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The Daily F Bomb, Friday 1/31/14

Interrogatories

Is there any song that would always make you sing along?

Do you start every morning with coffee or tea? How do you make it? If you don’t do either of those, what DO you do?

Do you care what you wear when you take out the trash, get the paper or mail, etc., or do you just go as is?

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On This Day

In 1606, Guy Fawkes, having been convicted for his part in the Gunpowder Plot against the English Parliament and King James I, was executed.

In 1801, John Marshall was appointed the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

In 1865, Robert E. Lee was named general-in-chief of the Confederate armies.

In 1865, Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which abolished slavery, and submitted it to the states for ratification.

In 1945, Private Eddie Slovik became the only U.S. soldier since the Civil War to be executed for desertion.

In 1950, President Harry S. Truman announced that he had ordered development of the hydrogen bomb.

In 1971, astronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr., Edgar D. Mitchell and Stuart A. Roosa blasted off aboard Apollo 14 on the third successful manned mission to the moon.

In 2006, Samuel Alito was confirmed by the Senate and sworn in as a Supreme Court justice.

In 2006, the Senate approved Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Federal Reserve.

Born on This Day

1601 – Pieter de Bloot, Dutch painter (d. 1658)

1872 – Zane Grey, American novelist (d. 1939)

1892 – Eddie Cantor, American actor and singer (d. 1964)

1894 – Isham Jones, American bandleader and musician (d. 1956)

1902 – Tallulah Bankhead, American actress (d. 1968)

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1905 – John O’Hara, American writer (d. 1970)

1905 – Diana Napier, British actress (d. 1982)

1915 – William Crosbie, Scottish artist (d. 1999)

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1915 – Alan Lomax, American musicologist (d. 2002)

1919 – Jackie Robinson, American baseball player (d. 1972)

1921 – John Agar, American actor (d. 2002)

1921 – Carol Channing, American actress and singer

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1922 – Joanne Dru, American actress (d. 1996)

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1923 – Norman Mailer, American writer and journalist (d. 2007)

1925 – Benjamin Hooks, American civil rights activist (d. 2010)

1929 – Jean Simmons, English American actress (d. 2010)

1934 – James Franciscus, American actor (d. 1991)

1937 – Philip Glass, American composer

1937 – Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (d. 2008)

1938 – James G. Watt, American politician and 43rd United States Secretary of the Interior

1944 – Charlie Musselwhite, American musician

1946 – Terry Kath, American musician (Chicago) (d. 1978)

1947 – Nolan Ryan, American baseball player

1951 – Phil Manzanera, English guitarist (Roxy Music, Quiet Sun, 801)

1956 – John Lydon, English singer (Sex Pistols, Public Image Ltd.)

1959 – Kelly Lynch, American actress

1961 – Lloyd Cole, British singer (Lloyd Cole and the Commotions)

1970 – Minnie Driver, British actress

1973 – Portia de Rossi, Australian actress

1981 – Justin Timberlake, American singer (‘N Sync)

Died on This Day

1635 – Willem Duyster, Dutch painter of genre scenes and portraits  (b. 1599)

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1669 – Anthony van Ravesteyn, Dutch painter (b. 1580)

1669 –  (burial) Dirck van der Lisse, Dutch painter (b. 1607)

1788 – Charles Edward Stuart (aka Bonnie Prince Charlie), the exiled Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1720)

1834 – Zacarías González Velázquez, Spanish painter (b. 1763)

1882 – Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff, Dutch genre painter (b. 1824)

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1891 – Ernest Meissonier, French painter/etcher/sculptor (b. 1815)

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1894 –  Gourlay Steell, Scottish animal painter (b. 1819)

1903 – Giovanni Nino Costa, Italian painter (b. 1826)

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1904 – Luc Raphaël Ponson, French painter (b. 1835)

1933 – John Galsworthy, English writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1867)

1956 – A. A. Milne, English author (b. 1882)

1969 – Meher Baba, Indian guru (b. 1894)

1970 – Slim Harpo, American singer (b. 1924)

1974 – Samuel Goldwyn, Polish-born film studio executive (b. 1882)

1976 – Ernesto Miranda, American litigant (b. 1941)

1977 – Henri-Victor Wolvens, Belgian painter (b. 1896)

2004 – Eleanor Holm, American Olympic swimming champion and actress (b. 1913)

2007 – Lee Bergere, American actor (b. 1924)

2007 – Molly Ivins, brilliant and much-missed American political columnist and author (b. 1944)

2012 – Dorothea Tanning, American visual artist (b. 1910)

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Today is

National Popcorn Day

Brandy Alexander Day (yes, please!)

Backward Day (do everything backwards)

Child Labor Day

Inspire Your Heart with Art Day


13 comments

  1. Gee

    Is there any song that would always make you sing along?

    Do you start every morning with coffee or tea? How do you make it? If you don’t do either of those, what DO you do?

    Do you care what you wear when you take out the trash, get the paper or mail, etc., or do you just go as is?

    Depends where I am.  Lots of songs make me sing along in the car.  In public, I dunno.  Neil Young makes me sing along, in my worst Neil Young voice.

    I start every morning with a Diet Pepsi, no-caffeine-style, if I can find it.

    I don’t go out in my pajamas, or my underwear, or a robe, if that’s what you mean.  Raggedy clothes (aka weekend wear), sure.

  2. Floja Roja

    but it’s dark outside, so I cannot attest to the veracity of that statement.

    I can never resist singing along with catchy songs that I know all the words to. This would include half of the Kinks catalog (Plastic Man! Apeman! Lola!) and stuff like the world’s best one hit wonder, Another Girl, Another Planet by the Only Ones.

    I start every morning with coffee, to the point where I am largely immune to the buzz. I do it in a press contraption called the Aeropress. Lately I’ve been having it in latte form, because I have dry mouth (sucks!), and black coffee exacerbates that condition.

    I actually do at least have to be wearing street clothes when I take out the trash, because our trash bins are in the driveway, very visible from the street, and I don’t really want to be mistaken for a scavenger. I don’t feel the need to bother with makeup and shit like that. That would be a bit obsessive.

  3. Floja Roja

    but it’s dark outside, so I cannot attest to the veracity of that statement.

    I can never resist singing along with catchy songs that I know all the words to. This would include half of the Kinks catalog (Plastic Man! Apeman! Lola!) and stuff like the world’s best one hit wonder, Another Girl, Another Planet by the Only Ones.

    I start every morning with coffee, to the point where I am largely immune to the buzz. I do it in a press contraption called the Aeropress. Lately I’ve been having it in latte form, because I have dry mouth (sucks!), and black coffee exacerbates that condition.

    I actually do at least have to be wearing street clothes when I take out the trash, because our trash bins are in the driveway, very visible from the street, and I don’t really want to be mistaken for a scavenger. I don’t feel the need to bother with makeup and shit like that. That would be a bit obsessive.

  4.    It’s a continuing mystery why sluts, illegals, Urbans, Sinners & parasites have turned their back on the GOP.

       – William K. Wolfrum (@Wolfrum) January 30, 2014

    Exactly … why would we not feel respected?

    This was a BHD:

    In 1865, Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which abolished slavery, and submitted it to the states for ratification.

    That started the still ongoing War of Northern Aggression where those aggressive Northerners refused to respect the “property” rights of rich Southern landowners … who then enlisted poor Southern chumps to fight and die for their right to own other human beings.

    Yikes! Development of the hydrogen bomb and Samuel Alito on the same day? It is hard to decide which is worse. (Just kidding: Alito by a mile).

    Hovering:

    – Ha!! Watch out, Michelle Malkin is quite vindictive. You could be next on her enemies list.

    – If you decide to carrion, you might find a wayward son.

    Backwards day? Not me!!!!!!

    See you later, Floja Roja!!

  5. Gee

    “Did you ever notice that Marilyn Quayle looks like Prince Charles, and Dan Quayle looks like Princess Di?”

  6. bubbanomics

    Is there any song that would always make you sing along?

    * no

    Do you start every morning with coffee or tea? How do you make it? If you don’t do either of those, what DO you do?

    * coffee. drip machine… sometimes my old aluminum espresso maker.

    Do you care what you wear when you take out the trash, get the paper or mail, etc., or do you just go as is?

    * don’t care.

    the lady fanning her c-word reminds me of the old days of MF.  good times.

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