Interrogatories
Did you ever belong to a fraternity or sorority? If so, which one?
How do you prepare your Thanksgiving turkey (or tofurkey, or other alternative)?
Have you ever vacationed in an RV? Would you ever?
What are some of your favorite family expressions, exclamations, etc. that are rarely heard anywhere these days?
The Twitter Emitter
Q: How many leftists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: I'm really not sure lightbulb-installation should be our main priority.
— Benjamin Kunkel (@das_kunk) November 25, 2013
You may soon be able to use your cell on a plane. Which means I may soon be stuffing it into your lower intestine.
— Denis Leary (@denisleary) November 25, 2013
Hi, I'm offended at Martin Bashir's offensive comments about Sarah Palin's much much more offensive slavery comment which didn't offend me.
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) November 25, 2013
Syeve Doocy thinks it's "curious timing" that Thanksgiving is coming just after the Iran deal so people will be encourage to feel thankful.
— Suzanne Munshower (@expatina) November 25, 2013
REMEMBER: We should let the people who want war set our foreign policy and those who don't care about the insured decide on health care.
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) November 25, 2013
Maybe the people pushing for war with Iran are actually trying to distract us from the fact they just cut food aid to 48 million people
— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) November 25, 2013
PREVIEW: Ted Cruz's alternative plan specifies that those who want health insurance should marry a banker with a good plan like he did.
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) November 25, 2013
If I were president, I'd want John Bolton to be my advisor. Just do the opposite of what he says, and you can't go wrong.
— Frank Vdl (@fvdlfvdl) November 25, 2013
Powerful Winter Storm Providing Plausible Excuse Material
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) November 26, 2013
On This Day
In 1825, a group of college students formed Kappa Alpha Society, the first college social fraternity, at Union College in Schenectady, New York. There is no record indicating whether the first frat boys were as obnoxious as their modern counterparts.
In 1842, the University of Notre Dame was founded. Frat boys abounded.
In 1863, President Lincoln declared November 26 a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated on the last Thursday of November (which was changed to the second to the last in 1941).
And speaking of frats:
In 1909, a group of 8 Jewish students formed the fraternity, Sigma Alpha Mu, at City College of New York.
In 1913, New York’s Hunter College got into the act when Phi Sigma Sigma was founded.
In 1922, Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon became the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years. (There was no indication that King Tut belonged to a fraternity.)
In 1942, President Roosevelt ordered that nationwide gasoline rationing would begin on December 1st.
In 1942, Casablanca premiered at the Hollywood Theater in New York City.
In 1992, it was announced in Great Britain that Queen Elizabeth II would voluntarily begin paying taxes on her personal income, and would furthermore remove her children from the public payroll.
Born on This Day
1637 – Antonio Carneo, Italian painter (d. 1692)
1670 – Jacob van Loo, Flemish painter (b. 1614)
1792 – Sarah Grimké, American abolitionist and feminist (d. 1873)
1795 – Karl Philipp Fohr, German painter (d. 1818)
1816 – Joseph Édouard Stevens, Belgian painter (d. 1892)
1832 – Mary Edwards Walker, American feminist physician (d. 1919)
1841 – Eduardo Dalbono, Italian painter (d. 1915)
1876 – Bart van der Leck, Dutch painter and with Mondrian, De Stijl art movement founder (d. 1958)
1895 – William Griffith “Bill” Wilson, American co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (d. 1971)
1899 – Bruno Hauptmann, convicted German kidnapper of Charles Augustus Lindbergh III (d. 1936)
1909 – Frances Dee, American actress (d. 2004)
1909 – Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-born French playwright (d. 1994)
1910 – Cyril Cusack, Irish actor (d. 1993)
1912 – Eric Sevareid, American journalist (d. 1992)
1919 – Frederik Pohl, American science fiction writer
1921 – Francoise Gilot, painter, designer, author, and Picasso muse (and mother of Paloma).
1922 – Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist (d. 2000)
1922 – Adele Jergens, American actress (d. 2002)
1923 – Pat Phoenix, English actress (d. 1986)
1938 – Rich Little, Canadian comedian and actor, famed for his Nixon impression.
1939 – Tina Turner, American singer and actress
1939 – Wayland Flowers, American Puppeteer (d. 1988)
1945 – John McVie, British musician (Fleetwood Mac)
951 – Cicciolina, Italian pornographic actress and politician
1963 – Adam Gaynor, American musician (Matchbox Twenty)
Died on This Day
1771 – William Mosman, British portrait painter (b. 1700)
1851 – Louis-Philippe Crépin, French marine painter (b. 1772)
1861 – Wilhelm Hensel, German painter and draftsman (b. 1794)
1882 – Thomas LeClear, American genre and portrait painter (b. 1818)
1883 – Sojourner Truth, American abolitionist (b. 1797)
1914 – Frans van Leemputten, Belgian painter (b. 1850)
1921 – Claude Joseph Bail, French painter (b. 1862)
1925 – Magnus Enckell, Swedish painter (b. 1870)
1926 – John Browning, American firearm designer and inventor (b. 1855)
1929 – Georges-Daniel de Monfreid, French painter (b. 1856)
1936 – Victor Charreton, French painter (b. 1864)
1940 – Heinrich Nauen, German painter (b. 1880)
1941 – Leo Gestel, Dutch painter (b. 1881)
1943 – Georges de Feure, French designer and painter (b. 1868)
1974 – Cyril Connolly, English intellectual (b. 1903)
1985 – Vivien Thomas, African-American surgeon (b. 1910)
1994 – Nimrod Workman, folksinger (b. 1895)
1995 – Toshia Mori, Japanese-born actress (b. 1912)
1996 – Paul Rand, American graphic designer who designed many logos you have seen all your life (and not to be confused with that guy who uses the same names in reverse order). (b. 1914)
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