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The Daily F Bomb, Monday 5/20/13

Interrogatories

What’s the most difficult decision you ever had to make?

Have you ever successfully grown strawberries? How do you prefer to eat them?

Do you understand the metric system at all?

Do any kids of your acquaintance know how to tie shoes that have laces or tell the time from analog clocks?

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On This Day

In 1861, North Carolina seceded from the union.

In 1927, aviator Charles Lindbergh left New York to make the first nonstop solo transatlantic flight.

In 1932, Amelia Earhart began her solo transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to Ireland.

In 1939, Pan Am airlines began regular transatlantic service from New York to England.

In 1940, Auschwitz began receiving its first prisoners. An estimated 1.3 million people died there before the camp was liberated in 1945.

In 1996, the Supreme Court decided the case of Romer v. Evans, ruling that Colorado’s ban on any law protecting the rights of gays and lesbians was unconstitutional.

Born on This Day

1726 – Francis Cotes, English painter (d. 1770)

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1726 – Gabriel-François Doyen, French painter (d. 1806)

1766 – Adam Wolfgang Töpffer, Swiss painter, caricaturist, and engraver (d. 1847)

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1768 – Dolley Madison, American wife of James Madison, First Lady of the United States (d. 1849)

1799 – Honoré de Balzac, French novelist (d. 1850)

1815 – Barthélémy Menn, Swiss painter (d. 1893)

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1843 – Emil Adam, German painter, specialized in race horses (d.1924)

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1851 – Emile Berliner, German-American inventor, invented the Gramophone record (d. 1929)

1857 – Herman af Sillén, Swedish marine painter (d. 1908)

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1876 – Henri Edmond Cross, French painter (d. 1910)

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1883 – Paul Arntzenius, Dutch painter (d. 1965)

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1889 – Karin Molander, Swedish actress (d. 1978)

1899 – Alexander Deyneka, Ukrainian painter (d. 1969)

1899 – Estelle Taylor, silent film star (d. 1958)

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1908 – James Stewart, American actor (d. 1997)

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1915 – Moshe Dayan, Israeli general (d. 1981)

1919 – Bernard Cathelin, French painter (d. 2004)

1940 – Shorty Long, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (d. 1969)

1942 – Jill Jackson, American singer (Paul & Paula)

1944 – Joe Cocker, English singer-songwriter, musician, and actor (The Grease Band) (sorry, couldn’t resist this version)

1946 – Cher, American singer, actress, producer, and director (Sonny & Cher)

1954 – Guy Hoffman, American singer, drummer, and composer (Violent Femmes, Oil Tasters, and BoDeans)

1954 – Cindy McCain, American businesswoman and philanthropist, wife of John McCain (jack!)

1958 – Ron Reagan, American radio host, son of Ronald Reagan

1958 – Jane Wiedlin, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress (The Go-Go’s and Frosted)

1959 – Susan Cowsill, American singer-songwriter and musician (The Cowsills and Continental Drifters)

1961 – Nick Heyward, English musician (Haircut 100)

1968 – Timothy Olyphant, American actor (Deadwood)

1972 – Busta Rhymes, American rapper, producer, and actor

Died on This Day

1277 – Pope John XXI (b. 1215)

1506 – Christopher Columbus, slaver (among other things) (b. 1451)

1622 – Osman II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1604)

1824 – Thomas Hickey, Irish portrait painter (b. 1741)

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1956 – Max Beerbohm, English caricaturist, writer, critic (b. 1872)

1964 – Rudy Lewis, American singer (The Drifters) (b. 1936)

1965 – Charles Camoin, French Fauvist painter (b. 1879)

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1989 – Gilda Radner, American comedian and actress (b. 1946)

1996 – Jon Pertwee, English actor (b. 1919) (the 3rd Dr. Who)

2008 – Hamilton Jordan, American politician, 8th White House Chief of Staff (b. 1944)

Today is

Pick Strawberries Day

National Quiche Lorraine Day

World Metrology Day (AKA Weights and Measures Day)

Emancipation Day (Florida – anniversary of 1st FL reading of the Emancipation Proclamation)

Eliza Doolittle Day

Be a Millionaire Day


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33 comments

  1. plf515

    What’s the most difficult decision you ever had to make?

    I don’t know.

    Have you ever successfully grown strawberries?

    No. (Not unsuccessfully either)

    How do you prefer to eat them?

    If they are good, plain is fine. If they aren’t so good, pie or cake or smoothies.

    Do you understand the metric system at all?

    Yes

    Do any kids of your acquaintance know how to tie shoes that have laces or tell the time from analog clocks?

    Yes. Both my sons (16 and 10) can tell time with an analog clock. The younger one can tie shoes; the older one struggles with that.  

  3. michelewln

    What’s the most difficult decision you ever had to make? To leave my ex-husband and start a new life.

    Have you ever successfully grown strawberries? How do you prefer to eat them? I can’t grow anything! Dipped in chocolate or whipped cream.

    Do you understand the metric system at all? Yes my late Dad was head of the California Metric Committee.

    Do any kids of your acquaintance know how to tie shoes that have laces or tell the time from analog clocks? My Asperger’s grandnephew does. The other two I think one can tie shoes properly the other I tie his shoes. Read clock? I’m not sure they can read a digital clock. 😉

  4. Jk2003

    What’s the most difficult decision you ever had to make?

    Have you ever successfully grown strawberries? How do you prefer to eat them?

    Do you understand the metric system at all?

    Do any kids of your acquaintance know how to tie shoes that have laces or tell the time from analog clocks?

    Tough one:  I can’t narrow it down

    Strawberries:  yes, I have grown them.  They are best IMO.right off the vine, still sun warmed.

    Metric:  yes, it is so much more useful than what we use here in #1 USA.

    Kids:  funny you ask.  We just bought our five year old a pair of shoes with laces so she can learn.  She can tell time from a clock but phrases like quarter to confuse her.

  5. Gee

    What’s the most difficult decision you ever had to make?

    Have you ever successfully grown strawberries? How do you prefer to eat them?

    Do you understand the metric system at all?

    Do any kids of your acquaintance know how to tie shoes that have laces or tell the time from analog clocks?

    Can’t think of any difficult decisions.  May just be too early in the a.m.

    My parents successfully grew them for about one season.  I love strawberry shortcake with lots of whipped cream.

    Metric system?  What’s to understand?  It’s all 10s.  I think the problem people have is trying to convert from one system to the other.  If we switched to metric, the problem would eventually fade away.

    I guess the kids all started with velcro shoes, didn’t they?  But they learned all that stuff.  I was pretty slow at the shoe-tying myself, long before velcro.  On the same subject, do you remember the shoes called flip-locks?

  6. Gee

    In 1861, North Carolina seceded from the union.

    Possible Republican holiday?  The timing is perfect:  the missing holiday between Presidents’ Day and Memorial Day!

  7. Gee

    1876 – Henri Edmond Cross, French painter (d. 1910)

    Very good!  Finally a goatscape instead of a scapegoat!

  8. Gee

    1942 – Jill Jackson, American singer (Paul & Paula)

    Well, this is just scandalous!  Her name wasn’t even Paula??  What was Paul’s name?

  9. JG in MD

    FR, you and the F Bomb have supplied me with a whole backlog of landscapes and seascapes (and canalscapes and beachscapes and…) to use for wallpaper. I don’t change the picture for weeks because the artists’ work is so pretty and interesting. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

  10. jlms qkw

    probably around marriage & children. which is all i am willing to say in public.

    no but my dad did.  naked.  just washed.  

    yes.

    yes & yes, because i made them learn.  😉  

  11. JG in MD

    What’s the most difficult decision you ever had to make?

    Have you ever successfully grown strawberries? How do you prefer to eat them?

    Do you understand the metric system at all?

    Do any kids of your acquaintance know how to tie shoes that have laces or tell the time from analog clocks?

    I’ll have to think about the hardest decision. Funny, it ought to be obvious.

    I always sweeten strawberries and have them with cake and cream. So much for healthy fruit. But recently I added them as-is to lettuce for salad, so maybe there’s hope.

    I prefer centimeters and millimeters to inch fractions. Kilometers and non-fahrenheit temps defeat me.

    Don’t know any kids right now.

  13. JG in MD

    Almost everybody you list who was born in my year is a British musician.

    I’d love to know what was going on in 1943-1944 among musically talented Brits who passed along the gene to their offspring.

  14. JanF

       Freedom isn’t freedom unless you can be a sexist dick without being criticized.

       – Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) May 17, 2013

    Indeed!! Signed, The Republican Party.

    THIS made me laugh out loud:

    Two of the horses have spied what appears to be a tiny impostor in their midst.

    Not an imposter … a very cute woozle.

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