Sunday, June 7, 2009

oneiric \oh-NY-rik\, adjective:

• Of, pertaining to, or suggestive of dreams; dreamy.

Oneiric comes from Greek oneiros, "dream."
Caps Lock Voice

• When a normally calm person has to raise their voice and use an authortative tone. It is the equivalent to using the caps lock key in the digital world.

Sara tried to get an attitude with me yesterday and I had to turn on my caps lock voice and put her in check.Chris was being run over at work, so Jason told him it was time to turn on his caps lock voice.

Trivia
What do Americans call the pastime that the English call ducks and drakes, the Danes call smutting, and the French call ricochet?

• Skipping stones.

Today in History:

• Treaty of Tordesillas: divided the New World between Spain and Portugal (1494)
• Continental Congress: the delegates heard a motion to declare the United Colonies free and independent from England (1776)
• Vatican City: became an independent, sovereign state as the Lateran Treaty was signed in Rome (1929)
• The $64,000 Question: game show premiered on CBS (1955)
• Operation Opera: an Israeli airstrike took out Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor (1981)

Today's Birthdays:

• Paul Gauguin (1848-1903): Post-Impressionist painter
• Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000): Illinois' Pulitzer Prize-winning poet laureate; other writers born on this date include Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973), Nikki Giovanni (66) and Louise Erdrich (55)
• Liam Neeson (57): actor, Schindler's List and, more recently, Taken; also, actors Jessica Tandy (1909-1994), Colleen Camp (56) and Michael Cera (21)
• Prince (51): musician, Purple Rain; singers Dean Martin (1917-1995) and Tom Jones (69) share this birthday
• Allen Iverson (34): basketball's shortest MVP and one of its fastest
• Anna Kournikova (28): tennis player and model