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The Daily F Bomb, Wednesday 9/4/13

Interrogatories

Who is your all-time favorite athlete? Why?

What foods are considered staples in your house?

Have you ever had to have stitches? How many?

What was the best vacation you ever went on as a kid? What made it so good?

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On This Day

In 1781, the city of Los Angeles (called at the time the Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of Porziuncola) was founded.

In 1884, the U.K. stopped its policy of shipping convicts to Australia.

In 1886, Geronimo surrendered after 30 years of resistance.

In 1949, white racist/anti-Semite/anti-Communist crowds started a riot outside of a Paul Robeson concert in Westchester County, NY.

In 1957, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus called out the National Guard to prevent Central High School from being integrated.

In 1957, Ford introduced the Edsel.

In 1972, Mark Spitz broke the Olympic record, becoming the first athlete to win 7 gold medals in a single Games.

In 2007, Mattel toy company issued their third recall of the month for toys produced in China, due to unsafe levels of lead.

Born on This Day

1383 – Antipope Felix V (d. 1451)

1629 – Lorenzo Pasinelli, Italian painter (d. 1700)

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1717 – Job Orton, English minister (d. 1783)

1719 – Johann Conrad Seekatz, German painter (d. 1768)

1768 – François-René de Chateaubriand, French writer, historian, and diplomat (d. 1848)

1796 – Peter Fendi, Viennese painter, engraver, and lithographer (d. 1842)

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1803 – Sarah Childress Polk, American wife of James K. Polk, 12th First Lady of the United States (d. 1891)

1841 – Albert Joseph Moore, English painter (d. 1893)

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1846 – Daniel Burnham, American architect, designed the World’s Columbian Exposition (d. 1912)

1848 – Jennie Lee, American actress (d. 1925)

1848 – Gustav Bauernfeind, German orientalist painter (d. 1904)

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1852 – Eilif Peterssen, Norwegian painter (d. 1928)

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1883 – Bela Czobel, Hungarian painter (d. 1976)

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1888 – Louise Glaum, silent film star (d. 1970)

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1892 – Darius Milhaud, French composer (d. 1974)

1896 – Antonin Artaud, French playwright (d. 1948)

1900 – George Hoyningen-Huene, Russian-born U.S. fashion photographer (d. 1968)

1905 – Mary Renault, English novelist (d. 1983)

1913 – Mickey Cohen, American mobster (d. 1976)

1920 – Craig Claiborne, American restaurant critic and food journalist (d. 2000)

1924 – Joan Aiken, English author (d. 2004)

1928 – Dick York, American actor (d. 1992)

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1931 – Jack Boucher, American photographer (d. 2012)

1931 – Mitzi Gaynor, American actress, singer, and dancer

1942 – Merald “Bubba” Knight, American singer-songwriter and producer (Gladys Knight & The Pips)

1942 – Bob Filner, serial harasser

1945 – Danny Gatton, American guitarist (d. 1994) Much esteemed by fellow guitarist, largely unknown otherwise

1946 – Gary Duncan, American guitarist (The Brogues and Quicksilver Messenger Service)

1951 – Martin Chambers, English drummer and singer (The Pretenders)

1955 – Brian Schweitzer, American politician, 23rd Governor of Montana

1958 – George Hurley, American drummer (Minutemen, Firehose, The Reactionaries, and Unknown Instructors)

1968 – Mike Piazza, American baseball player

1971 – Ione Skye, British-born actress

1981 – Beyoncé Knowles, African-American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actress (Destiny’s Child)

Died on This Day

1588 – Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, English politician (b. 1532)

1667 – Frans Francken III, Flemish painter (b. 1607)

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1784 – César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer (b. 1714)

1852 – William MacGillivray, Scottish naturalist and ornithologist (b. 1796)

1907 – Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (b. 1843)

1909 – Clyde Fitch, American dramatist and playwright (b. 1865)

1921 – Wilhelm Kotarbinski, Russian painter (b. 1849)

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1965 – Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian physician and missionary, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)

1985 – Isabel Jeans, British actress (Suspicion, Easy Virtue, Tovarich) (b. 1891)

1990 – Irene Dunne, American actress (b. 1898)

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1993 – Hervé Villechaize, French actor (b. 1943)

1995 – William Kunstler, American lawyer and activist (b. 1919)

2006 – Steve Irwin, Australian zoologist and television host (b. 1962)

Today is

Newspaper Carrier Day

National Macadamia Nut Day

Rosh Hashana (begins at sunset)


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49 comments

  1. Floja Roja

    Lilly went to the vet again yesterday for her sneezing, got antibiotics and a different med for her eye. She’s still sneezing this morning, but I don’t expect it will go away immediately. Poor thing.

    It’s gonna be in the 90s, dew point above 60, humidity around 56%.

    Answers…

    I don’t generally follow sports much. If I were awake I’m sure some snarky answer would occur to me, but as I am still asleep, I guess I’ll say Joe Montana, for that time when I briefly got into football and was winning all those pools. He was so amazingly calm and was very good at pulling off a win from behind. And it reminds me of my friend Jomar saying, “I’ll give you a ride home, but you have to promise not to gloat in the car.” (That was after his Giants were foiledl)

    Staples. Aside from obvious stuff like flour, milk, cheese, I cannot be without canned green chiles, Thai chile pastes, Chipotle chiles, lemons…

    I’ve had lots of stitches. The most was probably hernia surgery I had when I was 20 (nowadays I don’t think it’s as invasive). I don’t recall how many, maybe 10? All the other times were little things, one or two.

    Best vacation as a kid was this sprawling old house right on the beach in Port Hueneme (sp?) CA, with my family and two other families. That house was built for kids to have fun in. We all shared a vast sleeping porch at night, and there was a cool loft over the garage that was reached only by ladder, and the sand was blown up high against one side of the house from some weather event we missed, so we could jump from the second floor and land against it. And there was a sand cliff due to this same event that was about (seems like) 4 feet high that we had fun “falling” off of.

  2. JanF

    Why oh why are we still paying attention to what he does?

    On the syrias business of Syria, the unintentially funniest tweet I saw was this one:

    BENGHAAAAAAAAAAZIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!

  4. Floja Roja

    after watching the Senate hearing, and I liked this twitter timeline from Joshua Foust. I pretty much agree, but I keep hearing reasoned arguments on both sides:

  5. plf515

    Who is your all-time favorite athlete? Why?

    I am not really a sports fan. I do like it when athletes give back to their communities or otherwise help the human race. e.g. Johann Olav Koss I know there are lots of others. Unfortunately, the media seems more enamored of athletes who are schmucks then those who are mensches.

    What foods are considered staples in your house?

    I dunno…. pasta certainly.

    Have you ever had to have stitches? How many?

    I believe there are some stitches in my eyes from two surgeries, I don’t know how many. I also had arthroscopic surgery on both knees, but I don’t know how many (if any) stitches were used.



    What was the best vacation you ever went on as a kid? What made it so good?

    They sort of blend together.

  6. blue jersey mom

    Who is your all-time favorite athlete? Why? I am not a big sports fan, but I do like Nolan Ryan. He was a great pitcher.

    What foods are considered staples in your house? In addition to the staples like flour and salt, we need coffee, tea, and some form of alcohol. I like a glass of wine when I come home from work.

    Have you ever had to have stitches? How many? Yes, lots, and mostly on my face. I walked into a fence when I was 3, and ended up with 4 stitches in my forehead. I have probably had about 40 more since, as a result of a car accident and cancer surgery.

    What was the best vacation you ever went on as a kid? What made it so good? Our family vacations were pretty awful. My family was really dysfunctional. My sister and I always had a wonderful time at Girl Scout Camp (swimming, hiking, and no parental drama).

  7. anotherdemocrat

    Who is your all-time favorite athlete? Why?

    Chrissie Wellington, triathlete (now retired). So positive, and smart — she worked in international aid & development before becoming a professional athlete. Did n’t even win her first tri until her late 20s.

    What foods are considered staples in your house?

    Cheese. Salsa.

    Have you ever had to have stitches? How many?

    yes, 4 or 5 in my knee

    What was the best vacation you ever went on as a kid? What made it so good?

    When we lived in Dubai, the best place to go was Beirut. Obviously this was before the war. It was beautiful, and the people were friendly. It was really really lovely

  8. Gee

    Found a couple of brown hairs in my goatee this morning.  May be getting younger.

    Who is your all-time favorite athlete? Why?

    What foods are considered staples in your house?

    Have you ever had to have stitches? How many?

    What was the best vacation you ever went on as a kid? What made it so good?

    Never thought of it.  A rather obscure one comes to mind, a Scottish distance runner named Liz McColgan.  Very fast, and supremely confident.  Instead of pulling her hair back into a ponytail, she gathered it on top of her head into a little plume.  Couldn’t miss her in a pack of runners.

    Oh, another food ingredients question!  Beer.

    Never had stitches.

    Most vacations when I was a kid were to see my mother’s relatives in Pennsylvania.  I liked ’em all.  The relatives and the vacations.  Have you ever asked us about our worst vacation?  I’ve got one of those.

  10. Gee

    1946 – Gary Duncan, American guitarist (The Brogues and Quicksilver Messenger Service)

    Hard to keep up with all the Quicksilver lineups.  Is Gary Duncan the one singing (and not playing his guitar), or is he the blonde fellow in the white pants?

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