Thursday, October 15, 2009

fetor \FEE-tuhr; FEE-tor\, noun:

• A strong, offensive smell; stench.

Fetor comes from Latin foetor, from foetere, "to stink."
cactus legs

• the feeling on a woman's legs as a result of not having shaved.

--Steve is mad at me!
--why?
--cuz last nite, he wanted to touch my legs and i didnt let him
--why?
--cuz, i got cactus legs, i haven't shaved in a week!

Trivia
What famous novel provided the inspiration for David Bowie’s 1974 album Diamond Dogs ?

• 1984, by George Orwell. Bowie was writing a rock opera based on the Big Brother classic, but switched gears and made the album when he was denied the rights to the title 1984 by Orwell’s widow.

Today in History

• Gregorian calendar: was adopted by Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain; the Julian calendarended the previous day, October 4, and the intervening 10 days were deleted (1582)
• The Great Dictator: Charlie Chaplin's scathing satirical film attack on Nazi Germany was released (1940)
• I Love Lucy: one of television history's most popular sitcoms debuted (1951)
  sound barrier: was broken on land for the first time, by RAF pilot Andy Green in Black Rock
• Desert in Nevada, 50 years and a day after it was broken in the air by Chuck Yeager (1997)

Today's Birthdays

• Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900): German philosopher who wrote about the Übermensch, or superman; plus philosopher/historian Michel Foucault (1926-1984)
• John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006): economist
• Mario Puzo (1920-1999): novelist, The Godfather; other writers who shared this birth date includeVirgil (70-19 BCE), Allan Ramsay (1686-1758), Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov (1814-1841 OS), Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885), P.G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) and C. P. Snow (1905-1980)
• Jim Palmer (64): three-time winner of the Cy Young Award
• Emeril Lagasse (50): celebrity chef
• Keyshia Cole (28): R&B singer and songwriter, The Way it Is; musicians who share this birth date include Richard Carpenter (63) and Tito Jackson (56)
• Tanya Roberts (54): Actress (Charlie's Angels, That 70's Show)