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The Daily F Bomb, Tuesday 7/23/13

Interrogatories

What do you like on your hot dog/smart dog?

What words would you like to ban?

Do you have a junk drawer? What’s in it?

Have you ever served on a jury? If yes, did you feel pressured to vote a certain way? Do you think the process was fair?

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On This Day

In 1903, Ford sold their first automobile.

In 1926, Fox Film studio bought the Movietone sound system (all the studios were getting in on the act). Their first release using it was the 1927 masterpiece, Sunrise. It was a synchronized musical soundtrack, not dialog.

In 1929, Italy’s fascist government banned foreign words. That did wonders for the tourist trade!

In 1962, the first live, transatlantic TV show was broadcast via Telstar.

In 1984, Vanessa Williams resigned as Miss America after Penthouse posted nude pictures of her. She had the last laugh by becoming a much bigger star than any preceding title-holder.

In 1986, the world turned in to watch the royal wedding between Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, a match that lasted just 10 years.

In 2003, a report was released by the Massachusetts Attorney General Office showing that more than 1000 persons had been sexually abused by clergy belonging to the Boston Archdiocese of the Catholic Church, over a 60 year period.

Born on This Day

1469 – Francesco Granacci, Italian painter and draftsman (d. 1543)

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1614 – Bonaventura Peeters I, Flemish marine painter and satirical poet (d. 1652)

1649 – Pope Clement XI (d. 1721)

1777 – Philipp Otto Runge, German painter (d. 1810)

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1844 – Hermann Corrodi, Italian painter and printmaker (d. 1905)

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1851 – Peder Severin Krøyer, Norwegian-Danish painter (d. 1909)

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1865 – Max Heindel, Danish occultist and mystic (d. 1919)

1875 – Arthur Segal, Romanian painter (d. 1944)

1876 – Ricardo Verde Rubio, Spanish painter (d. 1954)

1885 – Georges V. Matchabelli, Georgian-American businessman, created Prince Matchabelli perfume (d. 1935)

1888 – Raymond Chandler, American author (d. 1959)

1892 – Haile Selassie I, Ethiopian emperor (d. 1975)

1894 – Arthur Treacher, English actor (d. 1975)

1895 – Aileen Pringle, American actress (d. 1989)

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1912 – Michael Wilding, English actor (d. 1979)

1914 – Nassos Daphnis, Greek-American painter (d. 2010)

1914 – Virgil Finlay, American illustrator (d. 1971)

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1931 – Dame Te Atairangikaahu, Māori queen (d. 2006)

1933 – Bert Convy, American actor, singer, and game show host (d. 1991)

1936 – Don Drysdale, American baseball player (d. 1993)

1936 – Justice Anthony Kennedy, swing voter

1938 – Charles Harrelson, American convicted murderer, father of Woody Harrelson (d. 2007)

1943 – Tony Joe White, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1944 – Dino Danelli, American drummer (The Rascals and Fotomaker)

1946 – Andy Mackay, English musician, songwriter, producer, and composer (Roxy Music)

1957 – Theo van Gogh, Dutch director (d. 2004)

1959 – Nancy Savoca, American director, screenwriter, and producer

1961 – Martin Gore, English singer-songwriter, musician, and composer (Depeche Mode and VCMG)

1961 – Woody Harrelson, American actor

1962 – Eriq La Salle, American actor

1965 – Slash, English-American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Guns N’ Roses, Velvet Revolver, and Hollywood Rose)

1967 – Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor and director

1970 – Charisma Carpenter, American actress

1970 – Sam Watters, singer-songwriter and producer (Color Me Badd)

1971 – Dalvin DeGrate, American singer-songwriter and producer (Jodeci)

1971 – Alison Krauss, American singer-songwriter and fiddler

1972 – Marlon Wayans, American actor, director, writer, and producer

1973 – Fran Healy, English-Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Travis)

1973 – Monica Lewinsky, American White House intern, author, and cigar aficionado

1980 – Michelle Williams, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress (Destiny’s Child)

1989 – Daniel Radcliffe, English actor

Died on This Day

1584 – John Day, English printer (b. 1522)

1603 – Santi di Tito, Italian painter, draftsman, and architect (b. 1536)

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1692 – Gilles Ménage, French scholar (b. 1613)

1840 – Carl Blechen, German Romantic painter (b. 1798)

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1865 – Petrus Johannes Schotel, Dutch painter (b. 1808)

1875 – Isaac Singer, American inventor and businessman, founded the Singer Corporation (b. 1811)

1885 – Ulysses S. Grant, American soldier and politician, 18th President of the United States (b. 1822) who is interred, but not buried, in Grant’s Tomb.

1905 – Jean-Jacques Henner, French academic painter (b. 1829)

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1926 – Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter (b. 1848)

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1927 – Josef Wopfner, Austrian artist (b. 1843)

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1948 – D. W. Griffith, American director (b. 1875)

1951 – Robert J. Flaherty, American director and producer (b. 1884)

1951 – Philippe Pétain, French general, politician and collaborator (b. 1856)

1955 – Cordell Hull, American politician, 47th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871)

1966 – Montgomery Clift, American actor (b. 1920)

1971 – Van Heflin, American actor (b. 1910)

1980 – Keith Godchaux, American keyboard player (Grateful Dead and Heart of Gold Band) (b. 1948)

1989 – Donald Barthelme, American journalist and author (b. 1931)

2001 – Eudora Welty, American writer (b. 1909)

2002 – Leo McKern, Australian actor (b. 1920)

2011 – Amy Winehouse, English singer-songwriter (b. 1983)

2012 – Sally Ride, American physicist and astronaut (b. 1951)

Today is

Neptunalia, in honor of Neptune. (Roman Empire)

National Vanilla Ice Cream Day

Gorgeous Grandma Day

Hot Enough For Ya Day

National Hot Dog Day


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42 comments

  1. plf515

    What do you like on your hot dog/smart dog?

    Good sharp mustard, sauteed onions, sauerkraut.  

    What words would you like to ban?

    Oh, none really. Banning words is a bad idea…. but….

    “Pre-owned”. No. Sorry. That’s used.

    “Free gift”. Oops. A gift is free. That’s what gift means

    “Literally” when people don’t mean it. “Literally, there was smoke coming out of her ears”. No, there wasn’t. Figuratively, this makes me blow a blood vessel.

    “Almost infinite” – no. The whole point of “infinite” is that you  can’t be “almost” it. 1,000,000 is no closer to infinity than 1 is.

    “Actually” – this word is nearly always useless.

    “Like” when it means nothing. On the subway once, I heard two girls talking. One said “I know he like likes me, but does he like, like me like me or does he just like, like me?”

    “Enormity” when used incorrectly. It does NOT mean “really big” it means “really bad”.

    Do you have a junk drawer? What’s in it?

    A drawer? Some people fit their junk in a drawer????



    Have you ever served on a jury? If yes, did you feel pressured to vote a certain way? Do you think the process was fair?

    I always get kicked off in the voir dire. Like 20 times (and that “like” means “approximately”, thank you very much).  

  3. pittiepat

    What do you like on your hot dog/smart dog? I love Coney Island dogs:  chili, mustard and onions.

    What words would you like to ban? Can’t think of any one in particular.  Just wish people were more aware of how to correctly use the words they chose.

    Do you have a junk drawer? What’s in it? Odds & ends mostly.  Box cutter/utility knife, pens, rubber bands, other flotsam & jetsam.

    Have you ever served on a jury? If yes, did you feel pressured to vote a certain way? Do you think the process was fair?  Many times.  While living in Houston, it seemed I got called every year.  Only civil or misdemeanor cases but I did dodge a bullet on a rape case.  I made it through selection and was seated as an alternate but was excused at the last moment.  Good thing, as I was leaving for the UK in a couple of days.  Also served as foreman on a DUI case.  Never felt pressed to go one way or the other although there were occasionally “spirited” discussions.

  4. anotherdemocrat

    What do you like on your hot dog/smart dog?

    I can’t eat hot dogs, even vegan ones. There’s some flavoring that they all have that my stomach just rebels against. I used to eat them — liked them with just mustard.

    What words would you like to ban?

    I’m ok with all of them.

    Do you have a junk drawer? What’s in it?

    I’m too disorganized to have a junk drawer.

    Have you ever served on a jury? If yes, did you feel pressured to vote a certain way? Do you think the process was fair?

    Sort of. I was picked, then immediately came down with a cold/flu/something. I had a 102 fever. When I called the court clerk to tell them that, they said I had to come down & prove it. I pointed out that driving with a 102 fever was probably dangerous, they said I had to come anyway. I did, the judge (who I knew) saw me & asked what the hell I was doing there.

  5. Gee

    What do you like on your hot dog/smart dog?

    What words would you like to ban?

    Do you have a junk drawer? What’s in it?

    Have you ever served on a jury? If yes, did you feel pressured to vote a certain way? Do you think the process was fair?

    Smart dog?  Is that like an iDog?  I like mustard and relish and onions.

    Some words go through periods of overuse, and I want to ban them then.  Like “absolutely.”  But that one seems to have settled down.

    I don’t think I have a designated junk drawer.  Junk accumulates in various drawers.

    I’ve been called for jury duty four times, I think, and have never served on a jury.

  8. Jk2003

    What do you like on your hot dog/smart dog?

    What words would you like to ban?

    Do you have a junk drawer? What’s in it?

    Have you ever served on a jury? If yes, did you feel pressured to vote a certain way? Do you think the process was fair?

    Hot dog:  mustard and cole slaw

    Ban:  whatevs

    Junk:  I have a junk basket.  Chargers, garage door openers, markers, box knives, paper clips, swimming goggles and old keys

    Jury duty:  no, and I have always wanted to.  My husband served on a two week federal trial for racketeering.  I was so jealous.

  9. Gee

    1885 – Ulysses S. Grant, American soldier and politician, 18th President of the United States (b. 1822) who is interred, but not buried, in Grant’s Tomb.

    Interred = put in ground?

  10. zenor

    Stopped working in her vendor cart, I switched to either sausage sandwiches from the quick Asian grill at Broad & Erie, or the cheap full fast breakfast counter joint across the street. Backup to those 2 is the other joint with counter and a few tables, South of Erie.

    There used to be hundreds of good choices for breakfast in Philly and Jersey but clowns and idiots have ruined most of them.

    btw, impact is a noun.

  11. zenor

    Stopped working in her vendor cart, I switched to either sausage sandwiches from the quick Asian grill at Broad & Erie, or the cheap full fast breakfast counter joint across the street. Backup to those 2 is the other joint with counter and a few tables, South of Erie.

    There used to be hundreds of good choices for breakfast in Philly and Jersey but clowns and idiots have ruined most of them.

    btw, impact is a noun.

  13. slksfca

    I actually have three of them, which badly need consolidating into a single drawer. But I keep putting that off.

    My hot dogs always include Gulden’s Spicy Brown Mustard and hot dog relish when I can get it.

    I got selected for a jury once, but during the first day of the trial the case settled so we didn’t get to vote. I was actually disappointed, because at that time I had a job that 1) bored me to hell and 2) didn’t dock my pay for jury duty. Plus, part of me really did want to experience the entire process of a trial.

    I got that wish years later when I was defendant in an eviction trial in San Francisco Superior Court (and I won!).

  14. princesspat

    I had a sweet moment with my soon to be 11 yr old grand girl this weekend. She can wear my shoes now and asked to borrow a pair of sandals to wear to her birthday dinner and movie with her friends…..made me smile and wonder how much longer I have before that will never happen again! Thanks to the magic of cell phones her mom shared a photo of her looking very pleased with herself.

  16. Floja Roja

    What do you like on your hot dog/smart dog?

    Nathan’s dog (unless I can find a local butcher who makes his own, and the local shop doesn’t do hot dogs), mustard, onion, relish OR a really good chili dog from Pinks.

    What words would you like to ban?

    Off the top of my head, I’d say “utilized” bugs the fuck out of me. 😉

    Do you have a junk drawer? What’s in it?

    Tools, mostly. Screwdrivers, batteries, those plastic lids for cat food cans, candles, flashlights, and I have this tin container for little things like Allen wrenches and drill bits and push pins. Oh, and string. Tape (masking tape, painter’s tape, that clear tape for mailing packages, scotch tape). And a lot of stuff I would never miss if I threw it away.

    Have you ever served on a jury?

    Yes

    If yes, did you feel pressured to vote a certain way?

    Absolutely. There are always some who just want to go home and anyone who stands against the tide is browbeaten.

    Do you think the process was fair?

    Not really. I’ve seen people bring their prejudices into the jury room and be unable to shed them. “I didn’t like that expert witness, so I won’t listen to his testimony.” Not because the witness wasn’t credible, because the witness wasn’t liked.

  17. Floja Roja

    and slightly foggy, but the sun is creeping up from behind the hills and that won’t last very long. However, the humidity is back and looks like it wants to stay.

    Last night I was getting flash flood warnings interrupting my TV viewing, from 51 miles away. Most annoying.

    This is my morning earworm. You can thank me later.

  18. Melanie in IA

    What do you like on your hot dog/smart dog?

    Ketchup mustard onions relish… or chili and onions. That’s tasty, too.

    What words would you like to ban?

    None, but I agree we should be more careful with what we have.

    Do you have a junk drawer? What’s in it?

    There is no junk drawer in this house. Pretty much if we have it, we want it, and it’s in the right place. (Okay, that exaggerates it some, but we’re both pretty good about this issue.)

    Have you ever served on a jury? If yes, did you feel pressured to vote a certain way? Do you think the process was fair?

    Never been called for jury duty in either Illinois or Iowa.  

  20. Avilyn

    What do you like on your hot dog/smart dog?

    Depends on what I have on hand.  Ketchup, Onion, Yellow Mustard, and Relish are all acceptable in some combination.

    What words would you like to ban?

    Not words, so much as phrases.  “PIN Number”, “ATM Machine” etc. where people include the redundant last word after the acronym.  

    Do you have a junk drawer? What’s in it?  Do I have A junk drawer?  No.  Now, junk drawer*s*, totes, or closets ….  😉

    Have you ever served on a jury? If yes, did you feel pressured to vote a certain way? Do you think the process was fair?  Never served; been called a couple of times, but once there was a plea deal so no jury needed, and the other time I’d moved out of the county so I was excused.

  21. JG in MD

    What do you like on your hot dog/smart dog? Yellow mustard and dill relish. I don’t understand sweet relish, especially why it’s 99% of all the relish on the shelf.

    What words would you like to ban? I’d have to think about this one.

    Do you have a junk drawer? What’s in it? Many of my drawers are junky, but only one occupies the place of honor between the stove and the sink and carries the coveted title “junk drawer.” It contains twist ties, rubber bands, a long bread knife, scissors, bag clips and black clips, a jar opening thingy and some other junk.

    Have you ever served on a jury? No. Called once, but not chosen.

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