Answers for Buzzcook's Trivia Question Of Yesterday
What phrase did Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1st Baron Lytton not coin?
A: The pen is mightier than the sword
B: The great unwashed
C: It was a dark and stormy night
D: No man is an island source
mj was first, but wrong, writing:
It was a pretty good party
Even though I remember most of it
C.
joe was second, and wrong:
I`ll say ''C" I think that was from somebody else.
joe wrote back, quickly:
My wife says its "A" and I will go with that instead.
ducks observed, wrongly:
this one is easy... it was a dark and stormy night. The infamous line has spawned contests galore but my favorite use of the line is that's how Snoopy always starts the lastest novel he plans to write. Perfect use of the line if you ask me. ;-)
Alan J was the first to get it right:
No man is an island
Sally also got it right:
I believe the 17th century British poet, John Donne "D" coined the phrase, "No man is an island."
PS: My daughter decided to "give" me a DSL line for the holidays. While it is wonderful - okay, in fact, I feel as if I've died and gone to heaven the connection is SO fast - however, it took me two freaking days to get the line up and running - but I did it, myself! And, this was the greatest gift of all, because as one ages, children tend to treat their parent(s) as if the GD PARENT hasn't a brain in his/her head... You'll see. :)
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Thanks to Buzzcook for the yesterday's Trivia Question.
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Amazing Race 12', then the FRESH made-for-TV-movie 'In God's Name'.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'Football Night In America', then pads the left coast with local crap.
ABC begins the night with the FRESH'Elmo's Christmas Countdown', followed by the SEASON FINALE'Duel', then the movie 'The Santa Clause 2'.
The CW offers a FRESH'CW Now', followed by a RERUN'Aliens In America', then the chestnut 'Story Of Santa Claus', followed by a RERUN'Crowned'.
Faux has a RERUN'Simpsons', followed by the movie 'Spider-Man 2'.
MY has 'That 70s Show', another 'That 70s Show', then the movie 'Throw Mama From The Train'.
A&E has 'Cold Case File', 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', 'Paul McCartney: Live At The Olympia', and yet another 'The First 48'.
AMC offers the movie 'The In-Laws', followed by the movie 'Miss Congeniality', then the movie 'Miss Congeniality', again.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 5 Rise Of The Cybermen;
[1:00 PM] Torchwood - Ep 6 Countrycide;
[2:00 PM] Beatles Biggest Secrets;
[3:30 PM] An Audience with Elton John;
[4:30 PM] The Rolling Stones: Truth And Lies;
[5:30 PM] Beatles Biggest Secrets;
[7:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 9 A Thing Or Two About Loyalty;
[8:00 PM] Under The Greenwood Tree;
[10:00 PM] My Big Breasts And Me;
[11:00 PM] Under The Greenwood Tree;
[1:00 AM] My Big Breasts And Me;
[2:00 AM] Robin Hood - Ep 9 A Thing Or Two About Loyalty;
[3:00 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep. 18 Birmingham;
[3:30 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep. 19 North Cheam;
[4:00 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 9 Ardingly 49;
[4:30 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 10 Kedleston 45;
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 40 Boyle;
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 41 Mayhew;
[6:00 AM] BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has all 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' all night.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Coming To America', followed by the movie 'Trading Places'.
FX has the movie 'The Animal', followed by the movie 'Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story', then 'Nip/Tuck'.
History has 'Christmas Unwrapped', 'The Hunt For John Wilkes Booth', and 'Kennedy Assassination: Beyond Conspiracy'.
IFC -
[07:05 AM] In the Bleak Midwinter;
[08:45 AM] Danny Deckchair;
[10:30 AM] Johnny Stecchino;
[12:15 PM] In the Bleak Midwinter;
[02:00 PM] Danny Deckchair;
[03:45 PM] Johnny Stecchino;
[05:35 PM] In the Bleak Midwinter;
[07:20 PM] Proof;
[09:00 PM] Sling Blade;
[11:20 PM] IFC News Special;
[11:30 PM] Spanking the Monkey;
[01:15 AM] Party Monster;
[03:00 AM] Sling Blade;
[05:25 AM] IFC Short Film Showcase. (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has fills the night with 'Stephen King's "The Stand"'.
Sundance -
[06:00 AM] Go Further;
[07:30 AM] Lucie Aubrac;
[09:30 AM] Live-In Maid;
[11:00 AM] Mike Myers + Deepak Chopra;
[12:00 PM] The Parole Officer;
[01:45 PM] Haiti: The End of the Chimera?;
[03:00 PM] Episode 2;
[03:35 PM] Somba Ke: The Money Place;
[04:45 PM] Episode 2;
[05:30 PM] Lucie Aubrac;
[07:30 PM] Live-In Maid;
[09:00 PM] Ray LaMontagne, The Zutons, Shawn Colvin & Nerina Pallot;
[10:00 PM] Mutual Appreciation;
[12:00 AM] Memories of Murder;
[02:15 AM] Short Hymn, Silent War;
[03:00 AM] Episode 7;
[03:30 AM] She Killed in Ecstasy;
[04:45 AM] Gridlock'd. (ALL TIMES EST)
Actor Denis Leary, left, talks with part-owner of the Boston Celtics' James Pallotta in the third quarter of an NBA basketball game against the Celtics and the Chicago Bulls, Friday, Dec. 21, 2007, in Boston. The Celtics won ,107-82.
Photo by Michael Dwyer
Supermodel Naomi Campbell, who recently conducted a lengthy magazine interview with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, on Friday visited a new housing project his country built for Cuban oil refinery workers.
Cuban news agency Prensa Latina said the British-born model chatted with a young married couple who will live in one of 100 small, white cookie-cutter houses recently built near the Camilo Cienfuegos refinery. The refinery was renovated with Venezuelan assistance.
Accompanied by Cuban Vice Foreign Minister Alejandro Gonzalez, Campbell posed with the couple after congratulating them on their new home.
It was unclear what Campbell was doing in Cuba, but she visited Venezuela in October for an interview with Chavez for an unspecified publication. During that visit she also joined Chavez at a political rally and toured government-funded housing projects.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt pose for photographs with children and families affected by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Saturday, Dec. 22, 2007.
Photo by Cheryl Gerber
Thousands of people gathered for the finale of an anti-mafia concert Saturday in the Sicilian village of Corleone, the birthplace of some of the Cosa Nostra's most powerful bosses.
Organised by the municipality, anti-mafia association Libera and MTV Italia, the three-day event was held at the Falcone Borsellino square, named in honor of judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, killed in 1992 by the Cosa Nostra. They have since become symbols of the anti-mafia battle.
The concert, broadcast on MTV, also included relatives of mafia victims who spoke on stage.
Corleone is about 30 kilometres (19 miles) south of the Sicilian capital Palermo. Author Mario Puzo named the central crime family in his seminal book "The Godfather" after the town.
Art Conrad has an issue with the commercialism of Christmas, and his protest has gone way beyond just shunning the malls or turning off his television. The Bremerton resident nailed Santa Claus to a 15-foot crucifix in front of his house.
"Santa has been perverted from who he started out to be," Conrad said. "Now he's the person being used by corporations to get us to buy more stuff."
A photo of the crucified Santa adorns his Christmas cards, with the message "Santa died for your MasterCard."
The display is also Conrad's way of poking fun at political correctness. He believes people don't express their feelings because they're afraid of what other people might think.
Four-month-old giant panda cub Zhen Zhen peers over a tree stump in her enclosure at the San Diego Zoo during a media preview Friday, Dec. 21, 2007, in San Diego. Zhen Zhen and her mother Bai Yun will make their public debut at the Giant Panda Research Station exhibit on Saturday Dec. 22.
Photo by Denis Poroy
Queen Elizabeth II is posting her traditional Christmas message on YouTube for the first time through a special royal channel on the video-sharing website which launches Sunday.
The festive broadcast will appear at around 1500 GMT on December 25, but before then, viewers will be able watch past Christmas messages as well as archive and contemporary footage of Britain's royal family.
The royal channel features a regal homepage illustrated with a photograph of Buckingham Palace in London flanked by guards in bearskin hats and red tunics.
The televised message, an annual broadcast looking back on the year's events, is also available as a podcast.
Trading karate chops for lawyers, tough guy actor Chuck Norris (R-Huckabee Fan #1) is taking on a new book titled "The Truth About Chuck Norris," saying it's a big lie and he wants to stop its distribution.
On Friday, Norris sued Penguin Group Inc. and the book's creator, Ian Spector, saying his good image is being spoiled by a book that depicts him as callous and unlawful and which he says includes false "facts" that are sometimes racist and lewd.
In a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, the actor, whose real name is Carlos Ray Norris, says the preface of the book refers to meetings between Norris and Spector, a Westbury, N.Y., resident and an undergraduate at Brown University, and the book also thanks Norris for "playing along."
The lawsuit said Norris told Penguin it was not authorized to publish the book but the publisher rejected Norris' claims. The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages, a halt to publication and a recall of books already sold.
A view of a sand sculpture, which depicts Christian nativity scene, at Las Canteras beach in Spain's Canary Island of Gran Canaria December 21, 2007. Picture taken December 21, 2007.
Photio by Borja Suarez
The man known as Don Vito on MTV's "Viva La Bam" show has been sentenced to 10 years to life on probation after he was convicted on two counts of sexual assault on a child.
Vincent Margera, 51, of West Chester, Pa., was also ordered Thursday not to appear as the Don Vito character for 10 years. His defense attorney had argued that Margera had taken on Don Vito's outrageous and profane character at the time of the incident.
In October, Margera was convicted on two counts and acquitted of one count of sexual assault on a child. He had been accused of groping three girls, ages 12 to 14, during an autograph-signing event last year in the Denver suburb of Lakewood.
Margera was also ordered to register as a sex offender, get substance abuse treatment and undergo a mental health evaluation.
Former child star Danielle Fishel, a teen heartthrob on ABC's "Boy Meets World," was arrested this week on a drunken driving warrant from Los Angeles County, police said.
Fishel was arrested Thursday just before 5 a.m. after officers stopped a car she was in, said Newport Beach Sgt. James Rocker. She was released from jail shortly after her arrest.
Fishel grew up in Yorba Linda and spent more than seven years playing Topanga, the love interest of "Boy Meets World" star Ben Savage.
In 2006, Fishel became the spokeswoman for NutriSystem after she announced on The Tyra Banks show that she was so thrilled about losing 20 pounds with the diet program that she wanted to be the company's spokeswoman.
Former British prime minister Tony "The Poodle" Blair has become a Roman Catholic, church officials said Saturday, ending widespread speculation that he would switch to the faith of his wife and four children.
But as Catholic leaders welcomed Blair into the fold, immediate questions were raised about whether the 54-year-old had now renounced his views on contentious areas like abortion, gay rights and stem-cell research.
A spokesman for the leader of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor, said Blair had been "received into full communion with the Catholic Church" at a private mass on Friday night.
Blair's conversion from Anglicanism had been expected. He had been described as "a Catholic in all but name", regularly attending Catholic mass with his wife, Cherie, and only going to Anglican services on state occasions.
Former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had a plan to suspend the rules against illegal detention and arrest up to 12,000 Americans he suspected of being disloyal, according to a newly declassified document.
Hoover sent his plan to the White House on July 7, 1950, less than two weeks after the Korean War began. But there is no evidence to suggest that President Truman or any subsequent president approved any part of Hoover's proposal to house suspect Americans in military and federal prisons.
Hoover had wanted Truman to declare the mass arrests necessary to "protect the country against treason, espionage and sabotage," The New York Times reported Saturday in a story posted on its Web site.
All apprehended individuals eventually would have had the right to a hearing under Hoover's plan, but hearing boards comprised of one judge and two citizens would not have been bound by the rules of evidence.
A two-month old Amur tiger cub plays in a cage in the municipal zoo Royev Ruchey in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, December 21, 2007. A pair of Amur tigers Cedar and Iris have given birth to seven cubs in the last 3 years in the zoo.
Photo by Ilya Naymushin
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