The Daily Teaser — 21-8-2013

Oh, I hate that when that happen’s … !

Bruce, bless ’im — my Mac mini — is an older model: and usually holds up rather well.

Except, of course, when he gets a bit bogged under.

Of course, I had my iPod hooked up, when I booted up: which meant, while I was busily opening up various web-pages in Safari, and opening up todays Teaser, in Pages, and was wiping a flash memory stick with Disk Utility, that iPhoto and iTunes opened, so I could sync the thing.

Which was when Software Update chose to kick in.

Talk about slowing down … !

Now: if any one’s got a few hundred pounds, spare … ?   I think Bruce could do with retiring … 

~≈¥≈~

Let’s move on, shall we?   Yesterday’s Teaser saw Debbi* putting in her answers: along with asking me for a link, she also managed to bag five out of five.

Let’s see how she — and you — do with today’s questions, shall we?

Here they are, along with the ‘How To’, License and video … 

Q1) 21st August, 1961, saw Tamla Motown release what became its first US number.   Which Marvelettes song was it … ?

Q2) More to the point, which band has a US Number one with the song, in January of 1975 … ?

Q3) Moving on … 21st August, 1959, saw what admitted as the 50th state of the USA … ?

Q4) 21st August, 1986, saw the birth of sprinter, Usain Bolt.   At the 2012 Olympics, he famously earned gold in 1oo Metres,  2oo Metres and what else … ?

Q5) 21st August, 1991, saw Latvia declare itself independent: from where … ?

Q6) Finally … 21st August, 1944, saw the start of the Dumbarton Oaks Conference: which international organisation did this work towards setting up … ?

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …

Q1) 20th August, 1989, saw at least 30 people killed in the crash of the Marchioness: on which river … ?

A1) The Thames.

Q2) More to the point, what was the name of the dredger it crashed with … ?

A2) The Bowbelle.

Q3) 20th August, 1940, saw Prime Minister Winston Churchill make his “Never Has So Much” speech.   Who was he talking about, in the speech, when he talked of ‘The Few’ … ?

A3) The RAF: specifically, the men of the RAF Fighter Command.

Q4) 20th August, 1938, saw baseball player, Lou Gehrig, make his 23rd career grand slam.   He famously shared the type of disease he suffered with which physicist … ?

A4) Stephen Hawking.

Q5) Finally … 20th August, 1890, saw the birth of horror writer, H. P. Lovecraft.   What does the H stand for … ?

A5) Howard.

Enjoy those.

I’ll leave you with this thought from the late Donald Dewar …

“The important thing, I think, is to try to do the essentials and do them to the best of your ability and if that means you shed some of the pomp and circumstance and some of the extras then so be it.”

Donald Dewar, (21 August 1937 – 11 October 2000)

And get tunefully Texan, with this piece from birthday boy, Kenny Rogers … 

Enjoy the day … !

*        I’ve tweeted the link, Debbi: it’ll roll past on my time line, not long afterwards.   (It’s the BBC’s own iPlayer version: although you might have to look it up on BBC America.)