Wednesday, August 26, 2009

rictus \RIK-tuhs\, noun:

1. The gape of the mouth, as of birds.
2. A gaping grin or grimace.

Rictus is from Latin rictus, "the open mouth," from ringi, "to show the teeth."
Food Douche

• A person that thinks they know the best place to get any one specific item of food and that the places you know all suck.

Jason: I love this turkey sandwich
Joey: This sandwich sucks, I know a place with the best turkey sandwich i have ever had
Jason: You are such a Food Douche
Trivia
What is the main ingredient in the Indian dish known as Bombay duck?

• Not duck, but fish—small dried and salted lizardfish, native to the Indian Ocean.

Today in History:

• Battle of Crécy: longbows helped the heavily outnumbered English defeat the French, marking the decline of chivalry and the rise of England as a world power (1346)
• 19th Amendment: women's suffrage became the law of the land in the US (1920)
• Donoghue v Stevenson: woman found a snail in her ginger beer; this case became a cornerstone of British law in the field of negligence (1928)
• MLB on TV: the first Major League Baseball game was televised from Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York; the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers split a doubleheader (1939)
• Pope John Paul I: Italian cardinal dubbed the Smiling Pope assumed the papacy; he died 33 days later (1978)

Today's Birthdays:

• Robert Walpole (1676-1745): considered Britain's first PM
• Prince Albert (1819-1861): prince consort of Queen Victoria
• Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986): novelist and playwright, The Berlin Stories; also, writers Jules Romains (1885-1972), Ben Wattenberg (76) and Riley Weston (43)
• Albert Sabin (1906-1993): microbiologist who developed polio vaccine; plus, scientists Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728-1777), Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794), Lee De Forest (1873-1961) and Jerome Hunsaker (1886-1984)
• Branford Marsalis (49): Grammy-winning jazz saxophonist
• Thalía (37): Mexican pop superstar
• Shirley Manson (43): singer of Garbage