NEW Improved Monday Open Thread: August 27 is National Banana Lovers Day
August 27 is the 239th day of the year; as well as Prickle-Prickle, Bureaucracy 20, 3184 YOLD
to discordians.
3 cubed, woo hoo, a triangle of triangles. We could go all fractal from here, but it takes a lof of time,.
Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift, look out kid, ...
On this day in:
410 - The Visigoths finished or at any rate stopped sacking Rome. Ir only took them 3 days, maning that they either were very quick or weren' very thorough.
1859 - They discovered Petroleum in Titusville, PA and drilled what is billed as the world's first commecrially successful oil well to get it. There are many other claims around the world for first, though the champions of this well claim that those were drilled for other purposes, like brind or water, and produced oil by accident or as a byproduct.
1883 - The Krakatoa volcano put forth four enormous explosions tht destroyed the island and changed the climate for several years thereafter.
1927 - The "Famous Five" women petitioned the Supreme Court of Canada, to decide if the word 'Persons' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, included "female persons". The courts reply in the negative was slapped down by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on October 18, 1929, which gave women the right to be appointed to the Senate.
1928 - The Kellogg-Briand Pact which outlawed the use of war to resolve "disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be: was signed by fifteen nations. The US, of course, had its fingers crossed. This is why Congress never will declare war, but will happily issue AUMFs and fund all out wars all across the globe, because it isn't war if we don't call it that.
1939 - The first flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft, took place.
1980 - After John Birges planted a bomb at Harvey's Resort Hotel to blackmail the casino, the FBI, having studied the bomb for over a day with X-Rays, Ouija Boards, and all of their other craft, decided to blow the detonator off of the bomb with a shaped charge made of C-4 explosive. The resulting explosion not only destroyed much of the casino, but also damaged Harrah's next door.
Born this day in:
1770 - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, philosopher who invented triangulation
1858 - Giuseppe Peano, mathematician and philosopher
1871 - Theodore Dreiser, novelist and journalist
1875 - Katharine McCormick, biologist, suffragette, and activist. Funded a lot of the research that went into developing the pill.
1890 - Man Ray, photographer and painter
1896 - Leon Theremin, physicist, engineer and inventor
1899 - C. S. Forester, novelist
1908 - Lyndon B. Johnson, the last of the Johnson Democrats, last old democrat president
1909 - Lester Young, sax and clarinet player
1919 - Murray Grand, singer, songwriter, and pianist
1929 - Ira Levin, novelist, playwright, and songwriter
1937 - Alice Coltrane, pianist and composer
1939 - William Least Heat-Moon, writer and historian, drove the blue highways
1940 - Fernest Arceneaux, singer and accordianist
1940 - Sonny Sharrock, guitarist
1942 - Daryl Dragon, keyboard player, muskrat aficionado, and songwriter
1944 - Tim Bogert, singer and bassist
1949 - Jeff Cook, singer, songwriter, and guitarist, founding member of Alabama
1953 - Alex Lifeson, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1956 - Glen Matlock, singer, songwriter, and bass player
Died this day in:
1576 - Titian, painter
1635 - Lope de Vega, poet
1963 - W. E. B. Du Bois, sociologist, historian, and activist
1971 - Bennett Cerf, publisher
1975 - Haile Selassie, emperor, L:ion of Judah
1990 - Stevie Ray Vaughan, singer, songwriter, guitarist
Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:
National Banana Lovers Day
National Pots De Creme Day
Leon Theremin
Lester Young
Alice Coltrane
Fernest Arceneux
Sonny Sharrock
Darryl Dragon
Tim Bogert
Jeff Cook
Alex Lifeson
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Comments
That's a young Jeff Cook cut
I taught his kids as well as the rest of the Alabama band members children. At least they sent their kids to public school.
Banana day seems appropriate considering the world has gone Bananas.
Woody Allen went Bananas in '71 (3 min trailer)
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Thanks for the OT el. Have a good day everyone!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good morning, Lookout. Alabama was never a thing
with/for me, so when I went to find a video for Cook it was Tabla Rasa time. I usually search first on the specific performer and only then one or more of their bands if nothing useful comes up on the first run, hence that particular video. Bogert, for example, started in Vanilla Fudge, and had I gone there first we wouldn't get BB&A (one letter short of Sweden).
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
OK, a doc once told me to eat a banana a day, every day for
the rest of my life. I don't mind bananas, but I don't love them. However, can you imagine having to eat anything every day for the rest of your life? Heck, even if started out as your favorite food, at some point, you would not be able to stand the thought of it.
Now, why did the doc give me that life sentence? I tend to go low on potassium from time to time and am allergic to the pill form. However, bananas are not the only food rich in potassium. They are not even the food that is richest in potassium. But the doc was too lazy even to have the hospital nutritionist print out a list of foods high in potassium.
I'm not even sure he himself new which foods were high in potassium. I asked him if I could not vary with other foods high in potassium, like cantaloupe and potatoes. His reply: "Are they high in potassium? I don't know." After that, I stopped seeing him.
I do love me some pots de creme, though. Easy to make, too. (Don't mind the pic at this link, in which the pots de creme seems to have an odd texture.) https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/chocolate-pots-de-creme-10... Bit of a heart attack in a cup, though.
Hiya, HAW. I was told to boost my potassium and almost
everybody I tell that to says "bananas". Somebody did one hell of a promotion there. Ripe bananas aren't always around and are a bit pricey. Being me, I did a quick Internet search to find out what the mdr ws, what supplements are available, and what foods it is in, and behold, white beans, lentils, shrooms, spuds, tomato sauce, spinach, chard, oranges, beets, salmon. We have an orange tree, I love beans, lentils and spuds, live in major salmon fishing territory, and look at that list and immediately think "WTF, spinach/chard and mushroom pizza". I can see why you dropped him.
Pots de creme - wicked. I used to make pretty good ones, but haven't in a while due to experimentation with other desert types and then, wham - low fat, low salt, high fiber, potassium and protein dies, Damn.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
...it don't matter what you did.
I never heard about the Hotel bomb...oops.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
Good morning, Bisbonian, good to see ya. I was really
impressed with the idea of using a small but powerful homemade bomb to defuse a bomb. I mean, what could go wrong. Those clowns are so helpless without their informants and provcateurs ...
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Banana Day! Yay!
Another 'Peruvian Beach Shack Report' (TM) no rights reserved - Missing the Mercado Central and still on the mend edition: You just can't get 6-7 different varieties of banana here like you can in the markets of Peru and Ecuador. I miss that on this special day. On another note, my doctor is pleased with how well I'm healing. It is a long slog tho.
Ok...In the interest of completeness(silliness?) I offer the place EL hinted at but didn't want to 'go there':
I want a Pony!
Ahh, good mornin' Arrow. I bet you've become a fan of the
leetle "finger bananas" like so many other tropical residents. Never see them here.
Glad your mending, but sorry you aren't mended and back on the beach and shipping at the mercado. Good wishes continue.
I just couldn't bring myself to do it, how does one segue to that? It belongs with stuff by Sheb Wooley, Sam the Sham and Buchanen and Goodman. Thanks for posting it, though.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
"What's my Line" this morning, el?
Not bad for a publisher, eh?
memories
Thanks for today's OT, el, and have a good day and week.
Hah, thanks and good morning, Smiley7. I, of course, flashed
on that, but it didn't really fit my format. Thanks for posting those, and have a great weekend.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
What's my line ? Cleaning windows, of course.
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We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.
Good morning, AZ, totally brilliant and thanks.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Hi Azazello, music choice makes the day.
Sir George Ivan Morrison knew a thing or two about 'going down on the Dole' before coming to the states.
Cheers.
Hey, el
I sent you a PM. Check it when you've got a moment?
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Good morning, CSTMS, got it and replied. I'm still having a
ton of teething problems and such with the os update I did. I opened this tab this morning, did a refresh to get the latest OT and the menus above OT were all closed, but I didn't notice and didn't see the notification. I hope that won't be a regular phenomenon, because it would be a real PITA.
Have a good one.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
BTW, thanks for the Rush.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Definitely my pleasure. Rush is one of those bands that
still had both musical complexity and content.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
I had a college roommate who was a big RUSH fan.
, very ear-opening. I had never even heard OF them, let alone hear them.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
I think one of my nephews turned me on to them, that or
some you tube diving expedition.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Good morning, peeps
The season turned yesterday. Double rainbow in the evening, and the first elk bugling during the night. Hot, smokey days give way to crisp autumn air and the light has a different, sharper quality. Autumn in the Rockies is incomparable.
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." -- Albert Bartlett
"A species that is hurtling toward extinction has no business promoting slow incremental change." -- Caitlin Johnstone
Good afternoon, WD. Good news if you're either a fan of
autumn or else don't like summer. All it means to me is that the kids are back in school (YAY!) and I'll soon be raking leaves like there is no tomorrow.
Thanks for dropping in and have a great day.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Good morning, el ~~
Morning is almost over - it's been a busy one.
Bananas - eat one before you put anything else in your stomach. I only buy four or five at a time, and the smallest ones I can, and buy them green. I can keep up with eating them, that way, before they get to the ripeness I detest. I don't do it everyday, but I can say 5-6 days a week.
Bennet Cerf - now there's a blast from the past!!!
Have a beautiful day, folks!
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Good morning, RA. We usually get larger bananas
and split them, but efinitely not first thing. First thing is coffee. Yeah, good ol' Bennet Cerf. Have a great day yourself.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Put that partial banana in your stomach
before the coffee. It will keep your stomach from churning.
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
why does a banana sing this?
question everything
Good evening, QMS. I have no answer. Now straight
peanut butter and banana, I can see, but not with jelly.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Stevie Ray
Busting a string, changing guitars, never missing a beat. Man was good!
question everything
Not his best song by a long shot, but when I saw that move
I had to use it.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --