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The Daily F Bomb, Thursday 10/17/13

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Interrogatories

Who is the stupidest Republican in the House? In the Senate?

Where do you do your banking, bank or credit union?

What is your favorite pasta dish? Do you fix it yourself, or is it from a restaurant?

What’s the oldest piece of electronic equipment that you own?

The Twitter Emitter

On This Day

In 1091, a tornado that is believed today to have been around F4 struck London, a much smaller city back then (around 18,000 inhabitants).

In 1814, seven people were killed in London when a beer vat at Meux and Company Brewery holding more than 610,000 liters ruptured. The collapsing vat caused a domino effect, sending a wave of 1,470,000 liters into the street. In addition to the deaths, it destroyed two houses and damaged many others.

In 1907, the first commercial transatlantic wireless service began between Novia Scotia and Ireland.

In 1919, RCA became a corporation.

In 1989, the 7.1 Loma Prieta quake struck the San Francisco Bay Area.

Born on This Day

1577 – Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (d. 1621)

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1603 – Frans de Momper, Flemish landscape painter (d. 1660)

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1725 – John Wilkes, English radical, journalist, and politician. (d. 1797)

1859 – Childe Hassam, U.S. impressionist painter (d. 1935)

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1860 – Roderic O’Conor, Irish painter and etcher (d. 1940)

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1864 – Elinor Glyn, English author and scriptwriter (d. 1943)

1864 – Marie Lucas Robiquet, French painter (d. 1959)

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1886 – Spring Byington, American actress (d. 1971)

1895 – Ernst Nepo, Austrian “New Objectivity” painter (d. 1971)

1900 – Jean Arthur, American actress (d. 1991) (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, You Can’t Take it With You)

1902 – Irene Ryan, American actress (d. 1973) (The Beverly Hillbillies)

1903 – Nathanael West, American author and screenwriter (d. 1940) (Day of the Locust)

1909 – Cozy Cole, American drummer (d. 1981)

1915 – Arthur Miller, American playwright (d. 2005) (The Crucible; Death of a Salesman)

1917 – Marsha Hunt, American actress

1918 – Rita Hayworth, American actress and dancer (d. 1987)

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1920 – Montgomery Clift, American actor (d. 1966)

1923 – Barney Kessel, American guitarist and composer (d. 2004)

1926 – Julie Adams, American actress

1926 – Beverly Garland, American actress (d. 2008)

1934 – Rico Rodriguez, American trombonist

1942 – Gary Puckett, American singer-songwriter (Gary Puckett & The Union Gap)

1947 – Michael McKean, American actor

1948 – Robert Jordan, American author (d. 2007)

1948 – Margot Kidder, Canadian actress

1948 – George Wendt, American actor

1950 – Howard Rollins, American actor (d. 1996)

1968 – Ziggy Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter, guitarist, and voice actor

1969 – Wyclef Jean, Haitian-born American rapper, songwriter, producer, and actor (Fugees)

Died on This Day

532 – Pope Boniface II

1533 – Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen, Dutch painter (b. 1470)

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1586 – Philip Sidney, English courtier and soldier (b. 1554)

1780 – Bernardo Bellotto, Italian Rococo painter of urban landscapes (b. 1720)

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1786 – Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss landscape painter (b. 1723)

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1836 – Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (b. 1782)

1849 – Frédéric Chopin, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1810)

1918 – Luigi Nono, Italian painter (b. 1850)

1928 – Frank Dicksee, English painter and illustrator (b. 1853)

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1958 – Paul Outerbridge, American photographer (b. 1896)

1962 – Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter (b. 1882)

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1964 – Gerald Murphy, U.S. painter (b. 1888)

1966 – Cléo de Mérode, French dancer and model (b. 1875)

1970 – Vola Vale, American actress (b. 1897)

1979 – S. J. Perelman, American author and screenwriter (b. 1904)

2007 – Joey Bishop, American actor (b. 1918)

2008 – Levi Stubbs, American singer and actor (Four Tops) (b. 1936)

Today is

International Day for the Eradication of Poverty

Alternative Fuel Day

Black Poetry Day

International Credit Union Day

National Pasta Day

Wear Something Gaudy Day

Four Prunes Day


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19 comments

  1. Floja Roja

    Without a doubt the stupidest Republican in the House is Gohmert. You cannot get stupider, though King comes in a close second. In the Senate, I’m torn. I am tempted to say Ted Cruz. He may have had a good education, but he must have paid someone to take his tests for him.

    I dumped my bank for a credit union about a year ago and have not looked back. It was a very good decision. Unfortunately, my Unemployment money gets deposited in a BoA account, so I have to deal with them until I find work.

    My favorite pasta dish is mac and cheese. Baked Ziti comes close, as does Pad Thai, but mac and cheese is so good. Mac and cheese is also the only one I make myself. You can’t really mess it up, but IMO, if you put things like tomatoes in it, it becomes a yummy mac casserole, but is no longer mac and cheese. One must draw the line somewhere.

    I thought it might be my TV, which is a widescreen direct view tube TV that still works great, so I can’t justify dumping it for a lean and mean flat screen (though it would be nice to have the extra space it would free up). It gets the HD signal, so I can live with it. But wait, is that an ancient VCR I haven’t thrown away yet? Why yes, it’s right there in my bedroom stacked beneath the older DVD player and the cable box for my bedroom TV set! I know I’ll never use it again, I don’t know why I keep it.

  2. anotherdemocrat

    Who is the stupidest Republican in the House? In the Senate?

    I wanna say my gerrymandered “rep”, Michael McCaul, but he is smart enough to not get on camera much. I’ll have to agree with FR that it’s Gohmert or King.

    Where do you do your banking, bank or credit union?

    credit union, since the 90s

    What is your favorite pasta dish? Do you fix it yourself, or is it from a restaurant?

    tomato dishes have started upsetting my stomach lately, and I’ve never been able to eat pesto, so I’ll say “anything vegetarian, with a white sauce”

    What’s the oldest piece of electronic equipment that you own?

    probably my iPod, I think its 1st generation

  3. JanF

    A drive-by rec/tip/tweet-drop … back later.

    +2 on the “still a pain in the ass” tweet. Indeed. I am staying away from the “we will have to do this all over again in January” articles (mainly because granny-starving Paul Ryan insists that, you know, grannies get starved). Today, we gloat celebrate.

  4. JanF

    Today In The Reign Of Morons: Gotterdumberung

    Wisconsin Rep. Sean Duffy (R-Real Life) went on the Morning Squint program on MSNBC today for the purposes of being really stupid. He succeeded splendidly, did young Sean.

    “I think are you a part of the problem,” Duffy said. “You’re part of the problem because the Republican caucus sometimes can be unreasonable, but look how far we want to move. We said we want to defund [Obamacare]. Now we want to delay it. Now we’re just going to ask for some very simple tweaks and reforms. If you actually called out your liberal guests and said, ‘Why won’t you join for Obamacare? If it’s good for Americans, it should be good for you?'”

    Because I speak all dialects of wingnut, but my weakest one is utter gibberish, so I may be misinterpreting the dumbassery on display here, but what in the unholy fk is this cluck talking about? People don’t have to “join for Obamacare” — The grammar nuns of my youth are at 78 rpm.  — if they already can afford insurance. Are the 24-year-olds who can stay on their parent’s health plan “joining for Obamacare?” The people whose insurance companies no longer can dump them for pre-existing conditions, or the parents who no longer have to worry about a lifetime cap on medical expenses for their disabled child, did these people “join for Obamacare”?

    A companion Tweet, regarding another Wisconsin endangered politician, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) who voted last night in favor of destroying the world economy:

  5. jlms qkw

     

    house: gohmert, ’cause he doesn’t know how dumb he is

    senate: mike lee, utah, ’cause he doesn’t know how dumb he is . . . lol.  

    credit union baby, but i sure could use a safe deposit box these days . . .

    something noodly and spicy and asian.  from a restaurant.  also old spaghetti factory’s cheesy maximum dish – butter and cheese . . .

    stereo radio cd players?  15 years old?  i didn’t bring the oldest stuff when i moved.  

  6. Gee

    I get to go back to work at noon today.

    Who is the stupidest Republican in the House? In the Senate?

    Where do you do your banking, bank or credit union?

    What is your favorite pasta dish? Do you fix it yourself, or is it from a restaurant?

    What’s the oldest piece of electronic equipment that you own?

    I’m told that the stupidest House Republican is Louie Gohmert, but I think Virginia Fox can’t be far behind.  Or far ahead.  I’m not up on Senate stupidity.  I’m a specialist.

    Credit union.

    Spaghetti & meatballs, I guess.  I don’t fix anything myself, but Lulu might.

    There’s an old TV we don’t use any more.  It’s a Zenith, but I don’t know how old it is.  I actually have, somewhere, a Walkman I.  Big clunky thing!

  9. bubbanomics

    Who is the stupidest Republican in the House?

    Marsha Blackburn (R, land o’ the Duke Boys)

    In the Senate?

    Inhofe (R, where the winds go sweepin thru his ear holes)

    Where do you do your banking, bank or credit union?

    america! as in bank of.

    What is your favorite pasta dish? Do you fix it yourself, or is it from a restaurant?

    too many to say.  I do make a mean lasagna.

    What’s the oldest piece of electronic equipment that you own?

    I’ve got some pretty old power tools I inherited from the old man, at least a couple are older than me.  But I don’t reckon that’s what you mean.  I have a turntable and amp that I bought as a high school student in the 70s.  I have a “laptop” computer I bought in 94… still works (windows 3.1 i think).

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