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The Daily F Bomb, Thursday 5/9/13

Interrogatories

Have you ever worked in an unsafe workplace? Were you able to do anything about it?

It’s National Lost Sock Memorial Day. This is what you get for taking off your socks yesterday on No Socks Day. Do you know where your socks are?

It’s National Train Day. Are you a train fan, and have you had any memorable train trips?

If it’s butterscotch, is it really a brownie?

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On This Day

In 1926, Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett made what they claimed was the first airplane flight over the North Pole. (Later evidence shows they missed their target by 150 miles.)

In 1960, the Food and Drug Administration announced that it would approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle’s Enovid (at first just approved for menstrual disorders), making Enovid the world’s first approved oral contraceptive pill.

In 1961, FCC chairman Newton N. Minow condemned TV programming as a “vast wasteland” in a speech to the National Association of Broadcasters. (Vast? I wonder if he lived to see cable?)

In 1974, the House Judiciary Committee opened hearings on whether to recommend the impeachment of President Richard Nixon.

In 1994, South Africa’s newly elected parliament chose Nelson Mandela to be the country’s first black president.

Born on This Day

1596 – Abraham van Diepenbeeck, Dutch painter (d. 1675)

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1800 – John Brown, American abolitionist (d. 1859)

1810 – Louis Gallait, Belgian painter (d. 1887)

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1843 – Anton von Werner, German painter (d. 1915)

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1860 – J. M. Barrie, Scottish author (d. 1937)

1874 – Howard Carter, English archaeologist (d. 1939)

1895 – Richard Barthelmess, American actor (d. 1963)

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1918 – Mike Wallace, American journalist (d. 2012)

1921 – Daniel Berrigan, American activist

1921 – Sophie Scholl, German student, resistance fighter in Nazi Germany (d. 1943)

1928 – Ralph Goings, American photorealist painter

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1935 – Nokie Edwards, American guitarist and actor (The Ventures)

1936 – Albert Finney, English actor

1936 – Glenda Jackson, English actress and politician

1941 – Pete Birrell, English bass guitarist (Freddie and the Dreamers)

1942 – John Ashcroft, American politician, 79th United States Attorney General

1942 – Tommy Roe, American singer-songwriter

1944 – Richie Furay, American singer-songwriter and musician (Poco and Buffalo Springfield)

1945 – Steve Katz, American musician, songwriter, and producer (Blood, Sweat & Tears, Blues Project, and American Flyer)

1946 – Candice Bergen, American actress

1949 – Billy Joel, American singer-songwriter and pianist

1950 – Tom Petersson, American musician (Cheap Trick)

1962 – John Corbett, American actor

1962 – Dave Gahan, English singer-songwriter and musician (Depeche Mode)

1962 – Paul Heaton, English singer-songwriter and musician (The Housemartins and Beautiful South)

1972 – Dana Perino, airheaded commentator, 27th White House press secretary

1979 – Pierre Bouvier, Canadian singer-songwriter and musician (Simple Plan and Reset)

1979 – Rosario Dawson, American actress

Died on This Day

1586 – Luis de Morales, Spanish painter (b. 1510)

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1638 – Gregorio Vásquez de Arce y Ceballos, Spanish painter (d. 1711)

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1651 – Cornelis de Vos, Flemish painter (b.1584)

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1767 – Giuseppe Zocchi, Italian painter (b. 1717)

1682 – Pieter Wouwerman, Dutch landscape painter (b. 1623)

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1790 – William Clingan, American delegate to the Continental Congress, signed the Articles of Confederation

1791 – Francis Hopkinson, American delegate and author, signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1737)

1851 – Johann Heinrich Schilbach, German painter (b. 1798)

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1880 – Johann Michael Wittmer, German painter (b. 1802)

1889 – William Hammer, Danish painter (b. 1821)

1914 – C. W. Post, American food manufacturer, founded the Post Holdings food company (b. 1854)

1916 – Max Kurzweil, Austrian painter (b. 1867)

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1964 – Rico Lebrun, Italian-American painter and sculptor (b. 1900)

1968 – Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright, and costume designer (b. 1893)

1981 – Nelson Algren, American writer (b. 1909)

1981 – Margaret Lindsay, American actress (b. 1910)

1998 – Alice Faye, American actress (b. 1915)

2010 – Lena Horne, American singer, actress, and dancer (b. 1917)

2012 – Vidal Sassoon, English hairdresser (b. 1928)

Today is

Occupational Safety and Health Professionals Day

National Moscato Day

Lost Sock Memorial Day

National Train Day

National Butterscotch Brownie Day


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36 comments

  1. slksfca

    I’ve worked in unsafe places, but never anywhere that was dangerously unsafe.

    I repeat from yesterday: NO SOX! ;-p

    HUGE train fan. Have done two round-trips cross-country on Amtrak. Lots of great stories about fellow passengers.

    Thought butterscotch was a “blondie,” not a brownie.

  2. plf515

    Have you ever worked in an unsafe workplace? Were you able to do anything about it?

    No, but sort of. I worked at Consumer Reports for a while. Some people there did stuff that could be dangerous. But safety precautions were very good. But I did not work in the labs.

    It’s National Lost Sock Memorial Day. This is what you get for taking off your socks yesterday on No Socks Day. Do you know where your socks are?

    The goddess Anoia has them. See Terry Pratchett.



    It’s National Train Day. Are you a train fan, and have you had any memorable train trips?

    I like trains. My most memorable train trip was kind of miserable though. We were traveling from Denmark to Italy, in around 1970. But the train was old, the service and food was bad and the upper bunk was so close to the ceiling that you had to sort of roll off and flip on your way down.

    If it’s butterscotch, is it really a brownie?

    “Brown” covers a lot of ground.  

  3. JG in MD

    Sensational hovers today!

    Unsafe workplace? No.

    Socks? Socks are under control but handkerchiefs are still missing. There’s a reward offered.

    Are you a train fan? Yes. Memorable train trips? I commuted by train to DC recently. I had to walk a mile from the train to Union Station. We have train tracks going every which way in this part of Maryland but few and unbelievably inconvenient scheduled runs. I weep for the wasted opportunity. (But I love the train whistles at night.)

    If it’s butterscotch, is it really a brownie? It’s a blondie.

  4. Melanie in IA

    Have you ever worked in an unsafe workplace? Were you able to do anything about it?

    The last couple of years at the bank were pretty dang demoralizing, changing me from cheery to angry and stressed. I ended up quitting. I am much nicer now.

    Do you know where your socks are?

    Yes.

    Are you a train fan, and have you had any memorable train trips?

    I am a train fan, and I’ve had a number of memorable trips. From DC to Chicago with no toilets, that was a fun one. The time I was still quite asleep when my commuter train was ready to pull OUT of my station at the end of the line, and head back to the train yard overnight, that’s a good one, too.

    But the most fun train adventure was a relatively short trip from London to Dover in 1999. It was a very old train. The cars were wooden, with wood bench seats facing each other. I laughed to myself and when Jim asked why, I said, “I was just thinking of how great it is that we can take the train from London to Dover, and that 100 years ago you couldn’t have done that. And then I realized you could, in a train JUST LIKE THIS!”

    At one point a couple dozen giggling Japanese girls got on, piling into our car with their cameras around their necks. What a ruckus they made, all the way to Canterbury, when they all got up and off and it was quiet again.

    Taking trains in UK, through the chunnel tunnel, high speed from Paris to Stuttgart, they were all great, really.

    Yes, I am a train fan and wish here in the US we’d catch up to technology that’s been available elsewhere for decades.

    If it’s butterscotch, is it really a brownie?

    No. And really, why would you mess with brownies? They so good on their own.  

  6. trs

    Have you ever worked in an unsafe workplace? Were you able to do anything about it?

    I’ve worked in construction/remodeling and technical theatre for over 30 years – of course I’ve worked in an unsafe workplace. Have I been able to do anything about it? at times. I also hold an OSHA certification in construction and theatre safety.

    It’s National Lost Sock Memorial Day. This is what you get for taking off your socks yesterday on No Socks Day. Do you know where your socks are?

    They’re hiding from me, taunting me…

    It’s National Train Day. Are you a train fan, and have you had any memorable train trips?

    I am a train fan. Memorable trips? They’re all memorable in one way or another.

    If it’s butterscotch, is it really a brownie?

    No.

  7. Gee

    Have you ever worked in an unsafe workplace? Were you able to do anything about it?

    It’s National Lost Sock Memorial Day. This is what you get for taking off your socks yesterday on No Socks Day. Do you know where your socks are?

    It’s National Train Day. Are you a train fan, and have you had any memorable train trips?

    If it’s butterscotch, is it really a brownie?

    Never worked in an unsafe workplace unless you count my time as a cab driver.

    Two of my socks are on my feet.  Can’t speak for the rest.

    I like trains.  They were our mode of transportation when I was a kid and we’d go to Pennsylvania to see my grandparents.

    Just butterscotch?  I don’t know what it is.

  8. Gee

    In 1961, FCC chairman Newton N. Minow condemned TV programming as a “vast wasteland” in a speech to the National Association of Broadcasters. (Vast? I wonder if he lived to see cable?)

    Wow, and that was back when there were actually some good shows on now and then.

  9. Jk2003

    Have you ever worked in an unsafe workplace? Were you able to do anything about it?

    It’s National Lost Sock Memorial Day. This is what you get for taking off your socks yesterday on No Socks Day. Do you know where your socks are?

    It’s National Train Day. Are you a train fan, and have you had any memorable train trips?

    If it’s butterscotch, is it really a brownie?

    Unsafe work:  working in vet clinics is inherently unsafe.  Scared animals, needles, infectious dz.  my worst injury was from a six month old cat that scratched mt right hand so badly you could see bone in one of my fingers.  Most annoyingly, I got scratched on the face two days befor my wedding.   Not much you can do about it but go slowly and try to be smart.  99 percent of the time the animals are fine.  But you remember that 1%.

    Socks:  I am very organized.

    Trains:  I love trains, took a train in west Germany to Munich for the Christmas fair with our whole school.  I remember going over a gorge that seemed to drop off to nowhere.  Love trains.

    Butterscotch:  who cares, just eat it.

  10. Gee

    1916 – Max Kurzweil, Austrian painter (b. 1867)

    But… I have the creestal ball!

    She could make more money as a butcher.

  11. Gee

    In Rich Hall’s book, Sniglets, he claims that all those missing socks have gone to the hozone.

  12. princesspat

    Good morning…..from the YT posting notes

    Mermaid Avenue is a 1998 album of previously unheard lyrics written by Woody Guthrie, put to music written and performed by Billy Bragg and Wilco.

    The project was organized by Guthrie’s daughter, Nora Guthrie. Mermaid Avenue was released on June 23, 1998. The project is named after a song “Mermaid’s Avenue” written by Guthrie. This was also the street in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York on which Guthrie lived. According to American Songwriter Magazine, “The Mermaid Avenue project is essential for showing that Woody Guthrie could illuminate what was going on inside of him as well as he could detail the plight of his fellow man.”

  13. mikidee

    Please tell me there’s something about Alan Bates and figs in the near future ….

    Have you ever worked in an unsafe workplace? Were you able to do anything about it? For 10 of the last 13 years tears in the carpeting where I work were held together with duct tape, causing, in some places, big lumps and bumps that made walking hazardous – and rolling chairs darned near impossible. There was nothing anyone could do about it until the higher ups decided it was too tacky to attract investors to bail us out of the debt-hole they’d put us into.

    It’s National Lost Sock Memorial Day. This is what you get for taking off your socks yesterday on No Socks Day. Do you know where your socks are? Nope, but they usually show up in load of laundry somewhere down the line.

    It’s National Train Day. Are you a train fan, and have you had any memorable train trips? I love trains – love hearing their whistles blowing, too. Took a train to visit the grandparents in 1965 – was just a short trip but it felt simultaneously safe and mysterious.

    If it’s butterscotch, is it really a brownie? Nope.

  14. princesspat

    unsafe workplace…..yes, and I quit before I got fired for unsuccessfully raising the safety concerns.

    socks….wearing a full length compression stocking on my left leg gives a whole new meaning to the word “socks”. I always know (and complain about) where it is pinching me!

    train…..traveling on the Amtrak train from Bellingham to Portland, Oregon is a beautiful and relaxing trip.

    butterscotch brownie….chewy and tasty, but not real.

  15. michelewln

    Fighting a massive bronchial infection so doing a lot of sleeping. Pixie is helping me nap.

    Have you ever worked in an unsafe workplace? Were you able to do anything about it? Only mentally unsafe.

    It’s National Lost Sock Memorial Day. This is what you get for taking off your socks yesterday on No Socks Day. Do you know where your socks are? I walk around the house all the time in my stocking feet.

    It’s National Train Day. Are you a train fan, and have you had any memorable train trips? When I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area I always took BART to work.

    If it’s butterscotch, is it really a brownie? Definitely. I love anything butterscotch.

  16. Avilyn

    Weather can’t decide if it wants to be Sunny or Rainy.  Hopefully this will mean Rainbows at some point.

    Q&A:

    Have you ever worked in an unsafe workplace?  Nope, I’ve been lucky.

    It’s National Lost Sock Memorial Day. This is what you get for taking off your socks yesterday on No Socks Day. Do you know where your socks are?  Uhh, they’re not on my feet, that’s for sure; I switched back to sandals today.  

    It’s National Train Day. Are you a train fan, and have you had any memorable train trips?  Eh, their song “Drops of Jupiter” is OK, but I’m not really a fan of the rest of their stuff.  

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    What?

    If it’s butterscotch, is it really a brownie?  I’ll take the butterscotch, hold the brownie.  As much as I love butterscotch, it still couldn’t convince me to eat a brownie.

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