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The Daily F Bomb, Monday 10/21/13

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Interrogatories

Married or former marrieds among you: What kind of wedding did you have? Big or small? Religious or civil? Who did the planning?

It’s Reptile Awareness Day. What reptiles do you need to be aware of (the Lizard People, maybe?), and are you afraid of them?

Are you currently boycotting anything? What?

Do you drink tea at all? What kinds? What’s your favorite?

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On This Day

In 1520, explorer Ferdinand Magellan, his need being dire, discovered the strait he (or someone) named after himself.

In 1520, Portugese explorer João Álvares Fagundes “discovered” a pair of islands (now called St. Pierre and Miquelon) in the Northeast Atlantic that he named “The Islands of the 11,000 Virgins.” Take that, Muslims! That’s a lot more than your measly 72.

In 1805, Admiral Nelson defeated the French and Spanish fleets in the Battle of Trafalgar, and for ages after it was said that “Britannia rules the waves.” Now they say, “Britannia waives the rules.” Cameron says that’s only for rich people.

In 1824, Brit Joseph Aspdin patented what he called Portland Cement, even though he was nowhere near Portland. Or even Portsmouth. Or Porterville.

In 1921, a President (Warren G. Harding) actually gave an anti-lynching speech in support of a bill that would curb racial violence in the deep South. The Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill was approved by the House in 1922, but was blocked by Southerners in the Senate.

In 1945, France, who in this instance was way behind most civilized nations, finally gave women the right to vote.

Born on This Day

1449 – George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence (d. 1478)

1581 – Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (d. 1641)

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1687 – Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1759)

1735 – Pierre-Louis de Larive Godefroy, Swiss landscape painter (d. 1817)

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1772 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet and philosopher (d. 1834)

1811 – François Geoffroi Roux, French marine painter (d. 1882)

1826 – Lemuel Maynard Wiles, U.S. landscape painter (d. 1905)

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1833 – Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist and engineer, invented dynamite and founded the Nobel Prize (d. 1896)

1842 – Francesc Masriera i Manovens, Catalan painter (d. 1902)

1879 – Gunnar Widforss, Swedish-American landscape painter, specializing in the National Parks, (d. 1934)

1885 – Jan Altink, Dutch expressionist painter (d. 1971)

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1891 – Ted Shawn, U.S. modern dance pioneer (d. 1972)

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1895 – Edna Purviance, American silent film actress (d. 1958)

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1907 – Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek painter and poet (d. 1985)

1911 – Mary Blair, American illustrator and animator (d. 1978)

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1912 – Don Byas, American saxophonist (d. 1972)

1917 – Dizzy Gillespie, American trumpet player, bandleader, and composer (d. 1993)

1924 – Celia Cruz, Cuban-American singer (d. 2003)

1928 – Whitey Ford, American baseball player

1929 – Ursula K. Le Guin, American author

1935 – Derek Bell, Irish pianist and songwriter (The Chieftains) (d. 2002)

1940 – Manfred Mann, South African-English keyboard player (Manfred Mann, Manfred Mann’s Earth Band, and Manfred Mann Chapter Three)

1941 – Steve Cropper, American guitarist, songwriter, producer, and actor (Booker T. & the M.G.’s, The Mar-Keys, and The Blues Brothers)

1942 – Elvin Bishop, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1946 – Lux Interior, American singer-songwriter (The Cramps) (d. 2009)

1949 – Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli politician, 9th Prime Minister of Israel

1952 – Brent Mydland, German-American keyboard player (Grateful Dead, Bobby and the Midnites, and Silver) (d. 1990)

1953 – Charlotte Caffey, American guitarist and songwriter (The Go-Go’s and The Graces)

1953 – Eric Faulkner, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Bay City Rollers)

1955 – Dick DeVos, American businessman

1956 – Carrie Fisher, American actress, screenwriter, and author

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1957 – Julian Cope, English singer-songwriter and author (The Teardrop Explodes, Crucial Three)

1959 – Rose McDowall, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Strawberry Switchblade, Spell, and Current 93)

1971 – Hal Duncan, Scottish sci-fi/fantasy author, poet, playwright

1971 – Nick Oliveri, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Mondo Generator, Kyuss, and Queens of the Stone Age)

1980 – Kim Kardashian, American model and “actress”

Died on This Day

1765 – Giovanni Paolo Panini, Italian painter and architect (b. 1691)

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1775 – François-Hubert Drouais, French painter (b. 1727)

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1805 – Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, English navy officer (b. 1758)

1938 – Dorothy Hale, American actress (b. 1905)

1948 – Elissa Landi, Italian-born actress (b.1904)

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1955 – Guido Gonzato, Italian painter (b. 1896)

1969 – Jack Kerouac, American author (b. 1922)

1980 – Hans Asperger, Austrian psychologist (b. 1906)

1984 – François Truffaut, French director (b. 1932)

1985 – Dan White, American politician, assassin of George Moscone and Harvey Milk (b. 1946)

1995 – Shannon Hoon, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Blind Melon) (b. 1967)

2003 – Elliott Smith, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Heatmiser) (b. 1969)

2006 – Sandy West, American singer-songwriter and drummer (The Runaways) (b. 1959)

2007 – R. B. Kitaj, U.S. painter (b. 1932)

2007 – Paul Fox, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Ruts) (b. 1951)

Today is

International Day of the Nacho (Mexico and USA)

Apple Day (United Kingdom) (the fruit, not the computer company or the Beatles record company)

National Pumpkin Cheesecake Day

Caramel Apple Day

Babbling Day

Reptile Awareness Day

Count Your Buttons Day

Celebration of The Mind Day

Global Iodine Deficiency Disorder (IDD) Prevention Day

Information Overload Day

National Clean Your Virtual Desktop Day


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  1. plf515

    Married or former marrieds among you: What kind of wedding did you have? Big or small? Religious or civil? Who did the planning?

    Pretty big, mildly religious, mostly my mother.

    It’s Reptile Awareness Day. What reptiles do you need to be aware of (the Lizard People, maybe?), and are you afraid of them?

    I am not really afraid of lizards, but if T Rex comes back, that could change.

    Are you currently boycotting anything? What?

    Not really.

    Do you drink tea at all? What kinds? What’s your favorite?

    Not very often, but I do like Lemon Zinger.  

  2. lulu57

    Information Overload Day, Facebook is down. Hahahahahaha

    Is that the Panini that they named the sandwich after? His paintings look neither toasted nor squished.

    Married or former marrieds among you: What kind of wedding did you have? Big or small? Religious or civil? Who did the planning?

    Small, non-religious, in our living room. I think everyone involved did some planning, and it turned out great! People are still talking fondly of the wedding (cheese)cake 🙂

    It’s Reptile Awareness Day. What reptiles do you need to be aware of (the Lizard People, maybe?), and are you afraid of them?

    We appear to live in a hostile environment for reptiles…never seen one here. No amphibians, either. Which explains why there are so many damn bugs. Not scared of reptiles except for the poisonous ones, but I would still rather have snakes than spiders!

    Are you currently boycotting anything? What?

    I’m not actually boycotting on purpose, it’s just that I have never been in WalMart, never eaten at Chik-Fil-A, never bought Barilla pasta, etc. Every time one of these things pops up, it’s always something that I never use! It’s like making New Year’s Resolutions saying you’ll never do something that you’d never do anyway 😉

    Do you drink tea at all? What kinds? What’s your favorite?

    Not a fan of tea. I once had some fabulous tea in a Chinese restaurant, but could never find it at the store and gave up. BTW, I can’t drink coffee without cream and sugar, but I must drink tea black. Weird 😉

  3. Floja Roja

    I’m marriage-phobic, so no answer here… except that I notice with my friends who have big weddings that the bride’s mom always takes over everything, which is because her mom did the same to her… Had I ever married, I would have eloped.

    I like lizards and snakes. I am aware when they are around, but I see them rarely. I never see snakes in L.A., but the late Gris-Gris is the reason there were lots of two-tailed lizards around (and legions of them who owe me their lives).

    Anything Koch. Still Hormel (they are still bad, right?), Wal-Mart, most chain restaurants and fast food.

    I’m not a tea expert (I love coffee) but I have English Breakfast Tea on hand, along with all kinds of herbal ones for various conditions, like Senna, Chamomile, Slippery Elm, etc.

     

  4. jlms qkw

    medium: my mom was 1 of 8, dad 1 of 5, grandparents 1 of 11, 1 of 8, 1 of 6, and strangely 1 of 2.  everyone – all their children and grandchildren – were invited.  and most of my grandmother’s friends.  and mom’s friends. and dad’s friends.  i think my ex invited a few people too, but his mom only had one sibling and she only had one child.  on my wedding day, i had over 40 cousins and have only acquired more since.  i did all the planning with help from mfsob and my aunts.  

    maybe the stepmom to my children is a lizard!  that would explain a lot of things!  

    i have light support for the NFL, and i buy local gas.  i tried out another noodle brand and the kids seem to like it.  

    i drink green tea normally, black tea for headaches, and something herbal at night, usually tulsi.  

  5. Gee

    Big light in sky slated to appear in east…

    Married or former marrieds among you: What kind of wedding did you have? Big or small? Religious or civil? Who did the planning?

    It’s Reptile Awareness Day. What reptiles do you need to be aware of (the Lizard People, maybe?), and are you afraid of them?

    Are you currently boycotting anything? What?

    Do you drink tea at all? What kinds? What’s your favorite?

    Teeny tiny wedding with a “classic film” theme, since we met in an online film discussion group.  Our very clever friend terri planned it.  Lulu and I are not religious, but there was a Unitarian minister available, and he married us.

    Is my reptile brain supposed to have a special affinity with reptiles?  I rarely think of them.  If I lived in a place where I was likely to see rattlesnakes, I’m sure they’d be on my mind.  I’m not afraid of snakes, unless I can’t tell if they’re poisonous by looking at them.

    I’m always boycotting Wal-Mart.  I’m sure there must be something else, but I can’t think of what it is.

    I occasionally have an iced tea (lemon, yes; sugar, no), but I’m no tea connoisseur.  

  6. zenor

    Now. Hot normal American tea with lemon and sugar, e.g. Lipton. Have mixed iced tea, lemonade and spring water in various proportions.

    I didn’t marry the minister’s daughter; which would have been a riotous wedding.

    I didn’t marry the girl from Naples; which is why we don’t have 7 children and live in the house on the hill there.

    And I didn’t marry the tiny Chinese woman who was already married and possibly also more or less eventually not married for an assortment of political, family, social, cultural, confusing, annoying, aggravating and stupid beyond belief, sigh, reasons.  I’m not doin that topic again. Probly.

  7. lulu57

    or is it just me? I can see other people “liking” posts, but I can’t “like” anything and there have been no new posts in my feed for over an hour now.

    Was it something I said? Damn you, Zuckerberg!

  8. Gee

    In 1520, explorer Ferdinand Magellan, his need being dire, discovered the strait he (or someone) named after himself.

    I won’t make the pun.  I won’t make the pun.  Oh, you already made one.  Mine had the word desperate in it.  Wow, the Strait of Magellan is between the South American mainland and Tierra del Fuego.  I looked at a map, and it seems like quite a leap of faith, imagining that the Strait went anywhere.  On the other hand, it wasn’t the freezing, stormy ocean.

    In 1520, Portugese explorer João Álvares Fagundes “discovered” a pair of islands (now called St. Pierre and Miquelon) in the Northeast Atlantic that he named “The Islands of the 11,000 Virgins.” Take that, Muslims! That’s a lot more than your measly 72.

    Another great leap of faith.  “But, Captain, how do we know they’re…?”  “Shut up!  They are!”

    In 1921, a President (Warren G. Harding) actually gave an anti-lynching speech in support of a bill that would curb racial violence in the deep South. The Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill was approved by the House in 1922, but was blocked by Southerners in the Senate.

    Nowadays, the Tea Party House Members would block it.  

  9. Gee

    have nothing to do with each other.

    1935 – Derek Bell, Irish pianist and songwriter (The Chieftains) (d. 2002)

    But better known (to me anyway) for playing Irish harp with the Chieftains.

    Apple Day

    Caramel Apple Day

    I wonder if there’s an Apple a Day Day?

  11. Avilyn

    Happy to have marriage equality in NJ at last, and Christie even dropped his appeal!  Yay!

    Q&A:

    Married or former marrieds among you: What kind of wedding did you have? Big or small? Religious or civil? Who did the planning?

    We semi-eloped?  Husband’s family is from Scotland, and his parents have a cottage over there they plan to retire to eventually.  They offered it to us for a place to stay, so we went over to Scotland and got married there.  About a dozen people in attendance, mostly my husband’s family.  Future mom-in-law made all the arrangements.  Even though neither he or I are religious, the wedding was in a church – civil weddings in Scotland can only be done in the town hall office, and we wanted an outdoors wedding.  It was a bit too windy and chilly for that, so we did it inside.  The minister thankfully kept the religious stuff short.  

    It’s Reptile Awareness Day. What reptiles do you need to be aware of (the Lizard People, maybe?), and are you afraid of them?  Can’t think of any reptiles offhand that I am afraid of.  Maybe alligators/crocodiles, but there aren’t any in NJ that I’m aware of so I don’t have to worry about it.

    Are you currently boycotting anything? What?  Erm, well, I try to avoid WalMart/Sams Club, that sort of thing.  

    Do you drink tea at all? What kinds? What’s your favorite?  I do.  Black tea, Oolong Tea, and White Tea are all good, not really a fan of green tea tho.  I usually drink it hot and plain (no sugar/milk), or black iced tea, unsweetened with a bit of lemon.

  12. JanF

       Civil war erupts in GOP between those who want to carry a Confederate flag and those who want to carry a Confederate flag in each hand

       – The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) October 20, 2013

    If I can regain control of my schedule, I will be back to hover. My virtual desktop has gone into information overload because my weekend was filled with youth sports and recovery from same.

    One of my favorite tweets from last night:

  13. JanF

    In 1921, a President (Warren G. Harding) actually gave an anti-lynching speech in support of a bill that would curb racial violence in the deep South. The Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill was approved by the House in 1922, but was blocked by Southerners in the Senate.

    1922? It was considered “OK” to lynch people? That should have been a red flag to anyone who thought that the south had accepted the outcome of the civil war.

    Groanable puns, Floja Roja. It seems like livestock puns are often fodder for F Bombing. Hay, you cud do wurst!

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