Friday, August 12, 2011

mundify \MUHN-duh-fahy\, verb:

• To purge or purify.

Mundify is built from two Latin roots, mundi-, "to clean," and ficare, "to do."

Carnal Tunnel Syndrome

• A tingling or numbness or a sharp, piercing pain shooting through the wrist as a direct result of engaging in pleasuring one's self while watching excessive porn.

Leisure Suit Larry is suffering from Carnal Tunnel Syndrome ever since his divorce was final 6 months ago.

Trivia

Who was pictured on the first $5 bill authorized by the U.S. in 1861? How about the first $10 bill?

• Hamilton was on the $5 bill: Lincoln on the $10 bill—the reverse of today’s $5 and $10 bills.

History

• Chicago: the Windy City was founded with a population of 350 (1833)


• Isaac Singer: got a patent for his sewing machine (1851)


• Spanish-American War: peace protocol was signed; Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines were ceded to the US and Cuba was released from Spanish rule (1898)


• IBM-PC: IBM introduced its first personal computer, which contained an Intel chip and Microsoft's DOS operating system (1981)


• Sue: the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever found was discovered in South Dakota; she now resides in Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History (1990)


• Kursk: Russian nuclear submarine sank in the Barents Sea, killing the whole of its 118-member crew (2000)

Birthdays

• Linda O'Neil (38): actress and the most popular body model that you probably never heard of.


• George IV (1762-1830): king of Great Britain


• Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929): poet who wrote "America the Beautiful"; plus, writers Robert Southey (1774-1843), Jacinto Benavente (1866-1954), Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958) and Ann M. Martin (56)


• Cecil B. DeMille (1881-1959): director of blockbusters like The Ten Commandments; plus, director John Derek (1926-1998)


• Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961): theoretical physicist, Schrödinger's equation


• Mark Knopfler (62): composer, guitarist, rock singer; also, jazzman Pat Metheny (57)


• Peter Krause (46): Nate Fisher in Six Feet Under and Adam Braverman in Parenthood; also, actors Cantinflas (1911-1993), George Hamilton (72), Bruce Greenwood (55), Michael Ian Black (40), Rebecca Gayheart (39), Casey Affleck (36), and Maggie Lawson and Dominique Swain (both 30)


• Pete Sampras (40): tennis champ; also baseball hall-of-famer Christy Mathewson (1880-1925)

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Wednesday, August 10, 2011

willowwacks \WIL-oh-waks\, noun:

• A wooded, uninhabited area.

Willowwacks is of uncertain origin.

collateral whiz

• The 5% of a man's whiz missing the toilet, sprinkling over the toilet seat.

While 95% of Chad's whiz may have found its mark, I'm worried about the other 5%, the collateral whiz.

Trivia

When it comes to two-letter Internet country codes, .us stands for the United States. What countries are represented by .es and .is?

• Spain and Iceland, respectively.

History

• Ferdinand Magellan: set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe; of the five ships that set out under his command, only one — the Victoria — returned to Spain (1519)


• Smithsonian Institution: was created with $500,000 left by English scientist James Smithson (1846)


• Son of Sam: New York serial killer David Berkowitz was arrested (1977)


• Yuri Malenchenko: Ukrainian cosmonaut became the first person to be married in space, to a woman on the ground in Texas (2003)

Birthdays

• Herbert Hoover (1874-1964): 31st POTUS, believed in private enterprise


• Jorge Amado (1912-2001): novelist, Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands; plus, writer Alfred Döblin (1878-1957)


• Ian Anderson (64): musician, Jethro Tull; also, singers Jimmy Dean (1928-2010), Eddie Fisher (83), Ronnie Spector (68), Patti Austin (61), Jon Farriss (50) and Aaron Hall (47)


• Antonio Banderas (51): actor/voice actor, The Mask of Zorro, Puss in Boots in the Shrek sequels; also, actors Rhonda Fleming (88), Kate O'Mara (72), James Reynolds (65), Daniel Hugh Kelly (59), Rosanna Arquette (52), Justin Theroux (40), Angie Harmon (39) and Ryan Eggold (27)


• Phoolan Devi (1963-2001): gang leader who became a member of India's Parliament

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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

hacienda \hah-see-EN-duh\, noun:

• A large estate, especially one used for farming or ranching.

Hacienda enters English from the Spanish word of the same meaning, which derives from the Latin facienda, "things to be done or made."

Boner Shock

• Expressions or actions performed that causes your boner to go into "shock" or go back into the flaccid stage.

That girl gave me boner shock when right before sex she said "I always forgets to take my birth control."

Trivia

What Hollywood figure’s first screen appearance was as the baby boy being christened in the famous baptism scene in The Godfather?

• Actress-director-producer Sofia Coppola, daughter of director Francis Ford Coppola. She was three weeks old when the scene was shot in 1971.

History

• Christopher Columbus: set sail from Palos, Spain, on the voyage that would take him to America (1492)
• La Scala: leading opera house opened in Milan with a production of Salieri's opera Europa riconosciuta, which was not performed again until December 7, 2004, when La Scala reopened after renovations (1788)
• NBA: the National Basketball League and the Basketball Association of America merged to form America's professional basketball league (1949)
• USS Nautilus: the world's first nuclear-powered submarine sailed over the North Pole underwater in a journey under the Arctic ice cap (1958)
• Air Traffic Controllers Strike: PATCO workers walked out, leading to the firing of nearly all air traffic controllers by President Ronald Reagan two days later; in the wake of this event, US labor unions were weakened (1981)
• Statue of Liberty: pedestal reopened to the public for first time since 9/11 (2004)

Birthdays

• Stanley Baldwin (1867-1947): British three-term prime minister; Tunisian president Habib Bourguiba (1903-2000) shared this birth date
• P.D. James (91): mystery writer; also, authors Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855-1896), Rupert Brooke (1887-1915), Ernie Pyle (1900-1945), Leon Uris (1924-2003) and Steven Millhauser (68)
• Tony Bennett (85): singer, "(I Left My Heart) in San Francisco"; also, musicians Richard Adler (90), Beverly Lee (70), B.B. Dickerson (62), Randy Scruggs (58) and James Hetfield (48)
• Martha Stewart (70): homemaker guru who's become a household name
• John C. McGinley (52): Perry Cox on Scrubs; also, actors Martin Sheen (71), Isaiah Washington (48), Brigid Brannagh (39) and Evangeline Lilly (32)
• Tom Brady (34): New England Patriots quarterback; plus, football coach Marv Levy (86) and hockey hall-of-famer Marcel Dionne (60)

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