• Blues musician B.B. King spent a lot of time on the road, a fact that contributed to some failed marriages. Therefore, he was not as eager as some of the women he dated to get married. He once said, "It really hurts me when a lady says, 'We've been to dinner three times. What are your intentions?'" In one case, a woman gave him an ultimatum, saying that if he didn't marry her then she would marry someone else. He replied, "Go ahead. I'll bring my guitar and sing at your wedding."
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• Chip Dayton took a lot of photographs of the Ramones, many of which appeared in this book: Ramones: Photographs by Chip Dayton. He had "access all areas" status, and he was privy to much of what the Ramones did backstage. One thing that impressed him was that the Ramones would meet backstage to perform a ritual before performing. Tommy would drum on a table or on a little drummer pad. Johnny and Dee Dee would strum their guitars. Joey wouldn't sing, but he would go "D-D-D-D-DUN, D-D-D-D-DUN." The Ramones would be really intense about this ritual, and definitely no talking was allowed in the dressing room while they went through it. Mr. Dayton says that it is obvious why they did it - "so they'd be a groove when they walked out [onstage] and plugged in. I never saw another band do that."
• Nina Simone started out as a classical pianist, and she hoped to become the first African-American concert pianist; however, she started to play music in a bar in Atlantic City to make money, and she became a singer through an accident. Harry Steward hired her to play at the Midtown, and he enjoyed her piano playing her first night on the job; however, when he had hired her, he had thought that he had hired a singer, so after he had complimented her on her piano playing, he asked her to sing the next night. When she told him, "I'm only a pianist," he replied, "Well, tomorrow night you're either a singer or you're out of a job." She did sing the next night, and she was immediately popular.
• According to Meredith Willson, author of The Music Man and at one time a piccolo player with Mr. John Philip Sousa's band, every member of the band was an accomplished musician - with one exception. The exception was a man who played second bass clarinet in the band for five years. Everything went fine until the musician who played first bass clarinet became ill. As soon as the second bass clarinet was asked to play first bass clarinet, he quietly and quickly packed his bags and left town. It turned out that the musician couldn't play a note, but no one ever noticed because a bass clarinet has a mild tone, was placed in a noisy section of Sousa's band, and second bass clarinetists don't play solos.
• As a 23-year-old musician, Branford Marsalis got to play with some true jazz greats, including pianist Herbie Hancock, drummer Tony Williams, and bassist Ron Carter. Mr. Marsalis was in awe of these musicians, but unfortunately, his awe badly affected his playing ability. Mr. Carter even told him, "We're delighted by the fact that you're in awe of us. But we're playing you money to play, and you ain't playing!" The talk helped, and Mr. Marsalis started playing better - and the next time he played with these greats, he was able to hold his own. This time he said, "I felt like a peer, not a subordinate."
This animal cartoon character, an anthropomorphic dog who typically wears a turtle neck and vest, debuted in 1932 as Dippy Dawg. By what name is he known today?
Goofy is a funny animal cartoon character created in 1932 at Walt Disney Productions. Goofy is a tall, anthropomorphic dog who typically wears a turtle neck and vest, with pants, shoes, white gloves, and a tall hat originally designed as a rumpled fedora. Goofy is a close friend of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. He is normally characterized as extremely clumsy and somewhat dimwitted, yet this interpretation is not always definitive; occasionally Goofy is shown as intuitive, and clever, albeit in his own unique, eccentric way.
Goofy debuted in animated cartoons, starting in 1932 with Mickey's Revue as Dippy Dawg, who is older than Goofy would come to be. Later the same year, he was re-imagined as a younger character, now called Goofy, in the short The Whoopee Party. During the 1930s, he was used extensively as part of a comedy trio with Mickey and Donald. Starting in 1939, Goofy was given his own series of shorts that were popular in the 1940s and early 1950s. Two Goofy shorts were nominated for an Oscar: How to Play Football (1944) and Aquamania (1961). He also co-starred in a short series with Donald, including Polar Trappers (1938), where they first appeared without Mickey Mouse. Three more Goofy shorts were produced in the 1960s after which Goofy was only seen in television and Disney comics. He returned to theatrical animation in 1983 with Mickey's Christmas Carol. His last theatrical appearance was How to Hook Up Your Home Theater in 2007. Goofy has also been featured in television, most extensively in Goof Troop (1992), House of Mouse (2001-2003), Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (2006-2016), Mickey Mouse (2013-present), and Mickey and the Roadster Racers (2017-present).
Originally known as Dippy Dawg, the character is more commonly known simply as "Goofy", a name used in his short film series. In his 1950s cartoons, he usually played a character called George G. Geef. Sources from the Goof Troop continuity give the character's full name as G. G. "Goofy" Goof, likely in reference to the 1950s name. In many other sources, both animated and comics, the surname Goof continues to be used. In other 2000s-era comics, the character's full name has occasionally been given as Goofus D. Dawg.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Goofy.
Randall wrote:
Goofy
Mac Mac said:
Goofy
Alan J
Goofy.
Cal in Vermont replied:
Dippy Dawg changed his name to Goofy in 1939. He was once named as a co-respondent in a divorce suit brought by Mickey Mouse against Minnie Mouse but the whole thing was quickly buried by Disney Studios under a big pile of money by a big phalanx of lawyers and was said to be nothing more than hearsay.
Kevin K. in Washington, DC, responded:
Well gawrsh, that's a Goofy question.
Roy, still a Libtard Snowflake keeping distant in Tyler, TX wrote:
That goofy dog called Dippy Dawg was so doggone goofy they eventually changed his name to just that. So we now know him as Goofy.
Dave said:
Goofy. He's a dog alright. Goofy is the least funny of the Mickey Mouse cartoon characters, and considering none of them are very funny- that's saying something. The TV cartoon Family Guy brought Goofy back and sent him to Hell were Satan threw him into a fire pit. Everybody's a critic.
zorch responded:
Dippy Dawg is usually known as Goofy.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Goofy is a funny-animal cartoon character created in 1932 at Walt Disney Productions. Goofy is a tall, anthropomorphic dog who typically wears a turtle neck and vest, with pants, shoes, white gloves, and a tall hat originally designed as a rumpled fedora.
Deborah, the Master Gardener, wrote:
That's got to be Goofy. I didn't know he had another name. The things I learn here.
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DJ Useo said:
Lol, the answer is "Goofy". & so is his name. The useo family kids used to read this comic on long car trips.
Billy in Cypress U$A answered:
Goofy, I am familiar with; Dippy Dawg, not so much.
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame responded:
The answer is "Goofy."
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A Bolivian orchestra group has been stranded in a German castle for 73 days after the countries closed their borders during the coronavirus pandemic.
The musicians, some of whom are as young as 17 years old, arrived in Germany for a spring concert tour just as the COVID-19 crisis was beginning, the BBC reports. However, their concerts were soon called off as Germany imposed a social gathering ban, and their flight back to Bolivia was canceled after the country closed its borders as a coronavirus precaution.
Since then, the group has been staying safe at the Rheinsberg Palace, a 600-year-old castle located an hour and a half northwest of Berlin. The ancient estate was home to German royalty dating back to the 1500s, including Frederick the Great, who the group jokes is haunting the castle halls.
The nearby town of Rheinsberg has been mostly welcoming to the musicians, who socially distance themselves and remain on the castle grounds. The group stays at a guest house on the estate, which has a kitchen staff that drops off food for their unplanned guests. People have also donated clothes to the group during their longer-than-expected stay.
It looks like there's been some exciting drama happening on whatever scarab spaceship the guys from Journey are living on, with bassist Ross Valory and drummer Steve Smith getting fired back in March after trying to take control of the band away from founding member Neal Schon in what Rolling Stone refers to as an attempted "coup"-which makes it sound much more exciting and dramatic than it probably deserves. Schon and keyboardist Jonathan Cain successfully fought them off, though, giving them the boot and saying in a statement that "Journey will go out on tour without [Valory]" once the pandemic is over. (If you're wondering where you should stand in this feud, Schon is the one who didn't want Journey's music to be politicized, while Valory is one of the rogue Journey members who jumped at the chance to visit the Trump White House back in 2017… though Cain was also there, so maybe this is a "whoever wins, we lose" AVP situation.)
Anyway, Journey is now filling those open slots in its lineup, with Rolling Stone reporting that Valory has been replaced by none other than former Journey member Randy "Big Dawg" Jackson. That nickname comes from Schon's Twitter feed (which he uses far too much), on which he also revealed that Narada Michael Walden will be the new drummer. Walden is a Grammy winner, but he never appeared on TV and told an aspiring young singer that "It's a no from me, dog," so no offense to him, but we're here for Randy Jackson and Randy Jackson only. He had previously been a replacement bassist for Journey back in the '80s, and with the pandemic still going on, there's no word on when this new lineup will actually be going on tour.
The New York Times has identified the names of 1,000 people who have died from coronavirus during the global crisis as America's death toll continues to soar to almost 100,000.
America, where Covid-19 has claimed more lives than any other country in the world, is easing lockdown restrictions despite the fact experts have predicted such reopenings will lead to thousands of further deaths.
The New York Times splashed a list of almost 1,000 names and memorable pieces of information extracted from obituaries on its Sunday front page. Its story is headlined "US deaths near 100,000, an incalculable loss".
A recent report by Harvard University discovered only nine states out of 50 total US states were carrying out, or near to doing so, the minimum advised testing.
An alligator that many people believe once belonged to Adolf Hitler has died in the Moscow Zoo.
The zoo said the alligator, named Saturn, was about 84 years old when he died on Friday.
According to the zoo, Saturn was born in the United States and later sent to the Berlin Zoo, from which he escaped when the zoo was bombed in 1943. His whereabouts were unknown until 1946, when British soldiers found him and gave him to the Soviet Union, the zoo said.
"Almost immediately, the myth was born that he was allegedly in the collection of Hitler and not in the Berlin Zoo," the zoo said in a statement.
But, it noted, "animals are not involved in war and politics and it is absurd to blame them for human sins."
Donald Trump (R-Oink) shared a string of sexist tweets from a failed congressional candidate calling Hillary Clinton a "skank", suggesting that Nancy Pelosi's mouth be taped shut and mocking the physical appearance of former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.
The president shared eight posts from John K Stahl - who also has called Ms Abrams "Shamu" and the House Speaker "Super Skank" - amid a streak of messages attacking absentee ballots and promoting a discredited conspiracy theory about MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, while the nation's death toll from coronavirus pandemic approaches 100,000.
Mr Trump also has spent a part of the Memorial Day weekend golfing at his Trump National Golf Club in Virginia.
Donald Trump (R-Liar) continued to voice his opposition to expanded mail-in voting with a tweet on Sunday spreading falsehoods about the prevalence of fraud in the process, even though confirmed cases of voter fraud have been in the single digits in past presidential elections.
"The United States cannot have all Mail In Ballots. It will be the greatest Rigged Election in history," Mr Trump tweeted, the latest in a recent uptick of attacks on Democrats' - and even many Republicans' - desire to expand mail-in voting to mitigate health risks during the coronavirus pandemic.
"People grab them from mailboxes, print thousands of forgeries and 'force' people to sign. Also, forge names," the president wrote, falsely, without citing any evidence to support such claims.
Mr Trump, who spent his succssion day in succession at a golf course over the holiday weekend as the death toll from the pandemic neared 100,000 has spent countless hours on Twitter and before reporters during his political career promoting unsubstantiated theories about rampant voter fraud in the US, which study after study has shown is extremely rare. The president has repeatedly claimed, falsely, that he would have beaten Hillary Clinton in the 2016 popular vote were it not for the "millions of people who voted illegally."
Mr Trump's own advisory commission on election integrity spent eight months, from May 2017 to January 2018, probing claims of voter fraud and did not turn up a single confirmed instance.
More than four-fifths of publicly listed companies that received emergency small-business loans from the U.S. government have held onto them, sticking with a certification that they need the money, according to data from market research firm FactSquared.
Companies that should not have applied for the loans because they had enough resources to get by on their own had until May 18 to return the money without facing any sanctions. Those that returned the money announced it through regulatory filings, which are required within four business days of a major corporate event.
Sixty-eight companies returned $435.8 million in loans, out of a total of 424 public companies that were granted loans totaling $1.35 billion, based on a review of corporate filings by FactSquared as of May 22.
Some 76 public companies that took PPP loans and have not said they will return them had enough cash and cash equivalents to cover operating costs until at least June, according to a Reuters analysis, which was based on companies' most recent earnings and companies tracked by FactSquared. Of those companies, 22 received loans of at least $2 million.
Ever since President Donald Trump (R-Corrupt) directed NASA to get boots on the Moon by 2024, the agency and its partners have been hard at work trying to make it happen. Late last month, NASA awarded contracts to three companies to develop a crewed lunar lander, but getting to the Moon is just the start. The agency also plans to build a permanent Moon basebefore the end of the decade and use it as a stepping stone to Mars.
If astronauts are going to spend weeks at a time on the Moon, they're going to have to figure out how to live off the land-er, regolith. It's too expensive to ship everything from Earth, which means they'll have to get creative with the limited resources on the lunar surface. Moon dirt is a great building material and there's water in the form of ice at the south pole that can be turned into rocket fuel. But the hottest commodity of them all may very well turn out to be an astronaut's own pee.
Earlier this year, a team of European researchers demonstrated that urea, the second-most common compound in human urine after water, can be mixed with Moon dirt and used for construction. The resulting material is a geopolymer, which has similar properties to concrete and could potentially be used to build landing pads, habitats, and other structures on the Moon.
To test the idea, the researchers mixed synthetic urea powder with lunar regolith simulant to make cylindrical structures the size of a fist and let them dry under a weight. They then simulated using the material in a 3D printer by extruding it in layers through a syringe. They compared the results with conventional geopolymers. "It performed quite well," says Anna-Lena Kjøniksen, a materials scientist at Østfold University College and coauthor of the study. "It seemed to give the best overall results, especially when it came to avoiding crack formation."
If you've ever looked carefully at the snails in your garden, you may have noticed a curious quirk. Most of their shells spiral in the same direction. Every now and again, you might find one going the other way, but the odd ones out are extremely rare.
This structural mirroring is a phenomenon known as chirality, or handedness, and it can be found in molecules, too. Just like snail shells, they too are heavily weighted towards one direction or another - what is known as homochirality.
Natural amino acids - the building blocks of proteins - are almost always left-handed, or sinistral. Natural sugars like those that make up RNA and DNA, on the other hand, are almost always right-handed, or dextral. It matters: if you replace any of these molecules with the other form, the whole system breaks down.
"We propose that the biological handedness we witness now on Earth is due to evolution amidst magnetically polarised radiation, where a tiny difference in the mutation rate may have promoted the evolution of DNA-based life, rather than its mirror image," explained high-energy astrophysicist Noémie Globus, who was a visiting scholar at Stanford University's Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology at the time of the research.
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