Saturday, November 28, 2009

giglet (GIG-lit) noun

• A giddy, frolicsome girl. Also known as giglot.

EtymologyFrom Middle English gigelot.
sacrelicious adj.

1. A description of a recipe that should not exist for religious reasons, but tastes good anyway.
2. Any cooking done with communion wafers.

Try some Matzo crackers and bacon dip - it's sacrelicious.
Trivia
Which U.S. national park has more glaciers than any other park in the lower 48 states?

• North Cascades National Park, in Washington State, with 318.

Today in History

• Strait of Magellan: the ships of explorer Ferdinand Magellan reached the Pacific from the Atlantic by sailing through the strait that later took his name (1520)
• Royal Society: long-lived UK scientific society was founded by learned men (1660)
• Mariner 4: spacecraft that sent the first pictures of the Martian surface was launched (1964)

Today's Birthdays

• William Blake (1757-1827): engraver and poet, Songs of Experience; Pilgrim's Progress author John Bunyan (1628-1688) was also born on this date
• Friedrich Engels (1820-1895): socialist philosopher, a founder of Communism
• Paul Shaffer (60): bandleader and sidekick on the Late Show with David Letterman; also, musicians Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687), Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894), Randy Newman (66) and apl.de.ap (35)
• Ed Harris (59): actor/director, Pollock, Appaloosa; actors S. Epatha Merkerson (57), Judd Nelson(50), Aimee Garcia (31) and Scarlett Pomers (21) share this birth date
• Jon Stewart (47): satirist, host of The Daily Show