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Interrogatories

[channeling the HUAC]: Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party? Republican Party?

Not to get too personal, but do you still have all the parts you were born with? (circumcised males need not mention that)

Candy Corn: Food or flavored wax?

For Haunted Refrigerator Day, assuming yours was haunted, what would it be that haunted it?

The Twitter Emitter

On This Day

In 1938, Orson Welles performed a version of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds, done as a radio news broadcast. It was widely reported that people all over the country freaked out, believing it was real (the show was done with no commercial interruptions). Now some historians say the panic was greatly exaggerated. I couldn’t find any scheduled re-airings, unfortunately.

In 1945, Jackie Robinson signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the major league color barrier.

In 1953, President Eisenhower signed a top secret act declaring that the U.S. Nuke supply had to be maintained and increased so the dirty godless commies could not take over the world.

In 1960, the first successful kidney transplant was done by surgeon Michael Woodruff in Edinburgh.

Born on This Day

1629 – Jan Wouwerman, Dutch painter (d. 1666)

1657 – Jacques Autreau, French painter, poet, and playwright, (d. 1745)

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1712 – Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, German painter and etcher (d. 1774)

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1735 – John Adams, American politician, 2nd President of the United States (d. 1826)

1737 – Niclas Lafrensen the younger, Swedish miniature painter (d. 1807)

1741 – Angelica Kauffman, Swiss-Austrian painter (d. 1807)

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1799 – Emilius Baerentzen, Danish painter and lithographer (d. 1868)

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1839 – Alfred Sisley, French-English painter (d. 1899)

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1843 – Henri Regnault, French painter (d. 1871)

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1853 – Louise Abbema, French painter (d. 1927)

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1853 – Ottokar Walter, Austrian painter (b. 1904)

1857 – Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist (d. 1904)

1861 – Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor and painter (d. 1929)

1885 – Ezra Pound, American poet (d. 1972)

1895 – Mario Tozzi, Italian painter (d. 1979)

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1896 – Ruth Gordon, American actress (d. 1985)

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1908 – Patsy Montana, American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 1996)

1911 – Ruth Hussey, American actress (d. 2005)

1914 – Anna Wing, English actress (d. 2013)

1915 – Fred Friendly, American journalist (d. 1998)

1915 – Jane Randolph, American actress (d. 2009)

1930 – Néstor Almendros, Spanish cinematographer (d. 1992)

1930 – Clifford Brown, American trumpet player and composer (d. 1956)

1939 – Eddie Holland, American singer-songwriter and producer

1939 – Grace Slick, American singer-songwriter and model (Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, and The Great Society)

1945 – Henry Winkler, American actor, director, and producer

1951 – Harry Hamlin, American actor

1965 – Gavin Rossdale, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Bush and Institute)

Died on This Day

1429 – Ambrogio di Baldese, Italian painter (b. 1352)

1661 – Alexander Adriaenssen, Flemish painter (b. 1587)

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1809 – William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)

1848 – Martinus Schouman, Dutch painter (b. 1770)

1893 – Karl Bodmer, Swiss painter and graphic artist, specialized in the US West (b. 1809)

1895 – Adolf Stademann, German painter (b. 1824)

1910 – Henry Dunant, Swiss activist, founded the Red Cross, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1828)

1968 – Ramón Novarro, Mexican actor (b. 1899)

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1968 – Conrad Richter, American author (b. 1890)

2002 – Jam Master Jay, American rapper and producer (Run-D.M.C.) (b. 1965)

Today is

National Candy Corn Day

Buy a Doughnut Day

Mischief Night

Create a Great Funeral Day

Haunted Refrigerator Night


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13 comments

  1. Floja Roja

    The only party I’ve ever been part of is the Democratic Party. I read up on all those other ones, but none appealed. I was slightly interested in the Greens, but I like voting in primaries and they didn’t (still don’t) have the wherewithal to win anything but small, local elections.

    I am lacking some of the brain cells I was born with. They died for my sins, I’m afraid. Otherwise my tonsils, appendix, and other parts are still intact. Oh yeah, they removed that birthmark on my nose when it started growing. 😉

    Candy corn in flavored wax. Even so, I’d eat it if it had even a hit of flavor other than “too sweet.”

    I often haunt my refrigerator, but if it were haunted by anything else, it would probably be the ghost of that garlic-balsamic dressing that I put in and forgot about until it had popped its way out of the container and spilled on the shelves below. Fortunately, fridge hauntings usually need only cleanser and a scrubbing device rather than an exorcist.

  2. Gee

    [channeling the HUAC]: Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party? Republican Party?

    Not to get too personal, but do you still have all the parts you were born with? (circumcised males need not mention that)

    Candy Corn: Food or flavored wax?

    For Haunted Refrigerator Day, assuming yours was haunted, what would it be that haunted it?

    There is a childhood picture of me at a meeting of the Berwyn Heights Republican Club, but by the time I was ready to register to vote, I had gotten better.  Never been anything but a Democrat.

    All the components are still there, but not necessarily still connected.

    First bite is food; all subsequent bites flavored wax.

    “Armies of food invade my sleep, led by lasagnas ten inches deep.

    My head is pounding my heart is beating, cows are mooing sheep are bleating.

    I’m being haunted by all the meat I’ve eaten.”

             –Godley & Creme, Snack Attack  

  5. JG in MD

    Had 8 teeth pulled, four molars and four wisdom teeth. The molars, I’m told, were four teeth too many when my grown-up teeth came in; mouth too small. But I have 8, so would I have had 12? This seems unlikely. I don’t remember the surgery, just the story.

    BTW, my dentist’s wife was an anesthetist. I was out like a light for any serious dental procedures. God, they’d never do that nowadays.

    I have no tonsils. I grew up in a household of heavy smokers and it never seemed to dawn on anybody that children’s tonsillitis had a connection. It was a rite of passage to have tonsils taken out.

  6. Avilyn

    candy corn haters 😉

    Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party? Republican Party?  Nope, and Nope.  Technically never a member of any party; registered as unaffiliated when I turned 18 (wasn’t politically involved/aware back then) and was too lazy to ever change it.

    Not to get too personal, but do you still have all the parts you were born with? (circumcised males need not mention that)  Well, I don’t have a memory any more, but I’m not 100% sure I was actually born with one.  🙂  Everything else is still theoretically intact.

    Candy Corn: Food or flavored wax?  Food of the gods!

    For Haunted Refrigerator Day, assuming yours was haunted, what would it be that haunted it?  Heh.  Leftovers or old milk, most likely.  I have a habit of not throwing anything away but rather boxing it up and sticking it in the fridge… once in a great while the leftovers will even make their way to lunch or dinner, but it’s rare.  Old milk, because my husband has a habit of sticking the old milk containers behind things and I fail to notice them.

  7. anotherdemocrat

    Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party? Republican Party?

    I thought about joining the communist party when I was in college. Never thought about the Republicans.

    Not to get too personal, but do you still have all the parts you were born with? (circumcised males need not mention that)

    Yup.

    Candy Corn: Food or flavored wax?

    The chociolate kind is food, sorta.

    For Haunted Refrigerator Day, assuming yours was haunted, what would it be that haunted it?

    White cheddar cheese, or bowls of queso. (yes, that’s melted cheese, but it isn’t quite the same thing)

    and a coda to that 1st Tweet (and you get 1 guess who wrote it): The more you see, the less you know The less you find out as you go I knew much more then than I do now  

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