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The Daily F Bomb, Friday 8/16/13

Interrogatories

Have you ever been an intern? Paid or unpaid? Were you well treated? Do you think interns should be paid and/or have the rights of employees?

Do you shop in thrift stores? If so, for necessity, or to find overlooked treasures, or both? Have you ever had any really good finds?

It’s tell a joke day – do you have any jokes we are unlikely to have heard before?

Do you swear? How extensive is your profanity vocabulary? Are you careful who you swear in front of? Do you have a favorite curse word?

What field trips did you get to take in school?

The Twitter Emitter

On This Day

In 1858, President James Buchanan and Queen Victoria exchanged greetings via the newly laid trans-Atlantic cable.

In 1861, President Lincoln forbade trading with the Confederate States.

In 1923, Carnegie Steel adopted the 8 hour work day.

In 1954, Sports Illustrated made its debut.

In 1956, at the DNC in Chicago, Adlai Stevenson was nominated for President.

In 1974, The Ramones played their first gig ever at CBGB in New York.

In 1977, Elvis Presley was found dead in his bathroom at Graceland.

In 2012, South African police shot and killed 34 striking mine workers and wounded another 78.

Born on This Day

1557 – Agostino Carracci, Italian painter of a hell of a lot of very NSFW stuff (Renaissance porn!) (d. 1602)

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1592 – Wybrand de Geest, Dutch painter (d. 1659)

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1596 – Frederick V, Elector Palatine, Bohemian king (d. 1632)

1682 – Louis, Dauphin of France, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1712)

1876 – Ivan Bilibin, Russian illustrator (d. 1942)

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1886 – Angel Zárraga, Mexican painter (d. 1946)

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1888 – T. E. Lawrence, English writer and soldier (d. 1935)

1895 – Liane Haid, Austrian actress (d. 2000)

1896 – Tina Modotti, Italian photographer who allegedly got on the wrong side of Stalin (d. 1942)

1902 – Georgette Heyer, English novelist (d. 1974)

1910 – Mae Clarke, American actress (d. 1992)

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1913 – Menachem Begin, Israeli politician, 6th Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1992)

1915 – Al Hibbler, American singer (d. 2001)

1920 – Charles Bukowski, American poet (d. 1994)

1924 – Fess Parker, American actor (d. 2010)

1925 – Willie Jones, American baseball player (d. 1983)

1928 – Ann Blyth, American actress and singer

1928 – Eydie Gormé, American singer (d. 2013)

1928 – Eddie Kirkland, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2011)

1929 – Bill Evans, American pianist and composer (d. 1980)

1930 – Robert Culp, American actor (d. 2010)

1933 – Julie Newmar, American actress, singer, and dancer

1934 – Diana Wynne Jones, English author (d. 2011)

1939 – Billy Joe Shaver, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1944 – Kevin Ayers, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Soft Machine) (d. 2013)

1946 – Lesley Ann Warren, American actress and singer

1948 – Barry Hay, Indian-Dutch singer (Golden Earring)

1949 – Scott Asheton, American drummer (The Stooges and Sonic’s Rendezvous Band)

1949 – Bill Spooner, American guitarist and songwriter (The Tubes)

1957 – Tim Farriss, Australian bass player (INXS)

1958 – Madonna, American singer-songwriter, actress, producer, and director

1958 – Angela Bassett, American actress

1962 – Steve Carell, American actor, comedian, voice artist, producer, writer, and director

Died on This Day

1419 – Wenceslaus, King of the Romans (b. 1361)

1705 – Jacob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and scientist (b. 1654)

1708 – Michel Corneille the Younger, French painter and engraver (b. 1642)

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1835 – Jean-Baptiste Mallet, French painter (b. 1759)

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1837 – William Daniell, British painter and engraver specializing in travel illustrations (b. 1769)

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1888 – John Pemberton, American chemist, inventor of Coca-Cola (b. 1831)

1899 – Robert Bunsen, German chemist (b. 1811)

1938 – Robert Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1911)

1948 – Babe Ruth, American baseball player (b. 1895)

1949 – Margaret Mitchell, American novelist (b. 1900)

1952 – Lydia Field Emmet, American painter (b. 1866)

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1956 – Bela Lugosi, Hungarian actor (b. 1882)

1963 – Joan Eardley, Scottish painter (b. 1921)

1973 – Veda Ann Borg, American actress (b. 1915)

1978 – Jean Acker, American actress (b. 1893)

1989 – Amanda Blake, American actress (b. 1929)

1993 – Stewart Granger, English actor (b. 1913)

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1997 – Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani singer (b. 1948)

2002 – Abu Nidal, Palestinian militant leader (b. 1937)

2003 – Idi Amin, Ugandan dictator (b. 1928)

2004 – Acquanetta, American actress (b. 1921)

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2005 – Vassar Clements, American fiddler (Old and in the Way) (b. 1928)

2008 – Ronnie Drew, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Dubliners) (b. 1934)

2012 – William Windom, American actor (b. 1923)

Today is

Bratwurst Day

National Rum Day

National Tell a Joke Day

Roller Coaster Day

Men’s Grooming Day

Airborne Day


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25 comments

  1. JanF

    I have to go read yesterday’s F Bomb first; work interfered with my bombatiousness. Curse you, work that puts food on my table and a roof over my head! Oh, wait, might not want to go that far. 🙂

    So I don’t get out of sync, I will return after I Thursday.

    p.s. My Tweetstream went ballistic on #harriettubmanrapetape. Was there really a guy who thought it would be funny to have a skit about a slave being raped by her white owner? And he wasn’t a Republican??? :::shakes head in dismay:::

  2. Gee

    Three in a row.

    Have you ever been an intern? Paid or unpaid? Were you well treated? Do you think interns should be paid and/or have the rights of employees?

    Do you shop in thrift stores? If so, for necessity, or to find overlooked treasures, or both? Have you ever had any really good finds?

    It’s tell a joke day – do you have any jokes we are unlikely to have heard before?

    Do you swear? How extensive is your profanity vocabulary? Are you careful who you swear in front of? Do you have a favorite curse word?

    What field trips did you get to take in school?

    Looking at all these questions, especially the next-to-last, I’m wondering if FR has an endless stack of blue index cards?

    Never been an intern.  We have ’em here at NASA.  I’m not informed enough to have an opinion on payment and such.

    Haven’t shopped in a thrift store in a long time.  I used to go to Goodwill to see if they had any LPs, but I never found much.

    Jokes we’re unlikely to have heard before?  I doubt it.

    I do swear.  I suppose my profanity vocabulary is about average.  I’m very careful who I swear in front of.  I have favorite curse phrases, which I won’t repeat because they mix a popular sex word with the name of a popular deity.

    The sound I love is… oh, wait, Mlle. Pivot didn’t ask that one!

    Field trips… general Washington DC stuff.  And perhaps a dairy farm and a planetarium, although those might be false memories.

  4. Gee

    2004 – Acquanetta, American actress (b. 1921)

    Her name sounds like a hair product.

    Love the hover about the crime solvers, btw.

  5. JanF

    This Tweet’s question:

       After NC bans black students from voting, will they then ban black colleges too or just skip straight back to slavery?

       – Steve Weinstein (@steveweinstein) August 15, 2013

    Yes, skip straight back to slavery. That “being taken care of” had worked out so well for them.

    Ha! Just who was Stewart Granger dressing for?

    This hover …

    SWF Goddess, seeks SWM God or lesser deity (no wings, tails, or animal legs, please) for meaningful relationship. Enjoys long walks in the clouds, hurling lightning bolts, and fine dining.

    … made me laugh out loud.

    (p.s. But that little doggie appears somewhat Unfetishized, lurking on a step below the festivities. Are there different rules for gods and goddesses?).

  6. Floja Roja

    first came to my attention at NN this year. Lots of people went to Google to protest, and that was apparently one of the things they were protesting, and there were lots of handouts about it in the exhibition hall.

    About a month later I saw it being debated on Twitter. Keith Olbermann was defending unpaid intern, saying what a great job opportunity it is that we would be depriving people of.

    Just this week, Angry Black Lady reminded us that unpaid interns are not employees and lack employee protections. Sexual harassment suits get thrown out. Bosses can treat interns any way they like and the intern has no recourse. If they complain, often the bossed get vindictive. They can screw up future job opportunities.

    I’ve never been one. They had paid interns at Guess when I worked there.

  8. JanF

    Bryan Fischer: Obama Was Photoshopped Into Bin Laden Situation Room Photo

    “Look at the size of his head compared to the size of the head of everybody else in the room. Even people standing in the back of the room, their heads are bigger than his head,” Fischer said on his show Focal Point. “And it looks teeny-tiny next to the people that he’s sitting next to.”

    He continued: “Frankly I think that got photoshopped in after …

    If you examine a recent photo of Bryan Fischer, I do believe that it is photoshopped. Here:

    If you look closely, you will see that the image was enhanced to suggest that he has a head that actually contains a brain. Which of course would be impossible.

  9. emeraldmaiden

    First, las preguntas:

    Have you ever been an intern? Paid or unpaid? Were you well treated? Do you think interns should be paid and/or have the rights of employees?

    Nope, never have been. And they should be paid.

    Do you shop in thrift stores? If so, for necessity, or to find overlooked treasures, or both? Have you ever had any really good finds?

    We shop for the vacs that we then either refurbish or part out & sell, and for lots of items that we otherwise couldn’t afford.

    It’s tell a joke day – do you have any jokes we are unlikely to have heard before?

    My favorite series:

    Why did the monkey fall out of the tree?

    It was dead.

    Why did the second monkey fall out of the tree?

    Monkey see, monkey do.

    Why did the third monkey fall out of the tree?

    Peer pressure.



    Do you swear? How extensive is your profanity vocabulary? Are you careful who you swear in front of? Do you have a favorite curse word?

    I worked in a construction subtrade for almost 15 years. I swear a lot, frequently using Sylvester the Talking Cat’s pronunciation of the f-word. 😀 I love that cat.

    What field trips did you get to take in school?

    Hershey Park, Washington, DC (twice), Gettysburg, PA … that’s all I remember off the top.

    Second, FSM give me strength in dealing with a rude, demanding customer. I want to wrap the part around their neck. Hopefully, they will come back half-human, or I’m going to have to report them.

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