (The Dave Clark Five)

1953 – Colm Meaney, Irish actor

1955 – Topper Headon, English musician and songwriter (The Clash)

1964 – Tom Morello, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and activist (Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine, The Nightwatchman, and Axis of Justice)

1966 – Stephen Malkmus, American singer and musician (Pavement and Silver Jews)

1967 – Tim Burgess, English singer-songwriter (The Charlatans and The Chavs)

1974 – Cee Lo Green, American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor (Goodie Mob and Gnarls Barkley)

Died on This Day

1593 – Christopher Marlowe, English playwright (b. 1564)

1640 – Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (b. 1577)

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1695 – Pierre Mignard, French painter (b. 1612)

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1712 – Andrea Lanzani, Italian painter (b. 1645)

1730 – Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (b. 1648)

1744 – Alexander Pope, English writer (b. 1688)

1770 – François Boucher, French painter (b. 1703)

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1778 – Voltaire, French writer, philosopher, and author (b. 1694)

1866 – Johann Baptist Pflug, German painter (b. 1785)

1888 – Louis Buvelot, Swiss-born painter who worked in Australia (b. 1814)

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1911 – Milton Bradley, American businessman, founder of the Milton Bradley Company (b. 1836)

1911 – Arturo Faldi, Italian painter (b. 1856)

1912 – Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer (b. 1867)

1953 – Dooley Wilson, American actor and singer (b. 1886)

1967 – Claude Rains, English actor (b. 1889)

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1975 – Steve Prefontaine, American runner (b. 1951)

1980 – Carl Radle, American musician and producer (Delaney & Bonnie and Derek and the Dominos) (b. 1942)

1988 – Ella Raines, American actress (b. 1920)

1993 – Sun Ra, American musician, bandleader, and composer (b. 1914)

2000 – Tex Beneke, American saxophonist, singer, and bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra) (b. 1914)

Today is

St. Joan of Arc Day

Water a Flower Day

National Mint Julep Day

My Bucket’s Got a Hole In It Day

National Croissant Day


25 comments

  1. Its the Supreme Court Stupid

    Croissants – plain, filled, sweet?b  Yes, please.

    What is your idea of perfect happiness?



    What commonplace personal habit do you find most annoying? Asking personal questions

    What habit do you have that you wish you didn’t have?

    Answering personal questions

    What is your greatest extravagance?   My twin daughters

  2. Jk2003

    Croissants – plain, filled, sweet?

    What is your idea of perfect happiness?

    What commonplace personal habit do you find most annoying?

    What habit do you have that you wish you didn’t have?

    What is your greatest extravagance?

    Croissants:  plain with butter

    Perfect happiness:  I had a moment of it yesterday.  My kids were running around with a scarf over their heads being a two headed dragon and they tackled me and the laughter coming from them was priceless.

    Personal habit:  shaving legs.  I am pretty lazy about it especially in the winter.  TMI but you asked.

    Habit:  I am ashamed to say I am a nail biter.

    Extravagance:  food.  We spend a lot for good food.

  3. mikidee

    Then mend it, dear Henry, dear Henry, mend it.

    Hootable Hovers today, fer shure ….

    Croissants – plain, filled, sweet? No, thank you – don’t really like ’em.

    What is your idea of perfect happiness? Listening to the cadenzas in Mozart’s Oboe Concerto in C Major as performed/written(?) by Neil Black.

    What commonplace personal habit do you find most annoying? People chewing with their mouth open.

    What habit do you have that you wish you didn’t have? Messing with Dermatological Terrorism (a/k/a underground pimples) until they bleed.

    What is your greatest extravagance? Paying to have someone else groom my Demon Dog every 6 weeks. But it is so worth it –

    Betty Davis Eyes  

  4. Gee

    Stop running.  This is the cardio workout for you!

    (This is the kind of entertainment we love here at the office.)

  5. Gee

    Croissants – plain, filled, sweet?

    What is your idea of perfect happiness?

    What commonplace personal habit do you find most annoying?

    What habit do you have that you wish you didn’t have?

    What is your greatest extravagance?

    Yes, yes, yes, and yes.

    Just a lack of anxiety about the future would do.

    I’ll check back later on this one.

    I bite my nails, but I don’t have any strong wish that I didn’t.

    I buy books instead of going to the library.  I seem unable to buy clothes from the sale rack.

  6. Floja Roja

    Croissants – plain, filled, sweet?

    A good croissant needs no additions, though I have succumbed on occasion to savory fillings, like melty cheese.

    What is your idea of perfect happiness?

    Good friends and/or family in a nice setting, like Stinson Beach, with good food and lots of hilarity.

    What commonplace personal habit do you find most annoying?

    Popping gum, cracking knuckles.

    What habit do you have that you wish you didn’t have?

    Procrastination

    What is your greatest extravagance?

    Good food. I rarely eat out, but make up for it by spending too much on organic strawberries at the farmer’s market or good steaks at the butcher shop, or fancy cheeses. And wine. And chocolate.

    I also have a vet who comes to the house for non-emergency stuff and routine exams (and that final visit – won’t do that at the vet if I can help it).

  7. slksfca

    Too many annoying habits to list (both mine, and those of other peeps).

    I don’t have many extravagances, just Ben & Jerry’s and occasionally a bottle of decent brandy.

  8. JG in MD

    Croissants – plain, filled, sweet?

    What is your idea of perfect happiness?

    What commonplace personal habit do you find most annoying?

    What habit do you have that you wish you didn’t have?

    What is your greatest extravagance?

    Croissants: Just plain, thanks.

    Happiness: I’d have to think about that.

    Others’ habits: Two receptionists this week knew I was there but didn’t even look up, much less say “I’ll be with you in a minute.” One did a lot of data entry and looked like she didn’t want to tear herself away to talk to me. The other walked away and seated her haircut client without acknowledging me. Is it so hard to look up and say “Give me a minute”? You’re at a reception desk, for chrissake.

    Personal habit: I talk to myself, in public, where I can’t pretend to be talking to the cats. Gotta stop that.

  9. princesspat

    Good morning…..this song finally replaced yesterday’s ear worm.It’s stuck too, but at least I can find it to listen again.

  10. Marc in KS

    Croissants – plain, filled, sweet?

    Plain.

    What is your idea of perfect happiness?

    A warm sunny day, a bike, and a lonely trail.

    What commonplace personal habit do you find most annoying?

    Nail-biting.

    What habit do you have that you wish you didn’t have?

    An excessive admiration for martinis.

    What is your greatest extravagance?

    My pipes.

  11. Erick Erickson: Female Breadwinners Are Antithetical To Nature (VIDEO)

    “When you look at biology – when you look at the natural world – the roles of a male and a female in society and in other animals, the male typically is the dominant role. The female, it’s not antithesis, or it’s not competing, it’s a complimentary role.”

    Erickson concluded that this upheaval of natural gender roles is “tearing us apart” and jeopardizing our children, because “having mom as the primary bread winner is bad for kids and bad for marriage, and reality shows us that’s the truth.”

    A fellow redstater concurs:

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