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The Daily F Bomb, Friday 6/21/13

It is now officially summer. You are hereby commanded to kick back and enjoy yourselves. Leave any negativity at the door and bask in a little lighthearted silliness for a while. It will do your heart mind and body good. Bathing suits optional.

Interrogatories

What about yourself would you like your friends to remember you for when you are gone?

What would you prefer that they forget?

If you had your own country that you were ruler of, what would it be like?

What nicknames did your friends/not friends give you in school?

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On This Day

In 1877, 10 union organizing Irish immigrants called the Molly Maguires were hanged for alleged murder in Pennsylvania.

In 1964, in Mississippi, civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner were abducted and murdered by the KKK. Their bodies were found 6 weeks later.

In 1982, Reagan’s would-be assassin John Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity.

In 1985, Brazilian scientists announced that recently exhumed remains were indeed those of Josef Mengele, infamous Nazi war criminal. It was confirmed again after a 1992 DNA analysis.

In 1997, the WNBA was formed.

Born on This Day

1002 – Pope Leo IX (d. 1054)

1639 – Increase Mather, American minister and author (d. 1723)

1732 – Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German composer (d. 1791)

1834 – Elizabeth Jane Caulfield, Countess of Charlemont (d. 1882)

1845 – Luis Jiménez Aranda, Spanish Impressionist painter (d. 1928)

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1847 – Wilhelm Velten, German painter (d. 1929)

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1850 – Johann Hamza, Austrian genre and portrait painter (d. 1927)

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1859 – Henry Ossawa Tanner, American painter (d. 1937)

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1882 – Rockwell Kent, American painter, printmaker and illustrator (d. 1971)

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1883 – Daisy Turner, American storyteller, centarian, and daughter of ex-slaves (d. 1988)

1903 – Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist (d. 2003)

1905 – Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer (d. 1980)

1906 – Helene Costello, American actress (d. 1957)

1921 – Judy Holliday, American actress (d. 1965)

1921 – Jane Russell, American actress (d. 2011)

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1925 – Maureen Stapleton, American actress (d. 2006)

1932 – Lalo Schifrin, Argentine composer, pianist, and composer

1932 – O. C. Smith, American singer (d. 2001)

1944 – Ray Davies, English singer-songwriter and musician (The Kinks)

1947 – Joey Molland, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Badfinger and Natural Gas)

1951 – Nils Lofgren, American singer-songwriter and musician (E Street Band and Crazy Horse)

1953 – Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani politician (d. 2007)

1959 – Marcella Detroit, American singer-songwriter and musician (Shakespeare’s Sister)

1959 – Kathy Mattea, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1973 – Juliette Lewis, American actress and singer

1976 – Mike Einziger, American guitarist and songwriter (Incubus and Time Lapse Consortium)

1981 – Brandon Flowers, American singer-songwriter and musician (The Killers)

1986 – Lana Del Rey, American singer-songwriter and model

Died on This Day

1521 – Leonardo Loredan, Italian noble, 76th Doge of Venice (b. 1436)

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

1547 – Sebastiano del Piombo, Italian painter (b. 1485)

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1652 – Inigo Jones, English architect, designed the Queen’s House and Wilton House (b. 1573)

1661 – Andrea Sacchi, Italian painter (b. 1599)

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1812  – Johann Friedrich August Tischbein, German painter (b. 1750)

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1900 – Francesco Beda, Italian artist (b. 1840)

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1908 – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer (b. 1844)

1920 – Gaetano Previati, Italian artist (b. 1852)

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1940 – Smedley Butler, American general (b. 1881)

1940 – Jean Édouard Vuillard, French painter (b. 1868)

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1949 – Edward Alexander Wadsworth, English painter (b. 1889)

1970 – Sukarno, Indonesian politician, 1st President of Indonesia (b. 1901)

1975 – Émile Grau-Sala, French painter (b. 1911)

1985 – Werner Drewes, German-born US abstract painter  (b. 1899)

1997 – Fidel Velázquez Sánchez, Mexican labor leader (b. 1900)

2001 – John Lee Hooker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1916)

2001 – Carroll O’Connor, American actor (b. 1924)

2003 – Moshe Kupferman, Israeli abstract painter (b. 1926)

Today is

Go Skateboarding Day

World Humanist Day

World Music Day

International Surfing Day

National Peaches and Cream Day

World Handshake Day

National Flip-Flop Day

National Daylight Appreciation Day

Atheists Solidarity Day


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23 comments

  1. plf515

    What about yourself would you like your friends to remember you for when you are gone?

    Everything.  I’m a package. Not all of it is wonderful, but all of it is me.

    What would you prefer that they forget?

    See above

    If you had your own country that you were ruler of, what would it be like?

    Chicago sang it:


    Vote for me, vote for me

    I want the nomination for the Presidency

    Vote for me, vote for me

    If I am elected, this is how it will be.

    I’ll cut your tax in half

    I’ll make the Russians laugh

    I’ll feed the hungry people everywhere.

    I’ll bring the railroads back

    New trains and new track

    From Waikiki to old Delaware.

    Vote for me, vote for me

    I want the nomination for the Presidency

    Vote for me, vote for me

    If I am elected, this is how it will be.

    I’ll give Detroit one year

    New cars that run on beer

    Or anything except gasoline.

    I’m looking to the sun

    More power for everyone

    And the cleanest sky that you’ve ever seen.

    I’m not going to kid you, there’s a lot to do

    Little can I promise, it’s really up to you

    But if we all work together

    And I think we can

    And if you want some new ideas

    Then I’m your man.

    Vote for me, vote for me

    I want the nomination for the Presidency

    Vote for me, vote for me

    If I am elected, this is how it will be.

    I’ll work for global peace

    And the sweet release

    Of the love and human kindness in us all.

    I would give all I’ve got

    You just give me a shot

    Somehow, I know that I can win the fall.

    What nicknames did your friends/not friends give you in school?

    I didn’t really have any nicknames, but then, I didn’t really have any friends. I did get called things like “retard” and “spazzo” and some people played with my last name “Styrofloam” etc

  2. Gee

    I was worried.  🙂

    Bathing suits optional.

    Heck, a couple of martinis took care of that yesterday.

    What about yourself would you like your friends to remember you for when you are gone?

    What would you prefer that they forget?

    If you had your own country that you were ruler of, what would it be like?

    What nicknames did your friends/not friends give you in school?

    That I was brilliant!

    That I was kinda wimpy.

    Probably a mess.  I’d want it to be a place of learning, but you know how that goes.

    Besides Georgie Porgie, I never had any nicknames.  Over the years, various people have addressed me by foreign variations on George.  Mostly Jorge, but sometimes Georg or Giorgio or Gyorgos.

  3. Jk2003

    What about yourself would you like your friends to remember you for when you are gone?

    What would you prefer that they forget?

    If you had your own country that you were ruler of, what would it be like?

    What nicknames did your friends/not friends give you in school?

    Remember me:  I hope they think of me as a good person who made them feel important

    Forget:  my hotheadedness and when I went blonde in vet school

    My country:  I dream of an idyllic setting with small farms that puts people and quality of life before profit and growth.

    Nicknames:  my first name is VERY common for girls born mid seventies.  When I played field hockey my sophomore year in HS there were five or six of us with the same name.  So we all went by our last names.  Luckily my maiden name was awesome (and figures prominently in a famous Beatles song) so it stuck and people still call me that.  Can you guess?

  4. Gee

    1847 – Wilhelm Velten, German painter (d. 1929)

    I’m betting it’s these guys’ second go-’round with the goat lady.  They should’ve brought a map!

  6. Gee

    1882 – Rockwell Kent, American painter, printmaker and illustrator (d. 1971)

    OK, that one’s got the Hover of the Decade.

  7. slksfca

    …except from my mother, who often called me “Scotch-and-soda.”

    In young adulthood I had several though, including “Scottland Yard” and “Scooter Pie.”

  8. slksfca

    From the little-known sequel, Mary Poppins in Paris, where she gets up to all kinds of licentious tomfoolery.

  9. Gee

    1951 – Nils Lofgren, American singer-songwriter and musician (E Street Band and Crazy Horse)

    Also locally legendary DC-area band Grin.

  10. Gee

    1547 – Sebastiano del Piombo, Italian painter (b. 1485)

    The guy in the background is thinking, “Damn, I wish I could do that!”

  11. Gee

    This may be my favorite Ian Dury cut.  If Ian ruled the world.

    “Trees will be firmly rooted in town and country!”

  12. Melanie in IA

    I’m up again, after a rare morning nap. I’ll blame it on migraine medicine taken in the middle of the night.

    What about yourself would you like your friends to remember you for when you are gone?

    If they really are my friends, they’re likely to remember the same stuff I would wish.

    What would you prefer that they forget?

    … why would I tell you this? 🙂

    If you had your own country that you were ruler of, what would it be like?

    People wouldn’t be assholes, except everyone would have an asshole allowance, and since it would happen rarely, we all could get over it and get on with it.

    What nicknames did your friends/not friends give you in school?

    No nicknames but I’ve been called a lot of things that aren’t my name. Mel (is most typical and people still call me that, and NO it is not my name) and Melody and Melissa and Marilyn and Marianne (because that’s my sister’s name) and … A guy I worked with called me “MJ” and I actually like that.  

  13. Avilyn

    Summer is my favorite season 🙂

    Friday Q&A:

    What about yourself would you like your friends to remember you for when you are gone?  Hadn’t ever given it much thought.  I suppose my baking, my ability to listen, my capacity for caring?

    What would you prefer that they forget?  I can’t think of anything at the moment.  

    If you had your own country that you were ruler of, what would it be like?  Rainbows and Unicorns!  🙂  It would be a democratic socialist country; run on green energy; well regulated capitalism.

    School and nicknames are not happy memories, so I won’t go there.

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