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Welcome to Questions of the Day for Sunday, November 5, 2023. If your birthday is today, you were born under the sign of Scorpio. Famous people born on this date include author and historian Will Durant, actresses Vivien Leigh and Tilda Swinton, singer-songwriters Ike Turner, Art Garfunkel and Bryan Adams, basketball player Bill Walton, playwright and actor Sam Shepard and British jockey Lester Piggott
Today’s Questions: If you had the power to pass a new law, what would it be?Mod note: tread lightly, folks. Political commentary is not normally allowed in OT. The first 17 reply posts are okay; let's keep it light. Thanks.
What was the first concert you attended?
Can you drive a stick shift (manual transmission) vehicle?
Are you planning any travel during the holiday season?
Do you think that Daylight Savings Time should be year-round? Why or why not?
Today in History: 1492 – Christopher Columbus learns how to grow and harvest maize (corn) from Cuba’s indigenous population. 1572 – Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe observes a supernova with the naked eye in the Cassiopeia constellation, proving that celestial objects beyond the Moon changed positions. 1605 – King James I of England first learns of the Gunpowder Plot, a failed attempt to assassinate him. The failure of the plot is celebrated yearly in Britain as Guy Fawkes night or Bonfire Night, named for an explosives expert who was planning to bomb Parliament. 1630 – Spain and England sign a peace treaty. 1639 – The first post office in the American colonies is established in Massachusetts. 1789 – The French National Meeting declares that all citizens are equal under the law. 1862 – 300 Santee Sioux sentenced to hang in Minnesota. 1862 – American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removes General McClellan from command of the Army of the Potomac. 1872 – Suffragette Susan B. Anthony casts a vote for Ulysses S. Grant as U.S. president. She is arrested, charged with voting illegally and fined. 1873 – Canadian Prime Minister John A. Macdonald resigns as the result of a scandal. 1895 – The first patent for a gasoline-powered automobile is granted to George B. Selden. 1900 – Spain declares war against the United States. 1905 – Roald Amundsen becomes the first explorer to complete a Northwest Passage after 400 years of failed attempts. 1911 – Pilot Calbraith Rodgers completes the first transcontinental airplane flight from Sheepshead Bay, NY to Pasadena, CA. The trip takes 49 days. 1912 – Woodrow Wilson elected president in a landslide vote. 1916 – German Emperor Wilhelm II and Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph I establish the Kingdom of Poland. 1917 – World War I: General John J. Pershing and his U.S. troops see action on the Western Front for the first time. 1925 – Dictator Benito Mussolini disbands Italian socialist parties. 1935 – Parker Brothers launches the board game Monopoly. 1940 – Franklin D. Roosevelt elected president for a third term. 1951 – U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site. 1967 – ATS-3, a communications satellite, is launched by U.S. to take the first color photos of the full Earth disk. 1968 – Richard M. Nixon elected president of the United States. 1973 – Arab producers announce 25% cut in oil production. 1977 – George W. Bush marries Laura Welch in Midland, Texas. 1979 – The Susan B. Anthony dollar coin is approved by Congress, the first U.S. coin commemorating a woman. 1979 – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini describes the U.S. as “The Great Satan.” 1994 – George Foreman becomes the oldest heavyweight boxing champion. 1996 – U.S. President Bill Clinton is elected to a second term. 2007 – Writer’s strike stalls production of TV shows, movies. 2007 – China’s first lunar satellite enters lunar orbit. 2018 – NASA's Voyager 2 probe leaves the solar system, becoming the second human-made object to
Today’s Questions: If you had the power to pass a new law, what would it be? I would outlaw stupidity.
What was the first concert you attended? School holiday concerts.
Can you drive a stick shift (manual transmission) vehicle? Still can.
Are you planning any travel during the holiday season? I am not.
Do you think that Daylight Savings Time should be year-round? Why or why not? I think it's tomfoolery to change everyone's time. Just change when the schools are opened (a frequent argument for DST.)
Today’s Questions: If you had the power to pass a new law, what would it be? - After the next change come March 10, 2024 leave the clocks alone.
I'm sure if I did the research I would find something absurd that would need reversing.
What was the first concert you attended? - A real concert would be The Beach Boys - Cole Field House which is on the campus of the University Of Maryland in either 1971 or 1972.
Can you drive a stick shift (manual transmission) vehicle? - Still can. The last time was for a very short distance in March, 2020.
Are you planning any travel during the holiday season? - No.
Do you think that Daylight Savings Time should be year-round? Why or why not? - See first answer.
It doesn't affect me much but plenty of scientific evidence that messing with the clocks is harmful to others.
Your time is appreciated, Bay! Thanks for the QOTD!
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Last edited by John13; 11-05-2023 at 01:42 AM..
Reason: clarification
Today’s Questions: If you had the power to pass a new law, what would it be? Anyone wanting to be president would be too stupid to be president and immediately disqualified.
What was the first concert you attended? Hot Tuna in an old warehouse.
Can you drive a stick shift (manual transmission) vehicle? used to be able to-probably still could.
Are you planning any travel during the holiday season? not planning to travel at any time to any where.
Do you think that Daylight Savings Time should be year-round? Why or why not? either/or. Just leave the clocks alone!
Today’s Questions: If you had the power to pass a new law, what would it be? Too political a question for me.
What was the first concert you attended? My brother's band concerts.
Can you drive a stick shift (manual transmission) vehicle? This question seems to be asked once a month.
Are you planning any travel during the holiday season? Heck, no.
Do you think that Daylight Savings Time should be year-round? Why or why not? The time should not be changed. It's pointless
Welcome to Questions of the Day for Sunday, November 5, 2023. If your birthday is today, you were born under the sign of Scorpio. Famous people born on this date include author and historian Will Durant, actresses Vivien Leigh and Tilda Swinton, singer-songwriters Ike Turner, Art Garfunkel and Bryan Adams, basketball player Bill Walton, playwright and actor Sam Shepard and British jockey Lester Piggott
Today’s Questions: If you had the power to pass a new law, what would it be?..........Get rid of time change
What was the first concert you attended?..........A boarding school choir concert in a church in Austria
Can you drive a stick shift (manual transmission) vehicle?.........Has been a long time
Are you planning any travel during the holiday season?............No
Do you think that Daylight Savings Time should be year-round? Why or why not?..........I prefer they get rid of it
Today in History: 1492 – Christopher Columbus learns how to grow and harvest maize (corn) from Cuba’s indigenous population. 1572 – Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe observes a supernova with the naked eye in the Cassiopeia constellation, proving that celestial objects beyond the Moon changed positions. 1605 – King James I of England first learns of the Gunpowder Plot, a failed attempt to assassinate him. The failure of the plot is celebrated yearly in Britain as Guy Fawkes night or Bonfire Night, named for an explosives expert who was planning to bomb Parliament. 1630 – Spain and England sign a peace treaty. 1639 – The first post office in the American colonies is established in Massachusetts. 1789 – The French National Meeting declares that all citizens are equal under the law. 1862 – 300 Santee Sioux sentenced to hang in Minnesota. 1862 – American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removes General McClellan from command of the Army of the Potomac. 1872 – Suffragette Susan B. Anthony casts a vote for Ulysses S. Grant as U.S. president. She is arrested, charged with voting illegally and fined. 1873 – Canadian Prime Minister John A. Macdonald resigns as the result of a scandal. 1895 – The first patent for a gasoline-powered automobile is granted to George B. Selden. 1900 – Spain declares war against the United States. 1905 – Roald Amundsen becomes the first explorer to complete a Northwest Passage after 400 years of failed attempts. 1911 – Pilot Calbraith Rodgers completes the first transcontinental airplane flight from Sheepshead Bay, NY to Pasadena, CA. The trip takes 49 days. 1912 – Woodrow Wilson elected president in a landslide vote. 1916 – German Emperor Wilhelm II and Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph I establish the Kingdom of Poland. 1917 – World War I: General John J. Pershing and his U.S. troops see action on the Western Front for the first time. 1925 – Dictator Benito Mussolini disbands Italian socialist parties. 1935 – Parker Brothers launches the board game Monopoly. 1940 – Franklin D. Roosevelt elected president for a third term. 1951 – U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site. 1967 – ATS-3, a communications satellite, is launched by U.S. to take the first color photos of the full Earth disk. 1968 – Richard M. Nixon elected president of the United States. 1973 – Arab producers announce 25% cut in oil production. 1977 – George W. Bush marries Laura Welch in Midland, Texas. 1979 – The Susan B. Anthony dollar coin is approved by Congress, the first U.S. coin commemorating a woman. 1979 – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini describes the U.S. as “The Great Satan.” 1994 – George Foreman becomes the oldest heavyweight boxing champion. 1996 – U.S. President Bill Clinton is elected to a second term. 2007 – Writer’s strike stalls production of TV shows, movies. 2007 – China’s first lunar satellite enters lunar orbit. 2018 – NASA's Voyager 2 probe leaves the solar system, becoming the second human-made object to
Today’s Questions:
If you had the power to pass a new law, what would it be? To be added to the qualifications to be president: In the US, you can't run for president if you've never run anything big in your life. You have to have experience implementing your ideas and solving and fixing problems for large groups of people. So you would have had to have been a governor or mayor, a military officer over people (not a high ranking lawyer in the military), run a large organization (charitable or non-charitable), run a school district or university, run a large business, etc., to be qualified to run. My mantra for all of my adult life has been if you want something to get done, quit voting for lawyers for president unless they have also run something large. They get elected because they're good talkers, not because they are doers who have experience implementing their ideas or solving problems.
What was the first concert you attended? Herman's Hermits when I was 15 in either 1965 or 1966 at the Westbury Music Fair on Long Island.
Can you drive a stick shift (manual transmission) vehicle? No
Are you planning any travel during the holiday season? No
Do you think that Daylight Savings Time should be year-round? Why or why not? Don't really care one way or another. Maybe I'd have an opinion if I still had to get up early in the morning to go to work. But I'd rather those people be allowed to make that decision.
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