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The Daily F Bomb, Friday 11/22/13

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Interrogatories

Where do you stand on the Kennedy assassination? Do you believe Oswald acted alone, or do you subscribe to one of the other theories floating around out there?

It’s Start Your Own Country Day again. What kind of topography would your country have? What kind of climate? What kind of government?

On Go For a Ride Day, describe your ultimate ride? Is it a plane, a train, an automobile? Perhaps a cool vintage motorcycle? Maybe even a horse?

Are you an out of the can cranberry sauce aficionado (like 90% of Americans) or do you like the REAL thing? (I think I may have revealed where I stand on this issue.)

Cell phone conversations on planes? Yea or Nay?

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On This Day

In 1858, Denver, Colorado was founded.

In 1869, the last surviving clipper ship, the Cutty Sark, was launched from Dumbarton, Scotland.

In 1928, Ravel’s Boléro premiered at the  Paris Opéra.

In 1954, the Humane Society of the United States was formed to address animal cruelty on a national level.

In 1963, President John F. Kennedy was fatally shot in Dallas when his motorcade passed by the Texas Schoolbook Depository in Dallas. Also in the vehicle was Texas Governor John B. Connally, who was seriously wounded.

In 1975 – after the death of Francisco Franco (who is, reputedly, still dead), Juan Carlos was declared King of Spain.

In 2005, Angela Merkel won election as the first female Chancellor of Germany.

Born on This Day

1648 – Pierre Patel the younger, French painter (d. 1707)

1744 – Abigail Adams, First Lady of the United States (d. 1818)

1787 – Copley Fielding, British painter (d. 1855)

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1788 – Albertus-Jonas Brandt, Dutch fruit and flower painter (d. 1821)

1808 – Thomas Cook, British travel entrepreneur (d. 1892)

1819 – George Eliot, British novelist (d. 1880)

1849 – Christian Rohlfs, German artist (d. 1938)

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1860 – Cecilio pla y Gallardo, Spanish painter (d. 1934)

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1864 – Wilhelm List, Austrian painter (d. 1918)

1893 – Harley J. Earl, American automobile designer (d. 1969)

1899 – Hoagy Carmichael, American composer (d. 1981) (+ a lot of Constance Bennett/Cary Grant:)

1920 – Anne Crawford, British actress (d. 1956)

1921 – Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian and actor (d. 2004)

1924 – Geraldine Page, American actress (d. 1987)

1932 – Robert Vaughn, American actor

1940 – Terry Gilliam, American-English actor, director, and screenwriter

1941 – Jesse Colin Young, American musician

1943 – Billie Jean King, American tennis player

1946 – Aston Barrett, Jamaican bass player and songwriter (The Wailers Band and Bob Marley & The Wailers)

1947 – Rod Price, English guitarist (Foghat) (d. 2005)

1950 – Steven Van Zandt, American musician and actor

1950 – Tina Weymouth, American musician (Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club)

1958 – Horse, Scottish singer and songwriter

1961 – Mariel Hemingway, American actress

1967 – Mark Ruffalo, American actor and anti-fracking activist

1984 – Scarlett Johansson, American actress

Died on This Day

1658 – Abraham van Cuylenborch, Dutch painter (b. 1610)

1718 – Blackbeard (Edward Teach), British pirate (b. 1680)

1726 – Anton Domenico Gabbiani, Italian painter (b. 1652)

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1781 – Jan Ekels the elder, Dutch painter (b. 1724)

1843 – Pieter Frans de Noter, Belgian architectural painter (b. 1779)

1886 – William Bliss Baker, American painter (b. 1859)

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1890 – Frank Buchser, Swiss painter (b. 1828)

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1911 – Valentin Alexandrovitch Serov, Russian painter (b. 1865)

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1916 – Jack London, American writer (b. 1876)

1937 – Philip de Laszlo, Hungarian painter (b. 1869)

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1943 – Lorenz Hart, American lyricist (b. 1895)

1955 – Shemp Howard, American actor (b. 1895)

1963 – Aldous Huxley, English author (b. 1894)

1963 – C. S. Lewis, Northern Irish author (b. 1898)

1980 – Mae West, American actress and writer (b. 1893)

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1986 – Scatman Crothers, American actor (b. 1910)

1988 – Luis Barragán, Mexican architect (b. 1908)

1992 – Sterling Holloway, American actor (b. 1905)

1993 – Anthony Burgess, British author (b. 1917)

1997 – Michael Hutchence, Australian singer (INXS) (b. 1960)

Today is

Stop the Violence Day

Antarctic Day

Go for a Ride Day

National Start Your Own Country Day

National Cashew Day (the web is divided 50/50 as to this being on the 22nd or 23rd)

National Cranberry Relish Day

Humane Society Anniversary Day


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18 comments

  1. Floja Roja

    I’ve never really followed most of the Kennedy assassination theories. I recall thinking that Single Bullet Theory sounded nonsensical at one time, but I was only going on what information I had. I really could go either way on it.

    My country would have lots of mountains along the coasts, with the inland being where the farms and such are. It would have four distinct seasons a year, and it would be totally Socialist.

    My ultimate ride would be a train. One of those vintage private train cars.

    Homemade sauce! Take that, you Philistines!

    I think people should be able to text all they want, but no phone conversations on planes. I’ve heard the argument that people have conversations on planes anyway. True, but most people on any given plane are not talking the whole time, and the are talking to each other. Imagine every single person on a plane engaged in a phone conversation. And then imagine the phone calls you’ve been forced to endure overhearing one side of. No thank you. I don’t want to know your personal business, and don’t want to know your political leanings, and I don’t want to know how important you think you are.

  2. JanF

    We shall have cranberries but NO cashews.

    THIS!!!

       I think we should have saved “the nuclear option” to describe people being able to make cell phone calls on planes.

       – LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) November 21, 2013

    I am not happy about the FAA allowing the person next to me to shout into their freaking cellphone while I am trying to read. Texting only. I haz spoken from Janistan.

    Critical moss, shady characters … do you want forest to leaf????

    From a poll showing that Kennedy has a job approval rating of 90% (highest in the last 50 years), the evidence that there are about 25-30% of Americans who are just nuts:

    With only 31 percent approving of his job as president, Richard Nixon finished at the bottom of the rankings.

    “Bottom” makes sense but 31%???????????

  3. anotherdemocrat

    Where do you stand on the Kennedy assassination? Do you believe Oswald acted alone, or do you subscribe to one of the other theories floating around out there?

    I have a hard time with the conspiracies, because no group of humans has ever kept even a small secret for long.

    It’s Start Your Own Country Day again. What kind of topography would your country have? What kind of climate? What kind of government?

    My country would be Hawaii. Perfect – beautiful, warm but with mountains, too. Democracy with publicly-funded elections & Australian-style required voting.

    On Go For a Ride Day, describe your ultimate ride? Is it a plane, a train, an automobile? Perhaps a cool vintage motorcycle? Maybe even a horse?

    Bike, but I ain’t going outside today, it is way too cold.

    Are you an out of the can cranberry sauce aficionado (like 90% of Americans) or do you like the REAL thing? (I think I may have revealed where I stand on this issue.)

    Not really a fan of either. But the real thing, maybe with nuts.

    Cell phone conversations on planes? Yea or Nay?

    Hell, no.

  4. Gee

    It’s Friiiiidaaaaaayyy!

    Where do you stand on the Kennedy assassination? Do you believe Oswald acted alone, or do you subscribe to one of the other theories floating around out there?

    It’s Start Your Own Country Day again. What kind of topography would your country have? What kind of climate? What kind of government?

    On Go For a Ride Day, describe your ultimate ride? Is it a plane, a train, an automobile? Perhaps a cool vintage motorcycle? Maybe even a horse?

    Are you an out of the can cranberry sauce aficionado (like 90% of Americans) or do you like the REAL thing? (I think I may have revealed where I stand on this issue.)

    Cell phone conversations on planes? Yea or Nay?

    I think Oswald acted alone.

    My country would have to have mountains and beaches.  Climate:  Warmish.  Government:  Geekarchy.

    Let’s see, I’ve been through the desert on a horse with no name.  This time, I wanna ride the tiger.  (Sorry for those earworms).  I’ve always enjoyed driving around the country in a car.  A train might be more relaxing, though, and I’d see more scenery that way.

    I like the stuff out of the can, with no berries in it.  I also like cranberry juice, but I really don’t like the berries themselves.

    What’s the issue we’re dealing with here?  Safety?  Extra noise?  Somebody once suggested that the airlines made up that “no electronic devices during takeoff” stuff so that people would pay attention to the flight attendant spiel.  Answer:  Don’t care really.

  6. Gee

    1890 – Frank Buchser, Swiss painter (b. 1828)

    Going for a walk with a bunch of monks is called “taking out your tonsures.”

  9. Avilyn

    Where do you stand on the Kennedy assassination? Do you believe Oswald acted alone, or do you subscribe to one of the other theories floating around out there?

    I think the magic bullet theory is bullsh-t, but I don’t subscribe to any particular conspiracy theory.  

    It’s Start Your Own Country Day again. What kind of topography would your country have? What kind of climate? What kind of government?

    Topography:  Mountains, beaches, farmland, forest – I want it all.  

    Climate:  Most of the year, Sunny/75-80.  Slightly cooler spring/fall temps allowed, but not to go below 65.  Winter/snow are banished except for the week before and after Yule.

    Govt:  Me as supreme ruler with final say over any laws, but otherwise democratic socialist.

    On Go For a Ride Day, describe your ultimate ride? Is it a plane, a train, an automobile? Perhaps a cool vintage motorcycle? Maybe even a horse?

    Definitely not a plane, unless it’s a private one where I can control the pressure, otherwise I get migraines.  I like driving, so a long road trip would be fine; did one of those in the days before GPS that took me from NJ to NC, then to FL, then to KY, then to TN, then to OH, then back to NJ.  It was a week and a half of awesome, except for the day I got food poisoning.

    Are you an out of the can cranberry sauce aficionado (like 90% of Americans) or do you like the REAL thing? (I think I may have revealed where I stand on this issue.)  

    I can’t stand the stuff in the cans.  Would have said I hate all cranberry sauce, but my in-laws do the homemade thing, and I tried it once to be ‘polite’ and found out it was actually pretty good.

    Cell phone conversations on planes? Yea or Nay?

    Hell no!  Texting, fine, talking, no.  I heard on the radio someone commenting that people who want to talk on cellphones should be seating next to the families with screaming kids; I’d be OK with that except I don’t want to deal with either.

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