Thursday, March 14, 2013 @ Automotive World

hent \hent\, verb:

• to seize.

Hent, an ancient word, entered Old English before the year 1000 as a relative of the verbs hentan "to pursue" and huntian "to hunt."

deaf breath

• When someone breaths or chews loudly while they are wearing headphones.

Phillis over there has such a bad case of deaf breath, she pretty much turns into Darth Vader once she puts in her earbuds.

Trivia
What unusual breed was Hooch, the drooling, house-wrecking yard dog in the 1989 Tom Hanks film comedy Turner & Hooch?

• He was a Dogue de Bourdeau, aka French Mastiff.

Holiday

• Pi Day: today's date is 3:14!

History

• The Cradle of Liberty: Boston's Faneuil Hall hosted its first town meeting; the building hosted speeches by Revolutionary War figures who urged independence from Great Britain (1748)
• cotton gin: machine designed to extract seeds from cotton was patented by Eli Whitney, contributing greatly to the economic development of the South (1794)
• Ten Most Wanted: the FBI announced its top fugitives list for the first time (1950)
• Birmingham Six: Irishmen convicted in Birmingham pub bombings were freed after years in jail for pub bombings; the appeals court said police had fabricated evidence (1991)

Birthdays

• Lucy Hobbs Taylor 1833
• Paul Ehrlich 1854
• Casey Jones (John Luther) 1864
• Albert Einstein 1879
• Les Brown 1912
• Max Shulman 1919
• Hank Ketcham 1920
• Bill Rexford 1927
• Frank Borman II 1928 - Astronaut
• Bob Goalby
• Phil Phillips 1931
• Quincy Jones 1933
• Michael Caine 1933 - Actor ("Dark Knight" Trilogy)
• Shirly Scott 1934
• Eugene Cernan 1934
• Bob Charles 1936
• Raymond J. Barry 1939 - Actor
• Rita Tushingham 1942
• Clyde Lee 1944
• Michael Martin Murphey 1945
• Walt Parazaider 1945 - Musician (Chicago)
• Wes Unseld 1946
• Steve Kanaly 1946
• Billy Crystal 1948 - Actor, comedian
• Rick Dees 1950
• Adrian Zmed 1954
• Jann Browne 1954
• Boon Gould 1955 - Musician (Level 42)
• Tessa Sanderson 1957
• Prince Albert 1958 - Member of Monaco's royal family
• Tamara Tunie 1959 - Actress ("Law & Order: SVU")
• Gary "Ba Ba Booey" Dell'Abate 1961 - producer of the Howard Stern RAdio Show
• Kevin Williamson 1965 - Producer ("Dawson's Creek")
• Kevin Brown 1965 - Baseball player
• Megan Follows 1968
• Jake Fogelnest 1979
• Chris Klein 1979 - Actor ("American Pie" movies)
• Kate Maberly 1982
• Taylor Hanson 1983 - Musician (Hanson)
• Marina Ann Hantzis (aka Sasha Grey) 1988 - t3h pr0n