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Welcome to QOTD for Sunday, April 24, 2016. If your birthday is today, you were born under the sign of Taurus. Some famous people who were born on this date include singers Barbra Streisand and Kelly Clarkson, actor-director-comedian Cedric the Entertainer, actress and author Shirley Maclaine, baseball player Carlos Beltran, reality TV star Phil Robertson, film director Richard Donner, artist Willem de Kooning; and novelists Sue Grafton, Robert Penn Warren and Eric Bogosian.
Today’s Questions:
Have you bought anything online lately? What was it? Were you happy with your purchase?
What’s your “stripper name?” To find out, use the name of your first pet as your first name and the name of the first street you lived on as your last name. (Mine is “Rusty Macneil”).
What was the last thing you had to eat?
What was the last thing you had to drink?
What is the weather like in your area this weekend?
“Timing is the thing, it’s true” goes an old song. Please share any instances in your life when the timing was either just perfect (such as running into a long-lost friend by chance) or absolutely awful (such as your mobile phone ringing during a wedding or funeral).
Today in History: 1184 BCE – Traditional date of the fall of Troy (which was located in present-day western Turkey). 1519 - Envoys of Montezuma II attend the first Easter mass in Central America. 1547 - Charles V's troops defeat the Protestant League of Schmalkalden at the battle of Muhlburg. 1558 - Mary, Queen of Scots, weds the French dauphin, François, at Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. 1792 – The French national anthem, “La Marseillaise,” is composed by Capt. Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle. 1800 – The U.S. Library of Congress is established with a $5,000 allocation. 1805 - U.S. Marines attack and capture the town of Derna in the North African state of Tripoli. 1833 - A patent is granted for the first soda fountain. 1877 - Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire (which was centered in present-day Turkey). 1877 – U.S. Federal troops are ordered out of New Orleans, ending the North's post-Civil War rule in the South. 1884 - Otto von Bismarck cables Cape Town to announce that South Africa is now a German colony. 1898 - Spain declares war on the U.S. after rejecting America's ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba. 1915 - During World War I, the Ottoman Turkish Empire begins the mass deportation of Armenians. 1916 - Irish nationalists launch the Easter Rebellion against British occupation forces. 1916 – Ernest Shackleton and five others launch a lifeboat from an island in the Southern Ocean to rescue the ship Endurance, which is trapped in Arctic ice.
1923 – Sigmund Freud’s paper Das Ich und Das Es (The Ego and the Id) is published, outlining his theory of the ego, id and super-ego. 1944 - The first B-29 arrives in China, over the Hump of the Himalayas. 1952 - Raymond Burr makes his TV acting debut on the "Gruen Guild Playhouse" in an episode titled, "The Tiger." 1953 - Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. 1961 - Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers strikes out 18 batters, becoming the first major-league pitcher to do so on two different occasions. 1961 - U.S. President Kennedy accepts "sole responsibility" following the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. 1962 – The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) achieves the first satellite relay of a TV signal. 1967 - Soviet astronaut Vladimir Komarov dies when his craft crashes with a tangled parachute. 1967 - The newest Greek regime bans miniskirts. 1970 - The People's Republic of China launches its first satellite. 1973 - Albert Sabin reports that herpes viruses are factors in nine kinds of cancer. 1974 - David Bowie releases "Diamond Dogs." 1980 – Eight American servicemen are killed in a failed attempt to free the more than 60 people held hostage in Tehran since November, 1979 by pro-Ayatollah students. 1989 - Thousands of students go on strike in Beijing. 1990 - The space shuttle Discovery blasts off from Cape Canaveral, FL, carrying the $1.5 billion Hubble Space Telescope. 1997 - The U.S. Senate ratifies the Chemical Weapons Convention. The global treaty bans the development, production, storage and use of chemical weapons. 2003 - A U.S. official reports that North Korea has claimed to have nuclear weapons.
Quote of the Day:
“Ideas are easy. It’s the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.”
- Sue Grafton
- Bonus Quote of the Day:
“If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them.”
- Sue Grafton
Word of the Day:
pied \’pīd\ adjective
Definition:
Having sections or patches colored differently; usually brightly.
Example:
At Nebraska’s Crescent Lake, I’ve seen tiger-striped chicks of the pied-billed grebe floating close to their mother while overhead graceful black terns balanced in the wind, a thousand miles from the sea.”
From “Bird Watching, Patriotism and the Oregon Standoff,” Peter Cashwell, New York Times, January 6, 2016.
Today is:
International Sculpture Day
World Day for Laboratory Animals
Kapyong Day (Australia)
Flag Day (Ireland)
Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day
Welcome to QOTD for Sunday, April 24, 2016. If your birthday is today, you were born under the sign of Taurus. Some famous people who were born on this date include singers Barbra Streisand and Kelly Clarkson, actor-director-comedian Cedric the Entertainer, actress and author Shirley Maclaine, baseball player Carlos Beltran, reality TV star Phil Robertson, film director Richard Donner, artist Willem de Kooning; and novelists Sue Grafton, Robert Penn Warren and Eric Bogosian.
Today’s Questions:
Have you bought anything online lately? What was it? Were you happy with your purchase? Headphones and battery backups. Mostly happy.
What’s your “stripper name?” To find out, use the name of your first pet as your first name and the name of the first street you lived on as your last name. (Mine is “Rusty Macneil”). Snowball Clutter. Not sure about either though.
What was the last thing you had to eat? Ice cream. No actually coffee flavored Nips.
What was the last thing you had to drink? Iced tea as always.
What is the weather like in your area this weekend? Mixed but all the festivities were unhampered.
“Timing is the thing, it’s true” goes an old song. Please share any instances in your life when the timing was either just perfect (such as running into a long-lost friend by chance) or absolutely awful (such as your mobile phone ringing during a wedding or funeral).
Today in History: 1184 BCE – Traditional date of the fall of Troy (which was located in present-day western Turkey). 1519 - Envoys of Montezuma II attend the first Easter mass in Central America. 1547 - Charles V's troops defeat the Protestant League of Schmalkalden at the battle of Muhlburg. 1558 - Mary, Queen of Scots, weds the French dauphin, François, at Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. 1792 – The French national anthem, “La Marseillaise,” is composed by Capt. Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle. 1800 – The U.S. Library of Congress is established with a $5,000 allocation. 1805 - U.S. Marines attack and capture the town of Derna in the North African state of Tripoli. 1833 - A patent is granted for the first soda fountain. 1877 - Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire (which was centered in present-day Turkey). 1877 – U.S. Federal troops are ordered out of New Orleans, ending the North's post-Civil War rule in the South. 1884 - Otto von Bismarck cables Cape Town to announce that South Africa is now a German colony. 1898 - Spain declares war on the U.S. after rejecting America's ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba. 1915 - During World War I, the Ottoman Turkish Empire begins the mass deportation of Armenians. 1916 - Irish nationalists launch the Easter Rebellion against British occupation forces. 1916 – Ernest Shackleton and five others launch a lifeboat from an island in the Southern Ocean to rescue the ship Endurance, which is trapped in Arctic ice.
1923 – Sigmund Freud’s paper Das Ich und Das Es (The Ego and the Id) is published, outlining his theory of the ego, id and super-ego. 1944 - The first B-29 arrives in China, over the Hump of the Himalayas. 1952 - Raymond Burr makes his TV acting debut on the "Gruen Guild Playhouse" in an episode titled, "The Tiger." 1953 - Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. 1961 - Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers strikes out 18 batters, becoming the first major-league pitcher to do so on two different occasions. 1961 - U.S. President Kennedy accepts "sole responsibility" following the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. 1962 – The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) achieves the first satellite relay of a TV signal. 1967 - Soviet astronaut Vladimir Komarov dies when his craft crashes with a tangled parachute. 1967 - The newest Greek regime bans miniskirts. 1970 - The People's Republic of China launches its first satellite. 1973 - Albert Sabin reports that herpes viruses are factors in nine kinds of cancer. 1974 - David Bowie releases "Diamond Dogs." 1980 – Eight American servicemen are killed in a failed attempt to free the more than 60 people held hostage in Tehran since November, 1979 by pro-Ayatollah students. 1989 - Thousands of students go on strike in Beijing. 1990 - The space shuttle Discovery blasts off from Cape Canaveral, FL, carrying the $1.5 billion Hubble Space Telescope. 1997 - The U.S. Senate ratifies the Chemical Weapons Convention. The global treaty bans the development, production, storage and use of chemical weapons. 2003 - A U.S. official reports that North Korea has claimed to have nuclear weapons.
Quote of the Day:
“Ideas are easy. It’s the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.”
- Sue Grafton
- Bonus Quote of the Day:
“If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them.”
- Sue Grafton
Word of the Day:
pied \’pīd\ adjective
Definition:
Having sections or patches colored differently; usually brightly.
Example:
At Nebraska’s Crescent Lake, I’ve seen tiger-striped chicks of the pied-billed grebe floating close to their mother while overhead graceful black terns balanced in the wind, a thousand miles from the sea.”
From “Bird Watching, Patriotism and the Oregon Standoff,” Peter Cashwell, New York Times, January 6, 2016.
Today is:
International Sculpture Day
World Day for Laboratory Animals
Kapyong Day (Australia)
Flag Day (Ireland)
Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day Thanks Bay! Nice job!
Today’s Questions:
Have you bought anything online lately? Within the last month. What was it? Deodorizer. Were you happy with your purchase? For the most part, yes.
What’s your “stripper name?” To find out, use the name of your first pet as your first name and the name of the first street you lived on as your last name. (Mine is “Rusty Macneil”). Pickles Constitution.
What was the last thing you had to eat? Quesadilla.
What was the last thing you had to drink? Iced tea.
What is the weather like in your area this weekend? Sunny with a high in the mid 70s. No rain forecast for the coming week, although we can always use it.
“Timing is the thing, it’s true” goes an old song. Please share any instances in your life when the timing was either just perfect (such as running into a long-lost friend by chance) or absolutely awful (such as your mobile phone ringing during a wedding or funeral). Long time ago, I was driving and the gas tank was empty. I pulled into a gas station just as the car ran out of gas.
Today’s Questions:
Have you bought anything online lately? What was it? Were you happy with your purchase? Bought a couple pocket knives. They're good! Already cut my finger with one of them!
What’s your “stripper name?” To find out, use the name of your first pet as your first name and the name of the first street you lived on as your last name. (Mine is “Rusty Macneil”). Tipsy Highland
What was the last thing you had to eat? Hershey Bar
What was the last thing you had to drink? Wild Cherry sparkling water
What is the weather like in your area this weekend? Great weather. A little cooler Saturday but supposed to be in the 70s today.
“Timing is the thing, it’s true” goes an old song. Please share any instances in your life when the timing was either just perfect (such as running into a long-lost friend by chance) or absolutely awful (such as your mobile phone ringing during a wedding or funeral). Any time I go have to sit in a waiting room or anywhere that I'm visiting somebody, I always turn the ringer on my phone off. Was running late one day last fall when my dad was in the hospital. He had just fallen asleep right before I tiptoed in his room to check on him. Then my phone rang and guess who was wide awake!
Welcome to QOTD for Sunday, April 24, 2016. If your birthday is today, you were born under the sign of Taurus. Some famous people who were born on this date include singers Barbra Streisand and Kelly Clarkson, actor-director-comedian Cedric the Entertainer, actress and author Shirley Maclaine, baseball player Carlos Beltran, reality TV star Phil Robertson, film director Richard Donner, artist Willem de Kooning; and novelists Sue Grafton, Robert Penn Warren and Eric Bogosian.
Today’s Questions:
Have you bought anything online lately?
What was it? Clothes
Were you happy with your purchase? For the most part.
What’s your “stripper name?” To find out, use the name of your first pet as your first name and the name of the first street you lived on as your last name. (Mine is “Rusty Macneil”). Cricket West - close enough, though not the first of either.
What was the last thing you had to eat? Apple Fritter
What was the last thing you had to drink? Coffee
What is the weather like in your area this weekend? Gorgeous sunny days as was all of this past week and predicted for all of this coming week, too... highs in the 80s with lows in the 60s!
“Timing is the thing, it’s true” goes an old song. Please share any instances in your life when the timing was either just perfect (such as running into a long-lost friend by chance) or absolutely awful (such as your mobile phone ringing during a wedding or funeral).
Well, there have been many over the years, but to judge them good or bad now is best left to the interpretation Charles Dickens so aptly described in his Tale of Two Cities: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only." 'Tis all in how you choose to view them, especially in hindsight!
Today in History: 1184 BCE – Traditional date of the fall of Troy (which was located in present-day western Turkey). 1519 - Envoys of Montezuma II attend the first Easter mass in Central America. 1547 - Charles V's troops defeat the Protestant League of Schmalkalden at the battle of Muhlburg. 1558 - Mary, Queen of Scots, weds the French dauphin, François, at Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. 1792 – The French national anthem, “La Marseillaise,” is composed by Capt. Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle. 1800 – The U.S. Library of Congress is established with a $5,000 allocation. 1805 - U.S. Marines attack and capture the town of Derna in the North African state of Tripoli. 1833 - A patent is granted for the first soda fountain. 1877 - Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire (which was centered in present-day Turkey). 1877 – U.S. Federal troops are ordered out of New Orleans, ending the North's post-Civil War rule in the South. 1884 - Otto von Bismarck cables Cape Town to announce that South Africa is now a German colony. 1898 - Spain declares war on the U.S. after rejecting America's ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba. 1915 - During World War I, the Ottoman Turkish Empire begins the mass deportation of Armenians. 1916 - Irish nationalists launch the Easter Rebellion against British occupation forces. 1916 – Ernest Shackleton and five others launch a lifeboat from an island in the Southern Ocean to rescue the ship Endurance, which is trapped in Arctic ice.
1923 – Sigmund Freud’s paper Das Ich und Das Es (The Ego and the Id) is published, outlining his theory of the ego, id and super-ego. 1944 - The first B-29 arrives in China, over the Hump of the Himalayas. 1952 - Raymond Burr makes his TV acting debut on the "Gruen Guild Playhouse" in an episode titled, "The Tiger." 1953 - Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. 1961 - Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers strikes out 18 batters, becoming the first major-league pitcher to do so on two different occasions. 1961 - U.S. President Kennedy accepts "sole responsibility" following the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. 1962 – The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) achieves the first satellite relay of a TV signal. 1967 - Soviet astronaut Vladimir Komarov dies when his craft crashes with a tangled parachute. 1967 - The newest Greek regime bans miniskirts. 1970 - The People's Republic of China launches its first satellite. 1973 - Albert Sabin reports that herpes viruses are factors in nine kinds of cancer. 1974 - David Bowie releases "Diamond Dogs." 1980 – Eight American servicemen are killed in a failed attempt to free the more than 60 people held hostage in Tehran since November, 1979 by pro-Ayatollah students. 1989 - Thousands of students go on strike in Beijing. 1990 - The space shuttle Discovery blasts off from Cape Canaveral, FL, carrying the $1.5 billion Hubble Space Telescope. 1997 - The U.S. Senate ratifies the Chemical Weapons Convention. The global treaty bans the development, production, storage and use of chemical weapons. 2003 - A U.S. official reports that North Korea has claimed to have nuclear weapons.
Quote of the Day:
“Ideas are easy. It’s the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.”
- Sue Grafton
- Bonus Quote of the Day:
“If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them.”
- Sue Grafton
Word of the Day:
pied \’pīd\ adjective Definition:
Having sections or patches colored differently; usually brightly. Example:
At Nebraska’s Crescent Lake, I’ve seen tiger-striped chicks of the pied-billed grebe floating close to their mother while overhead graceful black terns balanced in the wind, a thousand miles from the sea.”
From “Bird Watching, Patriotism and the Oregon Standoff,” Peter Cashwell, New York Times, January 6, 2016.
Today is:
International Sculpture Day
World Day for Laboratory Animals
Kapyong Day (Australia)
Flag Day (Ireland)
Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day
Today’s Questions:
Have you bought anything online lately? It's been a year.
What was it? 2 pairs of tennis shoes that the mfg had recently dis-continued.
Were you happy with your purchase? Yes, they are the most comfortable shoes and fit perfectly. I don't like to buy online unless it's necessary, I'd rather buy locally, no return hassles.
What’s your “stripper name?” To find out, use the name of your first pet as your first name and the name of the first street you lived on as your last name. (Mine is “Rusty Macneil”). "Rocco Humbert"
What was the last thing you had to eat? Pork chop, baked potato, jello.
What was the last thing you had to drink? Water.
What is the weather like in your area this weekend? 90's F, breezy.
“Timing is the thing, it’s true” goes an old song. Please share any instances in your life when the timing was either just perfect (such as running into a long-lost friend by chance) or absolutely awful (such as your mobile phone ringing during a wedding or funeral). Moving to a new town in my younger days with no job prospects and getting a call the same day I arrived wanting me to be a rep for a major company in the area I moved to. Seems the previous rep moved on.
Today’s Questions:
Have you bought anything online lately? Not lately.
What was it? Last thing was books.
Were you happy with your purchase?
What’s your “stripper name?” To find out, use the name of your first pet as your first name and the name of the first street you lived on as your last name. (Mine is “Rusty Macneil”). Must you bring up my checkered past.
What was the last thing you had to eat? A cookie.
What was the last thing you had to drink? H2O
What is the weather like in your area this weekend? Nice.
“Timing is the thing, it’s true” goes an old song. Please share any instances in your life when the timing was either just perfect (such as running into a long-lost friend by chance) or absolutely awful (such as your mobile phone ringing during a wedding or funeral). Many times. Once left a not so great job for a much better one with a company that just opened an office in the same building. Also, earlier this evening the oven timer dinged, and dinner was almost ready.
Have you bought anything online lately? What was it? Were you happy with your purchase? yes, the new stars movie and some speakers for my new PC, I'm happy enough with both purchases
What’s your “stripper name?” To find out, use the name of your first pet as your first name and the name of the first street you lived on as your last name. (Mine is “Rusty Macneil”). "Tinker Dargle"
What was the last thing you had to eat? Toast, it is the morning here
What was the last thing you had to drink? Coffee, again it is the morning here
What is the weather like in your area this weekend? Very nice sunny with a slight breeze, though I had to spend a good chunk of my weekend indoors finishing off a project for work...
“Timing is the thing, it’s true” goes an old song. Please share any instances in your life when the timing was either just perfect (such as running into a long-lost friend by chance) or absolutely awful (such as your mobile phone ringing during a wedding or funeral). Absolutely awful was my old managers name starts with an A and I pocket dialed him while he was at the wake of his niece, he was cool about it but I was mortified at the time. On the perfect timing was I bumped into a guy I was travel around the British Columbia, Canada in Wellington, New Zealand 5 months later its a small world.
Thanks for the questions Bay Area, hope your all enjoying the weekend
Today’s Questions:
Have you bought anything online lately? What was it? Were you happy with your purchase? - Yes, 3 Climax Blues Band CD's. - "Shine On" "Real To Reel" and "Flying The Flag,"
I am very happy with all of them, especially considering it was unexpected that all are digitally remastered and done correctly which is not always the case when it comes to that technology.
The sound is terrific, better than I remember when I had the vinyl copies.
RIP both Colin Cooper and Peter Haycock.
What’s your “stripper name?” To find out, use the name of your first pet as your first name and the name of the first street you lived on as your last name. (Mine is “Rusty Macneil”).b - Except for around 5 days when I was about 5 years old I never had a pet. I do not remember what that dog's name was.
What was the last thing you had to eat? - Fresh peanut butter, honey, and raisin sandwich on 7 grain bread. It was delicious!
What was the last thing you had to drink? - One Heineken late last night, first time in about 4 months that I had a beer (I do not drink alcohol except a beer once in a while).
What is the weather like in your area this weekend? - It rained a good portion of Saturday but cleared up later. I was able to get my almost daily walk in.
I have a rare Sunday off today and the weather is supposed to be perfect. I'm off one Sunday a month, the last Sunday of every month. I work late on Tuesday's when that comes up which is one of my regular days off.
“Timing is the thing, it’s true” goes an old song. Please share any instances in your life when the timing was either just perfect (such as running into a long-lost friend by chance) or absolutely awful (such as your mobile phone ringing during a wedding or funeral). - Can't think of a thing.
Thanks, Bayarea4,
Hope everyone has a good Sunday!
Today’s Questions:
Have you bought anything online lately? What was it? Were you happy with your purchase?
The last things I bought online were camera batteries specific for my camera and memory cards. I will be using them this coming week.
What’s your “stripper name?” To find out, use the name of your first pet as your first name and the name of the first street you lived on as your last name. (Mine is “Rusty Macneil”).
Should not answer this question publicly if either are one of the questions a website uses to retrieve your password.
What was the last thing you had to eat?
I'm just about to have some Honey Nut Cheerios. Last night it was sugar free frozen fudge sticks.
What was the last thing you had to drink? Water.
What is the weather like in your area this weekend?
Sunny today. High of 82.
“Timing is the thing, it’s true” goes an old song. Please share any instances in your life when the timing was either just perfect (such as running into a long-lost friend by chance) or absolutely awful (such as your mobile phone ringing during a wedding or funeral).
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