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Are there any words you mispronounced as a child (such as “basketti” instead of spaghetti) that you recall? Are there any that your family still uses now?

How do you feel about the rapidly changing language (especially with the onset of the internet)? Are you happy with changes, or do you wish all those new words and new meanings for old words would just go away?

What day does your trash get picked up? What agency does it, or is it a private business? Do they recycle?

Is there (or has there been) any actor that you like so much you would go see any film he (or she) is in?

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On This Day

In 1831, Nat Turner was hanged in Jerusalem, Virginia, for leading a violent slave uprising.

In 1889, Washington became the 42nd State.

In 1919, violence erupted at an Armistice Day parade in Centralia, Washington, resulting in the deaths of four members of the American Legion and the lynching of a local leader of the Industrial Workers of the World. This kind of event was all too common back in the early days of the Labor movement.

In 1926, U.S. Route 66 was established, running from Chicago to Los Angeles via the Southwest. By 1985 it had been completely replaced by the interstate system, and now is just a side road populated by tacky souvenir shops (though still well worth traveling).

In 1992, the General Synod of the Church of England voted to allow women to become priests.

Born on This Day

1579 – Frans Snyders, Flemish painter (d. 1657)

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1738 – Jean-Jacques Le Barbier, French Neoclassical painter and illustrator (d. 1826)

1821 – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist (d. 1881)

1831 – John George Brown, British-born American painter (d.1913)

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1837 – Arthur Grottger, Polish painter and graphic artist (d. 1867)

1858 – Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian painter. (d. 1884)

1863 – Paul Signac, French painter (d. 1935)

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1868 – Jean Édouard Vuillard, French post-Impressionist painter (d. 1940)

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1887 – Roland Young, American actor (d. 1953) best remembered from his work in the delightful 1930s “Topper” comedies and as the lecherous Uncle Willy in “The Philadelphia Story”.

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1894 – Beverly Bayne, American silent film actress (d. 1982)

1909 – Robert Ryan, American actor (d. 1973)

1918 – Stubby Kaye, American comic actor (d. 1997)

1922 – Kurt Vonnegut Jr., American novelist (d. 2007)

1927 – Mose Allison, American jazz pianist and singer

1929 – LaVern Baker, American singer (d. 1997)

1930 – Hank Garland, American guitar virtuoso (d. 2004)

1940 – Barbara Boxer, American Democratic Senator from California

1945 – Chris Dreja, British musician (The Yardbirds)

1953 – Marshall Crenshaw, American musician

1953 – Andy Partridge, English musician (XTC)

1955 – Dave Alvin, American songwriter and guitarist

1960 – Stanley Tucci, American actor and director

1973 – Jason White, American musician (Green Day)

1974 – Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor

Died on This Day

1563 – Francisco de’ Rossi (aka Francesco Salviati, Il Salviati, Francesco Rossi and Cecchino del Salviati), Italian mannerist painter (b. 1510)

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1638 – Cornelis van Haarlem, Dutch painter (b. 1562)

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1761 – Jan ten Compe, Dutch cityscape painter (b. 1713)

1772 – Jan Maurits Quinkhard, Dutch painter (b. 1688)

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1810 – Johann Zoffany, German painter (b. 1733)

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1873 – Henry Perlee Parker, British painter (b. 1795)

1904 – Valentine Prinsep, British Pre-Raphaelite painter (b. 1838)

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1919 – Pavel Chistyakov, Russian painter (b. 1832)

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1938 – Mary Mallon, Irish-born American carrier of typhoid (b. 1869) best known as Typhoid Mary. She allegedly infected 51 people, never having any symptoms herself. She spent most of her life a virtual prisoner.

1945 – Jerome Kern, American composer (b. 1885)

1972 – Berry Oakley, American musician (Allman Brothers Band) (b. 1948)

1976 – Alexander Calder, American artist (b. 1898)

1984 – Martin Luther King, Sr., American civil rights figure (b. 1899) and father of Martin Jr.

2004 – Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1929)

Today is

Veterans Day

Air Day

National Sundae Day

Origami Day


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  1. Floja Roja

    I start the job today, wish me luck!

    Answers:

    “Basketti” was actually how some family friends pronounced spaghetti, so we used it jokingly around our house for ages. My sister couldn’t say “sharp cheddar” so it was “charp sheddar.”

    I really like some of the new internet-created word, and others annoy me. It depends on the creativity level. The language is changing, it always has. Sometimes I hate it when a word I have always used frequently suddenly starts to mean something else, but that is rare (in fact I can’t presently think of an example).

    Thursday is trash day, except holiday weeks. The Department of Water and Power (socialism!) included trash pickup. It’s a flat fee, so it doesn’t matter how much or how little you put out. We recycle, but the bastards don’t do plastic bags.

    There has never been any actor I would go out to see in anything, but there were many that I would watch whenever they were on TV, especially when I discovered the joy of old movies. Bette Davis, Jean Arthur, Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, Humphrey Bogart, Myrna Loy, Carole Lombard… I don’t think that any stars are presently bankable that way. If your new movie sucks, nobody will see it. Of course now we have the “wait for cable” option that once didn’t exist.

  2. anotherdemocrat

    Are there any words you mispronounced as a child (such as “basketti” instead of spaghetti) that you recall? Are there any that your family still uses now?

    No. I’m sure I mis-pronounced something, but my family would have just corrected me.

    How do you feel about the rapidly changing language (especially with the onset of the internet)? Are you happy with changes, or do you wish all those new words and new meanings for old words would just go away?

    It doesn’t bother me, I even find it amusing.

    What day does your trash get picked up? What agency does it, or is it a private business? Do they recycle?

    We have separate trash & recycling pick up. I don’t know when either happens. I just take my stuff to the dumpster or the bins, sometimes there is stuf there, sometimes they’re empty.

    Is there (or has there been) any actor that you like so much you would go see any film he (or she) is in?

    I’ve seen most of Denzel Washington’s & Daniel Day-Lewis’ films. Have missed a few of each, for no particular reason. But I love looking at both of them. I do try to see anything that anyone in the Whedonverse does.

  5. JG in MD

    Are there any words you mispronounced as a child (such as “basketti” instead of spaghetti) that you recall? Are there any that your family still uses now?

    How do you feel about the rapidly changing language (especially with the onset of the internet)? Are you happy with changes, or do you wish all those new words and new meanings for old words would just go away?

    What day does your trash get picked up? What agency does it, or is it a private business? Do they recycle?

    Is there (or has there been) any actor that you like so much you would go see any film he (or she) is in?

    Words: My mom once said “someup will comething” for “something will come up” (I think she did it on purpose, thought it was funny) but that just reminds me of how boring my childhood was. Waiting for someup to comething is not good for a very bright, energetic child. I feel the effects to this day. But I digress.

    Changing language: The new vocabulary is too extensive to learn. If you don’t use the precise word for things these days you get a blank stare, even if the word is a synonym or very close in meaning. Coding means the whole world is being sorted into lists and menus and God help you if you don’t A. know the lists and B. limit your world to what’s on the lists.  

    My lab tests were coded “routine maintenance” instead of “medication management” and Medicare doesn’t cover routine lab tests. I’m liable for $568.00 for tests I wouldn’t have had if I’d known I’d be billed. I think previous doc used a code that made sure the bill would be covered. But why didn’t the new doc use the same code? Sigh.

    Trash: It gets picked up. I don’t know when. I just drop the bag in the bin in the trash room and it magically disappears. They recycle. In fact, if I put a bag of contaminated kitty-litter-room newspaper and shreds into the trash, if they see thru the plastic they sometimes move it to recycling. I once used a sign saying “Dirty, do not recycle” in Spanish to prevent it.

    There are a lot of actors I’ll watch on TV or Xfinity whenever their movies are shown for free. Doesn’t happen often enough.

  7. Avilyn

    Happy Veteran’s Day!  Good luck with the new job, Floja, hope the first day goes well.

    Q&A:

    Are there any words you mispronounced as a child (such as “basketti” instead of spaghetti) that you recall? Are there any that your family still uses now?

    Hmm, as far as I can think of, just “criss-chickies” for whatever the proper word is for the polish pastries.

    How do you feel about the rapidly changing language (especially with the onset of the internet)? Are you happy with changes, or do you wish all those new words and new meanings for old words would just go away?  Some of them are OK (eg “Blog” doesn’t bother me), but I hate hate hate text speak in written word.  I tend not to bother learning a lot of new words, and sometimes that means jokes and stuff go over my head, but generally, I’m OK with that – for example, I still don’t know what “twerk” is, and I’m perfectly OK with not knowing.

    What day does your trash get picked up? What agency does it, or is it a private business? Do they recycle?  Tuesday and Friday mornings.  Recycling gets picked up Wednesday morning.  I’m not sure if it’s the township or a private contractor, to be honest.

    Is there (or has there been) any actor that you like so much you would go see any film he (or she) is in?  I hardly ever go to the movies, usually wait for them to show up on Netflix instead.  I like Sandra Bullock and Bill Pullman, among others, but it would depend on the type of movie.

  8. JanF

    Poor Lindsey, back in the news but perhaps not the way he wants to be. His primary opponents, by the way, are now up to four. He is looking a bit vulnerable in a state that prides itself as being one of the bastions of teapartyness, being the home of teakingmaker Jim DeMint.

    There is something fishy about your Jean Édouard Vuillard hover …

    Owl bet that Hedwig would disagree with at least one of your hovers.

    See you later!!

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