Interrogatories
If you could travel to any fictional world, where would you go?
Miracle Whip: Good food or abomination?
Are you ever a klutz? Any embarrassing stories?
The Twitter Emitter
I'm not offended by enamel erosion & high fructose corn syrup but damn you Coke for an America the Beautiful that doesn't hate foreigners.
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) February 3, 2014
You'd think the angry bigots could overlook the America the Beautiful ad & still appreciate coke for the poor labor & environmental record.
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) February 3, 2014
Next up on Fox News: How it's not racist to be mad Coke ruined the Super Bowl with reminders that America isn't all white English speakers.
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) February 3, 2014
To placate the far right, Coke promised that in next year's Super Bowl commercial, everyone would speak in tongues.
— David Lubar (@davidlubar) February 3, 2014
FOX NEWS: The government has no business telling you what to do, unless you don't speak English or have a vagina
— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) February 3, 2014
Ben Franklin started 1st Printing Press w/Hemppaper. Not saying he smoked any, as many sober men fly kites in thunderstorms
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) February 3, 2014
Twitter is wall to wall coke and Woody Allen. It’s like the 1970s all over again…
— Larry Madill (@larrymadill) February 3, 2014
Chik-Fil-a serves Coke! BOYCOTT!!!!!!
— Steve Weinstein (@steveweinstein) February 4, 2014
1933 Century of Progress World's Fair Chicago – Kraft introduces Miracle Whip as a less expensive mayonnaise alternative #WhiteHistoryMoment
— Jack Kimble (@RepJackKimble) February 1, 2014
90% of our lives are spent trying to find the little ‘x’ to close pop-up ads.
— Quinn Sutherland (@ReelQuinn) February 1, 2014
Chris Christie offers a devastating new allegation that David Wildstein stole wine at a Bar Mitzvah, to the chagrin of his mother and aunt.
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) February 2, 2014
On This Day
In 1783, Britain declared a formal cessation of hostilities in the American Revolutionary War.
In 1789, The Electoral College unanimously chose George Washington to be the first president of the United States.
In 1861, delegates from six southern states met in Montgomery, Alabama to form the Confederate States of America.
In 1938, the first feature-length film to use cel animation, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, was released in the United States by some company called Disney.
In 1941, the United Service Organizations (USO) was formed.
In 1974, newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was kidnapped in Berkeley, CA by a group calling themselves the Symbionese Liberation Army.
In 1997, a civil jury found O.J. Simpson liable for the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
In 1999, four plainclothes New York City cops fired 41 bullets at Amadou Diallo in front of his Bronx home after mistaking his wallet for a gun. The unarmed West African immigrant was killed.
In 2004, the Massachusetts high court declared that gays were entitled to marry.
In 2004, the social networking website Facebook was launched.
Born on This Day
1688 – Pierre de Marivaux, French writer (d. 1763)
1825 – Myles Birket Foster, English painter (d. 1899)
1829 – Gustave Léonard de Jonghe, Belgian painter (d. 1893)
1841 – Charles Édouard Edmond Delort, French academic painter (d. 1895)
1881 – Fernand Léger, French painter (d. 1955)
1889 – Walter Catlett, American actor (d. 1960)
1895 – Nigel Bruce, English actor (d. 1953)
1900 – Jacques Prévert, French poet and lyricist (d. 1977)
1902 – Charles Lindbergh, American pilot and right wing activist (d. 1974)
1905 – Hylda Baker, English comedy actress (d. 1986)
1907 – James McIntosh Patrick, Scottish landscape painter (d. 1998)
1913 – Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (d. 2005)
1918 – Ida Lupino, English film actress and director (d. 1995)
1921 – Betty Friedan, American feminist (d. 2006)
1925 – Gerald Sim, English actor
1941 – John Steel, British drummer (The Animals)
1947 – Dennis C. Blair, American admiral and intelligence official
1947 – Dan Quayle, ot-nay oo-tay ight-bray former Vice President of the United States
1948 – Alice Cooper, American musician
1951 – Patrick Bergin, Irish actor
1952 – Jerry Shirley, Drummer (Humble Pie)
1959 – Lawrence Taylor, American football player
1960 – Tim Booth, British singer (James)
1971 – Rob Corddry, American actor and comedian
1973 – Oscar de la Hoya, Mexican-American boxer
Died on This Day
1498 – Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Italian painter, sculptor, engraver (b. 1431)
1640 – Hendrick C. Vroom, Dutch seascape painter (b. 1652)
1694 – Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Russian noble (b. 1651)
1779 – John Hamilton Mortimer, English Neoclassical painter (b. 1740)
1785 – Donatien Nonnotte, French painter (b. 1708)
1787 – Pompeo Batoni, Italian Rococo painter (b. 1708)
1815 – Jacob van Strij, Dutch painter (b. 1756)
1819 – George Henry Harlow, English painter (b. 1787)
1885 – Sarah Miriam Peale, American painter from a huge family of painters (b. 1800)
1916 – Mary Lizzie Macomber, American painter (b. 1861)
1921 – Xavier Mellery, Belgian painter/illustrator (b. 1845)
1932 – Luis Menéndez Pidal, Spanish genre painter (b. 1861)
1957 – Miguel Covarrubias, Mexican painter, writer, and anthropologist (b. 1904)
1959 – Una O’Connor, Irish actress (b. 1880)
1968 – Neal Cassady, American writer (b. 1926)
1975 – Louis Jordan, American musician (b. 1908)
1982 – Alex Harvey, Scottish musician (b. 1935)
1983 – Karen Carpenter, American singer and drummer (The Carpenters) (b. 1950)
1987 – Liberace, American musician (b. 1919)
1992 – Lisa Fonssagrives, 1950s supermodel (b. 1911)
2003 – Charlie Biddle, Canadian jazz bassist (b. 1926)
2005 – Ossie Davis, American actor, activist (b. 1917)
2009 – Lux Interior, American musician (The Cramps) (b. 1946)
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