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Today’s Questions: Were you born on a holiday, or do you know anyone who was? no and no. Had 3 cousins all born on Friday the 13th.
This is the 120th anniversary of the Wright Brothers’ first flight and the 88th anniversary of the first DC-8 flight. Do you enjoy flying? When did you last travel by air?
no. 2017 to Tx when my sister died.
I don't like the desert (she lived in west TX), don't like flying, don't like funerals. It was not a high point in my life.
Can you name some occupations that are obsolete, or nearly so? I’m thinking of jobs such as cobbler, keypunch operator or gas station attendant. shoe repair, peddlar,
What past fashion trends (such as bell bottoms, afros or prairie dresses) do you wish would come back?
saddle shoes is the only thing I can think of.
Do you follow any sports teams? Which are your favorites? nope. favorites are which ever ones aren't playing.
Were you born on a holiday, or do you know anyone who was?
Not me, but a couple of friends were born on Christmas Day. My dad's birthday would sometimes be at Easter.
This is the 120th anniversary of the Wright Brothers’ first flight and the 88th anniversary of the first DC-8 flight. Do you enjoy flying? When did you last travel by air?
Enjoy is too strong a word. I didn't used to mind it, not so much nowadays. My last flight? A while back but probably just a quick visit to the UK.
Can you name some occupations that are obsolete, or nearly so? I’m thinking of jobs such as cobbler, keypunch operator or gas station attendant.
People who carried out variolation, a fore-runner of vaccination. The practice is banned these days.
What past fashion trends (such as bell bottoms, afros or prairie dresses) do you wish would come back?
Hmm. I'm not one for fashion in general, but I would say clothes that last well, and shoes/boots that can be repaired.
Do you follow any sports teams? Which are your favorites?
Probably Bournemouth AFC, a small football (soccer) club in England who punch above their weight in the English Premier League. When in Texas I used to watch the Houston Astros.
Today’s Questions: Were you born on a holiday, or do you know anyone who was? no
This is the 120th anniversary of the Wright Brothers’ first flight and the 88th anniversary of the first DC-8 flight. Do you enjoy flying? When did you last travel by air? this past April to England. I enjoy flying.
Can you name some occupations that are obsolete, or nearly so? I’m thinking of jobs such as cobbler, keypunch operator or gas station attendant. stenographer.
What past fashion trends (such as bell bottoms, afros or prairie dresses) do you wish would come back? I feel like most fashion trends have already come back.
Do you follow any sports teams? Which are your favorites? no, I don’t follow sports.
Welcome to Questions of the Day for Sunday, December 17, 2023. If your birthday is today, you were born under the sign of Sagittarius. Famous people born on this date include bandleader Ray Noble, author Erskine Caldwell, engineer-academic Alan Vorhees, author Penelope Fitzgerald, journalists-authors William Safire and Chris Mathews; Penthouse magazine founder Bob Guccione, baseball player, coach and manager Cal Ripken,Sr., His Holiness Pope Francis, actor Bill Pullman, actor-singer-guitarist Tommy Steele, actor-comedian Eugene Levy, actor Giovanni Ribisi and Filipino boxer and politician Manny Pacquiao
Today’s Questions: Were you born on a holiday, or do you know anyone who was?...........I was born on a Sunday,but do know quite a few people who were born on holidays
This is the 120th anniversary of the Wright Brothers’ first flight and the 88th anniversary of the first DC-8 flight. Do you enjoy flying? When did you last travel by air?............I get very nervous whenever I fly and I flew in a plane in late autumn
Can you name some occupations that are obsolete, or nearly so? I’m thinking of jobs such as cobbler, keypunch operator or gas station attendant................ Elevator operators in a hotel, milkman delivering milk door to door....
What past fashion trends (such as bell bottoms, afros or prairie dresses) do you wish would come back?.............Not sure
Do you follow any sports teams? Which are your favorites?..........I follow FC Bayern München Fußball/soccer,Canadian ice hockey teams
Today in History: 497 BC – The first Saturnalia festival was celebrated in ancient Rome. 546 – Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoths under king Totila plunder the city, by bribing the Byzantine garrison. 1538 – Pope Paul III excommunicates Henry VIII of England. 1718 – War of the Quadruple Alliance: Great Britain declares war on Spain. 1777 – American Revolution: France formally recognizes the United States. 1790 – The Aztec calendar stone is discovered at El Zócalo, Mexico City. 1807 – Napoleonic Wars: France issues the Milan Decree, which confirms the Continental System. 1812 – War of 1812: U.S. forces attack a Lenape village in the Battle of the Mississinewa. 1819 – Simón BolÃvar declares the independence of Gran Colombia in Angostura (now Ciudad BolÃvar in Venezuela). 1862 – American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from parts of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky. 1865 – First performance of the Unfinished Symphony by Franz Schubert. 1892 – First issue of Vogue is published. 1896 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Schenley Park Casino, which was the first multi-purpose arena with the technology to create an artificial ice surface in North America, is destroyed in a fire. 1903 – The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. 1918 – Darwin Rebellion: Up to 1,000 demonstrators march on Government House in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. 1933 – The first NFL Championship Game is played at Wrigley Field in Chicago between the New York Giants and Chicago Bears. The Bears won 23–21. 1935 – First flight of the Douglas DC-3. 1938 – Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy. 1939 – World War II: Battle of the River Plate: The Admiral Graf Spee is scuttled by Captain Hans Langsdorff outside Montevideo. 1943 – All Chinese are again permitted to become citizens of the United States upon the repeal of the Act of 1882 and the introduction of the Magnuson Act. 1944 – World War II: Battle of the Bulge: Malmedy massacre: American 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion POWs are shot by Waffen-SS Kampfgruppe Joachim Peiper. 1945 – Kurdistan flag day, the flag of Kurdistan was raised for the first time in Mahabad in eastern Kurdistan (Iran). 1947 – First flight of the Boeing B-47 Stratojet strategic bomber. 1948 – The Finnish Security Police is established to remove communist leadership from its predecessor, the State Police. 1950 – The F-86 Sabre's first mission over Korea. 1951 – The American Civil Rights Congress delivers "We Charge Genocide" to the United Nations. 1957 – The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida. 1960 – Troops loyal to Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia crush the coup that began December 13, returning power to their leader upon his return from Brazil. Haile Selassie absolves his son of any guilt. 1967 – Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia, disappears while swimming near Portsea, Victoria, and is presumed drowned.
1969 – Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force closes its study of UFOs. 1973 – Thirty passengers are killed in an attack by Palestinian terrorists on Rome's Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport. 1981 – American Brigadier General James L. Dozier is abducted by the Red Brigades in Verona, Italy. 1983 – Provisional IRA members detonate a car bomb at Harrods Department Store in London. Three police officers and three civilians are killed. 1989 – Romanian Revolution: Protests continue in Timișoara, Romania, with rioters breaking into the Romanian Communist Party's District Committee building and attempting to set it on fire. 1989 – The Simpsons premieres on television with the episode "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire". 2003 – SpaceShipOne, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes its first powered and first supersonic flight. 2003 – Sex work rights activists establish December 17 (or "D17") as International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers to memorialize victims of a serial killer who targeted prostitutes and highlight State violence against sex workers by police and others. 2010 – Mohamed Bouazizi sets himself on fire. This act became the catalyst for the Tunisian Revolution and the wider Arab Spring. 2014 – The United States and Cuba re-establish diplomatic relations after severing them in 1961.
Today’s Questions:
Were you born on a holiday, or do you know anyone who was? No and no.
This is the 120th anniversary of the Wright Brothers’ first flight and the 88th anniversary of the first DC-8 flight. Do you enjoy flying? When did you last travel by air? I do not enjoy flying. I used to fly a lot for work and swore when I retired I would never do it again and I don't. The last time I flew was from Baltimore to St Louis and was either the end of 2006 or the beginning of 2007.
Can you name some occupations that are obsolete, or nearly so? I’m thinking of jobs such as cobbler, keypunch operator or gas station attendant. I'm thinking maybe typesetter (replaced by software), layout and paste up worker (replaced by software) encyclopedia printer, ice man deliverer, reinsman (stagecoach driver), blueprint maker (replaced by software). Soon to go: screen actors (will be easily replace by AI - they can still do stage acting), print models (replaced by AI - they are already losing work), news editors (replaced by robots and government), school teacher (replaced by robots who will improve the quality of education as far as international ranking goes), miners of any kind (will be done by robots), soldiers (replaced by robots first, then war will go virtual).
What past fashion trends (such as bell bottoms, afros or prairie dresses) do you wish would come back? I loved above the knee, 2 piece jacket dresses (made short people look taller) with big shoulders and jackets that came down to within 2 inches of the dress hem, for work. I had 2 that I especially loved that had very small pink and aqua-flowers jackets over a solid pink (bottom) and light beige (top) dress and a solid aqua (bottom) and light beige (top). Never wore a long dress (anything below the knee) to work in my life.
Do you follow any sports teams? Which are your favorites? Not since 1995. Prior to that, I was in the NY Islander (NHL) Booster Club and was their newsletter writer, wrote a fan column in the team's newspaper and had a player fan club. In my younger days (before 18), I was a huge NY Yankees (MLB) fan and NY Giants (NFL) fan. In the early 1970s worked in a downtown bank where it was practically the law that you watch Washington Redskins (NFL) games because every Monday, customers would come in the bank and ask what you thought of their performance on Sunday. Don't follow any teams now. Watch no sports.
Were you born on a holiday, or do you know anyone who was?
no, but I have known people who were. The first person I thought of was someone who was born on New Year’s Day. My sister was born on December 21. That isn’t a holiday, but it is the winter solstice - my husband gets great joy reminding her that she was born on the darkest day of the year
This is the 120th anniversary of the Wright Brothers’ first flight and the 88th anniversary of the first DC-8 flight. Do you enjoy flying? When did you last travel by air?
I love to fly - especially in prop planes. The experience of boarding and sitting next to people isn’t great, but I love to be up high - it’s still exciting to me. Last time I was on a plane was flying back from Costa Rica in April. We fly at least two times a year - sometimes more.
Can you name some occupations that are obsolete, or nearly so? I’m thinking of jobs such as cobbler, keypunch operator or gas station attendant.
milk man, switchboard operator, grocery store bagger
What past fashion trends (such as bell bottoms, afros or prairie dresses) do you wish would come back?
I don’t wear bell bottoms but I still wear boot cut jeans. I liked chunky-heeled platform shoes with ankle straps in my punk days
Do you follow any sports teams? Which are your favorites?
I don’t really follow and teams, but I’ll always be a Steelers fan.
Welcome to Questions of the Day for Sunday, December 17, 2023. If your birthday is today, you were born under the sign of Sagittarius. Famous people born on this date include bandleader Ray Noble, author Erskine Caldwell, engineer-academic Alan Vorhees, author Penelope Fitzgerald, journalists-authors William Safire and Chris Mathews; Penthouse magazine founder Bob Guccione, baseball player, coach and manager Cal Ripken,Sr., His Holiness Pope Francis, actor Bill Pullman, actor-singer-guitarist Tommy Steele, actor-comedian Eugene Levy, actor Giovanni Ribisi and Filipino boxer and politician Manny Pacquiao
Today’s Questions:
Were you born on a holiday, or do you know anyone who was?
My Mom. She was born on December 25th.
This is the 120th anniversary of the Wright Brothers’ first flight and the 88th anniversary of the first DC-8 flight. Do you enjoy flying? When did you last travel by air?
Love to travel. Love to fly. Was last on the overseas flight in May this year. Going to fly back in the next few weeks or so.
Can you name some occupations that are obsolete, or nearly so? I’m thinking of jobs such as cobbler, keypunch operator or gas station attendant.
Milkman, elevator operator, phone operator, typesetter, projectionist in a movie theatre, telegraph operator (not sure about the military), clock winder, typists, ...
Some people mentioned toll collector (still exist), cobbler (shoe repair places still exist, luxury shoes are still made by hand), same with gas station attendants, groceries are still bagged in the US...
What past fashion trends (such as bell bottoms, afros or prairie dresses) do you wish would come back?
Clothes from the 50-60s. Sadly, most people don't have the right body shape to wear them.
Do you follow any sports teams? Which are your favorites?
Not much into particular teams, but I do watch sports like ski jumps, boxing, hockey, track and field etc.
Today in History:
497 BC – The first Saturnalia festival was celebrated in ancient Rome.
546 – Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoths under king Totila plunder the city, by bribing the Byzantine garrison.
1538 – Pope Paul III excommunicates Henry VIII of England.
1718 – War of the Quadruple Alliance: Great Britain declares war on Spain.
1777 – American Revolution: France formally recognizes the United States.
1790 – The Aztec calendar stone is discovered at El Zócalo, Mexico City.
1807 – Napoleonic Wars: France issues the Milan Decree, which confirms the Continental System.
1812 – War of 1812: U.S. forces attack a Lenape village in the Battle of the Mississinewa.
1819 – Simón BolÃvar declares the independence of Gran Colombia in Angostura (now Ciudad BolÃvar in Venezuela).
1862 – American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from parts of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.
1865 – First performance of the Unfinished Symphony by Franz Schubert.
1892 – First issue of Vogue is published.
1896 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Schenley Park Casino, which was the first multi-purpose arena with the technology to create an artificial ice surface in North America, is destroyed in a fire.
1903 – The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
1918 – Darwin Rebellion: Up to 1,000 demonstrators march on Government House in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
1933 – The first NFL Championship Game is played at Wrigley Field in Chicago between the New York Giants and Chicago Bears. The Bears won 23–21.
1935 – First flight of the Douglas DC-3.
1938 – Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.
1939 – World War II: Battle of the River Plate: The Admiral Graf Spee is scuttled by Captain Hans Langsdorff outside Montevideo.
1943 – All Chinese are again permitted to become citizens of the United States upon the repeal of the Act of 1882 and the introduction of the Magnuson Act.
1944 – World War II: Battle of the Bulge: Malmedy massacre: American 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion POWs are shot by Waffen-SS Kampfgruppe Joachim Peiper.
1945 – Kurdistan flag day, the flag of Kurdistan was raised for the first time in Mahabad in eastern Kurdistan (Iran).
1947 – First flight of the Boeing B-47 Stratojet strategic bomber.
1948 – The Finnish Security Police is established to remove communist leadership from its predecessor, the State Police.
1950 – The F-86 Sabre's first mission over Korea.
1951 – The American Civil Rights Congress delivers "We Charge Genocide" to the United Nations.
1957 – The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1960 – Troops loyal to Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia crush the coup that began December 13, returning power to their leader upon his return from Brazil. Haile Selassie absolves his son of any guilt.
1967 – Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia, disappears while swimming near Portsea, Victoria, and is presumed drowned.
1969 – Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force closes its study of UFOs.
1973 – Thirty passengers are killed in an attack by Palestinian terrorists on Rome's Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport.
1981 – American Brigadier General James L. Dozier is abducted by the Red Brigades in Verona, Italy.
1983 – Provisional IRA members detonate a car bomb at Harrods Department Store in London. Three police officers and three civilians are killed.
1989 – Romanian Revolution: Protests continue in Timișoara, Romania, with rioters breaking into the Romanian Communist Party's District Committee building and attempting to set it on fire.
1989 – The Simpsons premieres on television with the episode "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire".
2003 – SpaceShipOne, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes its first powered and first supersonic flight.
2003 – Sex work rights activists establish December 17 (or "D17") as International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers to memorialize victims of a serial killer who targeted prostitutes and highlight State violence against sex workers by police and others.
2010 – Mohamed Bouazizi sets himself on fire. This act became the catalyst for the Tunisian Revolution and the wider Arab Spring.
2014 – The United States and Cuba re-establish diplomatic relations after severing them in 1961.[/quote]
Like always - fantastic collection.
Thank you Bayarea !!
Today’s Questions: Were you born on a holiday, or do you know anyone who was? Is April 1st a holiday? This is the 120th anniversary of the Wright Brothers’ first flight and the 88th anniversary of the first DC-8 flight. Do you enjoy flying? When did you last travel by air? It's okay. Last time a long time ago. Can you name some occupations that are obsolete, or nearly so? I’m thinking of jobs such as cobbler, keypunch operator or gas station attendant. Carriage maker, blacksmith, those working with catalogs or printed news sources. I was just thinking yesterday that stock photographers may be replaced by AI. What past fashion trends (such as bell bottoms, afros or prairie dresses) do you wish would come back? Dressing neatly without sagging britches. Do you follow any sports teams? Which are your favorites? Not anymore.
Welcome to Questions of the Day for Sunday, December 17, 2023. If your birthday is today, you were born under the sign of Sagittarius. Famous people born on this date include bandleader Ray Noble, author Erskine Caldwell, engineer-academic Alan Vorhees, author Penelope Fitzgerald, journalists-authors William Safire and Chris Mathews; Penthouse magazine founder Bob Guccione, baseball player, coach and manager Cal Ripken,Sr., His Holiness Pope Francis, actor Bill Pullman, actor-singer-guitarist Tommy Steele, actor-comedian Eugene Levy, actor Giovanni Ribisi and Filipino boxer and politician Manny Pacquiao
Today’s Questions: Were you born on a holiday, or do you know anyone who was?I had to look this one up. My birthday falls on Anzac Day, a hoiiday in Australia and New Zealand.
This is the 120th anniversary of the Wright Brothers’ first flight and the 88th anniversary of the first DC-8 flight. Do you enjoy flying? When did you last travel by air?I hate to fly. Last time was on 2019.
Can you name some occupations that are obsolete, or nearly so? I’m thinking of jobs such as cobbler, keypunch operator or gas station attendant.Elevator operators. Still have gas attendants in Oregon (for now).
What past fashion trends (such as bell bottoms, afros or prairie dresses) do you wish would come back?Some of the tops in the 60's - 70's: Shell tops; peasant tops, those long-sleeved tops that snapped at the crotch, those cool 80's sweaters. I love a lot of fashion of the 60's. Unfortunately, women then wore them better. Would also like to see 'hats' make a comeback.
Do you follow any sports teams? Which are your favorites?Nope. Used to watch a lot of NBA before it was removed from network TV. I won't pay to view sports.
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Today’s Questions:
Were you born on a holiday, or do you know anyone who was? No
This is the 120th anniversary of the Wright Brothers’ first flight and the 88th anniversary of the first DC-8 flight. Do you enjoy flying? Love to fly, dislike the before and after the flight.
When did you last travel by air? 20?? ONT to SFO, and ONT to SEA.
Can you name some occupations that are obsolete, or nearly so? I’m thinking of jobs such as cobbler, keypunch operator or gas station attendant. operator, convential drafter, Radio/TV repair people.
What past fashion trends (such as bell bottoms, afros or prairie dresses) do you wish would come back?
Do you follow any sports teams? Which are your favorites? Now a days, only the local high schools sports. Small intrest in thr LA Rams, Angels and Cleveland Indians.
Thanx Bayarea4.
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that you watch Washington Redskins (NFL) games because every Monday, customers would come in the bank and ask what you thought of their performance on Sunday. Don't follow any teams now. Watch no sports.
