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Natalie Ascencios's 2002 painting, A Vicious Circle, of the Algonquin Round Table. It hangs in the hotel today.
From left to right, standing: Robert Benchley, Franklin Pierce Adams, Robert Sherwood, Harpo Marx, Alexander Woolcott, Marc Connelly, Edna Ferber. Seated: Dorothy Parker, Harold Ross, George S. Kaufman, Heywood Broun. The Algonquin Cat is standing upside down at top left.
Photo: Natalie Ascencios via ascencios.com
#vintage New York#1920s#Natalie Ascencios#Algonquin Round Table#A Vicious Circle#cat#painting#Franklin Pierce Adams#Harpo Marx#Robert Benchley#Robert Sherwood#Dorothy Parker#Edna Ferber#Heywood Broun#Alexander Woolcott#Harold Ross#George S. Kaufman#Marc Connelly
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All the Way with F.P.A.
November 15 was the birthday of humorist, columnist, radio personality and Algonquin wit Franklin P. Adams (Franklin Pierce Adams, 1881-1960). In his day, Adams was best known as a regular on the radio quiz show Information Please (1938-48); for his newspaper column “The Conning Tower”, which ran from 1914 until 1941; and for his many books.
I thought I might be related to Adams as I am the…
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Is there a president who people don't talk about often that you think people would find interesting?
Yes, John Quincy Adams and Franklin Pierce. Not necessarily because of what they did as President but because their personal stories are just incredibly fascinating. I've written about Pierce a lot over the years and his life was a Shakespearean tragedy. John Quincy Adams is much better-known, but still not talked about as much as he should be. He was a teenager during the American Revolution, but he was practically a Founding Father and spent nearly 70 years in some form of service to the nation. JQA served as secretary to the first U.S. Minister to Russia when he was 14 years old! And that's only the beginning of a career that lasted until he literally died in the U.S. Capitol.
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Fish! Liver! Day after day! I’ve eaten a river of liver and an ocean of fish!
Hawkeye Pierce
M*A*S*H
03x11, Adam's Ribs
#quote#quotes#hawkeye pierce#m*a*s*h#mash#benjamin franklin hawkeye pierce#adam's ribs#m*a*s*h 03x11#tv quote
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CONGRESSIONAL HUNGER GAMES
Or, Henry Wise murders everyone.
I don’t even know what I expected.
Highlights:
Weird as fuck alliances, and I was really rooting for poor Cutting! :(
FUCK, IT’S THE SOUTHERNERS, RUN.
… Okay….
JQA is a dumbass.
OH NO.
I spy with my little eye, an odd one out….
Henry Clay is not safe here, okay.
HA.
RUN, PIERCE, RUN. THIS MAN SHOWS NO MERCY.
Wow. Weird alliances ftw.
Charles Sumner is tolerating Andrew Jackson very well, oddly enough.
Um. Franklin Pierce and Henry Wise seem to have made up after he nearly got killed.
Who the fuck is giving Henry Wise explosives.
Charles Sumner and John C Calhoun will never stop being a weird thing to me.
Well then. Giddings always does have the worst fucking luck.
Henry Clay’s wet dream, tbh. Though we all know it should be the other way around.
YIKES.
AWWW, I was really hoping for an epic showdown between these two horrifyingly violent assholes!!! :(
And oh, poor Sumner.
OH FUCK OH FUCK WE”RE ALL GOING TO DIE, WHY IS IT ALL OF THE WORST PEOPLE TO GO HUNTING WHY WHY WHY-
NO. WHAT.
DUDE.
WHAT-
Oh, that’s kinda funny-
I give up.
Well that’s that then.
#the congressional incubator#henry wise#john randolph#john c breckenridge#andrew jackson#john c calhoun#jonathan cilley#of course wise wins#henry clay#franklin pierce#charles sumner#joshua giddings#nicholas biddle#john dawson#benjamin brown french#henry foote#thomas benton#john quincy adams#william graves#james k polk#john parker hale#preston brooks#francis cutting#martin van buren#daniel webster#robert haynes
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I wouldn't change a single thing about my wrapped ❤️
It's got my 5 favorite artists in the top, 4 president songs (2 pierce, 2 mckinley), the accident song is one I still like, and it's a really unique top 5 since 3 of them don't have over 1k listens
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US Presidents as Dril Tweets
George Washington: another day volunteering at the betsy ross museum. everyone keeps asking me if they can fuck the flag. buddy, they wont even let me fuck it
John Adams: "ah boo hoo hoo i want to post Foul comments to content leaders" Fat Chance, Dimwit. I will annihilate you under bulwark of the Law and God.
Thomas Jefferson: Q: If your post was proven by a counsil of wise men to be racist, or bullshit, would you bar it from the record? A: I do not delete my posts
James Madison: (sniffing a crumpled up one dollar bill i found on the floor of a dog kennel) ah.. thats greenbacks baby
James Monroe: for decades i have traversed the unforgiving mountains and rivers of south america, hoping to catch a glimpse of the fabled "ass downloader"
John Quincy Adams: "This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gender," i holler as i overturn my uncle's barbeque grill and turn the 4th of July into the 4th of Shit
Andrew Jackson: handing Faves over to my enemies is FRAUD !! base, contemptible FRAUD!
Martin Van Buren: Food $200
Data $150
Rent $800
Candles $3,600
Utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying
William Henry Harrison: (spends all of 7 seconds skimming some blog posts) yep. just as i knew all along. having pnuamonia is good
John Tyler: fuck "jokes". everything i tweet is real. raw insight without the horse shit. no, i will NOT follow trolls. twitter dot com. i live for this
James K. Polk: thhere is no such thing as charisma, and art is fake. the only metrics by which we must determine the worth of a man are Strength and Wisdom
Zachary Taylor: the doctor reveals my blood pressure is 420 over 69. i hoot & holler outta the building while a bunch of losers tell me that im dying
Millard Fillmore: trying to heal..... please donate to my go fund me... $10 will make me less racist... $100 will make me extremely less racist...thank you...
Franklin Pierce: blocked. blocked. blocked. youre all blocked. none of you are free of sin
James Buchanan: #NationalGirlfriendDay please cherish your gal's.. in honor of us, the single Boys who must sacrifice all companionship to #CarryTheBrand...
Abraham Lincoln: unloading an entire belt of ammo at me with a minigun or some such device will now get you "Blocked"
Andrew Johnson: who the fuck is scraeming "LOG OFF" at my house. show yourself, coward. i will never log off
Ulysses S. Grant: i regret being tasked the emotional burden of maintaining the final bastion of morality and Nice manners in this endless ocean of human SHIT
Rutherford B. Hayes: using the toilet when i hear Our national anthem start to play. i do what i must. i stand tall in complete agony; as shit runs down my leg,
James A. Garfield: too much truth in such little time. feeling the heat cominh down to silence me... signing off........ for now
Chester A. Arthur: i WILL wise the fuck up. i WILL super charge my content for 2017. i WILL get blue check mark
Grover Cleveland: the way i see it, people who come on here and submit content that is not up to par, could possibly be considered the "Villains" of this site
Benjamin Harrison: i help every body, im not racist, i keep myself nice, and when i ask for a single re-tweet in return i am told to fuck off, fuck myself, etc
William McKinley: boy oh boy do i love purchasing large amounnts of Fool's Gold. wait a minute... fools gold fucking sucks. this stuff is no good..!! Fuck !!!
Theodore Roosevelt: IF THE ZOO BANS ME FOR HOLLERING AT THE ANIMALS I WILL FACE GOD AND WALK BACKWARDS INTO HELL
William H. Taft: ah.. the perfect Souffle! cant wait to dig in to t(*EVERY PIPE IN MY HOUSE EXPLODES AT THE SAME TIME, COVERING ME IN SHIT AND BOILING WATER*
Woodrow Wilson: the conflicted supersoldier stares over the horizon as he smokes a cigarette. "war is the most fucked up thing ever." he takes a sip of beer
Warren G. Harding: somebody please Bribe me
Calvin Coolidge: aggressively joyless oaf hhere. painfully obnoxious respect demander checkign in. extremely dim witted frowning man looking for pals
Herbert Hoover: it is really quite astonishing that I have yet to win The Lottery, given how good I am at selecting six numbers and saying them out loud
Franklin D. Roosevelt: ive never heard of this “europe” but it sounds like a big bunch of shit to me
Harry Truman: everybody wants to be the guy to write the tweet that solves racism once and for all because it would look good as hell on a resume
Dwight D. Eisenhower: my "F*&k It!! Let's Go Golfin" t-shirt maintains a tenacious stranglehold on my life. after 1,125 days of Golf my body is twisted, deformed
John F. Kennedy: when you do sutuff like... shoot my jaw clean off of my face with a sniper rifle, it mostly reflects poorly on your self
Lyndon B. Johnson: incredibly handsome , charismatic famous boy credited with ending income inequality after saying that slumlords should be called "dumblords"
Richard Nixon: i attribute the complete failure of my brand to the actions of detractors, oor my “trolls”, as it were, as well as my own constant fuckups
Gerald Ford: shutting computer down until the shitty moods & attitudes can fuck off., if you need me ill be on my other computer, sititng 60° to my right
Jimmy Carter: i warnned you all that bad things would happen if you kept letting your wives wear jeans. AND NOW LOOK! the damn gas prices are up again
Ronald Reagan: spend a lot of time thinking about how sometimes even war criminals can be heroes sometimes... Dont like it? Click the unfollow buttobn
George H.W. Bush: just thought off an idea i believe to be bad ass. lets find the address of the leader of isis, and mail him/ her pieces of our SHIT
Bill Clinton: were at the point now, that when i offer to impregnate my girl followers, people assume my motives are sexual. disgusting, grow the fuck up,
George W. Bush: friday night gathering up together a big pile of things i like to respect (flags, crucifixes ,etc) and just roll around in it ,give kisses,
Barack Obama: my IQ has increased 10 points ever since i stopped tollerating people mucking about, on the time line
Donald Trump: THERAPIST: your problem is, that youre perfect, and everyone is jealous of your good posts, and that makes you rightfully upset.
ME: I agree
Joe Biden: I will shut the fuck up , IF , it will restore the Harmony. I will get on my knees like a dog and make that sacrifice, for the sake of Calm
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The full list of characters in the Bracket!
The full list of characters who made it into the tournament are listed under the readmore.
Ada Paige- Rhythm Doctor
Adam Parrish- The Raven Cycle
Adora- She-Ra
Aki Hayakawa- Chainsaw man
Alfred Pennyworth- Batman
Almond Cookie - Cookie Run
Angela- Lobotomy Corporation
Anthy Himemiya- Revolutionary Girl Utena
Arthur Lester- Malevolent
Aymeric De Borel- Final Fantasy
Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce- MASH
Bucky Barnes- Marvel
Buffy Summers- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Burgerpants- Undertale
Carmen Sandiego- Carmen Sandiego
Carol Hathaway- ER
Charlie Magne Morningstar- Hazbin hotel
Chip Revvington- Toontown: Corporate Clash
Cliopher "Kip" Mdang- The Hands of the Emperor
Commander Peepers- Wander Over Yonder
Dana Scully- The X Files
Danny Fenton- Danny Phantom
David Jacobs- Newsies
DC/GOV- Welcome to the table
Dean Winchester- Supernatural
Dick Gumshoe- Ace attorney
Doppo Kannonzaka- Hypnosis Mic
Dot Campbell- The Wilds
Dr Charlotte Dubois- Falsettos
Emma Perkins- The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals
Five Pebbles- Rain World
Ford Pines- Gravity Falls
Fu Hua- Honkai Impact 3rd
George Karim/Cubbins - Lockwood and Co
Gilgamesh "Gil" Wulfenbach- Girl Genius
Gordon Michael Schwinn- A New Brain
Gregor Samsa- The Metamorphosis
Guillermo de la Cruz- What We Do In The Shadows
Harrowhark Nonagesimus- The Locked Tomb
Hera- Wolf 359
Homura Akemi- Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Hunter- The Owl House
Isabelle - Animal Crossing
Izzy Hands- Our Flag Means Death
Jaehee Kang- Mystic Messenger
Jafar- Twisted
Jamil Viper- Twisted Wonderland
Jean Gunnhildr - Genshin Impact
Jeremie Belpois- Code Lyoko
Jess Jordan- Succession
Jonathan Harker- Dracula
Jonathan Sims- The Magnus Archives
Jotaro Kujo- Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure
Keito Hasumi- Ensemble Stars!
Kento Nanami- Jujutsu Kaisen
Kevin Kandy- Spooky Month
Kim Dokja- Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint
Kim Kitsuragi- Disco Elysium
Kiyotaka Ishimaru- Danganronpa
Kunikida Doppo- Bungo Stray Dogs
Kurapika- Hunter x Hunter
Kusuo Saiki - The disastrous life of saiki k
Laerryn Coramar Seelie- Critical Role
Lamplighter/plight- OneShot
Larry- Pokemon
Larry Needlemeyer - The Amazing World of Gumball
Ling Wen- Tian Guan Ci Fu (Heaven Official’s Blessing)
Link- The Legend of Zelda
Lisa Cuddy- House M.D
Lisa Wilbourn- Worm
Logainne Schwartzandgrubenierre- The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Loid Forger/Twilight- Spy x Family
Lucifer- Obey Me!
Lucretia- The Adventure Zone
Luisa Madrigal- Encanto
Maedhros Feanorian- The Silmarillion
Mafuyu Asahina- Project Sekai/Colorful Stage
Marinette Dupain-Cheng- Miraculous Ladybug
Marsh- Mistborn
Matthew Venn- The Long Call
Merlin- BBC Merlin
Miles O’Brien- Star Trek
Miss Pauling- Team Fortress 2
MK- Lego Monkie Kid
Molly Blyndeff- Epithet Erased
Mrs Doyle- Father ted
Munkustrap- Cats 1998
Nicholas Benedict- The Mysterious Benedict Society
Nishida- Yakuza
Obi-Wan Kenobi- Star Wars
Olruggio- Witch Hat Atelier
Pandemonica- Helltaker
Parsley Botch- Smile for Me
Peppino Spaghetti- Pizza Tower
Percy Jackson- Percy Jackson
Peregrine Mendicant- Homestuck
Ponder Stibbons- Discworld
Raphael Walt/Sirius Dieke- My Next Life as a Villainess
Ratchet- Transformers
Reagan Ridley- Inside Job
Reim Lunettes- Pandora Hearts
Retsuko- Aggretsuko
Riza Hawkeye- Fullmetal Alchemist
Robin- Smash Legends
Rory Williams- Doctor Who
Ryotaro Dojima - Persona
Sara Chidouin- Your Turn To Die
SecUnit- The Murderbot Diaries
Shang Qinghua - Scum Villain's Self-Saving System
Shota Aizawa- My Hero Academia
Sips- Fool’s Gold
Squidward Tentacles- Spongebob Squarepants
Stanley- The Stanley Parable
Steven Alen Starphase- Blood Blockade Battlefront/Kekkai Sensen
Steven Universe- Steven Universe
Super Mario Bros.- Mario Series
Susan Taxpayer- Susan Taxpayer
The Cabbage Merchant- Avatar the Last Airbender
The Captain- BBC Ghosts
The Elsen- Off
The Manager- The Hotel Podcast
Touta Matsuda- Death Note
Trafalgar Law- One Piece
Twilight Sparkle- My Little Pony
Vera Oberlin- Monster Prom
Walter Pensive- Hello from the Hallowoods
Will Graham- Hannibal
William T Spears- Black Butler
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lista de nomes masculinos que estava no meu bloco de notas e eu só lembrei agora
starting with A ;;
aaron.
adair.
adam.
aiden.
ajax.
alec.
alfie.
allistar.
anderson.
andrew.
andy.
angus.
antonio.
anthony.
archer.
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archie.
aries.
arlo.
arthur.
ashley.
ashton.
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avery.
axel.
starting with B ;;
bailey.
beau.
beckham.
beckett.
bellamy.
benjamin.
bennett.
bentley.
blade.
blake.
blaine.
blaise.
blue.
bobbie.
bodhi.
brad.
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braxton.
brayden.
brent.
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brock.
brody.
brooke.
bryson.
starting with C ;;
caleb.
callum.
calvin.
cameron.
carlisle.
carlos.
carson.
carter.
casey.
chad.
chandler.
charlie.
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chaz.
christian.
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cody.
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cooper.
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corey.
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eddy.
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elijah.
elior.
ellias.
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ellis.
elyas.
ember.
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emilio.
emmett.
enzo.
eric.
ernie.
ethan.
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ezar.
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fabio.
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gene.
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guy.
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hadley.
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harvey.
haven.
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hyde.
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ian.
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icarius.
idris.
igor.
iman.
immanuel.
imran.
indi.
indiana.
indigo.
indra.
inrique.
irwin.
isaak.
isaiah.
isaias.
ishmael.
isobell.
israel.
ivan.
ivey.
ivor.
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izzy.
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jack.
jacob.
jagger.
jai.
james.
jamie.
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jaxon.
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jed.
jeremy.
jesse.
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jonathon.
jordan.
jose.
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junior.
justin.
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kade.
kai.
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kane.
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kayden.
keaton.
keegan.
keenan.
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kendall.
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lawrence.
lawson.
leeroy.
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leo.
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levi.
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liam.
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logan.
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luca.
lucas.
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luke.
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mackenzie.
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manuel.
marco.
marcus.
marley.
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martin.
mason.
matteo.
matthew.
max.
micah.
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miguel.
mike.
miles.
miller.
milo.
mitchell.
morgan.
moses
starting with N ;;
nadir.
naiser.
nasir.
nate.
nathan.
nathaniel.
naveen.
naydon.
ned.
nico.
neil.
nelson.
nero.
nicholai.
nicholas.
nila.
niles.
nixon.
noah.
noel.
nolan.
norman.
north.
nylan.
nyle.
starting with O ;;
oakley.
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odell.
olaf.
oliver.
ollie.
omar.
omari.
orion.
orlando.
osborn.
oscar.
o’shea.
osten.
oswald.
otis.
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owen.
oxley.
starting with P ;;
pablo.
page.
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paul.
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pax.
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penn.
percy.
perry.
peter.
phineas.
phoenix.
pierce.
pierre.
prescott.
presley.
preston.
prince.
princeton.
puck.
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qadim.
qadir.
quain.
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quill.
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quincy.
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randy.
raymond.
reese.
reid.
remy.
reuben.
rhett.
rhys.
richard.
richie.
ricky.
riley.
robert.
robin.
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roman.
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ryder.
ryker.
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teddy.
theo.
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timothy.
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tory.
trace.
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trent.
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tucker.
tyler.
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umair.
umar.
urien.
usama.
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valentine.
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vance.
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vincent.
vinn.
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vladimir.
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wade.
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walter.
warner.
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warrick.
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wayne.
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whitley.
wilbert.
william.
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wolf.
wren.
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xachary.
xan.
xander.
xavier.
xeno.
ximen.
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yahto.
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yasin.
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ysrael.
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starting with Z ;;
zachary.
zahir.
zander.
zane.
zavier.
zed.
zeke.
zion.
zolten.
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For reference, here’s every US president:
46 Joe Biden
45 Donald Trump
44 Barack Obama
43 George W. Bush
42 Bill Clinton
41 George H. W. Bush
40 Ronald Reagan
39 Jimmy Carter
38 Gerald Ford
37 Richard Nixon
36 Lyndon Johnson
35 John Kennedy
34 Dwight Eisenhower
33 Harry Truman
32 Franklin Roosevelt
31 Herbert Hoover
30 Calvin Coolidge
29 Warren Harding
28 Woodrow Wilson
27 William Taft
26 Theodore Roosevelt
25 William McKinley
24 Grover Cleveland (2nd time)
23 Benjamin Harrison
22 Grover Cleveland
21 Chester Arthur
20 James Garfield
19 Rutherford Hayes
18 Ulysses Grant
17 Andrew Johnson
16 Abraham Lincoln
15 James Buchanan
14 Franklin Pierce
13 Millard Fillmore
12 Zachary Taylor
11 James Polk
10 John Tyler
09 William Harrison
08 Martin Van Buren
07 Andrew Jackson
06 John Quincy Adams
05 James Monroe
04 James Madison
03 Thomas Jefferson
02 John Adams
01 George Washington
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Baseball's sad lexicon
Chicago baseball cigarette cards, 1909-1910
These are the saddest of possible words:
"Tinker to Evers to Chance."
Trio of bear cubs, and fleeter than birds,
Tinker and Evers and Chance.
Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble,
Making a Giant hit into a double –
Words that are heavy with nothing but trouble:
"Tinker to Evers to Chance."
-- Franklin Pierce Adams, Baseball's sad lexicon (1910)
These are three of the 46 cards collected by James T. Farrell (1904–1979), an avid Chicago White Sox fan, American realist writer, and Studs Lonigan author. Growing up on the city's South Side, Farrell was a high-school varsity baseball player who dreamed of a major-league career. He incorporated his encyclopedic knowledge of and passion for the sport into his writings, including two books and several short stories entirely about baseball.
Included in the Farrell Collection are the cards of a number of players who participated in the 1906 cross-town World Series, in which the Sox defeated the heavily favored Cubs. Pitching two wins with the assistance of ace defensive catcher Billy Sullivan, the Sox's Ed Walsh led his team to a surprise four-game-to-two series victory. The 1906 contest was the first World Series for the Cubs' famous infield trio of Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers (pictured on the home page), and Frank Chance, who were immortalized as the "Tinker to Evers to Chance" double-play combination in the wildly popular poem "Baseball's Sad Lexicon," by New York newspaper columnist Franklin Pierce Adams...
Read the full post by former Lloyd Lewis Curator of Modern Manuscripts Martha Briggs
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SEXIEST US PRESIDENT MASTERPOST
Links to each of the polls as rounds progress
ROUND 1:
Donald Trump vs. Ronald Reagan Winner: Ronald Reagan
Dwight D. Eisenhower vs. John Quincy Adams Winner: Dwight D. Eisenhower
Martin Van Buren vs. Abraham Lincoln Winner: Abraham Lincoln
Lyndon B. Johnson vs. Richard Nixon Winner: Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford vs. Zachary Taylor Winner: Zachary Taylor
William Henry Harrison vs. John Tyler Winner: William Henry Harrison
John Adams vs. George Washington Winner: George Washington
Chester A. Arthur vs. James Buchanan Winner: James Buchanan
William Howard Taft vs. Grover Cleveland Winner: William Howard Taft
Warren G. Harding vs. William McKinley Winner: Warren G. Harding
James Monroe vs. James Madison Winner: James Madison
Woodrow Wilson vs. Millard Fillmore Winner: Millard Fillmore
Andrew Johnson vs. Herbert Hoover Winner: Herbert Hoover
George H. W. Bush vs. George W. Bush Winner: George W. Bush
Joe Biden vs. Jimmy Carter Winner: Jimmy Carter
James K. Polk vs. Andrew Jackson Winner: James K. Polk
Theodore Roosevelt vs. Franklin D. Roosevelt Winner: Theodore Roosevelt
Ulysses S. Grant vs. John F. Kennedy Winner: Ulysses S. Grant
Harry S. Truman vs. Bill Clinton Winner: Bill Clinton
Calvin Coolidge vs. Franklin Pierce Winner: Franklin Pierce
Barack Obama vs. Thomas Jefferson Winner: Barack Obama
James Garfield vs. Rutherford B. Hayes vs. Benjamin Harrison Winner: Rutherford B. Hayes
ROUND 2:
Ronald Reagan vs. Dwight D. Eisenhower Winner: Ronald Reagan
Abraham Lincoln vs. Richard Nixon Winner: Abraham Lincoln
Zachary Taylor vs. William Henry Harrison Winner: Zachary Taylor
George Washington vs. James Buchanan Winner: James Buchanan
William Howard Taft vs. Warren G. Harding Winner: William Howard Taft
James Madison vs. Millard Fillmore Winner: James Madison
Herbert Hoover vs. George W. Bush Winner: Herbert Hoover
Jimmy Carter vs. James K. Polk Winner: Jimmy Carter
Theodore Roosevelt vs. Ulysses S. Grant Winner: Ulysses S. Grant
Bill Clinton vs. Franklin Pierce Winner: Franklin Pierce
Barack Obama vs. Rutherford B. Hayes Winner: Barack Obama
Redemption Round: Chester A. Arthur vs. Andrew Jackson Winner: Andrew Jackson
ROUND 3:
Ronald Reagan vs. Abraham Lincoln Winner: Abraham Lincoln
Zachary Taylor vs. James Buchanan Winner: Zachary Taylor
William Howard Taft vs. James Madison Winner: William Howard Taft
Herbert Hoover vs. Jimmy Carter Winner: Jimmy Carter
Ulysses S. Grant vs. Franklin Pierce Winner: Ulysses S. Grant
Barack Obama vs. Andrew Jackson Winner: Barack Obama
ROUND 4:
Abraham Lincoln vs. Zachary Taylor Winner: Abraham Lincoln
William Howard Taft vs. Jimmy Carter Winner: William Howard Taft
Ulysses S. Grant vs. Barack Obama Winner: Barack Obama
FINAL ROUND:
Abraham Lincoln vs. William Howard Taft vs. Barack Obama
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I heard you like presidents.
Let's say all former US presidents are placed on three acres of land surrounded by a 10 ft fence. The contestants have three full days to negotiate, fight, and duel, without food or water. Presidents that get knocked out or surrender are picked up out of the arena by a crane in an undignified manner. The last president standing is crowned champion. Only one president can be chosen, any presidents that attempt to claim a team victory will be disqualified from competitions.
1. Who will fight each other right out of the gate, based off their political history?
2. Who will voluntarily surrender, or try to escape?
3. What presidents will form alliances, and with whom?
4. What will make it to the final day of competition?
5. Who will be crowned champion?
(The rules of this engagement are borrowed from a webcomic, Achewood)
1. Fighting out the gate, definitely Andrew Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, and John Tyler. Maybe Ulysses Grant, Andrew Johnson, John Quincy Adams, but definitely those first three. They were known to be extremely forceful during their presidencies, at times even aggressive. Andrew Jackson was known to literally attack people in the street. Donald Trump also probably fits into this category, but I think he would shirk an actual physical fight the way these other men wouldn't.
2. Noted presidential cowards include William Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Harry Truman, Martin Van Buren, Herbert Hoover, and maybe Joe Biden (honestly, depending on the day with him). These presidents avoided conflict and hated losing, which made them all pretty mediocre at their jobs. They were also largely physically very weak, and had little to no physical fighting experience.
3. Alliance formers include Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter, Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson if he's in a good mood, Calvin Coolidge, James Garfield Benjamin Harrison, Rutherford B Hayes, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, James Monroe, and James Madison, to varying degrees of success. The founding fathers would all definitely band together, seeing as they've got actual experience together. Roosevelt and Johnson would probably team up, but it wouldn't be an extremely solid alliance because LBJ was a nightmare to work with as an equal. All the others were largely willing to work with anyone who would work with them, which makes them good presidents to ally with if you're planning on backstabbing them. LBJ takes out approximately a third of the competition this way.
4. Who makes it to the final day? Andrew Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, JFK but only if he's lucky, Calvin Coolidge, Ulysses Grant, and maybe (MAYBE) Abraham Lincoln. Calvin Coolidge was nicknamed Silent Cal during his presidency and was the kind of guy who would sit in the corner of his own damn birthday party and watch the room completely expressionless. Unfuckwithable. Abraham Lincoln was Grant's boss for a bit (maybe you've heard), and Ulysses Grant would definitely defend him. The founding fathers are all insufferable hypocrites and once everyone else figures that out they're all done. JFK had a barrage of illnesses that plagued him his whole life, but he was also prone to feats of absurd athleticism in the face of certain death due to his time in the Navy.
5. Who wins? Honestly, either Teddy Roosevelt or Andrew Jackson. Roosevelt was a rigorous outdoorsman who cured himself of every childhood disease with the power of American Masculinity TM, and Jackson was a violent misanthrope who would attack anyone for any reason and usually won. It would be a battle of the ages.
Bonus: Presidents I Didn't Mention Earlier
James Polk had a penchant for randomly dying at tonal ironic moments. He would probably take out Thomas Jefferson and then immediately have a heart attack and die. Presidents Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, and Buchanan were all defined by their refusal to understand the problems they needed to deal with. They would pretend nothing was going until forced to comprehend their situation, at which point they would all bawl like little babies. Chester Arthur has no idea what the fuck is going on. Grover Cleveland is completely unlikeable, but lasts surprisingly long by complete accident. William McKinley tries to establish order and civilization amidst the chaos and fails miserably. Warren Harding has a torrid love affair with someone and then abruptly dies. Dwight Eisenhower just leaves. Ronald Reagan tries to establish himself as a rough and ready Teddy Roosevelt type guy, but he isn't that even slightly and is eliminated quickly. The Bushes take each other out. Clinton is the guy who Harding has an affair with. He couldn't give less of a fuck when Harding dies.
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Serious Q: Which presidents do you think had the most problems with alcohol while in office? You wrote that Nixon was drunk sometimes at the end of his term before resigning, for example. But who do you think had the most consistent problem with the bottle over their presidency?
The only Presidents who are believed to have been alcoholics are Franklin Pierce and George W. Bush, but in both cases, their alcoholism didn't take place while they were in office. Bush famously stopped drinking when he was 40 years old. Pierce was a heavy drinker as a member of Congress, but seemed to have a handle of things while he was President. But things went off the rails for him after he left office and he basically drank himself to death.
Ulysses S. Grant's drinking was sometimes a problem, but it apparently only flared up when he was lonely and stationed far away from his wife. Being stationed in California and Oregon after the Mexican-American War was really difficult for him and his drinking resulted in him basically having to resign his commission and return to civilian life. He fell off the wagon a handful of times during the Civil War, but it didn't incapacitate him as it had on the West Coast, and he didn't seem to have any issues with alcohol while he was President.
Nixon's drinking was probably the most concerning, but not because it happened constantly. Nixon was a notorious lightweight when it came to drinking, and he would get drunk very easily. The major issue with Nixon is his temperament, combined with intoxication, especially when things were going really badly with Watergate. There were serious worries from people within the Nixon Administration about what Nixon might do or orders he might give while drunk, particularly in the last weeks of his Presidency.
I think the other person worth mentioning is Andrew Johnson. There is some debate about whether or not Andrew Johnson was an alcoholic or even a heavy drinker. He had an infamous incident at his inauguration as Vice President in 1865 when he was apparently not feeling well and decided to have a couple of stiff drinks to get through the inaugural ceremonies. But those drinks were a little too stiff, and he launched into a rambling and insulting speech to Congress after he took the Vice Presidential oath. Johnson is one of the more obscure Presidents, so there's not as much definitive information about his life and career as, say, Ulysses S. Grant. Johnson was also abrasive and widely disliked by his colleagues, so it's know how true the memories of many of his contemporary sources were. But there are many, many examples of Johnson -- both before and during his Presidency -- making speeches where he was abusive and threatening to the audience and when speaking about his many political opponents. I think it's probably likely that alcohol played a part in some of those wild speeches and his behavior in public, but I can't prove it.
Other than that, it seems most of our Presidents who drank -- even those who drank more heavily than others -- had pretty good tolerance for their alcohol and didn't allow it to affect their job performance during their Presidencies. Some of these guys were pretty hardy dudes -- I mean, John Adams started smoking when he was 8 years old and was said to drink hard cider for breakfast and lived until he was 90 years old (in the early 19th century!) -- so most of them could handle their shit.
#Presidents#History#Presidential History#Drinking#Presidential Drinking#Presidential Personalities#Richard Nixon#President Nixon#Andrew Johnson#President Johnson#John Adams#President Adams#Franklin Pierce#President Pierce#George W. Bush#President Bush#Bush 43#Ulysses S. Grant#President Grant#General Grant#Vice Presidential Inauguration of Andrew Johnson#1865 Inauguration
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oh my GOD.
#alcoholism#the congressional incubator#the field of blood#joanne b freeman#henry wise#henry wilson#james k polk#john quincy adams#benjamin brown french#franklin pierce
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Costae
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by TuskofThyme
Adam's Ribs is in Chicago. Loyola is in Chicago. So what if Francis and Hawkeye met before they were thrown together in Korea?
Words: 2115, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English
Fandoms: MASH (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: M/M
Characters: Father Francis Mulcahy, Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce
Relationships: Father Francis Mulcahy/Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce
Additional Tags: Pre-MASH, Love Letter to Chicago, College AU, rating may go up later, Gay Francis, Bisexual Hawkeye, Period Accurate Attempt, History Nerding, Francis Backstory, chance encounter
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