Ayn Rand
YMF Canadian?
Red Green
YMF Chicagoan
Barack Obama
I’d never heard that before. Love it!
YMF POTUS quotation before 1861?
“If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.”
YMF U.S. Vice-president who never became POTUS?
Given the contrast with the guy who WAS Prez, gotta go wiyh Al Gore
Fav female newspaper comic strip character
Susie Derkins.
Favorite animal newspaper comic strip character?
Albert, cigar-smoking alligator, “Pogo”.
FAV person you went to school with who had the last name of a US president.
Calvin Washington
YMF bread
Seeded rye
YMF biblical woman?
Jezebel. Flanders put up a letter sign, “Today’s sermon – Evil women in history, from Jezebel to Janet Reno”
Fav city ending with H
Long Beach, NY, where I lived for a few years.
YMF person with red hair?
Lucille Ball
YMF bald person
Yul Brynner, ever since I saw him in a live production of The King and I.
YMF 1980s hair band?
Def Leppard
YMF Southern rock band
Starbuck
Fav “big band” from the big band era
Benny Goodman
YMF symphony orchestra?
Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting
Fav symphony
Mozart’s Symphony No. 25. I was first exposed to it in the film Amadeus, in which the first movement played over the beginning of the movie.
YMF way to spend a rainy day?
Curled up on the couch, sewing.
YMF ice cream flavor
Vanilla followed by chocolate. They’ve always been the best flavors in the world, which is why they’ve always been the most popular. Some of the ice cream “flavors” parlors have would gag a maggot as far as I’m concerned.
Your favorite artist?