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The Daily F Bomb, Friday 10/18/13

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Interrogatories

Did you ever have a transistor radio? If not, what forms of portable music have you had?

If you have an iPod or other digital music player, how many songs are on it?

What’s your favorite kind of cake/frosting?

Has there ever been a product you liked so much you’d do a commercial for it?

Have you ever bought anything because you saw a commercial for it?

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On This Day

In 1685, King Louis XIV of France revoked the Edict of Nantes, which had established the legal toleration the Huguenots. The persecution that followed was the catalyst for my ancestors ending up in the U.S.

In 1775, American slave and poet Phillis Wheatley was freed by the will of her owner John Wheatley. The Wheatley family had taught her to read and write, and her poems attracted much attention and many sponsors, though all the attention ceased when she was freed, and she died in poverty in 1784.

In 1851, Moby Dick by Herman Melville was first published.

In 1922, the BBC was founded.

In 1954, the first transistor radio was introduced by Texas Instruments.

In 1972, Congress overrode the veto of President Nixon to pass the Clean Water Act.

Born on This Day

1595 – Lucas van Uden, Flemish landscape painter and engraver (d. 1672)

1634 – Luca Giordano, Italian painter (d. 1705)

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1697 – Giovanni Antonio Canal “Canaletto”, Italian painter (d. 1768)

1785 – David Wilkie, British painter (d. 1841)

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1836 – Frederick August Otto Schwarz, American businessman, founder of FAO Schwarz (d. 1911)

1840 – Alexei Kharlamov (or Harlamoff or Harlamov), Russian painter (d. 1925)

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1844 – Sir Luke Fildes, British painter and illustrator (d. 1927)

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1858 – Charles Frederick Ulrich, U.S. painter (d. 1908)

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1898 – Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress (d. 1981)

1902 – Miriam Hopkins, American actress (d. 1972)

1906 – James Brooks, American painter (d. 1992)

1918 – Bobby Troup, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (d. 1999)

1919 – Anita O’Day, American singer (d. 2006)

1919 – Pierre Trudeau, Canadian politician, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2000)

1920 – Melina Mercouri, Greek actress, singer, and politician (d. 1994)

1921 – Jesse Helms, American politician (d. 2008)

1923 – Jessie Mae Hemphill, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2008)

1924 – Buddy MacMaster, Canadian singer-songwriter and fiddler

1926 – Chuck Berry, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1926 – Klaus Kinski, German actor (d. 1991)

1927 – George C. Scott, American actor (d. 1999)

1934 – Inger Stevens, Swedish actress (d. 1970)

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1938 – Dawn Wells, American actress

1939 – Lee Harvey Oswald, American assassin of John F. Kennedy (d. 1963)

1945 – Huell Howser, American television host (d. 2013)

1947 – Laura Nyro, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1997)

1951 – Terry McMillan, American author

1951 – Nic Potter, English bass player and songwriter (Van der Graaf Generator and The Misunderstood) (d. 2013)

1955 – Vanessa Briscoe Hay, American singer-songwriter (Pylon and Supercluster)

1956 – Martina Navrátilová, Czech-American tennis player

1960 – Jean-Claude Van Damme, Belgian martial artist, actor, and director

1961 – Wynton Marsalis, American trumpet player, composer, and educator

1970 – José Padilla, American terrorist

1974 – Peter Svensson, Swedish guitarist and songwriter (The Cardigans)

1984 – Esperanza Spalding, American singer-songwriter and bassist

1987 – Zac Efron, American actor and singer

1990 – Bristol Palin, American non-entity famous for having a famous parent

Died on This Day

1417 – Pope Gregory XII (b. 1326)

1503 – Pope Pius III (b. 1439)

1669 – Abraham Willaerts, Dutch marine painter (b. 1603)

1678 – Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter (b. 1593)

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1839 – François Joseph Kinson, Flemish painter (b. 1771)

1865 – Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1784)

1903 – John Callcott Horsley, English painter (b. 1817)

1916 – Ignacio Pinazo Camarlench, Spanish painter (b. 1849)

1918 – Koloman Moser, Austrian painter and graphic artist (b. 1868)

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1921 – Ludwig III of Bavaria (b. 1845)

1931 – Thomas Edison, American inventor, invented the light bulb (b. 1847)

1931 – Lesser Ury, German painter (b. 1861)

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1942 – Mikhail Nesterov, Russian symbolist painter (b. 1862)

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1966 – Elizabeth Arden, Canadian-American businesswoman, founded Elizabeth Arden, Inc. (b. 1878)

1973 – Walt Kelly, American cartoonist (b. 1913) (Pogo)

1982 – Bess Truman, American wife of Harry S. Truman, 35th First Lady of the United States (b. 1885)

1984 – Jon-Erik Hexum, American actor (b. 1957)

1984 – Henri Michaux, French painter and poet (b. 1899)

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2000 – Julie London, American singer and actress (b. 1926)

2000 – Gwen Verdon, American dancer and actress (b. 1925)

2010 – Marion Brown, American saxophonist (b. 1931)

2012 – David S. Ware, American saxophonist (b. 1949)

Today is

Alaska Day

National Chocolate Cupcake Day

No Beard Day

World Menopause Day

Mammography Day


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38 comments

  1. Floja Roja

    I think my brother was the only one of us kids who had a transistor radio. That was right around when FM suddenly became a thing, and they kinda stopped being cool. I never had any portable device until…

    the iPod came along. My old one (that still barely works and is attached to my stereo most of the time) has 842 songs, and the new one only has about 904… I can’t get some of my songs on it, and I need to figure out why. I have the cloud service, but the missing songs are a mix of iTunes downloads (ones that had been loaded to my old iPhone directly) and songs I got from friends.

    I like that lemon bundt cake (spell check never heard of bundt cake!) with the lemon glaze. And pound cake, which is surely called that because each bite adds a pound to your waistline.

    I’ve had products I like a lot, but I’d rot in hell before I did a commercial for anything.

    I can’t think of anything a commercial led me to buy. I think it’s because commercials try to make you want stuff you don’t need. If I saw an ad that was for something new and clever that would solve problems I would like solved, I might go out and buy it (after reading customer reviews), but generally I am wary of any advertised products except the ones I already use. Actually, I have sworn on occasion to stop using something if they don’t dump a particularly obnoxious ad campaign.

  2. anotherdemocrat

    Did you ever have a transistor radio? If not, what forms of portable music have you had?

    walkman, discman, iPod

    If you have an iPod or other digital music player, how many songs are on it?

    iPod, maybe 1,000? I’d have to check.

    What’s your favorite kind of cake/frosting?

    chocolate cake with cream cheese or sour cream frosting

    Has there ever been a product you liked so much you’d do a commercial for it?

    probably, but I can’t think of one right now

    Have you ever bought anything because you saw a commercial for it?

    maybe, but I can’t remember what

  3. Gee

    Did you ever have a transistor radio? If not, what forms of portable music have you had?

    If you have an iPod or other digital music player, how many songs are on it?

    What’s your favorite kind of cake/frosting?

    Has there ever been a product you liked so much you’d do a commercial for it?

    Have you ever bought anything because you saw a commercial for it?

    Yes, I had at least one transistor radio.

    My iPod has about 28,300 songs on it.

    Chocolate.

    I’d do a commercial for Dogfish Head ales.

    I don’t know if I’ve ever bought anything because of a commercial.  I’m more a word-of-mouth person.

  4. JanF

    Charles Pierce found an article in The New Republic about the fiscal scolds from Fix The Debt that included this quote:

    “Most in a bipartisan way can say that fixing the debt has got to be the ultimate goal. Everything else, yeah, we’ll have those fights, we’ll have those disagreements,” chimed in Jim Nussle, a former Republican congressman from Iowa, budget director under President George W. Bush and member of Fix the Debt’s steering committee. He offered: “We can give them the tools for that toolbox as they go in to build that consensus.”

    That got Charlie going …

    A budget director under C-Plus Augustus is now going to help us bipartisanly to fix the debt that his old boss, the dumbass, sent zooming off towards Alpha Centauri? Yes, Captain Hazlewood, take the conn again. Mind the rocks, though.

    This is the real threat to the recovery right here. Not partisan bickering. Not the temporizing in the deal cut last night. Not even Ted Cruz and the members of the monkeyhouse on the other side of the Capitol. It is this permanent class of deficit fetishists and austerian fantasts. These are the people who will wreck lives. These are people who get heard in the White House instead of being told to go pound sand until we elect Paul Ryan to be president. Every time the president mentions the deficit, these guys get their semi-annual woodies and a little bit of actual progressive politics dies again.

    I was listening to Thom Hartmann the other day talking about the debt and one of his guests pointed out that screaming about the debt is like a family earning $50,000 a year who owes $200,000 on their house going ballistic because their debt is 4 times what they earn in a year! And they better quit buying food because THEY OWE PEOPLE MONEY!! Debt is a normal part of life and you go into debt to buy things that you can’t pay cash for. Like the cost of helping people clean up after Super Storm Sandy or Hurricane Katrina. Or building bridges (can we start doing that again … please please please?).

    The debt firsters and the granny-starving Paul Ryan Republican party are the real problem. And we should be careful about thinking that if the Tea Party is kicked to the curb that we are somehow out of the woods. The Tea Party is the shiny object that is distracting us from Ryan. If their wingnuttery has made Ryan’s budgets appear “sensible” we are well and verily screwed.

    Back to hover after breakfast …

  5. Gee

    In 1685, King Louis XIV of France revoked the Edict of Nantes, which had established the legal toleration the Huguenots. The persecution that followed was the catalyst for my ancestors ending up in the U.S.

    And my mother’s side of the family.  They went to England first and got their names somewhat Anglicized.  My mom, for all her positive qualities, harbored a rather nasty anti-Catholic streak.

  6. jlms qkw

    son had a bad night. mine was marginal.  drinking tea.  having trouble spelling tweets.  

    no, but one of my ex’s friends thought that mfsob must have had one and it really annoyed mfsob!  

    a few dozen.  it’s not my main music source.  

    black forest cake.  

    YES! i love my Accucut Go Baby.  I love my rotary cutter.  I love ROC facial cream.  I love my mattress.  etc.

    yes.  

  7. Gee

    1934 – Inger Stevens, Swedish actress (d. 1970)

    Hop/barley.  Very nice puns!  Btw, I may never have bought anything because of a commercial, but every time they pour a beer in a commercial, I want one.

    1990 – Bristol Palin, American non-entity famous for having a famous parent

    Wow, there’s a whole raft of those nowadays.

  8. lulu57

    waiting for the furnace repair dude to come and finish fixing our heater. It’s gonna get cold soon!

    Did you ever have a transistor radio? If not, what forms of portable music have you had?

    I did have a transistor radio! Used to listen to it under my pillow. I remember all songs from the late 60s as being a bit muffled.

    I’ve also had a Walkman (several, it was the best way to get through a longish commute) and I have an iPod.

    If you have an iPod or other digital music player, how many songs are on it?

    I think about 2700…I’m a piker compared to my husband 🙂

    What’s your favorite kind of cake/frosting?

    Orange cake with fluffy orange frosting. Not too sweet, though. Lots of orange zest in it helps cut the sweetness.

    Has there ever been a product you liked so much you’d do a commercial for it?

    I would do a commercial for La Crema Chardonnay, but they probably wouldn’t let me because I look frazzled and dissipated. Bad for the brand.

    Have you ever bought anything because you saw a commercial for it?

    Probably not a TV commercial but maybe a print ad? For what, I do not recall. But there must be something 😉

  11. princesspat

    Radio….only plug in’s or in the car.

    iPod…..my cd stacks runneth over, waiting for me to learn to use yet another music source. It’s so much easier to just turn the radio on!

    cake…..chocolate/chocolate

    Commercial….I’d never do one, but print advertising does lead me to buy stuff, especially clothes.

    Have a nice weekend Floja, and as always, thanks for the fun.

  12. JanF

    :::sob:::

       Now is a good time for Republicans to get back in the good graces of the public by holding expensive and time-consuming hearings on Benghazi

       – TBogg (@tbogg) October 17, 2013

    (p.s. Also IRS!!! Peggy Noonan will be so happy.)

       Obama criticized “bloggers, talking heads on radio who profit from conflict”, and every blogger agreed he was talking about OTHER bloggers.

       – Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) October 18, 2013

    Must. Not. Type. Contents. Of. Thought. Bubble.

    Wow! I did not realize this:

    In 1972, Congress overrode the veto of President Nixon to pass the Clean Water Act.

    That is one heck of a lot of NO since a veto takes 2/3rds votes. I am not sure that we could get 2/3rds of Congress to agree that the earth revolves around the sun and it is millions of years old.

    … NOW, can I please hover???? 🙂

    – HAHAHAHA!!! “Having been consulted on biblical point of contention, not one of the evangelists was willing to admit that he was unable to read.”

    Sounds like they are the intellectual forebears of today’s tea party.

    Thank you, Floja Roja. Nice to see some Nomes on Alaska Day. Although, a more literal translation suggests that they are gnominally dwarves. 🙂    

  13. Avilyn

    Q&A:

    Did you ever have a transistor radio? If not, what forms of portable music have you had?   No transistor radio, but I had a walkman, a boom box, a portable CD player, and now, an iPod.

    If you have an iPod or other digital music player, how many songs are on it?  Checking…  4,894 songs, 11 videos, and 235 podcasts.  Some of those ‘songs’ are audiobooks, though.

    What’s your favorite kind of cake/frosting? Vanilla cake with super sweet buttercream icing, especially the kind with large roses.  Sugar overload heaven.

    Has there ever been a product you liked so much you’d do a commercial for it?  No, because I’m too camera shy to do a commercial.

    Have you ever bought anything because you saw a commercial for it?  Probably?  Nothing specific comes to mind though.

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