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?
The Twitter Emitter
Twitter makes being like Abraham Simpson so easy.
— Andrew Gatto (@AndrewGatto) May 17, 2013
Freedom isn’t freedom unless you can be a sexist dick without being criticized.
— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) May 17, 2013
Florida Gov. Rick Scott demanded that the winner of the Powerball must first pass a drug test before he can collect any money.
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) May 19, 2013
We treat single people and unemployed people the same. “If you were so good, wouldn’t you be taken/employed?”
— FJ The Riveter(@FeministaJones) May 19, 2013
they opened the benghazi emails and found al capone’s vault.
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) May 19, 2013
“We’re getting purchased by Yahoo! It’s an obscure old search engine, you probably haven’t heard of it.” — Tumblr users, probably
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) May 19, 2013
Your life flashes before your eyes right before you die. It takes an average of 70-80 years.
— God (@TheTweetOfGod) May 19, 2013
John Karl: “No, I won’t reveal my source on the #Benghazi emails. I protect my sources, even when they lie and make me look like a fool.”
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) May 19, 2013
If I had a time machine I’d stop OJ from killing those ppl & then nobody would ever know what a Kardashian is. youtube.com/watch?v=tcKvUb…
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) May 19, 2013
ABC’s Jonathan Karl to start reviewing movies that he hasn’t seen solely based upon friends descriptions. New Star Trek?: “Super awesome”
— TBogg (@tbogg) May 19, 2013
I hope you all, like me, you woke up this morning, checked your Powerball numbers, and realized we are all losers. #DailyAffirmation
— Christopher Moore (@TheAuthorGuy) May 19, 2013
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)
1726 – Gabriel-François Doyen, French painter (d. 1806)
1766 – Adam Wolfgang Töpffer, Swiss painter, caricaturist, and engraver (d. 1847)
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)
1843 – Emil Adam, German painter, specialized in race horses (d.1924)
1851 – Emile Berliner, German-American inventor, invented the Gramophone record (d. 1929)
1857 – Herman af Sillén, Swedish marine painter (d. 1908)
1876 – Henri Edmond Cross, French painter (d. 1910)
1883 – Paul Arntzenius, Dutch painter (d. 1965)
1889 – Karin Molander, Swedish actress (d. 1978)
1899 – Alexander Deyneka, Ukrainian painter (d. 1969)
1899 – Estelle Taylor, silent film star (d. 1958)
1908 – James Stewart, American actor (d. 1997)
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)
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)
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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