BadToTheBoneBob suggested poll questions, and offered to ride herd on it.
There will be a fresh poll question on Monday and Thursday, with Monday's results on Thursday, and Thursday's results on Monday. Might even have some charts and graphs.
The current question is Who Do You Think Should Be Obama's VP?
Froma Harrop: The High Cost of Healthy People (creators.com)
The word "prevention" has a nice ring in any health-care discussion. Thus, many politicians argue that programs to stop smoking, improve diets and otherwise promote wholesome living save money in the long run.
Susan Estrich: What to Say (creators.com)
When my father died, so many years ago, my heart was broken. And then it got broken again. In the hours and days after his death, I was comforted by family and friends. But I couldn't help but notice who was missing, people I cared about, people I thought cared about me, who didn't call, didn't come, weren't there. Later, much later, I asked a few of those people why: Where had they been? Why didn't they come? And the answer was always the same.
Roger Ebert: COOL HAND LUKE (1967; A Great Movie)
Rarely has an important movie star suffered more, in a film wall-to-wall with physical punishment, psychological cruelty, hopelessness and equal parts of sadism and masochism.
What is the official rock song of the state of Ohio?
A: Crimson & Clover
B: Crystal Blue Persuasion
C: Daydream Believer
D: Hang On Sloopy
E: Kicks
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Charlie was first, and correct, with:
Yes, I've lived in Ohio for 47 years now, almost continuously (though I may yet move). I'm not sure I'd have chosen the song myself, though it certainly rates as a classic, it's
D: Hang On Sloopy
And thanks to DanD for the correction.
Alan J responded:
Hang On Sloopy
DanD replied:
The answer is "D." (Okay, so I Googled it.)
Um, Marty. Yesterdays answer was "A" (according to the highlighted choices, anyway). However, mj answered "C," which you also identified as "correct." I presume that you were actually reflecting that -- indeed -- Deep Purple was not a bad group at all, of which I wholly agree (My Woman From To Kayee Yo -- I had three of them back when while I was in Japan ... it's why I'm in such bad health today ;).
mj answered:
A wild guess
A, for the big red O that is Ohio State.
Why the heck they put the R&R hall of fame in Cleveland, I'll never
know.
Sally, not enjying the extreme heat, said:
In 1985, the Ohio General Assembly made "Hang on Sloopy" (D) Ohio's official rock song.
PS: Making it Short 'n Sweet today, conserving energy on this, the last day of the, "Extreme Heat Warning" here in NNJersey - pant, pant, pant...
And, Joe S ("The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote."
~ Carol Moseley Braun
) wrote:
D: Hang On Sloopy. A fitting song for Ohio.
ohowihateohiostate
Trivia Question from Monday - correction
Under a black light, what color is fresh cat urine?
A: bright yellow
B: brilliant blue
C: deep purple
D: hot pink
E: snow white
Source
Dan D is correct. Bright yellow was the correct answer, but I erred in assigning a correct answer to mj.
The archived page has been corrected.
Management regrets the incompetence. ; )
Did you know that you can use Murine eye drops to do body painting that shows up under black lights? In my wild college days we used to do this--you could go out of the dorm looking very prim and proper, and the moment you got to the party (and the black lights), you could have flowers and wild sayings show up all over your body. Hee hee hee!
Didn't need a sweatshirt, but it's still cooler than seasonal.
Tonight, Monday:
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a FRESH'Big Brother 10', then a RERUN'Without A Trace'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Amanda Peet, Jon Hamm, and Augustana.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Julie Chen, Adam Scott, and Ricky Skaggs.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'Celebrity Family Feud', followed by a FRESH'America's Got Talent', and a RERUN'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Gillian Anderson, Dave Attell, and the Duke Spirit.
On a RERUNConan (from 5/6/08) are Jason Lee, Eva Amurri, and Galactic.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 5/5/08) is Bear Grylls.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'Wipeout', followed by a FRESH'I Survived A Japanese Game Show', and 'Primetime: Family Secrets'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are George Foreman and Alanis Morissette.
The CW offers a RERUN'Beauty & The Geek', followed by a RERUN'Reaper'.
Faux has a RERUN'Kitchen Nightmares', followed by a RERUN'House'.
MY has 'Street Patrol', another 'Street Patrol', 'Jail', and another 'Jail'.
A&E has 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The First 48', another 'The First 48', and a FRESH'The Cleaner'.
AMC offers the movie 'Million Dollar Baby', followed by the movie 'Alexander'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 6
[12:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 7
[1:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 3 The Priory
[2:00 PM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 7 Pile
[3:00 PM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 24 Ardingly 24
[3:30 PM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 25 Detling 32
[4:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 9
[4:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 10
[5:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 9
[5:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 11
[6:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep. 3 Walnut Tree
[7:00 PM] BBC World News America
[8:00 PM] Coupling - Ep. 3 Her Best Friend's Bottom
[8:40 PM] Not Going Out - Episode 9
[9:20 PM] Absolutely Fabulous - Ep. 4 New Best Friend
[10:00 PM] BBC World News America
[11:00 PM] Coupling - Ep. 3 Her Best Friend's Bottom
[11:40 PM] Not Going Out - Episode 9
[12:20 AM] Absolutely Fabulous - Ep. 4 New Best Friend
[1:00 AM] Coupling - Ep. 3 Her Best Friend's Bottom
[1:40 AM] Not Going Out - Episode 9
[2:20 AM] Absolutely Fabulous - Ep. 4 New Best Friend
[3:00 AM] Spaced - Episode 3
[3:30 AM] Spaced - Episode 4
[4:00 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 24 Ardingly 24
[4:30 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 25 Detling 32
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 18 Peltier
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 19 Page
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Flipping Out', another 'Flipping Out', still another 'Flipping Out', and a FRESH'Flipping Out'.
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Futurama', 'South Park', followed by a FRESH'Reality Bites Back', then a FRESH'Gong Show With Dave Attell'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Will Ferrell.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Margaret Spellings.
FX has the movie 'Fantastic Four', followed by the movie 'Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery', then the movie 'Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery', again.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'The Universe', 'Ancient Discoveries', and a FRESH'Mega Disasters'.
IFC -
[06:35 AM] IFC Short Film Showcase
[07:35 AM] Wild Man Blues
[09:30 AM] A Price Above Rubies
[11:35 AM] Melinda and Melinda
[01:20 PM] IFC News Special
[01:35 PM] Wild Man Blues
[03:30 PM] A Price Above Rubies
[05:30 PM] Melinda and Melinda
[07:15 PM] Garden State
[09:00 PM] IFC News: 2008, Uncut
[09:05 PM] The Importance of Being Earnest
[10:45 PM] The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
[12:30 AM] Damage
[02:30 AM] The Importance of Being Earnest
[04:10 AM] IFC News: 2008, Uncut
[04:15 AM] The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has 'Star Trek: Enterprise', another 'Star Trek: Enterprise', still another 'Star Trek: Enterprise', and 'ECW'.
Sundance -
[05:00 AM] Agnes Browne
[06:35 AM] I'm Not Rappaport
[09:00 AM] Episode 1
[09:30 AM] Wear
[10:00 AM] Grey Gardens
[11:45 AM] Secrets & Lies
[02:15 PM] Congorama
[04:05 PM] Slaughterhouse Five
[06:00 PM] Sheryl Crow, Hard-Fi & Diana Krall
[07:00 PM] Oyster Farmer
[08:30 PM] Green Porno
[09:00 PM] Episode 4
[10:10 PM] Genesis
[11:35 PM] Decorate
[12:05 AM] Green Porno
[12:30 AM] Lower City
[02:15 AM] Ellie Parker
[04:00 AM] Episode 1
[05:00 AM] Father and Son (ALL TIMES EST)
Famed film critic Roger Ebert announced Monday that he is cutting ties with the nationally syndicated program he and the late critic Gene Siskel made famous, a day after Richard Roeper said he was quitting the show.
In an e-mail to The Associated Press, Ebert said Disney-ABC Domestic Television, which owns "At the Movies With Ebert and Roeper," has decided to take the program in a new direction.
Ebert is a copyright holder on the signature "thumbs up-thumbs down" judgment that he and Siskel made part of each film review. Last year, as he was negotiating a new contract with Disney-ABC Domestic Television, Ebert said he had "exercised his right to withhold use of the "thumbs" until he had a new contract.
"The trademark still belongs to me and Marlene Iglitzen, Gene's widow, and the `thumbs' will return," he wrote Monday. "We are discussing possibilities, and plan to continue the show's tradition."
A federal appeals court on Monday threw out a $550,000 indecency fine against CBS Corp. for the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show that ended with Janet Jackson's breast-baring "wardrobe malfunction."
The three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Federal Communications Commission "acted arbitrarily and capriciously" in issuing the fine for the fleeting image of nudity.
The court found that the FCC deviated from its nearly 30-year practice of fining indecent broadcast programming only when it was so "pervasive as to amount to 'shock treatment' for the audience."
The 3rd Circuit judges - Chief Judge Anthony J. Scirica, Judge Marjorie O. Rendell and Judge Julio M. Fuentes - also ruled that the FCC deviated from its long-held approach of applying identical standards to words and images when reviewing complaints of indecency.
Actresses Molly Shannon (L) and Selma Blair, stars of the new comedy series "Kath & Kim" speak to television critics at the NBC Universal Summer press tour in Beverly Hills, California July 21, 2008.
Photo by Fred Prouser
Conan O'Brien will take over the "Tonight" Show next June - and what happens to deposed host Jay Leno after that is anybody's guess.
Leno's last show will be Friday, May 29, and O'Brien will start the following Monday, June 1, NBC executives told a Television Critics Association meeting Monday.
Jimmy Fallon is poised to take over O'Brien's "Late Night" in March or April of 2009, after honing his approach in brief Internet shows, Silverman and Graboff said.
O'Brien will wrap his "Late Night" run sometime in the first quarter of the year, with exact dates to be determined, the executives said. O'Brien reruns will fill the gap until Fallon takes over.
Former "Saturday Night Live" cast member Bill Murray has agreed to parachute from a plane as part of a special appearance at the Chicago Air and Water Show next month.
A spokeswoman for the Mayor's Office of Special Events says the 57-year-old actor is jumping on behalf of USO of Illinois.
The Chicago native will tandem jump with the Golden Knights skydiving team onto North Avenue Beach on August 15th.
It is the 50th anniversary of the popular show on Chicago's lakefront.
The presidential election will mean extended duty for NBC's "Saturday Night Live."
The show's 34th season will kick off on September 13, allowing it to have seven live outings before Election Day on November 4. That, in turn, will result in a season order of 22 episodes, two more than usual.
In addition, NBC will schedule three half-hour episodes of "Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday" at 9:30 p.m. on October 9, 16 and 23. Also, the night before the election, there will be a 90-minute "Saturday Night Live Presidential Bash 2008" to give the campaign a last-minute satirical spin.
It's July - and the Christmas tree is lit, bells are jingling and jolly elves are doing "yula-hoops" on stage.
What else could it be but the annual World Santa Claus Congress - filling a Danish amusement park with summer Christmas merriment for the 51st consecutive year.
Five months ahead of the holidays, nearly 140 St. Nicks kicked off their three-day convention Monday at the Bakken park north of Copenhagen. Most were from Scandinavia but some came from as far away as Russia, Japan and the United States.
Visitors lined up to watch the Santas, the Mrs. Clauses and all their little helpers parade through the park, bellowing "Ho-hos" and singing Christmas carols. Other activities included a bicycle parade, "yula-hoop" twirls and a brief swim in Copenhagen's famous harbor.
Hate radio talk show host Michael Savage, who described 99 percent of children with autism as brats, said Monday he was trying to "boldly awaken" parents to his view that many people are being wrongly diagnosed.
Some parents of autistic children have called for Savage's firing after he described autism as a racket last week. "In 99 percent of the cases, it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out," Savage said on his radio program last Wednesday.
Savage offered no apology in a message posted Monday on his Web site. He said greedy doctors and drug companies were creating a "national panic" by overdiagnosing autism, a mental disorder that inhibits a person's ability to communicate.
Savage, with more than 8 million listeners a week, is talk hate radio's third most popular personality behind draft-dodging drug addict Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, according to Talkers magazine. He's made a living off bold, outrageous statements: His brief MSGOP show was canceled after he told a caller he should "get AIDS and die, you pig."
In this photo released by the Florida Keys News Bureau, Tom Grizzard, front, of Leesburg, Fla., is congratulated by previous winners after he won the 2008 'Papa' Hemingway Look-Alike Contest at Sloppy Joe's Bar late Saturday, July 19, 2008, in Key West, Fla. Competing for the eighth time, Grizzard, 69, bested 141 other contenders in the contest that was a facet of a Hemingway Days festival that ended Sunday, July 20, and honored the late author's literary prowess and fun-loving Key West lifestyle in the 1930s. The 109th anniversary of Hemingway's birth is Monday, July 21.
Photo by Andy Newman
The husband of British soul singer Amy Winehouse was ordered to serve about 4 1/2 more months in prison on Monday after he pleaded guilty to attacking a pub owner in 2006 and then trying to cover it up.
Blake Fielder-Civil, 26, sat with three co-defendants before judge David Radford at Snaresbrook Crown Court in east London as the sentences were read out.
"I read that you, Blake Fielder-Civil, were affected by drink and cocaine and that in that drunken and drugged state took part in this attack out of a mistaken sense of loyalty to your friend Michael Brown," Radford said.
He added that Fielder-Civil, who married Winehouse in Miami in 2007, "behaved in a gratuitous, cowardly and disgraceful way," and sentenced the former video assistant to 27 months in prison, of which he will only have to serve half.
Scott Michael Foster, star of ABC Family's frat-house series "Greek," has been released on $5,000 bail following his arrest in Hollywood for misdemeanor drunken driving.
Police say the 23-year-old Foster, who plays Kappa Tau President Cappie on "Greek," was arrested at 12:20 a.m. Monday.
Los Angeles police Officer Sara Faden says Foster was arrested at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Cherokee Street in Hollywood. The circumstances of the arrest were not immediately available.
A bobblehead figurine of NBC game show "Deal or No Deal" host Howie Mandel is pictured in foreground as Mandel (background) speaks to television critics at the NBC Universal Summer press tour in Beverly Hills, California uly 21, 2008.
Photo by Fred Prouser
Howie Mandel, the models, the banker and the briefcases all will be in place when the syndicated version of "Deal or No Deal" premieres in September - along with cash for viewers as well as contestants.
Players on the new show won't have a shot at the top $1 million payoff that's possible on NBC's series, but the half-hour show airing each weekday will offer a still-hefty $500,000, the show's producer told The Associated Press Monday.
The TV audience will have their own chance to win as well as watch with a $10,000 weekly prize up for grabs via a companion Web site or a call-in number, series producer Endemol USA said.
Mandel will continue to host the hourlong NBC show, which is entering its fourth season next month and has proven a hit. "Deal or No Deal" was NBC's most-watched entertainment program of the 2007-08 TV season, averaging more than 11 million viewers per broadcast.
Ready for the latest in spa pampering? Prepare to dunk your tootsies in a tank of water and let tiny carp nibble away.
Fish pedicures are creating something of a splash in the D.C. area, where a northern Virginia spa has been offering them for the past four months. John Ho, who runs the Yvonne Hair and Nails salon with his wife, Yvonne Le, said 5,000 people have taken the plunge so far.
He said he wanted to come up with something unique while finding a replacement for pedicures that use razors to scrape off dead skin. The razors have fallen out of favor with state regulators because of concerns about whether they're sanitary.
Ho was skeptical at first about the fish, which are called garra rufa but typically known as doctor fish. They were first used in Turkey and have become popular in some Asian countries.
Brazilian actress and comedian Dercy Goncalves, known for her vulgar wit and scandalous behavior, has died. She was 101.
Rio de Janeiro's Hospital Sao Lucas says Goncalves died Saturday of respiratory problems after being hospitalized the same day with pneumonia.
Goncalves was known for speaking her mind, often peppering her conversation with obscenities. In 1991, she shocked Brazil by parading topless on a Carnival float. She was 84 at the time.
Goncalves kept working late in life and made several TV appearances after turning 100.
A woman looks at balloon lumpfish sitting on balloons at Shinagawa Aqua-Stadium aquarium in Tokyo Tuesday, July 8, 2008. The colorful 'Eumicrotremus Pacificus,' commonly found in the deep sea near the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, attach themselves to rocks in the water via a sucker disk on their underside so as not to be drifted away by strong current.
Photo by Koji Sasahara
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