Monday, October 26, 2009

loquacious \loh-KWAY-shuhs\, adjective:

1. Very talkative.
2. Full of excessive talk; wordy.

Loquacious comes from Latin loquax, "talkative," from loqui, "to speak."
Dank

• Also an expression requently used by stoners and hippies for something of high quality.

That borritos was dank, man.
or...
That borritos was the dankness
Trivia
When it comes to human hands, which fingernail generally grows fastest?

• The nail on the middle finger on the hand most often used. As a rule of, er, thumb—the longer the finger, the faster its nail grows.

Today in History

• Erie Canal: 160-mile (257 km.) waterway opened, offering a route from the Great Lakesto the Atlantic Ocean via the Hudson River (1825)
• Gunfight at the OK Corral: a legendary Wild West shootout in Tombstone, Arizona, killed three, wounded three, inspired movies; it did not actually take place in the corral (1881)
• Baby Fae: neonatal infant was given a baboon's heart by transplant surgeon Dr. Leonard L. Bailey in Loma Linda, California; she lived for 21 days (1984)

Today's Birthdays

• Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757): harpsichordist and composer
• François Mitterrand (1916-1996): former president of France
• Pat Conroy (64): author of The Prince of Tides, South of Broad
• Hillary Rodham Clinton (62): US Secretary of State
• Dylan McDermott (48): actor, Bobby Donnell on The Practice, currently starring in Dark Blue; also, actors Bob Hoskins (67), Jaclyn Smith (64), D. W. Moffett and James Pickens Jr. (both 55), Rita Wilson (53), Cary Elwes (47), Tom Cavanagh (46) and Anthony Rapp (38) and Jon Heder (32)
• Keith Urban (42): country singer; gospel singer Mahalia Jackson (1911-1972) shares this birth date