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Interrogatories

When you first started using the internet, what newbie mistakes did you make, if any?

What is your favorite nut? Do you prefer to eat them out of the shell, or some other way?

It’s National Color Day, what’s your favorite color? Does this change over time, or has it remained the same?

Do you throw away things like towels when they start to get frayed and tattered?

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On This Day

In 1836, the Republic of Texas inaugurated its first President, Sam Houston.

In 1895, the Montparnasse derailment took place. The iconic photo (surely you’ve seen in before) is below. The only person killed was a woman on the street who was hit by falling chunks of the two foot thick wall that the train crashed through. It took a 250 ton winch and ten men to remove the engine, which sustained little damage.

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In 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis began when President Kennedy announced that U.S. planes had spotted Soviet nukes on the ground in Cuba, and created a military blockade of Cuba until the nukes were removed.

In 1981, the Federal Labor Relations Authority (under Reagan) decertified PATCO (Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization) for having the nerve to go on strike.

In 1999, French politician Maurice Papon was convicted of crimes against humanity. He had served in the Vichy government, but evidence of his crimes (he authorized the deportation of thousands of Jews) did not surface until 1981. Meanwhile, he committed other crimes as a brutal police official, up to and including torture of prisoners.

Born on This Day

1734 – Daniel Boone, American explorer and hunter (d. 1820)

1796 – Achille Etna Michallon, French landscape painter (d. 1822)

1811 – Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist and composer (d. 1886)

1816 – Frederick William Hulme, British landscape painter (d. 1884)

1844 – Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (d. 1923)

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1850 – Heinrich von Zügel, German livestock painter (b. 1941)

1854 – Walter Herbert Withers, English-born Australian landscape painter (d. 1914)

1861 – Charles Amable Lenoir, French painter (d. 1940)

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1864 – Eugène Laermans, Belgian painter (d. 1940)

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1865 – Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter (d. 1943)

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1870 – Alfred Douglas, English author, poet and translator (d. 1945)

1871 – Carlo Fornara, Italian painter (d. 1968)

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1879 – Matthew Smith, British painter (d. 1959)

1882 – Edmund Dulac, French illustrator (d. 1953)

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1882 – N. C. Wyeth, American painter/illustrator (d. 1945)

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1903 – Curly Howard, American actor and comedian (d. 1952)

1904 – Constance Bennett, American actress (d. 1965)

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1907 – Henriette Wyeth, U.S. portrait painter (d. 1997)

1912 – Frances Drake, American actress (d. 2000)

1913 – Robert Capa, Hungarian-American photographer (d. 1954)

1913 – Tamara Desni, German-English actress (d. 2008)

1917 – Joan Fontaine, Japanese-American actress

1919 – Doris Lessing, Iranian-English author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate

1920 – Timothy Leary, American psychologist and author (d. 1996)

1925 – Robert Rauschenberg, American painter and illustrator (d. 2008)

1929 – Dory Previn, American singer-songwriter (d. 2012)

1936 – Bobby Seale, American activist, co-founded the Black Panther Party

1938 – Derek Jacobi, English actor

1938 – Christopher Lloyd, American actor

1942 – Bobby Fuller, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Bobby Fuller Four) (d. 1966)

1942 – Annette Funicello, American actress and singer (d. 2013)

1943 – Catherine Deneuve, French actress

1945 – Leslie West, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Mountain, The Vagrants, and West, Bruce and Laing)

1946 – Eddie Brigati, American singer-songwriter (The Rascals)

1946 – Deepak Chopra, Indian-American physician and author

1947 – Haley Barbour, American politician, 63rd Governor of Mississippi

1949 – Stiv Bators, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (The Dead Boys and The Lords of the New Church) (d. 1990)

1960 – Darryl Jenifer, American bass player (Bad Brains)

1960 – Cris Kirkwood, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Meat Puppets)

1965 – John Wesley Harding, English singer-songwriter

1968 – Shaggy, Jamaican singer-songwriter

1972 – Saffron Burrows, English Actress

1990 – Jonathan Lipnicki, American actor

Died on This Day

1674 – Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter (b. 1621)

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1792 – Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (b. 1725)

1872 – George Heming Mason, English landscape painter (b. 1818)

1900 – Anders Monsen Askevold, Norwegian painter (b. 1834)

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1902 – John Faed, Scottish painter (b. 1819)

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1902 – Francesco Vinea, Italian painter (b. 1845)

1906 – Paul Cézanne, French painter (b. 1839)

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1922 – Robert Julian Onderdonk, American landscape painter (b. 1882)

1934 – Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster (b. 1904)

1941 – Louis Marcoussis, Polish-French Cubist painter (b. 1878)

1969 – Tommy Edwards, American singer-songwriter (b. 1922)

1973 – Pau Casals, Catalan cellist and conductor (b. 1876)

1986 – Jane Dornacker, American actress and singer (b. 1947)

1989 – Ewan MacColl, English singer-songwriter, producer, actor, and playwright (b. 1915)

1992 – Cleavon Little, American actor (b. 1939)

1998 – Eric Ambler, English author (b. 1909)

2005 – Arman, French-American painter (b. 1928)

2009 – Soupy Sales, American comedian and actor (b. 1926)

2012 – Russell Means, American actor and activist (b. 1939)

Today is

International Stuttering Awareness Day (International)

Caps Locks Day

National Nut Day

National Color Day


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  1. Floja Roja

    I have answers:

    When I first went on the real internet, not just the e-mail at work, I was careful. I’d heard stories about how the pros loved to go after newbies, so I tried hard to conceal my newbie status by following all the netiquette.

    I love walnuts, pecans, and pistachios. And peanuts. And… Those are my faves. Oh, and cashews may be my favorite roasted salted. But then I love peanuts and pistachios roasted and salted in the shell. For cookies and such my faves are pecans and walnuts. And I love peanut butter.

    Aqua is my current favorite color, and it certainly does change over time. I think purple is a close second. I liked red and pink when I was little. When I was a teen, earth tones were in and green was my favorite. In my twenties, it was black (though I was frequently told, “That’s not a color!”). For a while I was into green again, first dusty sage greens, then the light 1930s/40s green. I also tend to favor different colors for clothes than for stuff like décor. I will wear colors I would never put on my sofa, and vice-versa.

    I never throw old towels away. They eventually lose their place in daily use, but go into the rag bag for cleaning purposes. I have finally started throwing away socks with holes in them, since I can’t darn worth a darn.

  2. Gee

    Goooooood morning!

    When you first started using the internet, what newbie mistakes did you make, if any?

    What is your favorite nut? Do you prefer to eat them out of the shell, or some other way?

    It’s National Color Day, what’s your favorite color? Does this change over time, or has it remained the same?

    Do you throw away things like towels when they start to get frayed and tattered?

    I had a piece of software called the Trumpet News Reader, which searched out all the various interest discussion groups.  I kept trying to post to the groups, and it took me a while to discover that you had to join a group to be able to post to it.

    Cashew.  (Gesundheit, they all said.)  I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a cashew in its shell.  So I eat them from a can or a bag.

    I think my favorite color these days is read.  It was always blue when I was younger, so it must change over time!

    Not when they start to get frayed and tattered.  Some years after that.  😉

  3. jlms qkw

     

    not at first, but later, at work, i had a typo when searching for “clip art” in the letter “p”.  

    a few years later at home, after i adopted my daughter, i searched for china dolls.  i think smoke came out of my computer.  

    i keep either almonds or walnuts for snacks.  i do love pistachios.  i buy shelled.  

    pink.  since i was 13 and first asserted that my favorite color was one my mom hated.  

    only when they are at last use.  i have way too many towels now, and i gave away some, but i think i need to give away and throw away some more.  there are only 3 of us.  there is only one bathroom.  

  5. JanF

    That’s a relief … I thought my clients were yelling at me!!

    Exactly. Or perhaps EXACTLY!!! (is there an Excessive Exclamation Point Day?)

       .@FoxNews I’m hearing glitches on ACA websites are much, much worse than going bankrupt from cervical cancer treatment.

       – rob delaney (@robdelaney) October 18, 2013

    This!

    In 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis began when President Kennedy announced that U.S. planes had spotted Soviet nukes on the ground in Cuba, and created a military blockade of Cuba until the nukes were removed.

    Sounds eerily like the standoff we just went through with the unexploded nukes of a Cuban-American found on the ground in the House of Representatives.

    HAHA hovers! I nearly kilt myself laughing.

    Re-training and retraining both will be needed after the Montparnasse derailment but, alas, you have stretched your poetic license thin to suggest that tea partiers even have brains, much less that they would have enough weight to travel even an inch or two after their heads asploded.

    No carping here … I dolphinately will not complain even for the halibut.

    Wait! That was my clients yelling at me. Thanks, Floja Roja … gotta go!!!

  6. Avilyn

    When you first started using the internet, what newbie mistakes did you make, if any?  I can’t remember any now, but I’m sure I made some.  

    What is your favorite nut? Do you prefer to eat them out of the shell, or some other way?  Raw Almonds, Cashews, Pecans, and Walnuts, not in the shell.  Pistachios in the shell, roasted and salted.

    It’s National Color Day, what’s your favorite color? Does this change over time, or has it remained the same?  Definitely changes, mostly with my mood.  Dark Green, Dark Red, Bright Blue, Bright Purple, Black, … just depends.

    Do you throw away things like towels when they start to get frayed and tattered?  No.  I might turn them into rags eventually, but they don’t get tossed.

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