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The Daily F Bomb, Friday 5/3/13

Interrogatories

It’s International Tuba Day. Do you have a favorite tune in which the tuba features prominently?

Mobile phone owners – do you still remember any phone numbers, or do you rely on the  phone to remember them for you?

Did you ever dislike a movie enough to walk out of the theater mid-film? Which ones?

Do you have any crushes on any famous people? If so, who?

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On This Day

In 1802, Washington, D.C., was incorporated.

In 1921, West Virginia imposed the first state sales tax.

In 1936, Joe DiMaggio made his major league debut with the New York Yankees.

In 1937, Margaret Mitchell won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel “Gone with the Wind.”

In 1948, the Supreme Court ruled that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities were legally unenforceable.

In 1960, the musical “The Fantasticks” opened off-Broadway, starting a record run of almost 42 years.

In 1988, the White House admitted that first lady Nancy Reagan used astrological advice to help schedule President Ronald Reagan’s activities.

Born on This Day

1469 – Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and author (d. 1527)

1826 – Robert Zünd, Swiss painter (d.1909)

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1833 – Philip Hermogenes Calderon, English born painter (d. 1898)

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1861 – Emmett Dalton, American outlaw, member of the Dalton Gang (d. 1937)

1870 – Alexandre Benois, painter (d. 1960)

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1887 – Marika Kotopouli, Greek actress (d. 1954)

1888 – Beulah Bondi, American actress (d. 1981)

1891 – Richard Ziegler, painter and graphic designer (d. 1992)

1898 – Septima Poinsette Clark, American educator and civil rights activist (d. 1987)

1898 – Golda Meir, Israeli teacher and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1978)

1903 – Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (The Rhythm Boys) (d. 1977)

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1906 – Mary Astor, American actress (d. 1987)

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1907 – Dorothy Young, American actress and novelist (d. 2011)

1913 – William Inge, American playwright (d. 1973)

1917 – Betty Comden, American actress, screenwriter, and lyricist (d. 2006)

1919 – Pete Seeger, American singer-songwriter, musician, and activist (The Weavers and Almanac Singers)

1920 – John Lewis, American pianist, arranger, and composer (Modern Jazz Quartet) (d. 2001)

1921 – Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer (d. 1989)

1933 – James Brown, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (d. 2006)

1933 –  Domenico Gnoli, Italian artist (d. 1970)

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1944 – Pete Staples, English musician (The Troggs)

1949 – Ron Wyden, American politician

1950 – Mary Hopkin, Welsh Singer-songwriter and musician

1953 – Gary Young, American musician and singer (Pavement)

1959 – David Ball, English musician and producer (Soft Cell and The Grid)

1961 – David Vitter, American politician

1965 – Nina Garcia, Colombian-American fashion director, journalist, and critic

1975 – Christina Hendricks, American actress

1978 – Paul Banks, American singer-songwriter and musician (Interpol)

1981 – Farrah Franklin, American singer and actress (Destiny’s Child)

1990 – Levi Johnston, Alaskan grifter and almost Palin.

Died on This Day

1587 – Lelio Orsi, Italian painter (b. 1511)

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1703 – Eglon van der Neer, Dutch historical painter (b. 1634)

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1758 – Pope Benedict XIV (b. 1675)

1910 – Howard Taylor Ricketts, American pathologist (b. 1871)

1918 – William Frederick Yeames, British painter (b. 1835)

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1972 – Bruce Cabot, American actor (b. 1904)

1972 – Les Harvey, Scottish guitarist Stone the Crows (b. 1944)

1989 – Christine Jorgensen, American transsexual (b. 1926)

1991 – Jerzy Kosiński, Polish writer (b. 1933)

1992 – George Murphy, American dancer, actor, and politician (b. 1902)

2003 – Suzy Parker, American actress (b. 1932)

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2006 – Karel Appel, Dutch painter (b. 1921)

2007 – Wally Schirra, American astronaut (b. 1923)

2010 – Roy Carrier, American accordion player (b. 1947)

2012 – Lloyd Brevett, Jamaican bass player and producer (The Skatalites) (b. 1931)

Today is

World Press Freedom Day

National Raspberry Tart Day

National Chocolate Custard Day

Lumpy Rug Day

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Space Day

International Tuba Day

Garden Meditation Day


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47 comments

  1. plf515

    It’s International Tuba Day. Do you have a favorite tune in which the tuba features prominently?

    No

    Mobile phone owners – do you still remember any phone numbers, or do you rely on the  phone to remember them for you?

    I remember a few

    Did you ever dislike a movie enough to walk out of the theater mid-film?

    Yes

    Do you have any crushes on any famous people? If so, who?

    “Crush” to me, implies a sort of adolescent gooieness; I have many famous people I admire. Some are female. Some of those I also think are really attractive. Is that subset what you mean?

    And do they have to be alive? (Since any crush on a famous person involves fantasy, can we fantasize that they are still living?)

  2. zenor

    Derives from the absence of old phone groupings when the dial showed ABC DEF GHI and I give up. So, 1 800 BEATS ME is a lot of peoples and companies dumbass numbers good luck you never said what the number was shmuck and I hope your advertising department gets stuck in a rowboat with spaghetti paddles waking up 3 feet from going over Niagra Falls and the rest of you clue up, it takes 10 numbers, I don’t care what they spell anymore. 1 800 FIXX ITT.  

  3. Jk2003

    Here are some answers

    It’s International Tuba Day. Do you have a favorite tune in which the tuba features prominently?

    Mobile phone owners – do you still remember any phone numbers, or do you rely on the  phone to remember them for you?

    Did you ever dislike a movie enough to walk out of the theater mid-film?

    Do you have any crushes on any famous people? If so, who?

    Tuba:  not that I know of.  My kids and I are into a Richard scarry story about a Austrian bear named Schtoompah who plays the tuba.

    Remember phone numbers:  nope, totally dependent on the contacts list

    Walk out of a movie:  yes

    Famous crushes:  oh yeah, that’s what celebrities are for, to look at and think “oh yeah”.  Lets see, I like Colin Firth and Julianne Moore.  Growing up I was in love with Alan Alda on MASH.  I also have always been a fan of Simon leBon from Duran Duran.  

  4. Gee

    43 and sunny, rising to a lofty 66, they say.

    It’s International Tuba Day. Do you have a favorite tune in which the tuba features prominently?

    Mobile phone owners – do you still remember any phone numbers, or do you rely on the  phone to remember them for you?

    Did you ever dislike a movie enough to walk out of the theater mid-film?

    Do you have any crushes on any famous people? If so, who?

    I believe that John Entwistle plays a tuba in I’m a Boy and Cobwebs and Strange.

    I no longer remember phone numbers.  That was a great talent of mine, now unused.

    I usually take the attitude that, no matter how awful the film, I’m tougher than it is, and I don’t walk out.  I did, however, quit near the beginning of a Russ Myer movie once.  I think it was Supervixens, but I wouldn’t bet my life on that.

    Maria Sharapova.

  5. Melanie in IA

    It’s International Tuba Day. Do you have a favorite tune in which the tuba features prominently?

    These guys — Bonerama — are _AWESOME_ and do have tuba.

    Mobile phone owners – do you still remember any phone numbers, or do you rely on the  phone to remember them for you?

    I don’t remember stuff anymore.

    Did you ever dislike a movie enough to walk out of the theater mid-film?

    yes

    Do you have any crushes on any famous people? If so, who?

    no  

  6. JG in MD

    Tuba: Mention the word and two notes wheeze through my brain.

    Mobile Phone: Memo to self, write down all those numbers saved in my phone.

    Walk out mid-film: Yes. In college at somebody’s house when the film turned out to be porn. But I don’t remember what happened after that. Did I have my car so I could go home? Did they turn off the film? Or was that the time I woke up in the morning between two medical students with my pantyhose still on?



    Crushes on famous people:     The obvious, Joe Biden and Sir Patrick Stewart.

  7. DeniseVelez

    It’s International Tuba Day. Do you have a favorite tune in which the tuba features prominently? yup.

    Though people rarely think of jazz and tubas – Ray Draper played with Coltrane


    1. Essii’s Dance 5.59

    2. Doxy 6.42

    3. I Talk To The Trees 6.10

    4. Yesterdays 6.53

    5. Oleo 6.02

    6. Angel Eyes 4.44

    Ray Draper – tuba

    John Coltrane – tenor saxophone

    John Maher – piano

    Spanky DeBrest – double bass

    Larry Richie – drums

    Mobile phone owners – do you still remember any phone numbers, or do you rely on the  phone to remember them for you? The mobile phone number I can’t remember is my own. I have phone numbers from my childhood – family and friends still in my head.  Back from the days when you had letters like “ST” (for Sterling” or “GE” (for Germantown) as part of the prefix



    Did you ever dislike a movie enough to walk out of the theater mid-film?     I don’t know if dislike is the word – but I walked out on a horror-flick – Psycho, and have never seen the full-length version.

    Do you have any crushes on any famous people? If so, who?

    As a pre-teenager had a crush on Smokey Robinson. My schoolmates were all drooling over Elvis.

    Now – nope.

  8. Gee

    1903 – Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (The Rhythm Boys) (d. 1977)

    My late ex-father-in-law had boxes of golf balls like that.

    1933 – James Brown, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (d. 2006)

    That’s a priceless clip.

    1933 –  Domenico Gnoli, Italian artist (d. 1970)

    I think the McConnells are related to the Slowskys.

    1953 – Gary Young, American musician and singer (Pavement)

    Which one’s Gary Young?  Hmm, never knew they had two drummers.

  9. michelewln

    It’s International Tuba Day. Do you have a favorite tune in which the tuba features prominently? Oom Pah Pah from Oliver

    Mobile phone owners – do you still remember any phone numbers, or do you rely on the  phone to remember them for you? The only phone number I remember was for my Mom and that number is disconnected. I rely on the contact list to dial for me.

    Did you ever dislike a movie enough to walk out of the theater mid-film? There are a couple that my ex made me sit through that if I were by myself I would have walked out of.

    Do you have any crushes on any famous people? If so, who? David Tennant, John Barrowman, and Josh Groban. Three of the biggest geeks in show business. 😉

  10. slksfca

    The phone does that for me. Couldn’t remember even the most-dialed ones if I had to. But I still remember the first phone number I was taught by my mother when I was five years old: ALpine 3-1715.

    I go to the movies maybe once a year, if that, and the ones I go see are carefully selected. So no, I haven’t walked out on a movie in years and years.

  11. mikidee

    James Brown, Patti Labelle,  and I spend quality time together every morning (“I Got You (I feel Good)” and “New Attitude” provide the beat on a walking DVD I do every fucking day).

    It’s International Tuba Day. Do you have a favorite tune in which the tuba features prominently? “Lulu’s Back In Town,” sung by Mel Torme, has some prominent tuba in it. I’ve actually met a tuba soloist before (Stan Freese) and I love Sousa marches. So, yes – Happy International Tuba Day!

    Mobile phone owners – do you still remember any phone numbers, or do you rely on the  phone to remember them for you? Nope, nada one.

    Did you ever dislike a movie enough to walk out of the theater mid-film? Which ones? Can’t recall leaving one but can recall hating a few.

    Do you have any crushes on any famous people? If so, who? Oliver Reed.

  12. Avilyn

    Going down to my mom’s tomorrow for an early Mother’s Day celebration.  Just need to get through the work day today.

    Q&A:

    It’s International Tuba Day. Do you have a favorite tune in which the tuba features prominently?  Not that I’m aware of.  I am horribly bad at being able to tell what instruments make up any given piece, so it’s possible I know one but I don’t know that I know it.

    Mobile phone owners – do you still remember any phone numbers, or do you rely on the  phone to remember them for you?  I remember the important ones; family, close friends.  Stuff like my Dentist or whatever that I only call once or twice a year, I rely on the phone for.

    Did you ever dislike a movie enough to walk out of the theater mid-film? Which ones?  Never left a movie mid-film, but husband and I walked out on a Jonathan Coulton show once.  We went to see Paul & Storm, who opened for him, and had heard good things about JC too, but after 4 songs we couldn’t take it anymore and left.

    Do you have any crushes on any famous people? If so, who?  Err, I’m not sure how you define “crush” but there are several that I admire/like to watch.  Sandra Bullock, Gary Oldman, Sean Connery, Adrian Paul, etc.

  14. Avilyn

    Also, I find it interesting that the question was “Famous People” you have crushes on, and I immediately thought actors/actresses.  Musicians and other types of famous people didn’t occur to me until after I read through some of the other answers.  

    Musicians – Criss Oliva (R.I.P.) and Johnny Rzeznik come to mind.

    And I can’t believe I forgot to list Jon Stewart and Richard Dean Anderson.  

  15. bubbanomics

    It’s International Tuba Day. Do you have a favorite tune in which the tuba features prominently?

    not that i know of.

    Mobile phone owners – do you still remember any phone numbers, or do you rely on the  phone to remember them for you?

    yeah, i mostly remember and dial.

    Did you ever dislike a movie enough to walk out of the theater mid-film? Which ones?

    i would have walked out of the pope of greenwich village if my ex-wife hadn’t fallen asleep.

    nowadays i go to so few movies in the theater.  and so expensive.  I’d sit thru Ishtar/Gigli/The Avengers (with Uma, the english patient, and bond-james-bond) out of spite.

    Do you have any crushes on any famous people? If so, who?











    … well… i could go on… hope ms. bubba doesn’t see this.

  16. princesspat

    tuba……no tuba tunes come to mind this morning

    phone numbers…..my iPhone is draining my memory!

    movie dislike….I rarely go to movies so I’m quite selective.

    crushes….I’m fickle and private with my crushes, Ha!

  18. Pam from Calif

    It’s International Tuba Day. Do you have a favorite tune in which the tuba features prominently?

    No

    Mobile phone owners – do you still remember any phone numbers, or do you rely on the  phone to remember them for you?

    some I remember

    Did you ever dislike a movie enough to walk out of the theater mid-film?

    No, but wished I had

    Do you have any crushes on any famous people? If so, who?

    Robert Conrad of The Wild Wild West  

  19. ilovecheese

    Tuba:my sister played the tuba in the high school marching band and occasionally woke me up with several blasts – hate it!

    Phone numbers:I can do a few of them on my own,but I really should get a director just incase.

    Movie:Never

    Crushes:Well there was Elvis…

  20. anotherdemocrat

    It’s International Tuba Day. Do you have a favorite tune in which the tuba features prominently?

    At my church’s Easter service, the postlude every year is Scott Joplin’s Pineapple Rag, played by a brass ensemble (I think there are 6 members, but I’m not sure)

    Mobile phone owners – do you still remember any phone numbers, or do you rely on the  phone to remember them for you?

    I was never good with phone numbers, thank FSM  that my phone remembers them for me.

    Did you ever dislike a movie enough to walk out of the theater mid-film? Which ones? Not that I remember

    Do you have any crushes on any famous people? If so, who? Slight crush on Bono. Just a slight one.

  22. raina

    I have an iPhone and I no longer remember numbers, not even my own. I do know mr. raina’s though because I’ve had to write it a number of times on various forms. I’ve only had my iP for maybe 2 yrs now.

    I wait for movies to come out on video, so it’s been years since I’ve been in a movie theater. Don’t recall walking out on any movie, but at home, yeah I do quit watching. Saw comes to mind. Extreme violence isn’t my thing.

    OMG, I have a crush on Maks of Dancing With the Stars.

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