Questions of the Day For Sunday, May 7, 2017 (house, buy, phone)

[Bayarea4]

Welcome to the Questions of the Day for Sunday, May 7, 2017. If your birthday is today, you were born under the sign of Taurus. Famous people who share your birthday include poets Robert Browning and Archibald MacLeish; composers Johannes Brahms and Pyotr ilyich Tchaikovsky; actors Gary Cooper and Darren McGavin; actress Anne Baxter; Argentine first lady Eva Peron; American football great Johnny Unitas; TV weatherman Willard Scott; TV journalist Tim Russert and film director Amy Heckerling.

Today’s Questions:
What types of tasks come easily for you?

What types of tasks are difficult for you?

Describe your idea of perfect relaxation?

What do your everyday dishes look like?

What is the oldest thing you own?

What is the newest thing you own?



Today in History
429 – English siege of Orleans broken by Joan of Arc and the French army.
1664 – France’s Louis XIV inaugurates the palace at Versailles.
1700 – Pennsylvania founder William Penn begins meetings with blacks advocating emancipation.
1718 – City of New Orleans founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville.
1789 – First U.S. presidential inaugural ball held for George Washington in New York City.
1800 – Indiana Territory organized.
1824 – Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony premieres in Vienna.
1866 – German premier Otto von Bismarck seriously wounded in an assassination attempt.
1888 – George Eastman perfects the Kodak box camera.
1895 - Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society in St. Petersburg his invention - the world's first radio receiver. Celebrated as Radio Day in Russia.
1912 - Columbia University approves plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories, as provided for in the will of newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer.
1914 – U.S. Congress establishes Mother’s Day.
1915 - RMS Lusitania sunk by German submarine off the southern coast of Ireland; 1198 lives lost.
1939 – Germany and Italy announce an alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis.
1941 – Glenn Miller records “Chattanooga Choo Choo” for RCA.
1945 – World War II: Unconditional German surrender to the Allies signed by General Alfred Jodl at Rheims.
1946 - Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded. The company has about 20 employees.
1952 – The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer.
1994 – Edvard Munch’s painting “The Scream” is recovered three months after it was stolen.
1998 – Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler Corporation for $40 billion USD and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest corporate merger in history.
1982 – iBM releases PC-DOS Version 1.1.
2007 – The tomb of Herod the Great is discovered.
2012 – Paleoclimatological research claims that dinosaur flatulence may have warmed the earth.

Word of the Day:
eu·phe·mism
/ˈyo͞ofəˌmizəm/
noun

1. a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.


“In a system where banishment was called “transportation,” assignment was the euphemism for slave labor.”
- Timothy Egan, The Immoral Irishman

Quote of the Day:
“There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience. “
- Archibald MacLeish


Today is:
Lemonade Day
Barrier Awareness Day
Infertility Survival Day
Packaging Design Day
Roast Leg of Lamb Day
Paste-Up Day

[AksarbeN]

Welcome to the Questions of the Day for Sunday, May 7, 2017. If your birthday is today, you were born under the sign of Taurus. Famous people who share your birthday include poets Robert Browning and Archibald MacLeish; composers Johannes Brahms and Pyotr ilyich Tchaikovsky; actors Gary Cooper and Darren McGavin; actress Anne Baxter; Argentine first lady Eva Peron; American football great Johnny Unitas; TV weatherman Willard Scott; TV journalist Tim Russert and film director Amy Heckerling.

Today’s Questions:
What types of tasks come easily for you? Sleeping, napping, watching tv, listening to the radio and consuming food to name a few.

What types of tasks are difficult for you? holding my breath for long periods of time while underwater.

Describe your idea of perfect relaxation? Cool breeze beside a lake with the sun shining brightly and listening to music of the 60's.

What do your everyday dishes look like? round, a multi-colored pattern on the edge

What is the oldest thing you own? I have a lock of hair from the first day Mom & Dad took me to a barber shop, so it would put it a little less than 73 years. I also have an old PBX telephone switchboard the kind with all the cords & plugs that was built in the early 1930's.

What is the newest thing you own? A couple of meals that we couldn't finish at the restaurant tonight when Mrs Aks and I were out to dinner. I hate having to take home food but I don't like to waste it.

Today in History
429 – English siege of Orleans broken by Joan of Arc and the French army.
1664 – France’s Louis XIV inaugurates the palace at Versailles.
1700 – Pennsylvania founder William Penn begins meetings with blacks advocating emancipation.
1718 – City of New Orleans founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville.
1789 – First U.S. presidential inaugural ball held for George Washington in New York City.
1800 – Indiana Territory organized.
1824 – Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony premieres in Vienna.
1866 – German premier Otto von Bismarck seriously wounded in an assassination attempt.
1888 – George Eastman perfects the Kodak box camera.
1895 - Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society in St. Petersburg his invention - the world's first radio receiver. Celebrated as Radio Day in Russia.
1912 - Columbia University approves plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories, as provided for in the will of newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer.
1914 – U.S. Congress establishes Mother’s Day.
1915 - RMS Lusitania sunk by German submarine off the southern coast of Ireland; 1198 lives lost.
1939 – Germany and Italy announce an alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis.
1941 – Glenn Miller records “Chattanooga Choo Choo” for RCA.
1945 – World War II: Unconditional German surrender to the Allies signed by General Alfred Jodl at Rheims.
1946 - Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded. The company has about 20 employees.
1952 – The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer.
1994 – Edvard Munch’s painting “The Scream” is recovered three months after it was stolen.
1998 – Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler Corporation for $40 billion USD and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest corporate merger in history.
1982 – iBM releases PC-DOS Version 1.1.
2007 – The tomb of Herod the Great is discovered.
2012 – Paleoclimatological research claims that dinosaur flatulence may have warmed the earth.

Word of the Day:
eu·phe·mism
/ˈyo͞ofəˌmizəm/
noun

1. a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.


“In a system where banishment was called “transportation,” assignment was the euphemism for slave labor.”
- Timothy Egan, The Immoral Irishman

Quote of the Day:
“There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience. “
- Archibald MacLeish


Today is:
Lemonade Day
Barrier Awareness Day
Infertility Survival Day
Packaging Design Day
Roast Leg of Lamb Day
Paste-Up Day

Enjoy the rest of the weekend.

[SATX56]

Welcome to the Questions of the Day for Sunday, May 7, 2017. If your birthday is today, you were born under the sign of Taurus. Famous people who share your birthday include poets Robert Browning and Archibald MacLeish; composers Johannes Brahms and Pyotr ilyich Tchaikovsky; actors Gary Cooper and Darren McGavin; actress Anne Baxter; Argentine first lady Eva Peron; American football great Johnny Unitas; TV weatherman Willard Scott; TV journalist Tim Russert and film director Amy Heckerling.

Today’s Questions:
What types of tasks come easily for you?
Not many these days.
What types of tasks are difficult for you?
Answering the QOTD's...
Describe your idea of perfect relaxation?
Sitting on the beach on a nice cool day with a tall ice cold fruity drink.
What do your everyday dishes look like?
Foam or Corelle...
What is the oldest thing you own?
My wife. She might debate that.
What is the newest thing you own?
A bath scale.


Today in History
429 – English siege of Orleans broken by Joan of Arc and the French army.
1664 – France’s Louis XIV inaugurates the palace at Versailles.
1700 – Pennsylvania founder William Penn begins meetings with blacks advocating emancipation.
1718 – City of New Orleans founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville.
1789 – First U.S. presidential inaugural ball held for George Washington in New York City.
1800 – Indiana Territory organized.
1824 – Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony premieres in Vienna.
1866 – German premier Otto von Bismarck seriously wounded in an assassination attempt.
1888 – George Eastman perfects the Kodak box camera.
1895 - Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society in St. Petersburg his invention - the world's first radio receiver. Celebrated as Radio Day in Russia. .....
1912 - Columbia University approves plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories, as provided for in the will of newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer.
1914 – U.S. Congress establishes Mother’s Day.
1915 - RMS Lusitania sunk by German submarine off the southern coast of Ireland; 1198 lives lost.
1939 – Germany and Italy announce an alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis.
1941 – Glenn Miller records “Chattanooga Choo Choo” for RCA.
1945 – World War II: Unconditional German surrender to the Allies signed by General Alfred Jodl at Rheims.
1946 - Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded. The company has about 20 employees.
1952 – The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer.
1994 – Edvard Munch’s painting “The Scream” is recovered three months after it was stolen.
1998 – Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler Corporation for $40 billion USD and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest corporate merger in history.
1982 – iBM releases PC-DOS Version 1.1.
2007 – The tomb of Herod the Great is discovered.
2012 – Paleoclimatological research claims that dinosaur flatulence may have warmed the earth.

Word of the Day:
eu·phe·mism
/ˈyo͞ofəˌmizəm/
noun

1. a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.


“In a system where banishment was called “transportation,” assignment was the euphemism for slave labor.”
- Timothy Egan, The Immoral Irishman

Quote of the Day:
“There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience. “
- Archibald MacLeish


Today is:
Lemonade Day
Barrier Awareness Day
Infertility Survival Day
Packaging Design Day
Roast Leg of Lamb Day
Paste-Up Day
Thanks BA4! Nice job!

[bjh]

Today’s Questions:
What types of tasks come easily for you?
Language and words, figuring out how things work, maps and driving.

What types of tasks are difficult for you?
Sewing. Being patient with people who should know better.

Describe your idea of perfect relaxation?
Beachcombing followed by a great dinner on a dockside restaurant then a limo ride back up the beach to a luxury hotel.

What do your everyday dishes look like?
White and blue.

What is the oldest thing you own?
Probably an antique record player.

What is the newest thing you own?
Bought some groceries today.

Thx, BA4.

[TN Tin Man]

Welcome to the Questions of the Day for Sunday, May 7, 2017. If your birthday is today, you were born under the sign of Taurus. Famous people who share your birthday include poets Robert Browning and Archibald MacLeish; composers Johannes Brahms and Pyotr ilyich Tchaikovsky; actors Gary Cooper and Darren McGavin; actress Anne Baxter; Argentine first lady Eva Peron; American football great Johnny Unitas; TV weatherman Willard Scott; TV journalist Tim Russert and film director Amy Heckerling.

Today’s Questions:
What types of tasks come easily for you? Sitting - Eating and procrastinating

What types of tasks are difficult for you? .... Thinking how too ... not too

Describe your idea of perfect relaxation?.... Big vat of warm chocolate pudding.. lounging

What do your everyday dishes look like?.... Cheap paper plates...

What is the oldest thing you own?....... My baby funnel...

What is the newest thing you own?........ Not much... got a new tooth brush..



Today in History
429 – English siege of Orleans broken by Joan of Arc and the French army.
1664 – France’s Louis XIV inaugurates the palace at Versailles.
1700 – Pennsylvania founder William Penn begins meetings with blacks advocating emancipation.
1718 – City of New Orleans founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville.
1789 – First U.S. presidential inaugural ball held for George Washington in New York City.
1800 – Indiana Territory organized.
1824 – Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony premieres in Vienna.
1866 – German premier Otto von Bismarck seriously wounded in an assassination attempt.
1888 – George Eastman perfects the Kodak box camera.
1895 - Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society in St. Petersburg his invention - the world's first radio receiver. Celebrated as Radio Day in Russia.
1912 - Columbia University approves plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories, as provided for in the will of newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer.
1914 – U.S. Congress establishes Mother’s Day.
1915 - RMS Lusitania sunk by German submarine off the southern coast of Ireland; 1198 lives lost.
1939 – Germany and Italy announce an alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis.
1941 – Glenn Miller records “Chattanooga Choo Choo” for RCA.
1945 – World War II: Unconditional German surrender to the Allies signed by General Alfred Jodl at Rheims.
1946 - Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded. The company has about 20 employees.
1952 – The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer.
1994 – Edvard Munch’s painting “The Scream” is recovered three months after it was stolen.
1998 – Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler Corporation for $40 billion USD and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest corporate merger in history.
1982 – iBM releases PC-DOS Version 1.1.
2007 – The tomb of Herod the Great is discovered.
2012 – Paleoclimatological research claims that dinosaur flatulence may have warmed the earth.

Word of the Day:
eu·phe·mism
/ˈyo͞ofəˌmizəm/
noun

1. a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.


“In a system where banishment was called “transportation,” assignment was the euphemism for slave labor.”
- Timothy Egan, The Immoral Irishman

Quote of the Day:
“There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience. “
- Archibald MacLeish


Today is:
Lemonade Day
Barrier Awareness Day
Infertility Survival Day
Packaging Design Day
Roast Leg of Lamb Day................ Shari Lewis would not be happy...
Paste-Up Day........................... as in pasties

Thanks Bay !!! ..................... Have a great week...

[Dennis P]

Today’s Questions:
What types of tasks come easily for you? Anything to do with relaxation.

What types of tasks are difficult for you? Anything that is overly strenuous or physical.

Describe your idea of perfect relaxation? Being in my favorite comfy chair reading and listening to my favorite music.

What do your everyday dishes look like? Dark blue with white trim on the edges.

What is the oldest thing you own? Storage hutch in my living room that's about 50 years old.

What is the newest thing you own? I got a new smartphone about 3 weeks ago to replace one I had that decided to conk out on me.

Have a super Sunday!

[Alaskan Mutt]

Today’s Questions:
What types of tasks come easily for you? Paperweork

What types of tasks are difficult for you? Shopping for clothes

Describe your idea of perfect relaxation? Snoozing in a recliner

What do your everyday dishes look like? Paper plates?

What is the oldest thing you own? I have a camera that is around 90 years old.

What is the newest thing you own? The tires on Jeep. Just bought them a couple days ago


Today is:
Roast Leg of Lamb Day Yum

[GiGi603]

Good Morning

Today’s Questions:
What types of tasks come easily for you? Cooking, making a travel itinerary

What types of tasks are difficult for you? driving home from work (although now that I have gotten into podcasts, it has become easier), fixing anything on my car--I currently need air in one of my tires--husband will be home from a trip tomorrow.

Describe your idea of perfect relaxation? sitting in a cafe in Europe or New England drinking a cappuccino

What do your everyday dishes look like? https://www.crateandbarrel.com/hue-l...nerware/f56367
What is the oldest thing you own?My grandmother's Hoosier cabinet

What is the newest thing you own? new dress for the Summer



“There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience. “
- Archibald MacLeish

Today is:
Lemonade Day
Barrier Awareness Day
Infertility Survival Day
Packaging Design Day
Roast Leg of Lamb Day
Paste-Up Day

Wishing you a lovely day!

[English Dave]

Good afternoon all from a sunny Northern England.......

What type of tasks come easily to me? Hmmmmmmm........ I used to be very good at running along uneven walls. The one round Oldham Golf Club was a speciality of mine when I was a kid. I discovered I had very good balance. Nowadays little comes easily for me..........

My idea of perfect relaxation, is sitting in a Spanish tapas bar, drinking wine, and eating tapas.

Our everyday dishes are a matching set my wife has owned for decades. The dinner plates are covered in large dusky pink poppy type flowers. So is everything else in the huge set of pottery.

The oldest thing I own is probably some 1940s film books.

The newest thing I own? Well, I don't buy much of anything these days. Most everything I own is pretty old........ Even my lap-top is over five years old.

Have a great Sunday all.

[kpinvt]

Today’s Questions:
What types of tasks come easily for you? Teaching, advocating for my kids

What types of tasks are difficult for you? Public speaking, anything to do with heavy lifting, Paperwork isn't difficult, but finding the motivation to do it is.

Describe your idea of perfect relaxation? Sitting in my kayak on a quiet lake with a book and some wine

What do your everyday dishes look like? It's just me now, so I have a few different dishes. Some are small, square, sage greenish. A few are white pottery from Simon Pearce. A few are larger, round, reddish pottery a friend's sister made for me. The only complete set is not for everyday.

What is the oldest thing you own? Probably our farmhouse, built in the early 1770s.

What is the newest thing you own? Hot water heater..... Replaced last Thursday.

2012 – Paleoclimatological research claims that dinosaur flatulence may have warmed the earth. Ha......

Word of the Day:
eu·phe·mism
/ˈyo͞ofəˌmizəm/
noun

1. a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.


“In a system where banishment was called “transportation,” assignment was the euphemism for slave labor.”
- Timothy Egan, The Immoral Irishman

Quote of the Day:
“There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience. “
- Archibald MacLeish

Enjoy your day, all!