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The Daily F Bomb, Tuesday 8/6/13

Interrogatories

Do you like tattoos? Have any?

Do you wear campaign buttons? Even when not campaigning?

Do you tip your garbage collector, mail carrier, or other public servant?

Do you fish and/or hunt?

Do you like root beer floats? What’s your favorite brand of root beer?

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On This Day

In 1538, the City of Bogota, in Colombia, was founded.

In 1890, the electric chair was used for the first time in New York to execute convicted murderer William Kemmler.

In 1890, Cy Young made his major league debut.

In 1926, Gertrude Ederle was the first woman to swim across the English Channel.

In 1926, John Barrymore’s Don Juan premiered, the first film using Vitaphone’s sound on disc system for the soundtrack instead of live musical accompaniment.

In 1945, the first atomic bomb to be used as a weapon, called Little Boy, was dropped on Hiroshima in Japan.

In 1960, Chubby Checker debuted the dance called The Twist on American Bandstand.

In 1965, LBJ signed the Voting Rights Act into law.

In 2001, the President’s Daily Intelligence Brief contained a page-and-a-half section entitled “Bin Ladin determined to strike in US”.  It was ignored. (thanks, itsy)

In 2009, Sonia Sotomayor was confirmed by the Senate as Supreme Court Justice, 68-31.

Born on This Day

1605 – Ercole Procaccini the Younger, Italian painter (d. 1675 or 1680)

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1697 – Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1745)

1809 – Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet (d. 1892)

1844 – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1900)

1861 – Edith Roosevelt, American wife of Theodore Roosevelt, 27th First Lady of the United States (d. 1948)

1862 – Armand Rassenfosse, Belgian engraver and painter (d. 1934)

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1881 – Leo Carrillo, American actor (d. 1961)

1892 – Hoot Gibson, American actor (d. 1962)

1893 – Jacques Martin-Ferrières, French painter (d. 1972)

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1902 – Dutch Schultz, American mobster (d. 1935)

1906 – Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (d. 1984)

1908 – Will Lee, American actor (d. 1982)

1908 – Lajos Vajda, Hungarian painter (d. 1941)

1911 – Lucille Ball, American actress (d. 1989)

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1912 – Richard C. Miller, American photographer (d. 2010)

1917 – Robert Mitchum, American actor (d. 1997)

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1920 – Ella Raines, American actress (d. 1988)

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1922 – Freddie Laker, English businessman, founded Laker Airways (d. 2006)

1923 – Jess Collins, American artist (d. 2004)

1925 – Barbara Bates, American actress (d. 1969)

1928 – Andy Warhol, American artist (d. 1987)

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1929 – Mike Elliott, Jamaican saxophonist (The Foundations)

1932 – Howard Hodgkin, English painter

1934 – Piers Anthony, English writer

1937 – Barbara Windsor, English actress

1938 – Paul Bartel, American actor (d. 2000)

1946 – Allan Holdsworth, English guitarist and composer

1950 – Dorian Harewood, American actor

1952 – Pat MacDonald, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Timbuk3)

1962 – Michelle Yeoh, Malaysian-Hong Kong actress

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

1970 – M. Night Shyamalan, Indian-American director, screenwriter, and producer

1973 – Monica Goodling, American lawyer (remember her?)

1976 – Soleil Moon Frye, American actress

1990 – JonBenét Ramsey, American model and murder victim (d. 1996)

Died on This Day

258 – Pope Sixtus II

523 – Pope Hormisdas (b. 450)

1458 – Pope Callixtus III (b. 1378)

1609 – Federico Zuccaro, Italian painter, draftsman, and writer (b. 1541)

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1623 – Anne Hathaway, English wife of William Shakespeare (b. 1555 or 1556)

1637 – Ben Jonson, English writer (b. 1572)

1660 – Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (b. 1599)

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1757 – Ádám Mányoki, Hungarian painter (b. 1673)

1796 – David Allan, Scottish painter (b. 1744)

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1881 – James Springer White, American preacher and author, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (b. 1821)

1914 – Ellen Axson Wilson, American wife of Woodrow Wilson, 29th First Lady of the United States (b. 1860)

1923 – Luigi Rossi, Swiss-born painter (b. 1853)

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1931 – Bix Beiderbecke, American cornetist, pianist, and composer (The Wolverines) (b. 1903)

1959 – Preston Sturges, American playwright, screenwriter, and director (b. 1898)

1964 – Cedric Hardwicke, English actor (b. 1893)

1973 – Fulgencio Batista, Cuban military leader and politician, President of Cuba (b. 1901)

1973 – Memphis Minnie, American singer-songwriter (b. 1897)

1974 – Gene Ammons, American saxophonist (b. 1925)

1991 – Harry Reasoner, American journalist (b. 1923)

2004 – Rick James, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer  (b. 1948)

2005 – Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban singer (Buena Vista Social Club) (b. 1927)

2009 – Willy DeVille, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Mink DeVille) (b. 1950)

2009 – John Hughes, American director, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1950)

Today is

National Fresh Breath Day

Hiroshima Day

National Root Beer Float Day

National Night Out

Wiggle Your Toes Day


Categories: General.

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35 comments

  1. plf515

    Do you like tattoos? Have any?

    I don’t have any. I don’t have strong feelings pro- or con- but I do wonder what people do if they change their minds. Or, what if, 10 years from now, they aren’t cool any more?

    Do you wear campaign buttons? Even when not campaigning?

    I always lose them.



    Do you tip your garbage collector, mail carrier, or other public servant?

    No real way to do so, in a NYC apartment building.

    Do you fish and/or hunt?

    I have fished in the past. Then I figured I like being on boats better without the fishing. I never hunted.



    Do you like root beer floats? What’s your favorite brand of root beer?

    I know it’s practically unAmerican but I don’t like soda. Ginger ale is sometimes OK, but I hardly ever drink even that.  

  2. Gee

    Still out sick with a pretty nasty cold.

    Do you like tattoos? Have any?

    Do you wear campaign buttons? Even when not campaigning?

    Do you tip your garbage collector, mail carrier, or other public servant?

    Do you fish and/or hunt?

    Do you like root beer floats? What’s your favorite brand of root beer?

    I do like tattoos (some better than others).  And I have one, music for the opening bars of the Who’s Tattoo.

    Haven’t worn a campaign button in a while.  No policy against it, just haven’t done it.

    Uh oh.  Are you supposed to?

    Never hunted.  Fished only a few times, and never caught anything.

    Mmmm, love rot beer floats!  I’d have to have a tasting to figure out which is best.  Haven’t drunk any in a while.  Used to like Hire’s, Mug, A&W.

  3. Gee

    In 1890, the electric chair was used for the first time in New York to execute convicted murderer William Kemmler.

    At first I thought this said electric car.

  4. Gee

    In 1960, Chubby Checker debuted the dance called The Twist on American Bandstand.

    There was quite an uproar, and warnings of possible injury, but the dance caught on big, even with the Don Draper crowd.

  5. JanF

  7. anotherdemocrat

    Do you like tattoos? Have any?

    Not really a tatoo person, don’t have any. But if I ever get in good enough shape to complete an Ironman, I’m getting that logo tatoo-ed on the back of my neck.

    Do you wear campaign buttons? Even when not campaigning?

    Used to have them all over my backback all the time. Don’t carry a backback any more.

    Do you tip your garbage collector, mail carrier, or other public servant?

    No, I never see them.

    Do you fish and/or hunt?

    No

    Do you like root beer floats? What’s your favorite brand of root beer?

    Don’t like root beer.

  8. JG in MD

    Do you like tattoos? Have any?

    Do you wear campaign buttons? Even when not campaigning?

    Do you tip your garbage collector, mail carrier, or other public servant?

    Do you fish and/or hunt?

    Do you like root beer floats? What’s your favorite brand of root beer?

    Tattoos give me the creeps. I have a grandnephew who’s head-to-toe ink. I’m kind of glad he lives at the other end of the country so I can love him without laying actual eyes on him.

    No campaign buttons. Used to tip, don’t any more. No fishing or hunting.

    Love root beer floats, haven’t had one in ages. Would have to test the root beers to see which one has strong enough flavor to handle the ice cream. ::Jill reaches for the to-do list::

  9. Its the Supreme Court Stupid

    2001 – The President’s Daily Intelligence Brief contains a page-and-a-half section entitled “Bin Ladin determined to strike in US”.  It is ignored.

  10. JanF

    On Ella Raines:

    She never got in trouble for sending wiener pics to her fans.

    +2 for

    – Voting Rights Act

    – Sonia Sotomayor

    -2 for Monica Goodling. Of course I remember her. She was the Justice Department employee and graduate of Regent “Law” School who helped out in the plan to purge the DOJ of Democrats (One of her underlings, Sara Taylor, made this comment in a congressional committee hearing: “”I took an oath to the president, and I take that oath very seriously,” “. (Yikes! Her wiki entry says she married the co-founder of red state dot com.)

    The Luigi Rossi hover: where fine art may have inspired Hitchcock.

    I have wiggled my toes … my day is done!

  11. Floja Roja

    I don’t have any tattoos, but I like them. I don’t have any because I don’t want one out of a book, and I never found any one thing I was willing to have permanently imprinted (painfully) on my skin. My tastes change over time, so I am not sure that what I liked then would still be something I like now. Then there is the issue of keeping the body part that is marked in good shape, for better display purposes.

    I have lots, both official and unofficial, but rarely wear them. They often will attract attention from those you don’t want to engage with (real life human trolls).

    I never had heard of tipping these people until I’d get the occasional hand delivered Christmas card mentioning it. I never did, though. I also got such things from newspaper delivery people, who probably need it more (the Federal employees at least have decent benefits).

    I fished once, and the fish were duly grateful for the food I provided them. The sitting on a boat part is really pleasant, but I feel too sorry for the fish, and I don’t really care for fish as a food. I have never hunted, and don’t think I could at this point in my life. I think I would have had to be raised doing it.

    I do like a good root beer float, and the brand doesn’t matter when adding ice cream. I think Dr. Brown’s was my favorite (though I haven’t seen it in ages and have no idea if it still exists).

  12. princesspat

    A sad morning for me….I clicked on paganmaestro, my favorite YT channel and it’s been terminated…..most of the music in my “favorites” is gone I loved his technique of combining visual montages with the music 🙁

  13. Avilyn

    Do you like tattoos? Have any?  Depends on the tattoo; some are nice, others are less so.  Don’t have any.

    Do you wear campaign buttons? Even when not campaigning?   Never had a campaign button.

    Do you tip your garbage collector, mail carrier, or other public servant?  Nope.  Never see them.

    Do you fish and/or hunt?   I used to fish, but that was as a kid and mostly just a way to spend time with my dad or my grandpop.

    Do you like root beer floats? What’s your favorite brand of root beer?   Can’t stand root beer.  I’ve heard IBC is good, but I prefer their Cream soda

  15. Chris Blask

    Just tried to watch MSNBC for a few minutes and got shoved off to CNN just because he gives me such a headache. I mean, STFU long enough for a guest to answer you question before vomiting up your own answer. Stop having guests and just rant for an hour.

    .sigh.

    Do you like tattoos? Have any?

    They can be cool, I’m glad folks feel free to manage their own bodies an images. Also think that many folks get them less to be individuals than to conform with others, but that is their choice.

    Don’t have any of my own.

    Do you wear campaign buttons? Even when not campaigning?

    I do for Obama.

    Do you tip your garbage collector, mail carrier, or other public servant?

    Yes for garbage collector, but he is a private company. good old boy with a pickup, nice guy.

    Do you fish and/or hunt?

    No, but I will eat it if you do! :~)

    Do you like root beer floats? What’s your favorite brand of root beer?

    Oh yes. Don’t drink much soda at all, but off-brand little makers are usually the best.

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