Motley Moose – Archive

Interrogatories

What is your favorite source for weather information? Do you have a weather radio?

Nutella: Love it or hate it?

What is your favorite game involving hitting balls with sticks? Are you any good at it?

The Twitter Emitter

Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo didn't discover California so you could talk all foreign #SpeakAmerican

— Gen JC Xtian patriot (@JC_Christian) February 4, 2014

"My school pal for whom I created a job at Port Authority is a fucking monster who should be nowhere near the reins of power I handed him."

— kara vallow (@teenagesleuth) February 4, 2014

You will always be applauded in the most affluent quarters when you blame blameless victims for their own misery.

— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) February 4, 2014

Facebook turns 10 today, quickly nearing the age to no longer be interested in Facebook.

— Miles Kahn (@mileskahn) February 4, 2014

If marriage equality is not Scottish, it's crap!

— David Waldman (@KagroX) February 4, 2014

You'd think I'd be a creationist, but these days I prefer to deny any involvement in this fiasco.

— God (@TheTweetOfGod) February 4, 2014

Will I use this cattle prod on the next person who sends me an @Upworthy link? The answer may shock you.

— Will McAvoy (@WillMcAvoyACN) February 5, 2014

I want Ken Ham to debate a Pastafarian. Would be more instructive for all involved.

— Hunter (@HunterDK) February 5, 2014

Shorter Ken Ham: The Bible is the word of God and the origin of everything. How do we know? The Bible tells us. #creationdebate

— Crutnacker (@Crutnacker) February 5, 2014

REMINDER: if you oppose gay marriage for Biblical reasons you're also banned from eating at Red Lobster or getting a tattoo #Leviticus

— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) February 5, 2014

As relief from that creation debate I'm going to have a discussion on nuclear physics with my cat.

— Crutnacker (@Crutnacker) February 5, 2014

The CBO proves Obamacare will destroy the economy by letting sick seniors retire rather than be stuck working for health insurance.

— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) February 5, 2014

On This Day

In 1778, South Carolina became the second state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.

In 1852, the Hermitage Museum opened in St. Petersburg, Russia.

In 1881, Phoenix, Arizona was incorporated.

In 1917, Congress passed, over President Woodrow Wilson’s veto, the Immigration Act of 1917, which severely curtailed the immigration of Asians.

In 1919, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launched United Artists.

In 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed increasing the number of Supreme Court justices. Critics charged that he was attempting to “pack” the court, not unlike what they are claiming now about Obama trying to fill vacancies.

In 1939, Generalísimo Francisco Franco (who was alive at the time) became the 68th “Caudillo de España”, or Leader of Spain.

In 1958, an H-Bomb was lost off the coast of Georgia, near Savannah. It’s still lost.

In 1988, the Arizona House of Representatives impeached Gov. Evan Mecham, who was later convicted in the state Senate and removed from office. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.

In 1994, White separatist Byron De La Beckwith was convicted in Jackson, Miss., of murdering civil rights leader Medgar Evers in 1963. He was sentenced to life in prison. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.

Born on This Day

1607 – Cornelis de Baellieur I, Flemish painter (d. 1671)

1626 – Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, French author (d. 1696)

1745 – Joseph Boze, French painter and inventor (d. 1826)

1788 – Sarah Goodridge, U.S. painter (d. 1853)

1802 – Louis-Charles Verboeckhoven, Belgian marine painter (d. 1889)

1808 – Carl Spitzweg, German painter (d. 1885)

1848 – Belle Starr, American outlaw (d. 1889)

1864 – Arthur Wardle, British Classicist painter, mostly of animals (d. 1949)

1871 – Birger Sven Sandzen, Swedish-American landscape painter (d. 1954)

1886 – Ernest Martin Hennings, U.S. landscape painter (d. 1956)

1900 – Adlai Stevenson, American politician, 31st Governor of Illinois (d. 1965)

1903 – Joan Whitney Payson, American heiress (d. 1975)

1906 – John Carradine, American actor (d. 1988)

1914 – William S. Burroughs, American author (d. 1997)

1919 – Red Buttons, American actor (d. 2006)

1919 – Tim Holt, American actor (d. 1973)

1934 – Hank Aaron. American baseball player

1941 – David Selby, American actor

1942 – Cory Wells, American singer (Three Dog Night)

1944 – James B. Cobb, Jr., American guitarist (Classics IV)

1944 – Al Kooper, American musician

1946 – Charlotte Rampling, British actress

1948 – Christopher Guest, American actor and director

1948 – Barbara Hershey, American actress

1954 – Cliff Martinez, American drummer and composer (Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Dickies)

1959 – Jennifer Granholm American politician, 47th Governor of Michigan, TV host

1962 – Jennifer Jason Leigh, American actress

1964 – Laura Linney, American actress

1964 – Duff McKagan, American musician (Guns N’ Roses and Velvet Revolver)

1965 – Keith Moseley, American bass player and songwriter (The String Cheese Incident)

1969 – Bobby Brown, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor (New Edition)

1975 – Adam Carson, American musician (AFI)

Died on This Day

1578 – Giambattista Moroni, Italian painter (b. c.1520-24)

1635 – Joos de Momper the Younger, Flemish painter (b. 1564)

1888 – Anton Mauve, French painter (b. 1838)

1946 – George Arliss, English actor (b. 1868)

1959 – Gwili Andre, Danish actress (b. 1908)

1969 – Thelma Ritter, American actress (b. 1902)

1982 – Dolores Moran, American actress (b. 1926)

1995 – Doug McClure, American actor (b. 1935)

1997 – Pamela Harriman, English-born American diplomat (b. 1920)

2008 – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian guru, founder of Transcendental Meditation (b. c. 1917)

2010 – Ian Carmichael, English actor who played Bertie Wooster and Peter Wimsey. (b. 1920)

Today is

National Weatherperson’s Day

Disaster Day

National Whipped Cream Day

National Chocolate Fondue Day

National Frozen Yogurt Day

World Nutella Day

Tags

news, open thread, community, questions, answers, tweets, history, art, hovers, music, videos, movies, humor, weird holidays

Interrogatories

If you could travel to any fictional world, where would you go?

Miracle Whip: Good food or abomination?

Are you ever a klutz? Any embarrassing stories?

The Twitter Emitter

I'm not offended by enamel erosion & high fructose corn syrup but damn you Coke for an America the Beautiful that doesn't hate foreigners.

— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) February 3, 2014

You'd think the angry bigots could overlook the America the Beautiful ad & still appreciate coke for the poor labor & environmental record.

— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) February 3, 2014

Next up on Fox News: How it's not racist to be mad Coke ruined the Super Bowl with reminders that America isn't all white English speakers.

— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) February 3, 2014

To placate the far right, Coke promised that in next year's Super Bowl commercial, everyone would speak in tongues.

— David Lubar (@davidlubar) February 3, 2014

FOX NEWS: The government has no business telling you what to do, unless you don't speak English or have a vagina

— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) February 3, 2014

Ben Franklin started 1st Printing Press w/Hemppaper. Not saying he smoked any, as many sober men fly kites in thunderstorms

— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) February 3, 2014

Twitter is wall to wall coke and Woody Allen. It’s like the 1970s all over again…

— Larry Madill (@larrymadill) February 3, 2014

Chik-Fil-a serves Coke! BOYCOTT!!!!!!

— Steve Weinstein (@steveweinstein) February 4, 2014

1933 Century of Progress World's Fair Chicago – Kraft introduces Miracle Whip as a less expensive mayonnaise alternative #WhiteHistoryMoment

— Jack Kimble (@RepJackKimble) February 1, 2014

90% of our lives are spent trying to find the little ‘x’ to close pop-up ads.

— Quinn Sutherland (@ReelQuinn) February 1, 2014

Chris Christie offers a devastating new allegation that David Wildstein stole wine at a Bar Mitzvah, to the chagrin of his mother and aunt.

— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) February 2, 2014

On This Day

In 1783, Britain declared a formal cessation of hostilities in the American Revolutionary War.

In 1789, The Electoral College unanimously chose George Washington to be the first president of the United States.

In 1861, delegates from six southern states met in Montgomery, Alabama to form the Confederate States of America.

In 1938, the first feature-length film to use cel animation, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, was released in the United States by some company called Disney.

In 1941, the United Service Organizations (USO) was formed.

In 1974, newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was kidnapped in Berkeley, CA by a group calling themselves the Symbionese Liberation Army.

In 1997, a civil jury found O.J. Simpson liable for the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.

In 1999, four plainclothes New York City cops fired 41 bullets at Amadou Diallo in front of his Bronx home after mistaking his wallet for a gun. The unarmed West African immigrant was killed.

In 2004, the Massachusetts high court declared that gays were entitled to marry.

In 2004, the social networking website Facebook was launched.

Born on This Day

1688 – Pierre de Marivaux, French writer (d. 1763)

1825 – Myles Birket Foster, English painter (d. 1899)

1829 – Gustave Léonard de Jonghe, Belgian painter (d. 1893)

1841 – Charles Édouard Edmond Delort, French academic painter (d. 1895)

1881 – Fernand Léger, French painter (d. 1955)

1889 – Walter Catlett, American actor (d. 1960)

1895 – Nigel Bruce, English actor (d. 1953)

1900 – Jacques Prévert, French poet and lyricist (d. 1977)

1902 – Charles Lindbergh, American pilot and right wing activist (d. 1974)

1905 – Hylda Baker, English comedy actress (d. 1986)

1907 – James McIntosh Patrick, Scottish landscape painter (d. 1998)

1913 – Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (d. 2005)

1918 – Ida Lupino, English film actress and director (d. 1995)

1921 – Betty Friedan, American feminist (d. 2006)

1925 – Gerald Sim, English actor

1941 – John Steel, British drummer (The Animals)

1947 – Dennis C. Blair, American admiral and intelligence official

1947 – Dan Quayle, ot-nay oo-tay ight-bray former Vice President of the United States

1948 – Alice Cooper, American musician

1951 – Patrick Bergin, Irish actor

1952 – Jerry Shirley, Drummer (Humble Pie)

1959 – Lawrence Taylor, American football player

1960 – Tim Booth, British singer (James)

1971 – Rob Corddry, American actor and comedian

1973 – Oscar de la Hoya, Mexican-American boxer

Died on This Day

1498 – Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Italian painter, sculptor, engraver (b. 1431)

1640 – Hendrick C. Vroom, Dutch seascape painter (b. 1652)

1694 – Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Russian noble (b. 1651)

1779 – John Hamilton Mortimer, English Neoclassical painter (b. 1740)

1785 – Donatien Nonnotte, French painter (b. 1708)

1787 – Pompeo Batoni, Italian Rococo painter (b. 1708)

1815 – Jacob van Strij, Dutch painter (b. 1756)

1819 – George Henry Harlow, English painter (b. 1787)

1885 – Sarah Miriam Peale, American painter from a huge family of painters (b. 1800)

1916 – Mary Lizzie Macomber, American painter (b. 1861)

1921 – Xavier Mellery, Belgian painter/illustrator (b. 1845)

1932 – Luis Menéndez Pidal, Spanish genre painter (b. 1861)

1957 – Miguel Covarrubias, Mexican painter, writer, and anthropologist (b. 1904)

1959 – Una O’Connor, Irish actress (b. 1880)

1968 – Neal Cassady, American writer (b. 1926)

1975 – Louis Jordan, American musician (b. 1908)

1982 – Alex Harvey, Scottish musician (b. 1935)

1983 – Karen Carpenter, American singer and drummer (The Carpenters) (b. 1950)

1987 – Liberace, American musician (b. 1919)

1992 – Lisa Fonssagrives, 1950s supermodel (b. 1911)

2003 – Charlie Biddle, Canadian jazz bassist (b. 1926)

2005 – Ossie Davis, American actor, activist (b. 1917)

2009 – Lux Interior, American musician (The Cramps) (b. 1946)

Today is

World Cancer Day

National Stuffed Mushroom Day

Homemade Soup Day

Create a Vacuum Day

Thank a Mailman Day

Interrogatories

Have you ever been in the cockpit of a plane? Have you ever flown a plane?

What’s the smallest plane you’ve been on? The largest? Have you ever flown in a helicopter?

Would you go to the Sochi Olympics, given the opportunity? Would you take your family?

The Twitter Emitter

This is what happens when you don’t endorse Chris Christie Peyton Manning! #TimeForSomeTroubleInTheMeadowlands

— Teresa Kopec (@TeresaKopec) February 3, 2014

Denver's official elev. is 5280 ft, enabling most residents to earn easy membership to the otherwise exclusive Mile High Club

— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) February 3, 2014

Well, a great day in NJ, as human growth hormone-injected monsters gave each other brain damage for a tax-free, anti-trust exempt monopoly.

— kara vallow (@teenagesleuth) February 3, 2014

MSNBC deeply apologizes for not being able to stand by our own opinions. This does not reflect our opinion.

— MSNBC is Sorry (@MSNBCApologizes) January 30, 2014

.@cathymcmorris Hi, Congresswoman. Obamacare gave me gout. Also it burned my toast this morning. You can use this in a speech if you want.

— Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser) January 31, 2014

We never hear anything from Rick Astley these days. It's almost like he's given us up, and let us down.

— Jennifer Lawrence (@itsjenIawrence) February 1, 2014

February, oh, right– time for 28 straight days of Fox News complaining about how it's totally unfair that there's no White History Month.

— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) February 1, 2014

If you believe in the groundhog but not climate scientists, could you please not reproduce? It's very important. Thanks in advance.

— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) February 1, 2014

Koch Industries announces plans to add 2,000 new state and local officials to its payroll in 2014

— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) February 1, 2014

Protip: deporting Justin Bieber won't make his music go away.

— John Aziz (@azizonomics) February 1, 2014

On This Day

In 1809, the Illinois Territory was created.

In 1870, the 15th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to citizens regardless of race.

In 1913, the 16th Amendment to the Constitution, providing for a federal income tax, was ratified. It was a liberal conspiracy!

In 1959, rock ‘n’ roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson died in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa. Thanks to the song “American Pie” by Don McLean, it is now known as “The Day the Music Died.”

In 1971, Apollo 14 astronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr. and Edgar D. Mitchell landed on the lunar surface during the third successful manned mission to the moon.

In 1988, the House of Representatives rejected President Ronald Reagan’s request for more than $36 million in aid to the Nicaraguan Contras, so he found a way around them.

In 1994, the space shuttle Discovery took off with a woman, Air Force Lt. Col. Eileen Collins, in the pilot’s seat for the first time.

Born on This Day

1796 – Jean Baptiste Madou, Belgian painter (d. 1877)

1807 – Genaro Pérez Villamil, Spanish landscape painter (d. 1854)

1809 – Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (d. 1847)

1811 – Horace Greeley, American journalist, editor, and publisher (d. 1872)

1859 – William Strang, Scottish painter and engraver (d. 1921)

1862 – James Clark McReynolds, American Supreme Court Justice (d. 1946)

1864 – Mariano Barbasan Lagueruela, Spanish landscape painter (d. 1924)

1874 – Gertrude Stein, American writer, poet and art collector (d. 1946)

1883 – Camille Bombois, French painter (d. 1970)

1894 – Norman Rockwell, American illustrator (d. 1978)

1898 – Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (d. 1976)

1900 – Mabel Mercer, English born cabaret singer (d. 1984)

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

1907 – James Michener, American author (d. 1997)

1911 – Robert Earl Jones, American actor and father of James Earl Jones (d. 2006)

1912 – Mary Carlisle, American actress and singer

1918 – Joey Bishop, American entertainer, member of the Rat Pack (d. 2007)

1927 – Kenneth Anger, American underground filmmaker and writer who Makes Shit Up

1930 – Gillian Ayres, English painter

1823 – Manuel Castellano, Spanish painter (d. 1880)

1932 – Peggy Ann Garner, American actress (d. 1984)

1943 – Blythe Danner, American actress

1943 – Dennis Edwards, American singer (The Temptations)

1943 – Shawn Phillips, American singer, guitarist and songwriter

1947 – Dave Davies, English musician (The Kinks)

1948 – Jim Lockhart, Irish musician (Horslips)

1949 – Arthur Kane, American musician (New York Dolls) (d. 2004)

1950 – Morgan Fairchild, American actress

1950 – Pamela Franklin, British actress

1956 – Lee Ranaldo, American musician (Sonic Youth)

1959 – Yasuharu Konishi, Japanese musician (Pizzicato Five)

1970 – Warwick Davis, English actor

Died on This Day

1399 – John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (b. 1340)

1679 – Jan Steen, Dutch painter (b. 1626)

1687 – Bernhard Keil, Danish painter (b. 1624)

1759 – Hendrik van Limborch, Dutch painter (b. 1681)

1850 – Guillaume-François Colson, French painter (b. 1785)

1851 – Wilhelm Trübner, German painter (d. 1917)

1900 – William Stanley Haseltine, U.S. landscape/seascape/cityscape painter (b. 1835)

1912 – Gonzalo Ariza, Colombian landscape painter (d. 1995)

1922 – John Butler Yeats, Northern Irish artist (b. 1839)

1924 – Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, Nobel laureate (b. 1856)

1937 – Marija Leiko, Latvian silent film actress (b. 1887)

1966 – June Walker, actress (b. 1900)

1977 – Pauline Starke, American silent film star (b. 1901)

1989 – John Cassavetes, American actor (b. 1929)

2012 – Ben Gazzara, American actor (b. 1930)

(killing 2 birds with one stone here_

Today is

National Carrot Cake Day

Drinking Straw Day

National Cordova Ice Worm Day