Sanford Pinsker: "Matthew Meyer and Hugh Troy: Hoaxes of a Different Color"
A few months ago Matthew Meyer, a senior communications major at the University of Florida, grabbed the national spotlight by taking the microphone at a question-and-answer session with Senator John Kerry and holding on for dear life. This guy had lots of questions for the senator, far more than he could fit into the time allotted to each student. When members of the campus security team reminded Mr. Meyer that his time was up and that other students also wanted a crack at Kerry, ... (irascibleprofessor.com)
SUSAN ESTRICH: Jordan's Story (creators.com)
Jordan was 5 years old when he entered the foster care system, a victim of abuse and neglect. For the next five years, he was in motion, switching from one school to another, missing a third of the school year every year because he moved around so much. He survived the loneliness he felt by holding on to the idea that someday a family would adopt him.
David Sirota: Captive-Industry Populism (creators.com)
Ever so gradually, political leaders and organizers are realizing how much leverage they have over companies whose services cannot be conducted "through a wire." Such location-dependent industries are captives of their geography, meaning they can be successfully regulated without fear of abandonment. They are susceptible to an emerging new force - call it captive-industry populism.
Baron Dave ("I don't make films for children. I make films children are not
embarrassed to take their parents to." -- Walt Disney) was first with the correct answer:
Walter is Disney, Mortimer was nearly the name of the character we
know as Mickey, Clarence is a cow and Fauntleroy is the answer by
default, though I knew it from a cartoon where Donald gets drafted.
Sheepish confession: Now that I've had a day to mull it over, the
NPR program where the octothorpe was renamed the barb (button at
right bottom) was "All Things Considered". Circa 1982, not in the
wee hours of the morning (such as now).
Second with the right answer was kitchenrat:
Donald Fauntleroy Duck. Although, I think Donald Mortimer Duck would have been a better choice.
PURPLE GENE was third, writing:
OF COURSE WE ALL KNOW THAT WALT DISNEY'S FAVORITE DUCK,,,DONALD....BORN JUNE 9, 1934 THROUGH THE LUNGS OF CLARENCE "DUCKY" NASH IN THE MOVIE "THREE CABALLEROS" AND AFTER AN ILLUSTRIOUS AND RATHER "QUACKY" CAREER, DIED IN 1985 WHEN TONY ANSELMO TOOK OVER... AND IS SURVIVED BY HUEY, DEWEY AND LOUIE...HIS NEPHEWS...YES WE ALL KNOW HIS MIDDLE NAME....."FAUNTLEROY" ...NAMED NOT AFTER "LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY" FOR THE CLOTHES THAT WERE DRAWN ON HIS FEATHERY TORSO....BUT HE WAS ACTUALLY ORIGONALLY NAME DONALD "LEROY" DUCK BY WALTS OWN GAY UNCLE "DINGLE" BUT THE "FAUNT" WAS ADDED TO KEEP THINGS CLEAN...SO TO SPEAK.
MJ wrote:
I think it was Walter, representing some of the fractious characteristics he had in common with his creator. Mortimer was Mickey's original monicker.
ducks (no relation to Donald) answered:
although I would have chosen another, apparently it's Fauntleroy.
side trivia -- the Oregon Ducks college football team is the only non-Disney venue allowed to use the character Donald as a mascot.
go Ducks!!
Teacher Ed said:
Donald Duck's middle name was Fauntleroy.
He never wore pants.
Alan J was also correct with:
Donald's middle name is Fauntleroy. It was revealed in the 1942 cartoon "Donald Gets Drafted."
And, Sally P answered:
Donald Duck's full name is Donald Fauntleroy Duck, and was revealed in the 1942 cartoon "Donald Gets Drafted."
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a RERUN'CSI: The Original One', then a FRESH'Cold Case', followed by a FRESH'Shark'.
NBC opens the night early with LIVE'Football Night In America', followed by the movie 'The Bourne Supremacy', and a truncated 'Dateline'.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', then a FRESH'Desperate Housewives', then a FRESH'Brothers & Sisters'.
The CW a FRESH'CW Now', followed by a RERUN'Aliens In America', then a FRESH'Life Is Wild', followed by a RERUN'America's Next Top Model'.
Faux has LIVE'MLB Baseball - World Series - Game 4'.
MY has 'That 70s Show', another 'That 70s Show', and the movie 'desperate Measures'.
A&E has 'Cold Case Files', 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', and 'The Sopranos'.
AMC offers the movie 'Gothika', followed by the movie 'Scream 3', then the movie 'The Frighteners'.
BBC -
[11:00 AM] Hex - Hex - Season 2 (120);
[1:00 PM] Hex - Episode 7 (US Ep 2);
[2:00 PM] Hex - Episode 8 (US Ep 3);
[3:00 PM] Hex - Episode 9 (US Ep 4);
[4:00 PM] Hex - Episode 10 (US Ep 5);
[5:00 PM] Hex - Episode 11 (US Ep 6);
[6:00 PM] Hex - Episode 12 (US Ep 7);
[7:00 PM] Hex - Episode 13 (US Ep 8);
[8:00 PM] Dead Ringers - Dead Ringers;
[10:30 PM] Dead Ringers - Dead Ringers;
[1:00 AM] Torchwood - Ep 8 They Keep Killing Suzie;
[2:00 AM] Doctor Who - Ep 8 The Impossible Planet;
[3:00 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep.16 Germany;
[3:30 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep. 17 Essex;
[4:00 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 7 Detling;
[4:30 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 8 Shepton Mallet;
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 7 Banham;
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 8 Tredwen;
[6:00 AM] BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has all 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' all night.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Undercover Brother', followed by the movie 'Scary Movie 3', 'South Park', and 'Sarah Silverman'.
FX the movie 'Dark Water', followed by the movie 'Constantine', and 'Damages'.
History has 'Nostradamus: 500 Years Later', another 'Nostradamus: 500 Years Later', and 'The Lost Book Of Nostradamus'.
IFC -
[06:30 AM] The Chorus;
[08:15 AM] Millions;
[10:00 AM] Melinda and Melinda;
[11:45 AM] IFC News Special;
[12:00 PM] The Chorus;
[01:45 PM] Millions;
[03:30 PM] Melinda and Melinda;
[05:15 PM] The Chorus;
[07:00 PM] Action Indies: Extraordinary Location Scouts;
[07:30 PM] How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It);
[09:00 PM] The Long Kiss Goodnight;
[11:05 PM] Fresh;
[01:05 AM] Night at the Golden Eagle;
[02:45 AM] The Long Kiss Goodnight;
[04:50 AM] The Trouble with Men and Women. (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has the movie 'Unrest', followed by the movie 'Penny Dreadful'.
Sundance -
[05:45 AM] Southern Belles;
[07:30 AM] Dark Water;
[09:15 AM] The Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan;
[11:00 AM] Sean Penn + Jon Krakauer;
[12:00 PM] Very Annie Mary;
[02:00 PM] Site Specific: Olivo Barbieri;
[03:00 PM] Furnish;
[03:35 PM] Energy War;
[05:05 PM] Furnish;
[05:30 PM] Resurrection;
[07:15 PM] Red Lights;
[09:00 PM] Craig David, James Morrison & Dave Matthews;
[10:00 PM] Little Odessa;
[12:00 AM] Natural City;
[02:00 AM] Episode 3;
[03:00 AM] Freeze Frame;
[04:40 AM] Adam & Paul. (ALL TIMES EDT)
A man dressed as Jesus carrying a large wooden peace sign protests against the war in Iraq in San Francisco, California October 27, 2007. Thousands of people marched through San Francisco streets demanding an end to the war in Iraq.
Photo by Kimberly White
Reunited rock-rap group Rage Against The Machine brought its militant politics to New Orleans on Friday, and urged the citizens of the ravaged city to fight alleged government belligerence.
The Los Angeles foursome, known for its leftist politics and anti-corporate tirades, was the top draw on the opening night of the three-day Voodoo Music Experience festival.
For most of Rage's set, frontman Zack de la Rocha said little more than introduce the band. Just before the encore, he finally addressed the raucous crowd, saying that visiting the damage inflicted by Hurricane Katrina on the poor and mostly African-American Ninth Ward neighborhood convinced him that the U.S. government was at war with New Orleans.
"You represent all the beauty that still exists in this city. Wake up and fight them," he urged fans, seemingly unaware that few denizens of the Ninth Ward were likely present in the overwhelmingly white audience.
In this photo released by Playboy, from left, Kendra Wilkinson, Bridget Marquardt, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, and Holly Madison pose for photos at the Playboy Mansion Halloween Party Preview in Los Angeles on Friday, Oct. 26, 2007.
Photo by Dan Steinberg
Thousands of fans of "The Office" made a pilgrimage to northeastern Pennsylvania this weekend to party in the town where the NBC sitcom is set.
Die-hard devotees of the workplace comedy have been visiting Scranton landmarks referenced in the show, getting autographs from cast members and participating in contests.
The first "Office" convention kicked off Friday morning with an appearance by NBC "Today" show weatherman Al Roker and the University of Scranton cheerleaders.
Researchers at New Mexico State University have discovered the world's hottest chili pepper. It's called the Bhut Jolokia, a variety originating in Assam, India.
In tests that yield Scoville heat units (SHUs), the Bhut Jolokia reached 1 million SHUs, almost double the SHUs of former hotshot Red Savina (a type of habanero pepper), which measured a mere 577,000. The result was announced today by the American Society for Horticultural Science.
Chili is spelled "chile" by some, including Paul Bosland, director of the Chile Pepper Institute at New Mexico State's Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences. Bosland collected seeds of Bhut Jolokia while visiting India in 2001. He grew the plants for three years to produce enough seeds to complete the field tests.
"The name Bhut Jolokia translates as 'ghost chile,'" Bosland explained. "I think it's because the chile is so hot, you give up the ghost when you eat it!"
Guitarist for the legendary rock group The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards, in Chichester, England, leads a rally against proposed cuts in medical services at the local St. Richard's Hospital, Saturday Oct. 27, 2007. The 62-year-old Richards joined a protest march to campaign against possible cuts to the local hospital which is close to his English country home.
Photo by Gareth Fuller
World number four Nikolay Davydenko has been fined $2,000 (976 pounds) for not trying hard enough during his shock defeat by Croatian qualifier Marin Cilic at the St Petersburg Open on Thursday.
"Nikolay Davydenko was fined $2,000 for lack of best effort in his second-round match against Marin Cilic," the governing body for men's tennis, ATP, said in a statement on Friday.
The top seed played near-flawless tennis in the first set against the 102nd-ranked Cilic but then started making numerous errors and committed 10 double faults in the last two sets.
He was warned by Belgian umpire Jean-Philippe Dercq in the final set for not trying hard enough.
The nation's two largest makers of toy trains are nearing a conclusion to a seven-year-old, multimillion-dollar lawsuit.
Columbia-based MTH Electric Trains had sued Lionel, a century-old brand, accusing it of stealing train designs through a Korean subcontractor.
The dispute focused on patented computer technology that synchronizes a train set's sound, smoke and speed, critical technology in their small but competitive market.
The Lionel subcontractor was found guilty in a South Korean court of stealing train designs, and MTH then sued Lionel in the United States.
Novelist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Guenter Grass speaks to journalists in the garden of the museum 'Guenter Grass Haus' during his birthday reception in Luebeck October 27, 2007. Grass celebrated his 80th birthday on October 16, 2007.
Photo by Christian Charisius
Protesters turned out on Amsterdam's central Dam Square on Saturday, hoping to stop the government from banning magic mushrooms and asking to "save the 'shrooms".
Carrying banners reading "When will they ban bread?" and "Boss of your own brain", more than 100 people, some wearing hats resembling the bright red cap of the popular fly agaric variety, protested to keep hallucinogenic mushrooms legal.
After several incidents involving tourists -- in March, a French teenager jumped to her death from a bridge after taking mushrooms -- the Dutch government plans to ban them.
Arno Adelaars, author of a book on magic mushrooms, said this would only drive users underground and what was needed instead was better information how to use mushrooms right.
Marrakech, an oil on canvas view of the Atlas mountains, is seen in this undated handout photograph released by Sotheby's in London October 27, 2007. A painting by British World War Two leader Winston Churchill and given by him to U.S. President Harry Truman goes under the hammer in December for the first time with a price tag of up to 500,000 pounds ($1.03 million).
America's oldest natural history institution has no intention of going the way of the dinosaur, but its nearly two centuries in existence have been almost as bumpy as the hide of a Carnotaurus.
The Academy of Natural Sciences, battered by budget problems, is crafting a multimillion-dollar plan to refurbish its exhibits, replenish its coffers and reinvigorate its staff in time for the venerable museum's 200th birthday in 2012.
Undoubtedly a tall order, but it's in keeping with the rule that applies to the millions of plants and animals in its esteemed collection: Adapt or die.
The academy was founded in 1812 by a group of intellectuals with the progressive idea of presenting a secular and scholarly view of the world. Though visitors know it for the dinosaur skeletons, behind the scenes exist myriad research projects and a collection of 17 million fossil, plant and animal specimens including Thomas Jefferson's fossils and plants collected by Lewis and Clark.
A British beauty queen says she was told to pack on pounds for the upcoming Miss World competition - an unexpected request, considering she's not rail-thin. "I was a little bit shocked," Miss England Georgia Horsley said Friday in an interview on NBC's "Today" show.
"I don't think I'm too thin. I'm happy with the way I am," said the 20-year-old, who is a size 4. She added: "I probably would have been more hurt if they told me to lose weight, I think."
Horsley said pageant organizers want "their girls to be more voluptuous and womanly and curvy, you know, rather than the stick-thin, size-0 models that you see around."
Horsley said the request was no big deal, comparing it to being asked to get a tan or let her hair grow.
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright's fountain, which shoots water up to 45 feet into the air, was turned on for the first time on Thursday, Oct., 25, 2007 in Lakeland, Fla. New technology helped crews restore the fountain which is on the campus of Florida Southern College.
Photo by Reinhold Matay
A museum in the Netherlands said the portrait was not by Rembrandt, and the provincial auction house in England was only advertising it as a work by one of his followers - valued at $3,078.
But when 15 minutes of bidding on the painting ended Friday, it had sold for $4.5 million.
"The Young Rembrandt as Democrates the Laughing Philosopher," a 9.5-by-6.5 inch portrait of a young man, had hung in a local home for years.
Jan Six, a Dutch art expert with Sotheby's auction house in Amsterdam, said the palette and pose of the painting were very characteristic of Rembrandt, and that the face was clearly his.
As dusk settles upon the city of Las Cruces, N.M. on Thursday, Oct. 25, 2007, a full moon emerges from behind the Organ Mountains.
Photo by Shari Vialpando
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