“Naturally, the common people don’t want war. After all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is a simple matter to drag people along, whether it’s a Democracy, or a Fascist dictatorship, or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country. ”

Hermann Goering, Hitler’s Reich-Marshall at at the Nuremberg trials, following Word War II.

Scary, huh?

I will give you the dates you tell me who died on each: 1 point per answer.
1 . 02/03/1959 x3 This ones easy.
2 . 07/03/1969
3 . 09/18/1970
4 . 10/04/1970
5 . 07/03/1971
6 . 10/29/1971
7 . 09/19/1973
8 . 09/20/1973
9 . 09/16/1977
10.09/07/1978
11.09/25/1980
12.12/08/1980
13.12/31/1985
Yes it’s 13 keeping with the unlucky theme this week. also, you notice that they mostly died in the falll?

What are the origins/background of Friday the 13th?….. The more the detail – The more the Checkers…… I’m going to have to do some digging myself for this one, but, I do know what book I’m going to look in, so-o-o, the answer’s not set in stone yet….. (For a few Checkers, I might be influenced, but, I didn’t say that!)

For anyone out there not yet confused by my Point System, here are the Current Standings in alphabetical order, which should convince all parties concerned that MR doesn’t have a clue as to what’s going on!….. (Bear with me, I almost had this post completed earlier and a lightning strike knocked-out the power just long enough for me to lose it all, including my patience!… Argh!…. S-o-o-o, I’m saving this after every line now.)……

Anon: Two (2) 1’s
HS: Three (3) Aces
Izard: Two (2) +’s, Ten (10) 1’s, One (1) 0, Three (3) Aces
J.J.: Fifteen (15) 1’s, Two (2) 0’s, Three (3) 2 of Puppy Feet*
Jek: One (1) +, Twelve (12) 1’s, One (1) 2 of Puppy Feet*
RtG: Four (4) +’s, One (1) –
Sunn: Nine (9) 1’s

*Puppy Feet are Clubs, i.e. 2 of Clubs, Anon

We now input all of this data v-e-r-y slowly (to prevent overload) into the Commodore 64 and just Two (2) days later we have the new current Point Standings:

Anon: Two (2) Red Checkers
HS: Three (3) Red Checkers
Izard: Thirteen (13) Red Checkers, One (1) Black Checker
J.J.: Fifteen (15) Red Checkers, Five (5) Black Checkers
Jek: Thirteen (13) Red Checkers, One (1) Black Checker
RtG: Four (4) Red Checkers, One (1) Black Checker
Sunn: Nine (9) Red Checkers

The next Quiz will be for more Checkers…… Any Questions?…..

This Dallas Texas pop star is the daughter of one of the Beatles greatest influences she also fronts a country band around the Texas music scene. Who is She? 4 points.

There has been some mentions a few times on the blog about “The DOGG, and DOGG Tapes” I thought I would give a small description to those of you who aren’t in the know. 1st We have a radio station here in OKC known as The KATT, they never played the music that we were into so once upon a time, long long ago in a house far far away MR and Jek came up with DOGG FM 44 while messing around with recording equipment. I came along shortly thereafter and joined the fracas. We made some recordings during those times sometimes with live drums sometimes with Electronic ones. In my opinion we made some of the most hilarious recordings ever put on Magnetic media. It was completely off the cuff unrehearsed and unscripted. We were doing this before OKC had any of the Syndicated shows that are the commonplace in many major cities today. It was just a bunch of friends messing about. Many of us were involved MR, Jek, Myself J.J., Izzard, lsd, Booker, among others. So when we from time to time mention the DOGG now you all know what it’s about. Jek is in possession of those tapes and I Rib him from time to time about them I know that he is busy living his life and these are way down on the list of priorties but I still rib him once a year anyway. Just because I can. We also made a couple of film projects with MR’s Production company 1 being a video telling of the Classic “Beowulf” with me in a dress doing my best Graham Chapman. BTW, Izzard, I have 1 tape of right after Jek’s Famous Blow up with you and me only in the studio dealing with the aftermath and MR dealing with the wall.

This Saturday will be 07-07-07….. They’re talking all over the news about how this should be the luckiest day ever!….. Numbers are strange….. Anyone notice that 777 is the luckiest combination, whereas, only one combo down, 666, is supposed to be the evilest? Weird?…… Does anyone remember what happened last year on 06-06-06?….. I don’t…… I wonder if any other triple same digit combo’s mean anything?…… Just Ramblin’ – That’s what MR does……

First of all – Happy 4th of July – Now let’s see how much you know about Independence….. Here’s five questions valued from one (1) Ace to Five (5) Aces……
1 Ace : Who was this John Hancock dude anyway?……
2 Aces: Who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence?……
3 Aces: Independence Day only became commonplace after what war?
4 Aces: What date did Congress pass a law making Independence Day a Federal Holiday?…..
5 Aces: During early 4th of July celebrations, just before lunch, some politician or lawyer would speak challenging England to a fight and berate the King and say he was a skunk…. This practice was known as?…….. (This one is a toughie)…… -HURRAH for the USA –

Yep, it’s true…… I recently ordered two new FZ DVD’s – “Dub Room Special” and “Apostrophe/Over-nite Sensation” from Amazon….. They processed the order and charged my credit card….. Today I got this e-mail:

Hello from Amazon.com.

We’re writing to let you know that a shipment from your order #103-8257277-5232602 has been delayed due to the floods currently affecting the community in and around our facility in Coffeyville, KS.
Your shipment is packed and ready to go as soon as our carriers can safely reach the fulfillment center; however, we don’t know yet when pickups and deliveries will resume. Our carriers have assured us they will pick up packages as swiftly as possible once it’s safe for their drivers to do so.

I told you we were getting flooded here….. Another big problem from this is that there is a refinery in Coffeyville and 42,000 gallons of crude are now in the river headed for Oklahoma……

“Who’ll Stop The Rain?” – CCR

At Jek’s request, here is MR, Master Climber, “Beating Hurricane Ridge”…… Well, second behind Tarn – Darn Tarn!……

Damn, I miss 1 week and the inmates take over the asylum. BTW to my fellow quiz master Anon Get well soon.
I’m going to give you the birth name of these artists, give me their stage name and the name of their respective bands also what position they hold (ie: instrument/vocal) +1 point for each correct answer (ie:+1 name,+1 band, +1 Pos.)For a possible +18 for all if you sweep.
Vincent Damon Furnier
Gary Lee Weinrib
Saul Hudson
David Evans
Michael Balzary
Thomas Bass
1 person can wrap it all up or everybody can get some of this one. Ok…..Wait for it!!!!……And their OFF!!!!!!

Do you realize that this the 25th anniversary of absolutely nothing happening at this present moment.

Since it’s apparent that J.J. didn’t get a musical quiz up this week, and my first quiz has basically run it’s course, I’ll throw this musically based quiz in…… This has nothing to do with J.J.’s quiz’s or Anon’s quiz’s or the points and/or prizes they offer…… This one falls under MR’s domain and “I Am In Control” (Devo) until Anon’s repaired and J.J.’s back at his post…… We are on a downhill road to stupidity!……

Name any Musical Group, Song Title, or Song Lyrics that have “Dog” in them…… The more detailed the answer, the better……. I have one specific answer for each of the three categories…. Bonus binary points will be awarded for these answers…… Let’s see if we can take this around “Pluto” and back (a little pun there, eh?)…….

A SUPER (somewhat) Bonus if you can answer this one: In the UK, what album dislodged The Beatles’ Abbey Road album from it’s No. 1 with a bullet standing on the British music charts?…….

Today, in OKC, we are experiencing our 15th straight day of rain, which breaks all recorded rainfall records and it’s still coming down…… Of course, this doesn’t mean continuous rain, but, precipitation in some amount on every day…… This started on the 13th, which, just so happens to be the exact day I returned from Seattle…… People are blaming me for bringing this deluge back with me…… I can’t even get in my driveway, it’s washed out and the rain just keeps coming…… Luckily, it’s too damp for their torches to light and they haven’t thought of a sacrificial drowning…… I’m kinda enjoying it myself, it is definitely a different June than we usually have around here…..

Since Anon has “brokenfingeritis”, He’s stupidly given me permission to to De-Evolve our Communities intelligence while he recovers….. Ya get Nada points added to his quiz totals, but, I’ll come up with something entirely worth not having for the overall winner who obtains the most +’s or -‘s for the next six weeks or so of Anon’s alleged recovery…..

Name the first three “Chimponauts” in NASA‘s emerging Space Program of the early ’60’s…… …..And, no, it wasn’t Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon or was it?…..