Word of the Day for Sunday, June 8, 2008

minatory \MIN-uh-tor-ee\, adjective:

• Threatening; menacing.

yellow listed

• a person who does not wash their hands after urinating is placed on the 'yellow list', or they are 'yellow listed'

Co-worker: You may want to double up on the hand sanitizer after shaking hands with Edith, she was yellow listed last week.

Today's Holiday

• World Ocean Day

Today in History

• Muhammad: the founder of Islam died in Medina (632)
• desegregation: the US Supreme Court ruled that restaurants in Washington, DC, could not refuse black patrons (1953)
• New York Yankees: retired Mickey Mantle's No. 7 uniform as part of Mickey Mantle Day at Yankee Stadium (1969)
• NRA: elected Charlton Heston as its president (1998)

Today's Birthdays

• Francis Crick (1916-2004): co-discoverer of DNA's double-helix structure
• Barbara Bush (83):former first lady
• Jerry Stiller (81): comedian/actor; also, stars Joan Rivers (75), Sonia Braga (58), Griffin Dunne (53), and Keenan Ivory Wayans (50)
• Robert Aumann (78): Israeli Nobel laureate in economics
• Sara Paretsky (61): author, V.I. Warshawski detective stories; also, writer Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987)
• Tim Berners-Lee (53): guy who wove the World Wide Web
• Scott Adams (51): cartoonist, Dilbert
• Kanye West (31): Grammy-winning rapper