Saturday, April 6, 2013 @ Automotive World

marmoreal \mahr-MAWR-ee-uhl, -MOHR-\, adjective:

• of or like marble: skin of marmoreal smoothness.

First appearing in English in the late 1700s, marmoreal comes from the Latin term marmoreus, which literally means "of marble."

window eating

• The act of standing in front of a refrigerator with the door open for an over-excessive amount of time and then closing the door without taking anything. Usually done by picky eaters or one who is bored out of his/her mind.

If your so hungry stop window eating and just grab something!

Trivia
When it comes to showbiz slang, what’s a chopsocky? How about a zitcom?

• A chopsocky is a martial arts film; a zitcom is a TV sitcom that targets a teen audience.

History

• Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints: Mormon church was founded by Joseph Smith in Fayette, New York (1830)
• Olympics: the first modern games opened in Athens (1896)
• North Pole: Robert Peary and his assistant, Matthew Henson, along with four Inuit men, became the first visitors to the site; their claim has been disputed (1909)
• WWI: US declared war on Germany and entered the Great War (1917)
• Twinkie: golden sponge cake snack food with creamy filling was invented (1930)
• Teflon: nonstick coating was accidentally invented by Roy J. Plunkett (1938)

Birthdays

• Raphael Sanit 1483 - Artist
• Rose Schneiderman 1882 - U.S. women’s rights activist
• Walter Huston (Houghston) 1884 - Actor (Treasure of the Sierra Madre [1948])
• Lowell Thomas 1892 - Broadcaster, journalist
• "Pappy" Wade Ray 1913 - Country musician, entertainer ("Grand Ol' Opry")
• Herb Thomas 1923 - NASCAR auto racer
• Mimi Benzell 1924 - Opera singer
• Dorothy Donegan 1924 - Jazz pianist
• Gerry Mulligan 1927 - Jazz musician, composer
• Joi Lansing (Joyce Wassmansdoff) 1928 - Actress ("Easter Parade", "Singin’ in the Rain")
• André (Ludwig) Previn 1929 - Pianist, composer of film scores ("Gigi", "Porgy and Bess"), conductor
• Ivan Dixon 1931 - Actor ("Hogan's Heroes"), director, producer
• Merle Haggard 1937 - Country musician, songwriter
• Billy Dee (December) Williams 1937 - Actor ("Brian's Song", "The Return of the Jedi", "Batman")
• Roy Thinnes 1938 - Actor ("The Invaders", "Outer Limits")
• Philip Austin 1941 - Comedian and writer
• Barry Levinson 1942 - Director, producer
• Marty (Martin William) Pattin 1943 - Baseball pitcher
• John Stax 1944 - Musician (The Pretty Things)
• John Huarte 1944 - Football player
• John Ratzenberger 1947 - Actor ("Cheers")
• Bert (Rik Aalbert) Blyleven 1951 - Baseball pitcher
• Marilu Henner 1952 - Actress ("Taxi", "Evening Shade", "Cannonball Run 2")
• Janet Lynn (Nowicki) 1953 - Figure skater, Olympic bronze medalist
• Michelle Rooker 1955 - Actor
• Warren Haynes 1960 - Musician (Gov't Mule, The Allman Brothers)
• Stan Cullimore 1962 - Musician, songwriter (The Housemartins)
• Frank Black 1965 - Singer, musician (The Pixies)
• Vince Flynn 1966 - Author
• Paul Rudd 1969 - Actor ("Friends")
• Ari Meyers 1970 - Actress ("Author! Author!", "Kate & Allie")
• Jason Hervey 1972 - Actor ("The Wonder Years", "Back to the Future")
• Markku Lappalainen 1973 - Musician (Hoobastank)
• Zach Braff 1975 - Actor ("Scrubs")
• Candace Cameron Bure 1976 - Actress ("Full House")
• Bret Harrison 1982 - Actor ("Grounded for Life")

Friday, April 5, 2013 @ Automotive World

daven \DAH-vuhn\, verb:

• to pray.

Daven entered English in the mid-nineteenth century from Yiddish.

Link Diving

• The act of clicking further and further from your original subject of research. Commonly related to the popular website Wikipedia.com

I started out reading about Big Foot on Wikipedia, but two hours later of link diving later and I knew all about The Spring Heeled Jack of London.

Trivia

Which element is the best conductor of both electricity and heat?

• Silver.

History

• Pocahontas: Algonquian princess married English colonist John Rolfe, a tobacco planter (1614)
• veto: was used by a US president for 1st time — by George Washington; it was another half century before Congress first overrode a presidential veto (1792)
• manual alphabet: Anne Sullivan breaks through to Helen Keller when she spells "water" into her hand (1887)
• Akashi Kaikyō Bridge: Japanese "Pearl Bridge" opened; it links Kobe to Awaji Island and, at 1,991 meters or 6,532 feet, is the world's longest suspension bridge (1998)

Birthdays

• Thomas Hobbes 1588
• Elihu Yale 1649
• Joseph Lister 1827 - British surgeon, inventor (Listerine mouthwash)
• Robert Smalls 1839
• Booker T. Washington 1856 - Educator, author (Up From Slavery)
• Spencer (Bonaventure) Tracy 1900 - Actor ("Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [1941]")
• Melvyn Douglas (Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg) 1901 - Actor ("Ghost Story", "Being There")
• Bette (Ruth Elizabeth) Davis 1908 - Actress ("Dangerous", "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?")
• Jagjivan Ram 1908 - Political leader in India
• Gregory Peck 1916 - Actor ("To Kill a Mockingbird [1962]", "The Guns of Navarone", "Captain Horatio Hornblower")
• Arthur Hailey 1920 - Author (Airport, The Final Diagnosis)
• Robert Q. Lewis 1921 - Comedian, TV quiz show panelist ("What's My Line", "To Tell the Truth")
• Gale Storm (Josephine Cottle) 1922 - Singer ("Ivory Tower"), actress ("My Little Margie")
• Stan Levey 1925 - Drummer (in band with Charlie Parker), composer
• Roger Corman 1926 - Director
• Tony Williams 1928 - Singer (Platters)
• Nigel Hawthorne 1929 - Actor ("Richard III", "Demolition")
• Cowboy Jack Clement 1931
• Billy Bland 1932 - Singer
• Frank Gorshin 1934 - Impressionist, actor ("Batman", "The Great Imposter")
• Stanley Turrentine 1934 - Saxophone player
• Colin Powell 1937 - U.S. Secretary of State, four-star general, Chairman of U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
• Ronnie White - Singer (The Miracles)
• Tommy Cash 1940 - Songwriter, country singer, brother of Johnny Cash
• David LaFlamme 1941
• Michael Moriarty 1941 - Actor ("Windmills of the Gods")
• Peter Greenaway 1942 - Director, writer
• Allan Clark 1942 - Singer (The Hollies)
• Maxwell Gail 1943 - Actor ("Barney Miller")
• Crispin St. Peters 1944
• Dave Holland 1944 - Musician (Judas Priest)
• Doug Favell 1945 - Hockey player
• Jane Asher 1946 - Actress
• Dr. Judith A. Resnik 1949 - Electric engineer, astronaut
• Agnetha Faltskog 1950 - Singer (ABBA)
• Marv Bateman 1950 - Football player
• Rennie (Renaldo Antonio Porte) Stennett 1951 - Baseball player
• Brad Van Pelt 1951 - Football player
• Mitch Pileggi 1952 - actor, The X-Files
• Peter Greenway 1952
• Peter Case 1954 - Musician (Plimsouls)
• Stan Ridgeway 1954 - Musician (Wall of Voodoo)
• Mike McCready 1966 - Musician (Pearl Jam)
• Troy Gentry 1967 - Country singer
• Paula Cole 1968 - Singer
• Krista Allen 1971 - hottie
• Pharrel Williams 1973 - Rapper

 

Thursday, April 4, 2013 @ Automotive World

04-04

preterition \pret-uh-RISH-uhn\, noun:

1. the act of passing by or over; omission; disregard.
2. Law. the passing over by a testator of an heir otherwise entitled to a portion.
3. Calvinistic Theology. the passing over by God of those not elected to salvation or eternal life.
4. Rhetoric. paralipsis.

From the Latin stem praeterit- meaning "to go past," preterition first entered English at the turn of the sixteenth century. While the rhetorical and theological senses were present from the beginning, it took another 100 years for the legal sense to arise in the English language.

MeDD

• People who have trouble talking about anyone but themselves for any length of time. The "enough about me, what do you think of me" syndrome.

I like hanging out with Andrea, but her MeDD (Me-D-D) is so annoying. She'll ask me a question, but then jumps in with something about her.

Trivia
What presidential wannabe formed a rock band called Capitol Offense while serving as governor?

• Mike Huckabee, who was governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007.

History

• William Henry Harrison: went on record as the US president with the shortest tenure, dying one month after inauguration (1841)
• NATO: was established with the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty by 12 Western nations (1949)
• The Beatles: held all of the top 5 places on the Billboard Hot 100 (1964)
• Martin Luther King, Jr.: was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was supporting striking sanitation workers (1968)
• World Trade Center: a ribbon-cutting ceremony was held to mark the opening of the Twin Towers (1973)
• Microsoft: software behemoth was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico (1975)

Birthdays

• Dorothea Dix 1802
• Linus Yale 1821 - Inventor (Yale Infallible Bank Lock and cylinder lock)
• Isoroku Yamamoto 1884
• Arthur Murray (Moses Teichman) 1895 - Dancer
• John Cameron Swayze 1906 - Newsman
• Frances Langford (Frances Newbern) 1914 - Radio singer, actress ("Born to Dance", "Yankee Doodle Dandy")
• Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield) 1913 - Blues singer, guitarist ("Closet to You", "Honey Bee")
• Elizabeth W. Wilson 1921 - Actress (TV: "The Addams Family", Movie: "The Graduate")
• Elmer Bernstein 1922 - Composer of film scores
• William Manchester 1922
• Gil (Gilbert Raymond) Hodges 1924 - Baseball player
• Maya Angelou 1928 - Author, poet
• Clive Davis 1932 - Record company executive
• Anthony Perkins 1932 - Actor (Movies: "Psyco" series)
• Norro Wilson 1938 - Singer, composer, producer
• Michael Parks 1938
• Angelo Giamatti 1938
• JoAnne Carner 1939 - Golfer
• Hugh Masekela 1939 - Musician, band leader
• Ernie Terrell 1939 - Boxer
• Major Lance 1941
• Jim (James Louis) Fregosi 1942 - Baseball player
• Kris Jensen 1942 - Singer
• Kitty Kelley 1942 - Author
• Mike (Michael Peter) Epstein 1943 - baseball player
• Craig T. Nelson 1944 - Actor (Movies: "Poltergeist")
• Walter Charles 1945 - Actor
• Caroline McWilliams 1945 - Actress
• Ray (Raymond Earl) Fosse 1947 - Baseball catcher
• Ed White 1947 - Football player
• Barry Oakley 1948 - Musician, bass player (Allman Brothers)
• Christine Lahti 1950 - Actress
• Steve Gatlin 1951 - Singer (The Gatlin Brothers)
• Dave Hill 1952 - Musician, guitar player (Slade)
• Jerry Shirley 1952 - Musician (Humble Pie)
• Peter Haycock 1952 - Musician (Climax Blues Band)
• David E. Kelley 1956 - Writer, producer ("Ally McBeal", "The Practice")
• Graeme Kelling 1957 - Musician (Deacon Blue)
• Phil Morris 1959 - Actor
• Lorraine Toussaint 1960 - Actress ("Crossing Jordan," "Any Day Now")
• Ava Fabian 1962 - Playmate 08/1986, model, actress
• Craig Adams 1962 - Musician (The Cult)
• David Gavurin 1963 - Musician (Sundays)
• Robert Downey, Jr. 1965 - Actor (Iron Man)
• Frank Black 1965 - Musician (Pixies)
• Nancy McKeon 1966 - Actress (TV: "The Facts of Life")
• Mike Starr (Michael Christopher Starr) 1966 - Musician (Alice in Chains)
• Barry Pepper 1970 - Actor
• Clay Davidson 1971 - Country Singer
• Jill Scott 1972 - Singer
• Magnus Sveningsson 1972 - Musician (The Cardigans)
• Kelly Price 1973 - Singer
• David Blaine 1973 - Magician
• Andre Dalyrimple 1974 - Singer (Soul for Real)
• Scott Rolen 1975 - Baseball player
• Natasha Lyonne 1979 - Actress
• Heath Ledger 1979 - Actor

 

 

 

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Tuesday, April 2, 2013 @ Automotive World

ha-ha \HAH-hah\, noun:

• sunk fence.

Ha-ha comes from the French ha!, a common exclamation of surprise. Because ha-has are designed to be difficult to see, people would shout in surprise upon stumbling into them.

Jesus

• Man who was nailed to a plank for saying how nice it would be if everyone was nice to each other. Had his message misinterpreted by millions (Christians) who now think it is their job to persecute certain groups of people.

Jesus: Yo! Be nice to others, aight?

Trivia
What band beat out the Beatles when the two groups auditioned for a contract at the London studios of Decca Records?

• Brian Poole & the Tremeloes, in 1962. Decca’s decision reportedly was based on location—the Tremeloes were from the London area, making them more accessible than the Liverpool-based Beatles.

History

• Florida: Juan Ponce de León discovered this state's flowery coast, naming it for Pascua florida ("flowery Easter"); he was searching for the Fountain of Youth; the event is commemorated as Pascua Florida Day (1513)
• Turin: the first Italian Parliament convened in the first capital of the new Kingdom of Italy (1860)
• "The world must be made safe for democracy": with these words, US President Woodrow Wilson urged Congress to enter WWI (1917)
• Falkland Islands War: Argentina invaded British-occupied Falkland Islands; Argentina's defeat within a few months discredited its military government, and civilian rule was restored the following year (1982)

Birthdays

• Giovanni Casanova 1725 - Writer, philanderer
• Hans Christian Andersen 1805 - Author ("The Ugly Duckling")
• Frederic Bartholdi 1834
• Emile Zola 1840 - Novelist
• Walter Chrysler 1875 - Auto manufacturer (Chrysler Corporation)
• Max Ernst 1891 - Sculptor and painter
• Buddy Ebsen 1908 - Actor ("The Beverly Hillbillies", "Barnaby Jones")
• Herbert Mills 1912 - Singer (The Mills Brothers)
• Sir Alec Guinness (Alec Guinness de Cuffe) 1914 - Actor ("Bridge Over River Kwai", "A Passage to India", "The Empire Strikes Back", "Star Wars")
• Lou Monte 1917 - Singer
• Dabbs Greer 1917
• Charles White 1918 - Artist
• Jack Webb (John Randolf) 1920 - Director, actor
• Sir Jack Brabham - Auto racer
• Bobby (Roberto Francisco Gonzales) Avila 1924 - Baseball player
• Carmen Basilio 1927 - Boxer
• Rita Gam 1928 - Actress ("The Thief", "Midnight")
• Sharon Acker 1935
• Warner Mack 1938 - Country singer
• Marvin Gaye, Jr. 1939 - Singer ("I Heard It Through The Grapevine")
• Leon Russel 1942 - Singer, songwriter
• Larry Coryell 1943
• Glen Dale 1943 - Musician (The Fortunes)
• Marlene Floyd 1944 - Golfer, golf commentator
• Linda Hunt 1945 - Actress ("Kindergarten Cop")
• Reggie (Carl Reginald) Smith 1945 - Baseball player
• Don Sutton 1945 - Baseball pitcher
• Emmylou Harris 1947 - Singer
• Leon Wilkerson 1952 - Musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
• Pamela Reed 1953 - Actress
• Debralee Scott 1953 - Actress ("Police Academy")
• Ron "Horshack" Palillo 1954
• Christopher Meloni 1961 - Actor ("Law and Order: Special Victims Unit")
• Keren Woodward 1961 - Singer (Bananarama)
• Clark Gregg 1962 - Actor
• Billy Dean 1962
• Bill Romanowski 1966 - Football player
• Roselyn Sanchez 1973 - Actress ("Without a Trace")
• Jeremy Garrett 1976
• Michael Fassbender 1977
• Jesse Plemons 1988 - Actor ("Friday Night Lights")

  

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Monday, April 1, 2013 @ Automotive World

insouciance \in-SOO-see-uhns; Fr. an-soo-SYAHNS\, noun:

• the quality of being insouciant; lack of care or concern; indifference.

The Latin root sollicitaire coupled with the negating prefix in- literally means "to not disturb or agitate." This adjective entered English in the nineteenth century, shortly after the noun form insouciance started being used by English speakers.

April Fool's, bitch

• When you're having sex, entering from behind (e.g. doggystyle,) about to come, you tell the receiver, "I'm about to come!" Pull out and spit on her (or his) back while grunting. when she turns around, blow your wad in her face and yell, "April Fool's, bitch!" Also known ad a "David Copperfield."

you should've seen the look on her face when i said, "April Fool's, bitch." she was so mad.

Trivia
What fast-food chain placed full-page ads in six major U.S. newspapers announcing it had purchased the Liberty Bell to help cut the national debt?

• Taco Bell, in 1996. Its ad said the national symbol would henceforth be known as the Taco Liberty Bell. At noon on the day the ad appeared, the company disclosed that it was just an April Fools’ Day joke.

Holiday

• Easter Monday: the day after Easter Sunday
  

  
• April Fools' Day: is celebrated in many countries on April 1 every year. Sometimes referred to as All Fools' Day, April 1 is not a national holiday, but is widely recognized and celebrated as a day when people play practical jokes and hoaxes on each other.

History

• US House of Representatives: achieved a quorum for the first time and elected its first Speaker, Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania (1789)
• Royal Air Force: branch of the British Armed Forces was formed (1918)
• TIROS-1: the first weather satellite was launched; it took off from Cape Canaveral and was operational for 78 days (1960)
• Apple Inc.: was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak (1976)
• Gmail: Google's web-based email service was launched (2004)

Birthdays

• William Harvey England 1578
• Otto Von Bismarck 1815
• Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873 - Composer, musician
• Lon Chaney 1883 - Actor ("The Phantom of the Opera")
• Wallace (Fitzgerald) Beery 1885 - Actor ("The Champ", "The Last of the Mohicans")
• Jagjivan Ram 1908
• Abraham Maslow 1908
• Art Lund 1920 - Singer
• Toshiro Mifune 1920 - Actor ("Midway", "Paper Tiger")
• William Manchester 1922 - Writer
• Anne McCaffrey 1926
• George Grizzard 1928 - Actor ("Bachelor Party", "False Witness")
• Jane Powell (Suzanne Burce) 1929 - Actress
• Grace Lee Whitney 1930 - Actress, singer
• Gordon Jump 1932 - Actor ("WKRP in Cincinnati")
• Debbie Reynolds (Mary Frances Reynolds) 1932 - Singer, Actress, mother of actress Carrie Fisher
• Don Hastings 1934 - Actor ("As The World Turns")
• James Edward Brown 1934 - Singer (The Browns)
• Ron (Ronald Peter) Perranoski 1936 - Baseball player, coach
• Eddie King 1938 - Blues singer
• Ali MacGraw 1938 - Actress
• Rudolf Isley 1939 - Singer (Isley Brothers)
• Phil (Philip Henry) Niekro 1939 - Baseball pitcher
• Guy Trottier 1941 - Hockey player
• Phil Margo 1942 - Singer (The Tokens)
• Alan Blakley 1942 - Musician (Brian Poole and The Tremeloes)
• Carol White 1944
• Rusty Staub 1944 - Baseball player
• Heather Young 1945
• John Barbata 1945 - Drummer (The Turtles)
• Ronnie Lane (Small Faces) 1946
• Norm Van Lier 1947 - Basketball player
• Jimmy Cliff 1948 - Reggae singer
• Doug Southerland 1948 - Football player
• Wilie (Guillermo Naranjo) Montanez 1948 - Baseball player
• Gil Scott-Heron 1949 - Jazz musician
• Samuel Alito 1950 - U.S. Supreme Court justice
• Billy Currie 1952 - Musician (Ultravox)
• Annette O'Toole 1953 - Actress
• Jeff Porcaro (Toto) 1954
• Stan Ridgway (Wall of Voodoo) 1955
• Libby Riddles 1956 - First woman to win the Iditarod dogsled race
• Mark White 1961 - Musician (ABC)
• Woody Lee 1968 - Country singer
• Sung-Hi Lee 1970 - actress, model
• Method Man 1971 - Rapper
• Rachel Maddow 1973 - Broadcast journalist
• Maradalena Maleeva 1975 - Tennis player
• Bijou Phillips 1980 - Singer
• Sam Huntington 1982 - Actor
• Hillary Scott (Lady Antebellum) 1984 - Country singer
• Josh Zuckerman 1985 - Actor