The Daily Teaser — 2-8-2013

Thank God I’ve got a family … !

Remember me saying my fridge-freezer was dying … ?   It’s been function intermittently, ever since: and blowing fuses.

Thankfully … ?   The NEW one that my family bought for me is — as we speak — on it’s way.

Due within the next forty minutes or so.

The practical upshot … ?   Is that I’m going to say ‘Thank You’, right here, right now, for helping out the blogging black sheep member if the clan.

And make sure I’m dressed, ready to answer the door, and have made sure the delivery driver can get through the door with the blessed thing … !

Let’s move on, shall we … ?   Just so I’m as near enough done by the time it GOES get here.

~≈Û≈~

Yesterday’s Teaser saw both Debbi and Pink Fluff putting in their answers: with Fluff* telling us that Simon The Bear liked Icelandic salmon fishing, and Debbi† telling us she could REALLY do with a Jammie Dodger, it also saw Fluff bagging two out of five and Debbi maxing out, with five.

Oh … !   My fridge-freezer’s turned up … !

AHEM … !

Let’s see how everyone does with today’s questions, shall we?   Here they are, along with the ‘How To’, license and video … 

Q1) 2nd August, 1932, saw the discovery of the positron.   Which regular Star Trek: The Next Generation character has a positronic brain … ?

Q2) Three years later, 2nd August, 1937, saw the US government introduce a tax on what: cocaine, cannabis or cabbages … ?

Q3) 2nd August, 1989, saw which country re-admitted to the Commonwealth … ?

Q4) 2nd August, 216 BC, saw a Roman army defeated by a Carthaginian one: lead by whom … ?

Q5) Finally … 2nd August saw the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq.   In which year of the 1990s … ?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …

Q1) 1st August saw MTV begin its US — and world — broadcasts.   In which year of the 1980s … ?

A1) 1981.

Q2) Which Buggles song was the first to air on the station … ?

A2) Video Killed The Radio Star.

Q3) Which Herbie Hancock song was one of the first — by a black artist — to get heavy airplay on MTV … ?

A3) Rockit.   (I ran this past a friend’s nine year old daughter, recently: she promptly turned round and said “I’ll just listen if that’s ok: that’s CREEPY … !”)

Q4) Which Dire Straits song includes the line “I Want My MTV” … ?

A4) Money For Nothing.   (Classic little Knoepfler story song, there.)

Q5) Finally … What — at least initially — was ‘MTV’ short for … ?

A5) Music Television.

Enjoy those.

I’ll leave you with this thought from Peter O’Toole …

“The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise.”

Peter O’Toole, born 2nd August, 1932.

And, given today is the birthday of composer, Sir Arthur Bliss, with his String Quartet No 1, in B♭ … 

Have a good day … !

*        Oh, I don’t know, Fluff, Spycatcher was controversial … Or, at least, the Government thought it was controversial … (Viking polar bears … ?   THAT’S a thought … )

†        I know exactly what you mean, Debbi … !