Syur Sexy One: Food

Sunday, August 7, 2011

nervure \NUR-vyoor\, noun:

Nervure is French for "rib."

chiptease

When you buy a bag of chips thinking that it will be full of chips but when you open the bag it's barely full.

I bought a bag of chips out of the vending machine and there was only 5 chips in the bag, what a Chiptease!

Trivia

In the popular Margaret Mitchell novel Gone with the Wind, how many children did Scarlett O’Hara have?

Three—each with a different husband. The first was a son, Wade; the second, a daughter, Ella; the third, a daughter, Bonnie. The first two children were eliminated from the 1939 movie.

History

Purple Heart: the military decoration was instituted by George Washington (1782)
Ulysses: a US appeals court ruled that the James Joyce novel was not obscene and therefore should not be banned (1934)
Kon-Tiki: the balsa wood raft made it across the Pacific, crashing at the end on a reef in the Tuomotu Islands; this demonstrated that pre-Columbian South Americans could have reached and settled Polynesia (1947)
Gulf of Tonkin resolution: US Congress authorized President Lyndon B. Johnson to use military force in Vietnam (1964)
Lynne Cox: swims the frigid Bering Strait, becoming the first person to swim from the US to the Soviet Union (1987)
Twin Towers: Philippe Petit walked a tightrope between the towers of New York's World Trade Center (1974)
US embassy bombings: simultaneous al-Qaeda attacks in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killed over 200 people and wounded thousands (1998)

Birthdays

Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga (1533-1594): soldier and poet, La Araucana
Mata Hari (1876-1917): dancer/spy
Louis Leakey (1903-1972): paleoanthropologist
B.J. Thomas (69): country/pop singer, "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head"; also, musicians Bruce Dickinson (53) and Marcus Roberts (48)
Garrison Keillor (69): writer/host of A Prairie Home Companion
David Duchovny (51): actor, The X-Files, Californication; also, performers Stan Freberg (85), Wayne Knight (56), Harold Perrineau (48) and Charlize Theron (36)
Jimmy Wales (45): founder of Wikipedia
Sidney Crosby (24): center for Pittsburgh Penguins; runners Abebe Bikila (1932-1973) and Alberto Salazar (53) share this birth date

overslaugh \OH-ver-slaw\, verb:

To pass over or disregard (a person) by giving a promotion, position, etc., to another instead.

Overslaugh derives from the Dutch overslaan, with slaan meaning "to strike."

Microwave inflation

When the cooking time of food needs to be adjusted to account for a weaker or stronger microwave.

The microwave at my dorm room is older than the one at my house, so when I make a bag of popcorn, I have to adjust for microwave inflation.

Trivia

What was the favorite song of Ross Geller’s pet Capuchin monkey, Marcel, on the TV sitcom Friends?

History

federal income tax: was levied for the first time in the US; it aimed to help pay the bills for the Civil War and was rescinded in 1872 (1861)
"Damn the torpedoes": famous order was given by Union Admiral David G. Farragut as he led his fleet at Mobile Bay during the Civil War (1864)
Little Orphan Annie: Harold Gray's comic strip debuted (1924)
Nelson Mandela: South African resistance leader and later president was arrested and jailed; his imprisonment lasted till 1990 (1962)
Marilyn Monroe: was found dead after overdosing on sleeping pills (1962)
Test Ban Treaty: the US, Britain and the Soviet Union agreed to prohibit nuclear weapon tests underwater, in the atmosphere and in outer space (1963)

Birthdays

Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893): author of novels and short stories, "The Necklace"
Harold Holt (1908-1967): Australian PM
Neil Armstrong (81): first human to walk on the moon
Erika Slezak (65): Victoria Lord on One Life to Live; other actors born on this date include Zakes Mokae (1934-2009), John Saxon (75), Loni Anderson (65), Holly Palance (61), Maureen McCormick (55) and Jonathan Silverman (45)
Patrick Ewing (49): former NY Knicks basketball star
Adam "MCA" Yauch (47): filmmaker who began as a rapper with the Beastie Boys

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