Interrogatories
Did you ever write letters to Santa? Did he write back?
Have you ever written a fan letter? If so, who to? Did you get a response?
Quick – how many dice do you have in your house? What games?
Were your parents a lot alike, or were they opposites who were attracted? How about you and your partner/SO/spouse?
The Twitter Emitter
Healthcare dot gov didn't work at first so now the centuries-old, worldwide debate over role of government is completely settled forever.
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) December 3, 2013
The House GOP may impeach Obama for not implementing Obamacare well enough or they may wait to impeach him for implementing it too well.
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) December 3, 2013
IMPEACH OBAMA FOR NOT REPEALING OBAMACARE THEN REPLACE IT WITH THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT #TCOT
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) December 3, 2013
Dems: "We'd like to wish the long-term unemployed Happy Holidays by extending their benefits"
GOP: "Screw the unemployed. Merry Christmas!"
— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) December 3, 2013
The 113th Congress has passed 55 laws, fewer than any in history. Then again, do you really want these people passing more laws?
— Ronan Farrow (@RonanFarrow) December 3, 2013
There was Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and now, what the fuck have I done Tuesday.
— Albert Brooks (@AlbertBrooks) December 3, 2013
Note to fellow whites about race: until you get that you don't get it, you don't get it
— blue aardvark (@AardvarkBlue) December 3, 2013
Jesus could turn water into wine. A very marketable skill in the free market. Yet he died poor! WTF.
— kara vallow (@teenagesleuth) December 4, 2013
How will Amazon's delivery drones leave those annoying "While You Were Out" slips?
— Ben Greenman (@bengreenman) December 4, 2013
On This Day
In 1674, on the shores of Lake Michigan, Father Jacques Marquette founded a mission to convert the Illiniwek. This settlement later grew into the city of Chicago.
In 1791, the world’s first Sunday newspaper, The Observer, was first published.
In 1829, a British governor of India, Lord William Bentinck, declared that anyone abetting suttee (the custom of cremating the living widow along with her deceased husband) was guilty of culpable homicide.
In 1872, the American ship Mary Celeste was found in the Atlantic, under full sail, headed in the direction of the Strait of Gibraltar, by the British brig Dei Gratia with nobody aboard. The cargo was untouched and all of the crew’s personal belongings were still on board. The crew was never seen or heard from again. And nowhere near the Bermuda Triangle!
In 1881, the first edition of the Los Angeles Times came out. We may actually get to see the last issue, considering how poorly print papers are doing these days.
In 1918, President Woodrow Wilson became the first US president to travel to Europe while in office when he attended the World War I peace talks in Versailles.
In 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt shut down the Works Progress Administration because the war had created enough employment. Time to start it up again!
In 1969, Black Panther Party members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were murdered in their sleep during a raid by Chicago police.
In 1971, the Montreux Casino in Switzerland was accidentally set on fire by some idiot with a flare gun during a Frank Zappa show. This event was later immortalized in the Deep Purple song “Smoke on the Water”.
In 1978, Dianne Feinstein became the first female mayor of San Francisco in the wake of Mayor George Moscone’s murder.
Born on This Day
1617 – Evaristo Baschenis, Italian painter (d. 1677)
1777 – Juliette Récamier, French socialite (d. 1849)
1861 – Lillian Russell, American singer and actress (d. 1922)
1875 – Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet (d. 1926)
1875 – Johann Hendrik van Mastenbroek, Dutch impressionist painter (d. 1945)
1883 – Felice Casorati, Italian painter (d. 1963)
1903 – Cornell Woolrich, American writer (d. 1968)
1914 – Rudolf Hausner, Austrian artist (d. 1995)
1915 – Eddie Heywood, American jazz pianist (d. 1989)
1917 – Movita Castaneda, American actress. She played Gable’s love interest in the 1935 version of Mutiny on the Bounty, and later married Marlon Brando, who played the same role in the 1962 version. Then Marlon dumped her for the woman who played the same part in his version.
1921 – Deanna Durbin, Canadian actress
1930 – Jim Hall, American jazz guitarist
1933 – Horst Buchholz, German-born actor (d. 2003)
1940 – Gary Gilmore, American murderer (d. 1977)
1944 – Dennis Wilson, American musician (the Beach Boys) (d. 1983)
1944 – Chris Hillman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Byrds, The Hillmen, The Flying Burrito Brothers, and Manassas)
1944 – Anna McGarrigle, Canadian singer-songwriter
1947 – Terry Woods, Irish guitarist (The Pogues, Steeleye Span)
1948 – Southside Johnny, American singer
1949 – Jeff Bridges, American actor, singer, and producer
1964 – Marisa Tomei, American actress
1969 – Jay-Z, American rapper
1973 – Kate Rusby, English folk singer
Died on This Day
1123 – Omar Khayyám, Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1048)
1603 – Marten de Vos, Flemish Mannerist painter (b. 1532)
1642 – Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman (b. 1585)
1867 – Sophie Rude, French Neoclassical painter (b. 1797)
1876 – Michael Neher, German painter (b. 1798)
1886 – Johann Georg Meyer, German painter (b. 1813)
1907 – Nathaniel Sichel, German painter (b. 1843)
1926 – Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian-born painter (b. 1861)
1956 – Alexandr Rodchenko, Russian painter and photographer (b. 1891)
1967 – Bert Lahr, American actor (b. 1895)
1976 – Tommy Bolin, American guitarist (b. 1951)
1993 – Frank Zappa, American musician and composer (b. 1940)
1999 – Rose Bird, American activist judge (b. 1936)
2005 – Débora Arango, Colombian Expressionist painter (b. 1907)
2009 – Liam Clancy, Irish singer (b. 1935)
Today is
National Cookie Day
Santa’s List Day
Wear Brown Shoes Day
National Dice Day
International Hug Day
Special Kids Day
World Wildlife Conservation Day
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