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The Daily F Bomb, Monday 6/24/13

Interrogatories

If a picture paints a thousand words, what are you doing in that picture?

What is your most embarrassing moment, that, in retrospect, seems funny now?

What is your biggest pet peeve?

What famous quote do you wish you had said first?

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On This Day

In 1571, the Philippine capital of Manila was founded.

In 1901, the first major exhibition of Pablo Picasso’s artwork opened at a Parisian gallery.

In 1916, silent film star Mary Pickford signed a million dollar contract. She was the first female star to receive that kind of compensation.

In 1957, in the case of Roth v. United States, the Supreme Court both redefined obscenity and ruled that it was not protected as free speech under the Constitution.

In 2004, New York declared capital punishment to be unconstitutional.

In 2009, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford emerged from his journey along the Appalachian Trail and admitted he had been visiting a mistress in Argentina.

Born on This Day

1616 – Ferdinand Bol, Dutch Baroque era painter and etcher (d. 1680)

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1663 – Jean Baptiste Massillon, French bishop (d. 1742)

1695 – Martin van Meytens, Swedish-Austrian painter (d. 1770)

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1704 – Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d’Argens, French writer (d. 1771)

1744 – Wybrand Hendriks, Dutch painter (d. 1831)

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1767 – Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès, French geographer, author and translator (d. 1846)

1811 – John Archibald Campbell, American jurist (d. 1889)

1813 – Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman and reformer (d. 1887)

1838 – Jan Matejko, Polish painter (d. 1893)

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1842 – Ambrose Bierce, American author (d. 1914)

1847 – Joseph Noël Sylvestre, French painter (d. 1926)

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1866 – Giovanni Bartolena, Italian painter (d. 1942)

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1873 – Hugo Simberg, painter (d. 1917)

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1883 – Jean Metzinger, French Cubist painter, critic, and poet (d. 1956)

1895 – Jack Dempsey, American boxer (d. 1983)

1901 – Marcel Mule, French saxophonist (d. 2001)

1925 – Antonio Prats Ventos, Dominican painter and sculptor

1930 – Claude Chabrol, French director (d. 2010)

1932 – David McTaggart, co-founder of Greenpeace

1938 – Lawrence Block, American writer

1942 – Arthur Brown, English singer (Kingdom Come and The Crazy World of Arthur Brown)

1944 – Jeff Beck, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (The Yardbirds, The Jeff Beck Group, The Honeydrippers, and Beck, Bogert & Appice)

1944 – John “Charlie” Whitney, English musician (Family, Axis Point, Streetwalkers)

1944 – Chris Wood, English saxophonist and flautist (Traffic and Ginger Baker’s Air Force) (d. 1983)

1945 – Colin Blunstone, English singer-songwriter (The Zombies and Keats)

1946 – Robert Reich, American economist

1947 – Mick Fleetwood, English drummer and actor (Fleetwood Mac)

1948 – Patrick Moraz, Swiss pianist and songwriter (Yes, The Moody Blues, and Refugee)

1949 – John Illsley, English singer-songwriter, bassist, and producer (Dire Straits)

1957 – Astro, English rapper and musician (UB40)

1961 – Dennis Danell, American singer and guitarist (Social Distortion) (d. 2000)

1961 – Iain Glen, Scottish actor

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1961 – Curt Smith, English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Tears for Fears and Graduate)

1966 – Adrienne Shelly, American actress and director (d. 2006)

Died on This Day

1314 – Robert de Clifford, 1st Baron de Clifford, English soldier, Lord Warden of the Marches (b. 1274)

1398 – Hongwu Emperor of China, founder of the Ming Dynasty (b. 1328)

1604 – Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, English peer and courtier (b. 1550)

1693 – Isaac Willaerts, Dutch painter (b. 1620)

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1908 – Grover Cleveland, American politician, 22nd and 24th President of the United States (b. 1837)

1957 – Frantisek Kupka, Czech painter (b. 1871)

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1960 – Rafael Zabaleta, Spanish painter (b. 1907)

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1976 – Imogen Cunningham, American photographer (b. 1883)

1987 – Jackie Gleason, American actor and singer (b. 1916)

1991 – Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter (b. 1899)

1997 – Brian Keith, American actor (b. 1921)

2006 – Patsy Ramsey, American mother of JonBenét Ramsey (b. 1956)

Today is

National Pralines Day

Museum Comes to Life Day

International Fairy Day

Swim a Lap Day

Celebration of the Senses

Please Take My Children to Work Day


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26 comments

  2. Its the Supreme Court Stupid

    If a picture paints a thousand words, what are you doing in that picture?  Say two words with one single digit.

    What is your most embarrassing moment, that, in retrospect, seems funny now?  I was in the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone.  I was visiting the provincial capital from my village to pick up my monthly stipend.  So were other volunteers.  We went out as a group to a local bar (the BP station, believe or not).  There was an outdoor bar there, as well as tables, a dance floor and a dj. Our table was at the fringe of the bar area, which was bounded by a 1 1/2 foot high retaining wall.  I was seated with my back to the wall. The Stevie Wonder song “Master Blaster” came on and someone suggested we all dance.  I pushed my chair back.  It tipped over the retaining wall, coming up between my legs, I fell back and the chair continued until the front rim was pinning me at the throat against the ground.  Meanwhile, the chair legs, while coming up, had hit the table, upending IT and spilling all the beers thereon.   I was choaking, being pinned at the throat, and my friends were all falling on the floor laughing.  Finally, one unpinned me.  

    What is your biggest pet peeve?  People who ask what my biggest pet peeve is.

    What famous quote do you wish you had said first?  You mean I didn’t say that first?

  4. JG in MD

    If a picture paints a thousand words, what are you doing in that picture? painting

    What is your most embarrassing moment, that, in retrospect, seems funny now? have to think about this one

    What is your biggest pet peeve? have to think about this one

    What famous quote do you wish you had said first? have to… I’ll catch you later.

  5. Melanie in IA

    If a picture paints a thousand words, what are you doing in that picture?

    Probably quilting.

    What is your most embarrassing moment, that, in retrospect, seems funny now?

    I’ve made an ass of myself any number of times, but usually not in a big way.

    What is your biggest pet peeve?

    hypocrites

    What famous quote do you wish you had said first?

    “Be kind. It matters.”  

  7. Jk2003

    If a picture paints a thousand words, what are you doing in that picture?

    What is your most embarrassing moment, that, in retrospect, seems funny now?

    What is your biggest pet peeve?

    What famous quote do you wish you had said first?

    Picture:  picking up after my kids while trying to maintain some sense of still being cool.  I’m not.

    Embarrassing:  when I asked a client if she was pregnant.  She wasn’t.  I felt terrible.  She was so kind.

    Pet peeve:  when people shuffle their feet when walking rather than pick them up.  Drives me nuts!

    Famous quote:   A nation that draws too broad a difference between it’s scholars and it’s warriors will have it’s thinking done by cowards, and it’s fighting done by fools.  

  8. Floja Roja

    If a picture paints a thousand words, what are you doing in that picture?

    Trying to come up with 1000 words for the next weeks worth of diaries.

    What is your most embarrassing moment, that, in retrospect, seems funny now?

    Eh. Right now all I can think of is stuff that was also funny at the time, but I know I had plenty of these moments. It’s just that my brain filed them someplace that guarantees they will only come up when not wanted.

    What is your biggest pet peeve?

    Journey.

    What famous quote do you wish you had said first?

    Well, I’d have to be really, really, old, but that “do unto others” one comes to mind. Otherwise almost anything said by Dorothy Parker.

  10. plf515

    If a picture paints a thousand words, what are you doing in that picture?

    Sitting at the computer. Working. Or tweeting. Or even responding to Floja Roja questions.



    What is your most embarrassing moment, that, in retrospect, seems funny now?

    I’ve had embarrassing moments, for sure, but I can’t think of any that seem funny now.

    What is your biggest pet peeve?

    Oh, there are so many!  People who text while driving. Music in restaurants. People who bring infants to fancy restaurants and then don’t take them outside when they cry. People who complain about “life not being fair” when they are better off than 99% of all humans who ever lived.

    What famous quote do you wish you had said first?

    Oh, so many again!

    There’s Churchill:

    Responding to a person who criticized him for ending a sentence with a preposition he said:

    “That is the sort of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put”

    Moses Montefiore heard someone say

    “I’ve just returned from Japan, marvelous country. They have no Jews and they have no pigs” He replied “We should go there together, sir, so they will have one of each”.

    There’s my favorite quote of all time, from Israel Salanter:

    “Most people worry about their own bellies and other people’s souls when we all ought to worry about our own souls and other people’s bellies”.

    Spider Robinson said

    “Pain shared is lessened, joy shared increased”

    Moms Mabley:

    ” ‘The good old days.’ I was there. Where was they?”

  11. Gee

    If a picture paints a thousand words, what are you doing in that picture?

    What is your most embarrassing moment, that, in retrospect, seems funny now?

    What is your biggest pet peeve?

    What famous quote do you wish you had said first?

    Let’s see, a picture is painting a thousand words, and I’m in the picture.  The question is, What am I doing?  Or maybe the question is What the heck am I doing here?  Answer:  Being a wise-ass, as usual.

    Sorry, it happened about 20 years ago, and I’m still blushing.

    When somebody uses “I” when they should use “me.”  The words, I mean.  Not the actual me.

    “No self-respecting fish would want to be wrapped in a Murdoch paper.” — Mike Royko

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