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Greetings and welcome to the Question of the Day for Sunday, November 6, 2016. If your birthday is today, you were born under the sign of Scorpio. Some famous people who share your birthday are composer and bandleader John Philip Sousa, pianist, composer and politician Ignacy Jan Paderewski; religious leader Joseph Smith III; director Mike Nichols; author James Jones; soldier, author and businessman Zig Ziglar actresses Sally Field, Thandie Newton and Rebecca Romjin; actors Brad Davis and Ethan Hawke; rocker Glenn Frey (the Eagles); journalist Maria Shriver and U.S. football player and war casualty Pat Tillman.
Today’s Questions:
Name three things you used to like, but don’t like now:
1.
2.
3.
Name three things you like now, but that you didn’t use to like:
1.
2.
3.
Bonus Questions:
For better or worse, the gift-giving season is now upon us. What types of gifts do you most like to receive?
What types of gifts do you least like to receive?
Just for Fun:
If you are turning your clocks back Sunday morning, how many different timepieces do you need to adjust?
Have you ever not adjusted a clock and let it be wrong half the year because it’s too much trouble?
Today in History 1153 - Treaty of Wallingford (Oxfordshire) signed between King Stephen and the Empress Maude (aka Matilda). 1528 - Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes first known European to set foot in Texas. 1534 - Zealand hit by heavy storm. 1572 - Supernova is observed in constellation known as Cassiopeia.. 1676 – King Carlos II of Spain comes of age at 15. 1789 – Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States. 1813 - Chilpancingo congress declares Mexico independent of Spain 1850 - 1st Hawaiian fire engine. 1860 – Abraham Lincoln elected 16th president of the United States. 1861 – Jefferson Davis elected president of the Confederate States of America. 1862 - NY-SF direct telegraphic link forms 1865 - American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on its cruise that sank or captured 37 vessels. 1869 -1st intercollegiate football (soccer) game (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4) 1865 – American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on a cruise that sank or captured 37 vessels. 1879 – Canada celebrates its first Thanksgiving Day. 1888 – Benjamin Harrison is elected president of the U.S. by the Electoral College even though incumbent Grover Cleveland received more votes. 1894 – William C. Hooker receives a patent for the mousetrap. 1903 – U.S. recognizes independence of Panama. 1913 – Mahatma Gandhi arrested for leading an Indian miners’ march in South Africa. 1917 – Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution begins with bombardment of the Winter Palace in Petrograd. 1923 – Jacob Schick granted a patent for the electric shaver. 1935 – Edwin H. Armstrong announces the development of FM radio. 1945 – First landing of a jet on an aircraft carrier. 1947 – “Meet the Press,” America’s longest-running TV series, debuts. 1952 – First hydrogen bomb exploded over Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. 1961 – In the Sahara Desert in Algeria, a natural gas well ignites when a pipe ruptures. The fire burned until April 18, 1962, when a team led by Red Adair uses explosives to deprive the fire of oxygen. 1962 – The U.N. General Assembly passes a resolution condemning South Africa for its apartheid policies. 1973 – NASA’s Pioneer 10 spacecraft begins photographing Jupiter. 1979 – Ayatollah Khomeini takes over the government of Iran. 1984 – For the first time in 193 years, the New York Stock Exchange stays open on a U.S. presidential election day. 1986 - U.S. intelligence sources confirm a story run by the Lebanese magazine Ash Shiraa that reported the U.S. had been secretly selling arms to Iran in an effort to secure the release of seven American hostages. 1995 – Art Modell, owner of the Cleveland Browns, announces the team’s move to Baltimore, Maryland. The team will be renamed the Baltimore Ravens. 1999 – Australian voters reject a referendum to drop Britain’s queen as their head of state. 2016 – Wit-nit chosen as Reader’s Digest’s first male centerfold; magazine’s circulation skyrockets.
Word of the Day: uxoriousˌ/əkˈsôrēəs,ˌəɡˈzôr-/adjective
Having or showing an excessive or submissive fondness for one’s wife. From the Latin uxor, wife.
“Even his relationship with his wife has hurt his sex appeal; uxorious men are never sexy for long.”
- Tunku Varadarajan, “Obama’s Vanishing Sex Appeal,” The Daily Beast
Quote of the Day:
“There’s nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you were meant to do. It’s like falling in love.”
- Mike Nichols
Today is
Marooned Without a Compass Day
Saxophone Day
Finnish Swedish Heritage Day
National Nachos Day
Greetings and welcome to the Question of the Day for Sunday, November 6, 2016. If your birthday is today, you were born under the sign of Scorpio. Some famous people who share your birthday are composer and bandleader John Philip Sousa, pianist, composer and politician Ignacy Jan Paderewski; religious leader Joseph Smith III; director Mike Nichols; author James Jones; soldier, author and businessman Zig Ziglar actresses Sally Field, Thandie Newton and Rebecca Romjin; actors Brad Davis and Ethan Hawke; rocker Glenn Frey (the Eagles) ; journalist Maria Shriver and U.S. football player and war casualty Pat Tillman.
Today’s Questions:
Name three things you used to like, but don’t like now:
1. Pizza
2.
3. Some people
Name three things you like now, but that you didn’t use to like:
1.
2.
3.
Bonus Questions:
For better or worse, the gift-giving season is now upon us. What types of gifts do you most like to receive? Good ones!
What types of gifts do you least like to receive? Junk! Just for Fun:
If you are turning your clocks back Sunday morning, how many different timepieces do you need to adjust? Too many!
Have you ever not adjusted a clock and let it be wrong half the year because it’s too much trouble?
Today in History 1153 - Treaty of Wallingford (Oxfordshire) signed between King Stephen and the Empress Maude (aka Matilda). 1528 - Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes first known European to set foot in Texas. 1534 - Zealand hit by heavy storm. 1572 - Supernova is observed in constellation known as Cassiopeia.. 1676 – King Carlos II of Spain comes of age at 15. 1789 – Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States. 1813 - Chilpancingo congress declares Mexico independent of Spain 1850 - 1st Hawaiian fire engine. 1860 – Abraham Lincoln elected 16th president of the United States. 1861 – Jefferson Davis elected president of the Confederate States of America. 1862 - NY-SF direct telegraphic link forms 1865 - American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on its cruise that sank or captured 37 vessels. 1869 -1st intercollegiate football (soccer) game (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4) 1865 – American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on a cruise that sank or captured 37 vessels. 1879 – Canada celebrates its first Thanksgiving Day. 1888 – Benjamin Harrison is elected president of the U.S. by the Electoral College even though incumbent Grover Cleveland received more votes. 1894 – William C. Hooker receives a patent for the mousetrap. 1903 – U.S. recognizes independence of Panama. 1913 – Mahatma Gandhi arrested for leading an Indian miners’ march in South Africa. 1917 – Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution begins with bombardment of the Winter Palace in Petrograd. 1923 – Jacob Schick granted a patent for the electric shaver. 1935 – Edwin H. Armstrong announces the development of FM radio. 1945 – First landing of a jet on an aircraft carrier. 1947 – “Meet the Press,” America’s longest-running TV series, debuts. 1952 – First hydrogen bomb exploded over Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. 1961 – In the Sahara Desert in Algeria, a natural gas well ignites when a pipe ruptures. The fire burned until April 18, 1962, when a team led by Red Adair uses explosives to deprive the fire of oxygen. 1962 – The U.N. General Assembly passes a resolution condemning South Africa for its apartheid policies. 1973 – NASA’s Pioneer 10 spacecraft begins photographing Jupiter. 1979 – Ayatollah Khomeini takes over the government of Iran. 1984 – For the first time in 193 years, the New York Stock Exchange stays open on a U.S. presidential election day. 1986 - U.S. intelligence sources confirm a story run by the Lebanese magazine Ash Shiraa that reported the U.S. had been secretly selling arms to Iran in an effort to secure the release of seven American hostages. 1995 – Art Modell, owner of the Cleveland Browns, announces the team’s move to Baltimore, Maryland. The team will be renamed the Baltimore Ravens. 1999 – Australian voters reject a referendum to drop Britain’s queen as their head of state. 2016 – Wit-nit chosen as Reader’s Digest’s first male centerfold; magazine’s circulation skyrockets. Changed his name too.
Word of the Day: uxoriousˌ/əkˈsôrēəs,ˌəɡˈzôr-/adjective
Having or showing an excessive or submissive fondness for one’s wife. From the Latin uxor, wife.
“Even his relationship with his wife has hurt his sex appeal; uxorious men are never sexy for long.”
- Tunku Varadarajan, “Obama’s Vanishing Sex Appeal,” The Daily Beast
Quote of the Day:
“There’s nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you were meant to do. It’s like falling in love.”
- Mike Nichols Today is
Marooned Without a Compass Day
Saxophone Day
Finnish Swedish Heritage Day National Nachos Day
Today’s Questions:
Name three things you used to like, but don’t like now:
1. Tuna
2. Long drives (more than 2 hours)
3. Flying on an airplane
Name three things you like now, but that you didn’t use to like:
1. Broccoli
2. Tomatoes
3. Kale
Bonus Questions:
For better or worse, the gift-giving season is now upon us. What types of gifts do you most like to receive? Clothes, gift cards and cash.
What types of gifts do you least like to receive? Ashtrays (I don't smoke), cologne, music that isn't my taste and books that don't interest me and will never read.
Just for Fun:
If you are turning your clocks back Sunday morning, how many different timepieces do you need to adjust? I counted 13.
Have you ever not adjusted a clock and let it be wrong half the year because it’s too much trouble? No, I always adjust the clocks twice a year.
Greetings and welcome to the Question of the Day for Sunday, November 6, 2016. If your birthday is today, you were born under the sign of Scorpio. Some famous people who share your birthday are composer and bandleader John Philip Sousa, pianist, composer and politician Ignacy Jan Paderewski; religious leader Joseph Smith III; director Mike Nichols; author James Jones; soldier, author and businessman Zig Ziglar actresses Sally Field, Thandie Newton and Rebecca Romjin; actors Brad Davis and Ethan Hawke; rocker Glenn Frey (the Eagles); journalist Maria Shriver and U.S. football player and war casualty Pat Tillman.
Today’s Questions:
Name three things you used to like, but don’t like now:
1. Camping out
2. Fishing
3. Cars (special ones)
Name three things you like now, but that you didn’t use to like:
1.Spinach
2. Yogurt
3. Relaxation
Bonus Questions:
For better or worse, the gift-giving season is now upon us. What types of gifts do you most like to receive? Actually I don't care to receive gifts anymore, there just isn't anything that I'm looking for or want.
What types of gifts do you least like to receive? Clothing
Just for Fun:
If you are turning your clocks back Sunday morning, how many different timepieces do you need to adjust? No time changing here in AZ However I have to remember that everyone else is at a different hour than they use to be................
Have you ever not adjusted a clock and let it be wrong half the year because it’s too much trouble? No
Today in History 1153 - Treaty of Wallingford (Oxfordshire) signed between King Stephen and the Empress Maude (aka Matilda). 1528 - Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes first known European to set foot in Texas. 1534 - Zealand hit by heavy storm. 1572 - Supernova is observed in constellation known as Cassiopeia.. 1676 – King Carlos II of Spain comes of age at 15. 1789 – Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States. 1813 - Chilpancingo congress declares Mexico independent of Spain 1850 - 1st Hawaiian fire engine. 1860 – Abraham Lincoln elected 16th president of the United States. 1861 – Jefferson Davis elected president of the Confederate States of America. 1862 - NY-SF direct telegraphic link forms 1865 - American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on its cruise that sank or captured 37 vessels. 1869 -1st intercollegiate football (soccer) game (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4) 1865 – American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on a cruise that sank or captured 37 vessels. 1879 – Canada celebrates its first Thanksgiving Day. 1888 – Benjamin Harrison is elected president of the U.S. by the Electoral College even though incumbent Grover Cleveland received more votes. 1894 – William C. Hooker receives a patent for the mousetrap. 1903 – U.S. recognizes independence of Panama. 1913 – Mahatma Gandhi arrested for leading an Indian miners’ march in South Africa. 1917 – Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution begins with bombardment of the Winter Palace in Petrograd. 1923 – Jacob Schick granted a patent for the electric shaver. 1935 – Edwin H. Armstrong announces the development of FM radio. 1945 – First landing of a jet on an aircraft carrier. 1947 – “Meet the Press,” America’s longest-running TV series, debuts. 1952 – First hydrogen bomb exploded over Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. 1961 – In the Sahara Desert in Algeria, a natural gas well ignites when a pipe ruptures. The fire burned until April 18, 1962, when a team led by Red Adair uses explosives to deprive the fire of oxygen. 1962 – The U.N. General Assembly passes a resolution condemning South Africa for its apartheid policies. 1973 – NASA’s Pioneer 10 spacecraft begins photographing Jupiter. 1979 – Ayatollah Khomeini takes over the government of Iran. 1984 – For the first time in 193 years, the New York Stock Exchange stays open on a U.S. presidential election day. 1986 - U.S. intelligence sources confirm a story run by the Lebanese magazine Ash Shiraa that reported the U.S. had been secretly selling arms to Iran in an effort to secure the release of seven American hostages. 1995 – Art Modell, owner of the Cleveland Browns, announces the team’s move to Baltimore, Maryland. The team will be renamed the Baltimore Ravens. 1999 – Australian voters reject a referendum to drop Britain’s queen as their head of state. 2016 – Wit-nit chosen as Reader’s Digest’s first male centerfold; magazine’s circulation skyrockets.
Word of the Day: uxoriousˌ/əkˈsôrēəs,ˌəɡˈzôr-/adjective
Having or showing an excessive or submissive fondness for one’s wife. From the Latin uxor, wife.
“Even his relationship with his wife has hurt his sex appeal; uxorious men are never sexy for long.”
- Tunku Varadarajan, “Obama’s Vanishing Sex Appeal,” The Daily Beast
Quote of the Day:
“There’s nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you were meant to do. It’s like falling in love.”
- Mike Nichols
Today is
Marooned Without a Compass Day
Saxophone Day
Finnish Swedish Heritage Day
National Nachos Day
Today’s Questions:
Name three things you used to like, but don’t like now:
1. Air travel.
2. Voting.
3.
Name three things you like now, but that you didn’t use to like:
1. Some vegetables.
2. Being more careful with what I eat.
3. Paying taxes.
Bonus Questions:
For better or worse, the gift-giving season is now upon us. What types of gifts do you most like to receive? Cars, yachts, mansions. Really anything thoughtful.
What types of gifts do you least like to receive? Anything not thoughtful or more for the giver.
Just for Fun:
If you are turning your clocks back Sunday morning, how many different timepieces do you need to adjust? Vehicles, a few wall clocks, maybe half a dozen things. Everything else changes itself.
Have you ever not adjusted a clock and let it be wrong half the year because it’s too much trouble? No. But I known of others doing that at least once.
Today’s Questions:
Name three things you used to like, but don’t like now:
1. A couple people
2. Listening to or reading the news
3. TV in general
Name three things you like now, but that you didn’t use to like:
1. Some people
2. Spicy food
3. As a kid, I never liked to go on rides with the family. Poppy loved traveling back roads. Now, I love riding through the hills.
Bonus Questions:
For better or worse, the gift-giving season is now upon us. What types of gifts do you most like to receive? Gift cards
What types of gifts do you least like to receive? Clothes, cutesy knick knack things
Just for Fun:
If you are turning your clocks back Sunday morning, how many different timepieces do you need to adjust? Only three
Have you ever not adjusted a clock and let it be wrong half the year because it’s too much trouble? Haven't
2016 – Wit-nit chosen as Reader’s Digest’s first male centerfold; magazine’s circulation skyrockets
Today’s Questions:
Name three things you used to like, but don’t like now:
1.The Walking Dead
2.receiving gift cards as gifts
3.Watching award shows like the grammy's, emmy's, Vma's, etc
Name three things you like now, but that you didn’t use to like:
1.Ginger
2.beer
3.driving
Bonus Questions:
For better or worse, the gift-giving season is now upon us. What types of gifts do you most like to receive?I love when someone puts thought into a gift they give me. Especially if it is handmade.
What types of gifts do you least like to receive?gift cards. I use to like getting gift cards when I was younger, but not any more.
Just for Fun:
If you are turning your clocks back Sunday morning, how many different timepieces do you need to adjust? just the one in my car
Have you ever not adjusted a clock and let it be wrong half the year because it’s too much trouble?hahahaha yes...the one in my car
Greetings and welcome to the Question of the Day for Sunday, November 6, 2016. If your birthday is today, you were born under the sign of Scorpio. Some famous people who share your birthday are composer and bandleader John Philip Sousa, pianist, composer and politician Ignacy Jan Paderewski; religious leader Joseph Smith III; director Mike Nichols; author James Jones; soldier, author and businessman Zig Ziglar(went to a few of his motivational seminars back in the day) actresses Sally Field, Thandie Newton and Rebecca Romjin; actors Brad Davis and Ethan Hawke; rocker Glenn Frey (the Eagles); journalist Maria Shriver and U.S. football player and war casualty Pat Tillman.
Today’s Questions:
Name three things you used to like, but don’t like now:
1. White loaf bread which everyone called "light" bread when I was growing up.
2. Being on the go constantly.
3. Big city life
Name three things you like now, but that you didn’t use to like:
1. Cornbread as an adult, would not eat it at all growing up.
2. Being at home more.
3. Country life
Bonus Questions:
For better or worse, the gift-giving season is now upon us. What types of gifts do you most like to receive? Thoughtful, unique ones that are chosen just for me no matter how small the price.
What types of gifts do you least like to receive? Run-of-the-mill anything.
Just for Fun:
If you are turning your clocks back Sunday morning, how many different timepieces do you need to adjust? Possibly 5-6 (not counting watches) that have to be done manually.
Have you ever not adjusted a clock and let it be wrong half the year because it’s too much trouble? One in one of our autos, I think w/the time change back to CST, it will be good to go 'til spring!
Word of the Day: New word! uxoriousˌ/əkˈsôrēəs,ˌəɡˈzôr-/adjective
Having or showing an excessive or submissive fondness for one’s wife. From the Latin uxor, wife.
Quote of the Day:
“There’s nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you were meant to do. It’s like falling in love.” Or, that you've been doing it all along w/o realizing it!
- Mike Nichols
Today is
Marooned Without a Compass Day
Saxophone Day
Finnish Swedish Heritage Day
National Nachos Day
Today’s Questions:
Name three things you used to like, but don’t like now:
1. 1st girlfriend
2. 2nd girlfriend
3. 3rd girlfriend
Name three things you like now, but that you didn’t use to like:
1. Spinach
2. Puddings
3. Studebakers
Bonus Questions:
For better or worse, the gift-giving season is now upon us. What types of gifts do you most like to receive? $$$, gift cards.
What types of gifts do you least like to receive? Ties, socks, fruitcake.
Just for Fun:
If you are turning your clocks back Sunday morning, how many different timepieces do you need to adjust? I didn't want to be left out, so tonight I set all my clocks forward 1 hour and tomorrow night I'll set them back 1 hour.
Have you ever not adjusted a clock and let it be wrong half the year because it’s too much trouble?
Today in History
2016 – Wit-nit chosen as Reader’s Digest’s first male centerfold; magazine’s circulation skyrockets. Oh Lordy, and every reader went blind.
Today’s Questions:
Name three things you used to like, but don’t like now:
1. Life (could change, I dunno) 2. Driving 3. Some xo-called music. Too embarrassed to give examples
Name three things you like now, but that you didn’t use to like: 1. Summer (as long as it's not too hot) 2. Pepper 3. Green peppers
Bonus Questions:
For better or worse, the gift-giving season is now upon us. What types of gifts do you most like to receive?
What types of gifts do you least like to receive?
N/A. I do not participate. Except one minor thing about 10 years ago it's been at least 35 years since I received or gave a gift during that time of season.
In fact, any gift is very rare...
Just for Fun:
If you are turning your clocks back Sunday morning, how many different timepieces do you need to adjust? - 3 - an alarm clock, my watch, and car stereo. That's it.
Have you ever not adjusted a clock and let it be wrong half the year because it’s too much trouble? I've never been that lazy, LOL.
Thanks, Bay,
Hope everyone has a good Sunday!
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