TIL - Today I Learned...

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Adolphe Menjou was an American actor.



He had a supporting role in "A Star Is Born" (1937).

Also the unscrupulous and manipulative Maj. Gen. Boulard in Paths of Glory.

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Also the unscrupulous and manipulative Maj. Gen. Boulard in Paths of Glory.

Yes.

Directed by Stanley Kubrick.

[dr. d]

Adolphe Menjou was an American actor.

(1937).

... he looks like another, more recent, actor...

[baludoy]

^ Ed Norton is who he looks like😁

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Goatmobile.


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Adolphe Menjou was a guest panelist in the game show "What's My Line?":

What's My Line? - Ziegfeld Girls; Walter Brennan; Adolph Menjou, Greer Garson [panel] (May 12, 1957)



One of the regular panelists in "What's My Line?" was American journalist Dorothy Kilgallen.

Dorothy Kilgallen | Britannica

Probing the Kennedy assassination

She began her own investigation and dismissed what she called the Warren Commission’s “laughable” finding that Kennedy shooter Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.

While researching and compiling evidence, Kilgallen told her lawyer, “I’m going to break the real story and have the biggest scoop of the century,” according to Mark Shaw’s 2016 book, "The Reporter Who Knew Too Much."

Death and aftermath

On November 8, 1965, Kilgallen was found dead in her Manhattan townhome. New York City’s chief medical examiner concluded that Kilgallen’s cause of death was an accidental drug and alcohol overdose. But Shaw, in his book, argued that her work on the Kennedy assassination, including her suspicion that New Orleans mafia boss Carlos Marcello had orchestrated the killings of both Kennedy and Oswald, might have gotten Kilgallen killed.

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American physician Dr. Tom Dooley was a contestant on "What's My Line":



The Temptation of Tom Dooley : He Was the Heroic Jungle Doctor of Indochina in the 1950s. But He Had a Secret, and To Protect It, He Helped Launch the First Disinformation Campaign of the Vietnam War | Los Angeles Times
by Diana Shaw
Dec. 15, 1991

In Dooley, the Navy found a media magnet. He was not only handsome and eloquent but also confident that vanquishing communism in Asia was a matter of showing people the benefits of the American way of life, and he could express this in a spirited, captivating and infectious way. The Navy granted him a leave to write his book. Dooley, an ambitious dreamer, soon had visions of parlaying any resulting publicity into a position as Navy surgeon general. And the Navy was prepared to distinguish his accounts with an official imprimatur. But they were not prepared to deal with the discovery that he was a homos*xual.

That discovery, and the Navy’s threats to expose or censure him, would turn Dooley into a frightened pawn of U.S. policy-makers who were laying the groundwork for U.S. military involvement in Vietnam. Together, the Navy and Tom Dooley would create a great American hero--and a great American deception.

[Devastator]

Hindi ka papasa sa standards ni Rowena Guanzon kung hindi ka naka Rolex o Gucci.

[dr. d]

Hindi ka papasa sa standards ni Rowena Guanzon kung hindi ka naka Rolex o Gucci.

errr... what happened?
naku... naka sey-mo lang ako...

[Devastator]

errr... what happened?
naku... naka sey-mo lang ako...

- YouTube

Ang story niyan is she was the one coughing and pinagsabihan nung couple which triggered her like hell.

[GTcervan]

Tsk tsk...

[Yatta]

Tsk tsk...

I heard they're bringing them back soon...

[baludoy]

til... that Volkswagen beetles can now be retrofitted with electric power steering (eps) systems


Naalala ko dati iyong ex -gf ko pinamaneho Ako Ng beetle ng nanay niya, tagaktak pawis ko. Surrender Ako eh! 😂

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til... that Volkswagen beetles can now be retrofitted with electric power steering (eps) systems


Naalala ko dati iyong ex -gf ko pinamaneho Ako Ng beetle ng nanay niya, tagaktak pawis ko. Surrender Ako eh! 😂

The classic rear engined VW Beetle?

[baludoy]

The classic rear engined VW Beetle?

Yezzir.

Apparently, there's no room inside the front compartment of the beetle, so instead, They position the eps mechanism at the top of the foot pedals.

[GTcervan]

"BC ever" daw according to many kababayans, until one day they see a sudden and urgent hospitalization hitting those there from out of nowhere.

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Illegal to be ’ugly’? The history behind one of America‘s cruelest laws | National Geographic
For nearly a century, so-called “ugly laws” banned people with visible disabilities and diseases from public spaces, revealing society’s harsh standards of beauty and the impact on those who didn’t meet them.
by Ainsley Hawthorn
August 10, 2024

[GTcervan]

A classic, snubbed piece of 20th century colonialist atrocity so rooted in global imperialism from the past that's always worth remembering despite the sheer presence of rose-tinted glasses with blinding support and diplomacy that still heavily favor our dearest uncle.

[Yatta]

Last year when the Civil Service Commission ordered that government employees wear Filipiniana- or ASEAN-inspired outfits every Monday, I've been seeing a lot of variations to the traditional Barongs (both for males and females). Apart from the polo-jacket style as worn by BBM, there are also literally jackets with waist-band and cuffs with clearly Barong-style embroidery and color. And there are now even "suit-Barongs", perfect for cold climates (I wish I had one when I graduated in early spring).

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Last year when the Civil Service Commission ordered that government employees wear Filipiniana- or ASEAN-inspired outfits every Monday, I've been seeing a lot of variations to the traditional Barongs (both for males and females). Apart from the polo-jacket style as worn by BBM, there are also literally jackets with waist-band and cuffs with clearly Barong-style embroidery and color. And there are now even "suit-Barongs", perfect for cold climates (I wish I had one when I graduated in early spring).

i find it a happy, positive evolution of local fashion.