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Welcome to Questions of the Day for Sunday, December 1, 2019. If your birthday is today, you were born under the sign of Sagittarius. Sharing your birthday are film director Woody Allen; singers Bette Midler and Janelle Monae; actresses Zoe Kravitz and Charlene Tilton; actors Treat Williams and Deep Roy; comedians Richard Pryor and Sarah Silverman, and football player Deion Sanders.
Today’s Questions:
Did you do any shopping this weekend? Was it online or in stores?
Do you get the holiday blues at this time of year?
What do you like most (and least) about where you live?
If you normally decorate the house and put up a Christmas tree, have you done that yet? When do you think is the best time to do it? Do you prefer a natural or artificial tree?
Have you ever repped a post on C-D that only to discover that the post is years old and the poster isn’t even around anymore?
Have you ever gotten a nasty rep comment?
Today in History: 1824 – United States presidential election: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task of deciding the winner in accordance with the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution. 1834 – Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833. 1862 – In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation. 1865 – Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina. 1913 – The Buenos Aires Metro, the first underground railway system in the Southern Hemisphere and in Latin America, begins operation. 1913 – Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line. 1913 – Crete, having obtained self-rule from Turkey after the First Balkan War, is annexed by Greece. 1918 – Transylvania unites with Romania, following the incorporation of Bessarabia (March 27) and Bukovina (November 28), thus concluding the Great Union. 1918 – Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of the Danish kingdom. 1918 – The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed. 1919 – Lady Astor becomes the first female Member of Parliament to take her seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. (She had been elected to that position on November 28.) 1924 – The National Hockey League's first United States-based franchise, the Boston Bruins, played their first game in league play at home, at the still-extant Boston Arena indoor hockey facility.[1] 1934 – In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergey Kirov is assassinated. Stalin uses the incident as a pretext to initiate the Great Purge. 1941 – World War II: Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives the final approval to initiate war against the United States. 1941 – World War II: Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol. 1952 – The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgensen, the first notable case of sex reassignment surgery. 1955 – American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to that city's bus boycott. 1959 – Cold War: Opening date for signature of the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent. 1960 – Paul McCartney and Pete Best are arrested (and later deported) from Hamburg, West Germany, after accusations of attempted arson. 1964 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam. 1969 – Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II. 1971 – Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray. 1973 – Papua, New Guinea gains self-governance from Australia. 1977 – Pinwheel is launched, which is now Nickelodeon. 1984 – NASA conducts the Controlled Impact Demonstration, wherein an airliner is deliberately crashed in order to test technologies and gather data to help improve survivability of crashes. 1988 – World AIDS Day was proclaimed worldwide by the UN member states. 1989 – Philippine coup attempt: The right-wing military rebel Reform the Armed Forces Movement attempts to oust Philippine President Corazon Aquino in a failed bloody coup d'état. 1989 – Cold War: East Germany's parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the Communist Party the leading role in the state. 1990 – Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the seabed. 1991 – Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union. 2000 – Vicente Fox Quesada is inaugurated as the president of Mexico, marking the first peaceful transfer of executive federal power to an opposing political party following a free and democratic election in Mexico's history.
Today Is:
First Sunday of Advent
Rosa Parks Day
Quote of the Day:
“You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.”
― Woody Allen
Word of the Day: sobriquetnoun
SOH-brih-kay
a descriptive name or epithet: nickname
Welcome to Questions of the Day for Sunday, December 1, 2019. If your birthday is today, you were born under the sign of Sagittarius. Sharing your birthday are film director Woody Allen; singers Bette Midler and Janelle Monae; actresses Zoe Kravitz and Charlene Tilton; actors Treat Williams and Deep Roy; comedians Richard Pryor and Sarah Silverman, and football player Deion Sanders.
Today’s Questions:
Did you do any shopping this weekend? Was it online or in stores?
...........I did no shopping
Do you get the holiday blues at this time of year?
...........Not at all. I love this season,filled with birthdays and celebrations, the Advent season,Christmas baking and the aromas filling the house,firewood burning and of course the snow
What do you like most (and least) about where you live?
.........I love the countryside,the peace and fresh air
If you normally decorate the house and put up a Christmas tree, have you done that yet?
........I decorate our Balsam fir or Fraser fir on December 24 in the morning,a tradition going way back.
When do you think is the best time to do it? Do you prefer a natural or artificial tree?
...........I like the smell of a fresh Balsam fir tree
Have you ever repped a post on C-D that only to discover that the post is years old and the poster isn’t even around anymore?
............ Probably happened
Have you ever gotten a nasty rep comment?
............Yes
Today in History: 1824 – United States presidential election: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task of deciding the winner in accordance with the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution. 1834 – Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833. 1862 – In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation. 1865 – Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina. 1913 – The Buenos Aires Metro, the first underground railway system in the Southern Hemisphere and in Latin America, begins operation. 1913 – Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line. 1913 – Crete, having obtained self-rule from Turkey after the First Balkan War, is annexed by Greece. 1918 – Transylvania unites with Romania, following the incorporation of Bessarabia (March 27) and Bukovina (November 28), thus concluding the Great Union. 1918 – Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of the Danish kingdom. 1918 – The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed. 1919 – Lady Astor becomes the first female Member of Parliament to take her seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. (She had been elected to that position on November 28.) 1924 – The National Hockey League's first United States-based franchise, the Boston Bruins, played their first game in league play at home, at the still-extant Boston Arena indoor hockey facility.[1] 1934 – In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergey Kirov is assassinated. Stalin uses the incident as a pretext to initiate the Great Purge. 1941 – World War II: Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives the final approval to initiate war against the United States. 1941 – World War II: Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol. 1952 – The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgensen, the first notable case of sex reassignment surgery. 1955 – American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to that city's bus boycott. 1959 – Cold War: Opening date for signature of the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent. 1960 – Paul McCartney and Pete Best are arrested (and later deported) from Hamburg, West Germany, after accusations of attempted arson. 1964 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam. 1969 – Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II. 1971 – Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray. 1973 – Papua, New Guinea gains self-governance from Australia. 1977 – Pinwheel is launched, which is now Nickelodeon. 1984 – NASA conducts the Controlled Impact Demonstration, wherein an airliner is deliberately crashed in order to test technologies and gather data to help improve survivability of crashes. 1988 – World AIDS Day was proclaimed worldwide by the UN member states. 1989 – Philippine coup attempt: The right-wing military rebel Reform the Armed Forces Movement attempts to oust Philippine President Corazon Aquino in a failed bloody coup d'état. 1989 – Cold War: East Germany's parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the Communist Party the leading role in the state. 1990 – Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the seabed. 1991 – Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union. 2000 – Vicente Fox Quesada is inaugurated as the president of Mexico, marking the first peaceful transfer of executive federal power to an opposing political party following a free and democratic election in Mexico's history.
Today Is:
First Sunday of Advent
Rosa Parks Day
Quote of the Day:
“You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.”
― Woody Allen
Word of the Day: sobriquetnoun
SOH-brih-kay
a descriptive name or epithet: nickname
Today’s Questions:
Did you do any shopping this weekend? Was it online or in stores? - Nope.
Do you get the holiday blues at this time of year? - I try to not think about them.
What do you like most (and least) about where you live? -
Most: Lots of great eateries and other shops within a 3 minute walk, safe, clean.
Least: . People asking me for money, seeing homeless men sleeping on the street, even as the weather got colder, nearby crime (but far enough).
If you normally decorate the house and put up a Christmas tree, have you done that yet? When do you think is the best time to do it? Do you prefer a natural or artificial tree? - No tree here.
Have you ever repped a post on C-D that only to discover that the post is years old and the poster isn’t even around anymore? - I can't remember. I'm watchful about that.
Have you ever gotten a nasty rep comment? - Yes, and unfriendly unsigned ones too. Thankfully only a few in all the years I've been here.
Welcome to Questions of the Day for Sunday, December 1, 2019. If your birthday is today, you were born under the sign of Sagittarius. Sharing your birthday are film director Woody Allen; singers Bette Midler and Janelle Monae; actresses Zoe Kravitz and Charlene Tilton; actors Treat Williams and Deep Roy; comedians Richard Pryor and Sarah Silverman, and football player Deion Sanders.
Today’s Questions:
Did you do any shopping this weekend? Was it online or in stores? None
Do you get the holiday blues at this time of year? No
What do you like most (and least) about where you live? All the beautiful state parks nearby. Cold damp weather
If you normally decorate the house and put up a Christmas tree, have you done that yet? When do you think is the best time to do it? Do you prefer a natural or artificial tree? Natural tree after the 15th of December
Have you ever repped a post on C-D that only to discover that the post is years old and the poster isn’t even around anymore? More than once.
Have you ever gotten a nasty rep comment? Yes
Today in History: 1824 – United States presidential election: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task of deciding the winner in accordance with the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution. 1834 – Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833. 1862 – In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation. 1865 – Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina. 1913 – The Buenos Aires Metro, the first underground railway system in the Southern Hemisphere and in Latin America, begins operation. 1913 – Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line. 1913 – Crete, having obtained self-rule from Turkey after the First Balkan War, is annexed by Greece. 1918 – Transylvania unites with Romania, following the incorporation of Bessarabia (March 27) and Bukovina (November 28), thus concluding the Great Union. 1918 – Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of the Danish kingdom. 1918 – The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed. 1919 – Lady Astor becomes the first female Member of Parliament to take her seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. (She had been elected to that position on November 28.) 1924 – The National Hockey League's first United States-based franchise, the Boston Bruins, played their first game in league play at home, at the still-extant Boston Arena indoor hockey facility.[1] 1934 – In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergey Kirov is assassinated. Stalin uses the incident as a pretext to initiate the Great Purge. 1941 – World War II: Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives the final approval to initiate war against the United States. 1941 – World War II: Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol. 1952 – The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgensen, the first notable case of sex reassignment surgery. 1955 – American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to that city's bus boycott. 1959 – Cold War: Opening date for signature of the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent. 1960 – Paul McCartney and Pete Best are arrested (and later deported) from Hamburg, West Germany, after accusations of attempted arson. 1964 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam. 1969 – Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II. 1971 – Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray. 1973 – Papua, New Guinea gains self-governance from Australia. 1977 – Pinwheel is launched, which is now Nickelodeon. 1984 – NASA conducts the Controlled Impact Demonstration, wherein an airliner is deliberately crashed in order to test technologies and gather data to help improve survivability of crashes. 1988 – World AIDS Day was proclaimed worldwide by the UN member states. 1989 – Philippine coup attempt: The right-wing military rebel Reform the Armed Forces Movement attempts to oust Philippine President Corazon Aquino in a failed bloody coup d'état. 1989 – Cold War: East Germany's parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the Communist Party the leading role in the state. 1990 – Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the seabed. 1991 – Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union. 2000 – Vicente Fox Quesada is inaugurated as the president of Mexico, marking the first peaceful transfer of executive federal power to an opposing political party following a free and democratic election in Mexico's history.
Today Is:
First Sunday of Advent
Rosa Parks Day
Quote of the Day:
“You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.”
― Woody Allen
Word of the Day: sobriquetnoun
SOH-brih-kay
a descriptive name or epithet: nickname Good Job Bayarea4. Thank You.
Today’s Questions:
Did you do any shopping this weekend? Was it online or in stores? I stay away from stores on Black Friday weekend. My insurance doesn't cover acts of war
Do you get the holiday blues at this time of year? Nope
What do you like most (and least) about where you live? I love small town living
If you normally decorate the house and put up a Christmas tree, have you done that yet? When do you think is the best time to do it? Do you prefer a natural or artificial tree? Usually don't decorate till late first week or second week of December. I always have, and always will, prefer a real tree. Hate the fake ones
Have you ever repped a post on C-D that only to discover that the post is years old and the poster isn’t even around anymore? Nope. Before I rep anybody I always check the date of their post
Welcome to Questions of the Day for Sunday, December 1, 2019. If your birthday is today, you were born under the sign of Sagittarius. Sharing your birthday are film director Woody Allen; singers Bette Midler and Janelle Monae; actresses Zoe Kravitz and Charlene Tilton; actors Treat Williams and Deep Roy; comedians Richard Pryor and Sarah Silverman, and football player Deion Sanders.
Today’s Questions:
Did you do any shopping this weekend? Was it online or in stores? Online only.
Do you get the holiday blues at this time of year? Not generally.
What do you like most (and least) about where you live? Dislike:Lack of diversity/ Like: Familiarity
If you normally decorate the house and put up a Christmas tree, have you done that yet? When do you think is the best time to do it? Do you prefer a natural or artificial tree? Not yet. We prefer real trees.
Have you ever repped a post on C-D that only to discover that the post is years old and the poster isn’t even around anymore? Having done an awful lot of repping I would imagine I have.
Have you ever gotten a nasty rep comment? If it was clearly nasty it would be taken care of.
Today in History:
1989 – Cold War: East Germany's parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the Communist Party the leading role in the state. 1990 – Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the seabed. 1991 – Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union. 2000 – Vicente Fox Quesada is inaugurated as the president of Mexico, marking the first peaceful transfer of executive federal power to an opposing political party following a free and democratic election in Mexico's history.
Today Is:
First Sunday of Advent
Rosa Parks Day
Quote of the Day:
“You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.”
― Woody Allen
Word of the Day: sobriquetnoun
SOH-brih-kay
a descriptive name or epithet: nickname Thanks Bay!
Today’s Questions:
Did you do any shopping this weekend? Was it online or in stores?
Yes. In my pajamas, sitting at my computer desk online.
Do you get the holiday blues at this time of year?
No, not usually. Oct through January is actually one of my favorite, happiest times of year.
What do you like most (and least) about where you live?
I love the scenery, countryside, Lexington is surrounded on all sides by miles and miles of beautiful horse farms, it's clean and really nice here. Very green. Even though we live in a city, it still has a rural look and feel in many places.
I don't like the high cost of living (although I have been told that it is way worse in other places).
If you normally decorate the house and put up a Christmas tree, have you done that yet? When do you think is the best time to do it? Do you prefer a natural or artificial tree?
Not yet. I prefer real trees. But since my only vehicle is a small sports car I guess I will settle for artificial! I guess I could put the top down and shove it in the back seat...but I would freeze to death!
Have you ever repped a post on C-D that only to discover that the post is years old and the poster isn’t even around anymore?
Not that I have noticed....but maybe...
Have you ever gotten a nasty rep comment?
Yeah kinda.
Today’s Questions:
Did you do any shopping this weekend? No. I'm really not a shopper and don't go unless it's a Must. Was it online or in stores? N/A
Do you get the holiday blues at this time of year? No, I enjoy November and December's holiday seasons.
What do you like most (and least) about where you live? Most: I love my old house. It' over a hundred years old, has a lot of character, and it's strong and comfortable. Location is less than a mile from apple and peach orchards, and lots of fresh vegetables are grown on that 300 acre farm. Least: Our neighbor is a "church"......worst neighbor we could possibly have, for more reasons than I have time to list. It's a rental, so maybe they'll leave some day. Although this is the 4th bunch in here that I remember.
If you normally decorate the house and put up a Christmas tree, have you done that yet? Yes, I decorate inside and out. Inside is done. Outside is about half done. The cold weather slowed me down. When do you think is the best time to do it? I usually start the last week of November. Do you prefer a natural or artificial tree? We now have an artificial tree, and have for the last 15 years. The last live tree we had was a nightmare. Once we brought it inside, the bugs started coming out.
Have you ever repped a post on C-D that only to discover that the post is years old and the poster isn’t even around anymore? No
Have you ever gotten a nasty rep comment? Yes.
Today Is:
First Sunday of Advent Yes, it is. Thanks, Bay!
Today’s Questions:
Did you do any shopping this weekend? Was it online or in stores?
yes-bought a new (to me) car and some clothes for a 9 yr old boy.
Do you get the holiday blues at this time of year?
a little nostalgic
What do you like most (and least) about where you live?
most-It was a fixer-upper and I've fixed it the way I wanted.
least- all those stupid security lights. Seems like more go in all the time.
If you normally decorate the house and put up a Christmas tree, have you done that yet? When do you think is the best time to do it? Do you prefer a natural or artificial tree?
usually put a wreath outside and haven't done that yet. I have one of those plastic spiral trees that collapse to about 2 inches most of the year and has a lot of tiny colored lights. It's fake and tacky and pretty. I like it.
Have you ever repped a post on C-D that only to discover that the post is years old and the poster isn’t even around anymore?
sure. But if I like the post I like the post.
Have you ever gotten a nasty rep comment?
yes.
nothing ever happened the year I was born. except me.
Did you do any shopping this weekend? Was it online or in stores? No, stayed home except for regular grocery shopping.
Do you get the holiday blues at this time of year? No.
What do you like most (and least) about where you live? Most, quiet neighborhood, scenic views, great sunsets. Least would be the rude snowbirds that let their dogs poop all over the yard and not pick-up, plus the extra traffic they bring.
If you normally decorate the house and put up a Christmas tree, have you done that yet? No.
When do you think is the best time to do it? After Thanksgiving.
Do you prefer a natural or artificial tree? We have a artificial tabletop tree.
Have you ever repped a post on C-D that only to discover that the post is years old and the poster isn’t even around anymore? Probably have.
Have you ever gotten a nasty rep comment? A few.
Thanks Bay...
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