Word of the Day for Monday, November 5, 2007

woolgathering \WOOL-gath-(uh)-ring\, noun:

• Indulgence in idle daydreaming.

Urban Word of the Day

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November 05, 2007: gravy train
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gravy+train&defid=453511

• A job where no work is involved. To get paid for doing nothing. Standing around at work and talking all day.

Look over there, Brian is riding the gravy train again.

Trivia
Who is Helga Testorf?

• The neighbor of artist Andrew Wyeth in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, who posed for “The Helga Pictures,” more than 240 studies and portraits Wyeth secretly worked on over a 15-year period.

Today in History

• Susan B. Anthony: suffragist was fined $100 for trying to vote (1872)
• Nellie T. Ross: became first female governor of a US state — Wyoming (1924)
• Ella Grasso: became the first woman elected governor of a US state without succeeding a husband (1974)

Today's Birthdays

• Roy Rogers (1911-1998): King of the Cowboys
• Vivien Leigh: Scarlett in Gone With the Wind (1913-1967)
• Johnny Damon (34): baseball player
• Famke Janssen (42): Actress
  
• Art Garfunkel (66): singer-songwriter and actor
• Tatum O'Neal (44): youngest-ever recipient of an Oscar
• Brittney Skye (30): pr0n actress
• Robert Patrick (I) (49): Actor from Terminator 2 (T-1000) and X-Files (Agent John Doggett)
  

Today's Holiday

• Guy Fawkes Day (UK)