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The Daily F Bomb, Monday 10/14/13

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Interrogatories

Have you ever eaten a bug (intentionally)? If not, what is the strangest or most exotic thing you have eaten? How was it?

Were you any good at photography before digital photography came around?

For National Kick Butt Day, who would you like to see kick whose butt?

Do you like scented things? Do you use perfumes or colognes? Incense? Air fresheners?

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On This Day

In 1066, William the Conqueror conquered. England, that is. He defeated Harold II in the Battle of Hastings, ending once and for all the rule of any Harolds, since Harold really is not a good name for a king.

In 1656, Massachusetts Bay Colony outlawed Quakers.

In 1884, George Eastman patented photographic film (at the time an image-bearing coating on a paper back).

In 1908, the Chicago Cubs won their very last World Series.

In 1912, while campaigning in Milwaukee for a new Presidential term on the Progressive Party ticket, Theodore Roosevelt was shot by a disturbed individual named John Schrank (the voices in his head were apparently impersonating the late President McKinley). He made his speech with the bullet still embedded in his side.

In 1979, the first gay rights march on Washington DC occurred.

In 1982, Reagan declared war on drugs.

In 2012, Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner jumped from a helium balloon up in the stratosphere. The fall lasted approximately 10 minutes, and he deployed his parachute at 4 minutes and 19 seconds. He landed safely in New Mexico.

Born on This Day

1593 – Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen, Dutch artist (d. 1661)

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1644 – William Penn, English businessman, founder of Pennsylvania (d. 1718)

1808 – Simon Saint-Jean, French flower painter (d. 1860)

1814 – Théodore Fourmois, Belgian painter (d. 1871)

1824 – Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli, French painter (d. 1886)

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1890 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, American general and politician, 34th President of the United States (d. 1969)

1893 – Lillian Gish, American actress (d. 1993)

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1906 – Hassan al-Banna, Egyptian religious leader, founded the Muslim Brotherhood (d. 1949)

1906 – Benita Hume, British actress (d. 1967)

1907 – Allan Jones, American actor and singer (d. 1992)

1916 – C. Everett Koop, American surgeon and public health administrator, 13th United States Surgeon General (d. 2013)

1926 – Bill Justis, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1982)

1927 – Roger Moore, English actor

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1938 – John Dean, American lawyer and author, 13th White House Counsel

1939 – Ralph Lauren, American fashion designer, founded the Ralph Lauren Corporation

1940 – Cliff Richard, English singer and actor

1946 – Justin Hayward, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Moody Blues)

1946 – Dan McCafferty, Scottish singer-songwriter (Nazareth)

1948 – Marcia Barrett, Jamaican-English singer (Boney M)

1952 – Harry Anderson, American actor

1958 – Thomas Dolby, English singer-songwriter and producer

1961 – Isaac Mizrahi American fashion designer

1963 – Lori Petty, American actress

1974 – Natalie Maines, American singer-songwriter (Dixie Chicks)

1978 – Usher, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor

Died on This Day

1831 – Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer (b. 1761)

1844 – Jean Baptiste de Jonghe, Flemish landscape painter (b. 1785)

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1857 – Johan Christian Dahl, Norwegian Romantic painter and collector (b. 1788)

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1900 – Albrecht de Vriendt, Flemish historical painter (b. 1843)

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1911 – John Marshall Harlan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1833)

1917 – Nathaniel Hone the Younger, Irish painter (b. 1831)

1944 – Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (b. 1891)

1959 – Errol Flynn, Australian actor (b. 1909)

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1960 – Henny Porten, German actress and producer (b. 1890)

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1973 – Ahmed Hamdi, Egyptian engineer and general (b. 1929)

1976 – Edith Evans, English actress (b. 1888)

1977 – Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (The Rhythm Boys) (b. 1903)

1986 – Keenan Wynn, American actor (b. 1916)

1990 – Leonard Bernstein, American composer, conductor, and pianist (b. 1918)

1995 – Bernard Safran, U.S.-Canadian Contemporary Realist painter (b. 1924)

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1996 – Laura La Plante, American actress (b. 1904)

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1998 – Cleveland Amory, American author and animal rights activist (b. 1917)

2006 – Freddy Fender, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Texas Tornados and Los Super Seven) (b. 1937)

2010 – Simon MacCorkindale, English actor, director, and producer (b. 1952)

2010 – Benoît Mandelbrot, Polish-American mathematician (b. 1924)

2012 – Arlen Specter, American conservative politician (b. 1930)

Today is

National Chocolate-Covered Insects Day

national lower case day

National Kick Butt Day

Spider-Man Day

World Standards Day


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  1. Floja Roja

    No,I have never intentionally eaten a bug. I’m not that adventurous, food-wise. However, with the stuff that gets into mass-produced foods, I’ve probably unintentionally eaten many. Or if you count Reese’s Pieces, which use bug parts in the making of the shells…Strangest or most exotic thing? Strangest might be something rather dull like alligator, but that’s not exotic, is it? Ethiopian food is exotic, but not strange.

    I sucked at regular photography. Digital cameras saved the day.

    I would like to see the very public butt-kicking of anyone and everyone associated with the Tea Party, and throw in the gun lobby for good measure.

    I do not much care for scented stuff. Having a friend for decades who is allergic kept me from getting into it. I do like cinnamon scented stuff, but that’s practically food. Most of the girly products I buy are unscented.

  2. Jk2003

    Have you ever eaten a bug (intentionally)? If not, what is the strangest or most exotic thing you have eaten? How was it?

    Were you any good at photography before digital photography came around?

    For National Kick Butt Day, who would you like to see kick whose butt?

    Do you like scented things? Do you use perfumes or colognes? Incense? Air fresheners?

    Bug:  well, shrimp are kind of like ocean bugs.  But no, never eaten a bug.

    Photography:  I’m still not good at it but since I have kids I am persistent.

    I would like to see Elizabeth warren kick ted Cruz’s ass.  That would be awesome.

    Scented thing:  chemical scents make me sneeze and itch.

  3. JanF

    Eeek!! I hated that!!!!

    HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

       It’s too bad Obama didn’t take Wolf Blitzer’s advice. Said no one.

       – Teresa (@TeresaKopec) October 11, 2013

    Don’t you wonder if this is ALL they have ever been?

       So based on the polls the GOP is basically down to these nasty trolls in my Twitter stream…

       – Joy Reid (@TheReidReport) October 11, 2013

    The Medical Device Manufacturers Protection Act, aka, Shut Down the Government So That My Lobbyists Know I Love Them Act is quite a headscratcher. From the group of guys who supposedly hate lobbyists and carve-outs (like TARP) and who hate running deficits, it makes no sense. Repealing the tax won’t kill Obamacare … it simply makes our deficits bigger.

    And the whole EBT glitch leading to gloating about poor people starving got on my last nerve. I had to shut down Twitter because my followees insisted on retweeting the vile things that the right-wingers were spouting. “Christian” definitely should be in quotes.

    How did this war end? “In 1982, Reagan declared war on drugs.”

    Hovering …

    – Ha! Fit to be “tide”??? I’m shore you know water you are doing, starting the week in such a swell way.

    Thanks, Floja Roja!  

  4. princesspat

    Good morning…..I think I’ve shared this lovely song before, but it seems to be time to listen again.

  5. JanF

    What Are The Gobshites Saying These Days?

    Welcome to NBC News where the primary qualification for stardom is making sure that Rush Limbaugh doesn’t shout loudly enough on the radio about what you’re doing for your bosses to hear it.

    We have had our fun with the Dancin’ Master, but it’s past time to recognize that the way he does business is actively hurting the politics of this country and, therefore, thousands of people that he does not know, and would not give a passing glance if he passed them on the street and their heads were on fire. It’s not just the smugness, or the fact that his panels generally would not have been out of place in Versailles in 1789. or the resolute determination not to explain what is plainly in front of him. It’s the fact that all of this adds up to an deliberately cultivated obliviousness to what’s really going on in the country.

    He continues:

    The Republican party, as a result of everything it has been about since at least 1980, has become fundamentally demented and has taken to screaming in the streets. David Gregory, quite simply, is too much of an abject chickenshit to acknowledge this fundamental reality.

    And when Gregory insists that entitlements are the problem and that they are cannibalizing the budget, he unleashes one more Piercing …

    “Cannibalizing the budget”? You smug little rich omadhaun. Social Security has nothing to do with the budget. The idea that all the Republicans want to do is “deal with the entitlements” is preposterous. Dammit, read the Ryan budget. Read any of the Ryan budgets. Not that they’d affect you in any way.

    Running to Wiki: “Omadhaun”:

       (Ireland) A fool, someone who is out of their senses, simpleton.

           “…an Omadhaun is a man who began life with some sense, but lost most of it on his journey.” –Andrew Barton ‘Banjo’ Paterson, A Story of Outback Life, 1906.

  6. JG in MD

    Have you ever eaten a bug (intentionally)?

    Were you any good at photography before digital photography came around?

    For National Kick Butt Day, who would you like to see kick whose butt?

    Do you like scented things? Do you use perfumes or colognes? Incense? Air fresheners?

    Eeww, no.

    Yes.

    POTUS kick the Tea Party’s butt please, and kick them clear into next week.

    Don’t use any scent at all. Too much scent bothers me a lot. I think air freshener is an abomination. There are a hundred ways to freshen the air that are, you know, natural.

    Lately I get a little crazy react a bit badly to too much of anything-loud sounds, funny tastes, especially the too-dark scenes on TV shows. There seems to be no light anywhere, offices, homes, stores, why don’t they turn on the lights, f’God’s sake?

    /rant

  7. Chris Blask

    I have been busy and mostly absent, but you still have my heart.

    We moved across the street, went from renting to owning. Better lot, year round water (the bay on the other side goes dry in winter), and a new office to renovate.

    Have you ever eaten a bug (intentionally)?

    Not intentionally. Very much yes unintentionally.

    If not, what is the strangest or most exotic thing you have eaten? How was it?

    Sea Cucumber in Taipei. Nasty.

    Jellyfish soup wasn’t bad, but not good.

    The Six Year Egg was great. Very sulphury.

    Were you any good at photography before digital photography came around?

    I thought so, but I was wrong. Digital hasn’t helped.

    For National Kick Butt Day, who would you like to see kick whose butt?

    Obama kick the Canadian Cruz.

    Do you like scented things? Do you use perfumes or colognes? Incense? Air fresheners?

    Not much. Scented candles. A touch of cologne with a suit.

  8. Avilyn

    Weekend was nice.  Back to work today though.

    Q&A:

    Have you ever eaten a bug (intentionally)? If not, what is the strangest or most exotic thing you have eaten? How was it?  No.  I’m somewhat adverse to strange things in food.  Strangest I suppose would be calamari, which was kinda like chewing on rubber bands.

    Were you any good at photography before digital photography came around?  Nope.  Still not good at it honestly.  If I have to be the camera wielder at an event I try to take lots of pictures in the hopes that one or two might be alright.

    For National Kick Butt Day, who would you like to see kick whose butt? Oh geez too long to list.  I’d like to see Obama kick Boehner’s butt, for starters.  Then I have a list of people at work who I’d like to see get their butts kicked.

    Do you like scented things? Do you use perfumes or colognes? Incense? Air fresheners?  I like subtle scents, but rarely buy anything other than unscented stuff – I have allergies to a bunch of things so that rules out a lot of lotions, soaps, etc.; and scent wise, there’s a lot that my husband isn’t fond of (his nose is more sensitive than mine).

  9. plf515

    Have you ever eaten a bug (intentionally)? If not, what is the strangest or most exotic thing you have eaten? How was it?

    Not a bug but I am adventurous eater. I’ve eaten snake, sea urchin, sea cucumber, jellyfish.



    Were you any good at photography before digital photography came around?

    OK I guess.

    For National Kick Butt Day, who would you like to see kick whose butt?

    Obama vs. the entire Republican party. And I get my wish.



    Do you like scented things? Do you use perfumes or colognes? Incense? Air fresheners?

    No. No. No. Ick. Phooey. Perfume should be banned from restaurants and other enclosed spaces. Air fresheners smell awful.  

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