Look forward to Mondays! 11/30/09

Lauren Budd

Hotty of the day!

cred to OU

Weekend Box Office

Tops at the Box Office

1. The Twilight Saga: New Moon
2. The Blind Side
3. 2012
4. Old Dogs
5. A Christmas Carol

No surprises here. New Moon held onto the #1 spot for a second week, but the shocker is the drop-off; it dropped down to the 40s and The Blind Side came close to overtaking it. I guess those Twilight fans had better things to do.

Monday, November 30, 2009

couture \koo-TOOR\, noun:

1. The business of designing, making, and selling highly fashionable, usually custom-made clothing for women.
2. Dressmakers and fashion designers considered as a group.
3. The high-fashion clothing created by designers.

adjective:

1. Created or produced by a fashion designer.
2. Being, having, or suggesting the style, quality, etc., of a fashion designer; very fashionable.

Couture is from French meaning sewing, from Old French cousture, from Vulgar Latin cōnsūtūra, from Latin cōnsuere, cōnsūt-, to sew together.

holiday pounds

• The extra little bit of weight you put on during a period of being on holiday or vacation.

Man, when I get back to work I'll have to start going to the gym again- I've put on some serious holiday pounds

Trivia

What professional football team got its name from the color of used jerseys purchased from a local college?

• The Arizona Cardinals. The team, which was founded in Chicago in 1898, adopted the Cardinals name in 1901 after its owner bought faded maroon uniforms from the University of Chicago. The name stuck even after team moves, first to St. Louis and then to Phoenix.

Today in History

• Russo-Finnish War: began; at its conclusion, Finland ceded part of its territory to Russia (1939)
• Lucille Ball: zany redheaded actress married Cuban bandleader Desi Arnaz, who became her costar in I Love Lucy (1940)
• Hodges meteorite: in the only known case of an extraterrestrial object hitting a human being, a woman in Sylacauga, Alabama was struck by a rock from space that crashed through her roof as she napped on her couch (1954)
• Barbados: West Indies island nation gained its independence from the UK (1966)
• Thriller: Michael Jackson's sixth album was released; it remains the best-selling album of all time (1982)

Today's Birthdays

• Winston Churchill (1874-1965): formidable British PM
• Dick Clark (80): host of American Bandstand; musicians born on this date include Allan Sherman (1924-1973), Roger Glover (64), Rob Grill (65), Matti Caspi (60), Danny Sanderson (59), Billy Idol (54) and Clay Aiken (31)
• Ridley Scott (72): filmmaker, Blade Runner, Body of Lies; also, filmmakers Terrence Malick(66) and Ben Stiller (44)
• David Mamet (62): playwright, Pulitzer Prize-winner for Glengarry Glen Ross; plus, writers Mark Twain (1835-1910), L. M. Montgomery (1874-1942), I.J. Singer (1893-1944), Donald Ogden Stewart (1894-1980) and Gordon Parks (1912-2006)
• Sandra Oh (38): Christina Yang on Grey's Anatomy; also, actors Efrem Zimbalist Jr. (91),Robert Guillaume (82), Mandy Patinkin (57), Colin Mochrie (52), Elisha Cuthbert (27) and Kaley Cuoco (24)

Sunday, November 29, 2009

malleable \MAL-ee-uh-buhl\, adjective:

1. Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals.
2. Capable of being altered or controlled by outside forces; easily influenced.
3. Capable of adjusting to changing circumstances; adaptable.

Malleable comes from Medieval Latin malleabilis, from malleare, "to hammer," from Latin malleus, "hammer."

Thanksgiving Beard

• An unintentional beard started over the 4 day Thanksgiving weekend, where you're too lazy to shave it off monday morning. Usually continues untilChristmas or New Year's Day.Also known as a Holiday Beard

Boss: You look like you haven't shaved in days. That's unprofessional.
Employee: Sir, that's my Thanksgiving beard. It's my way of honoring our forefathers.
Boss: Oh, I didn't realize that. Maybe I'll grow one too.
Trivia

What popular entertainer has sold more records in more languages than any other singer in history?

• Spanish-born Julio Iglesias, who was honored for his multilingual recordings in 1983 with the first-ever Guinness Book of World Records Diamond Record Award. The languages he’s recorded in are Spanish, English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, and Tagalog.

Today in History

• Army-Navy game: football rivalry began at West Point; Navy won 24-0 (1890)
• South Pole: was flown over for the first time by American explorer Richard E. Byrd and three others (1929)
• Resolution 181: United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was approved, dividing the area of Palestine between Jews and Arabs (1947)
• Warren Commission: was established by US president Lyndon Johnson to investigateJFK's assassination (1963)

Today's Birthdays

• Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888): author, Little Women; also, authors C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) and Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007)
• Ambrose Fleming (1849-1945): inventor of the diode; also, chemist Yuan T. Lee (73)
• Jacques Chirac (77): former president of France; plus, former Liberian president William V. S. Tubman (1895-1971)
• Chuck Mangione (69): jazz composer/musician who plays the flugelhorn
• Joel Coen (55): half of the Coen Brothers filmmaking duo, No Country for Old Men, A Serious Man
• Don Cheadle (45): actor and activist, Hotel Rwanda, Traitor; also, actors Diane Ladd (74?), Garry Shandling (60), Howie Mandel (54), Cathy Moriarty (49), Kim Delaney (48), Tom Sizemore (46),Andrew McCarthy (47), Brian Baumgartner (37), Anna Faris and Julian Ovenden (both 33) and Lucas Black (27)

Quote From G-Mo

Friendship is like peeing on yourself:

Everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.

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

I THINK YOU ARE THE FATHER OF ONE OF MY KIDS

I THINK YOU ARE THE FATHER OF ONE OF MY KIDS

A guy goes to the supermarket and notices an attractive woman waving at him. She says hello.

He's rather taken aback because he can't place where he knows her from.

So he says, 'Do you know me?'

To which she replies, 'I think you're the father of one of my kids.'

Now his mind travels back to the only time he has ever been unfaithful to his wife and says, 'Are you the stripper from the bachelor party that I made love to on the pool table with all my buddies watching while your partner whipped my butt with wet celery?'

She looks into his eyes and says calmly, "No, I'm your son's teacher."

Friday, November 27, 2009

filemot (FIL-mot) noun, adjective

• The color of a dead or faded leaf: dull brown or yellowish brown.

Etymology: From the corruption of the French term feuillemorte, from feuille (leaf) + morte (dead). Ultimately from Indo-European root bhel- (to thrive or bloom) that gave us flower, bleed, bless, foliage, blossom, and blade.

Trivia
What are citizens of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, called?

• Cariocas.

Today in History

• Pennsylvania Station: regular service began in the busiest train station in North America (1910)
• scuttling of the French fleet in Toulon: during WWII, the French Navy scuttled its own ships and submarines in Toulon, France, to prevent them from falling into German hands (1942)
• Pope Paul VI: was accosted by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter at a Manila airport (1970)
• Harvey Milk: San Francisco city supervisor was assassinated, along with mayor George Moscone, by former supervisor Dan White; White used the Twinkie defense and was convicted of manslaughter rather than murder (1978)

Today's Birthdays

• Chaim Weizmann (1874-1952): Israel's first president; other political leaders born on this date include Alexander Dubček (1921-1992) and Benigno Aquino Jr. (1932-1983)
• James Agee (1909-1955): novelist and screenwriter who won the Pulitzer Prize for his A Death in the Family; plus, author/actor Fanny Kemble (1809-1893)
• Bruce Lee (1940-1973): martial arts actor; also, actors James Avery (61), William Fichtner(53), Fisher Stevens (46), Robin Givens (45), Michael Vartan (41) and Jaleel White (33)
• Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970): rock guitarist, "Purple Haze"; other musicians born on this date are Charlie Benante (47) and Twista (36)
• Bill Nye (54): "the science guy"
• Caroline Kennedy (52): attorney, writer and editor, daughter of JFK

I can haz cheezburger?

A site dedicated to this meme:

http://icanhascheezburger.com/

THE GREEK LOAN

THE GREEK LOAN
A Greek man walked into a bank in New York City and asked for the loan
officer. He told the loan officer that he was going to Greece on
business for two weeks and needed to borrow $5,000 and that he was not
a depositor of the bank.

The bank officer told him that the bank would need some form of
security for the loan, so the Greek man handed over the keys of his
new Ferrari. The car was parked on the street in front of the bank.
The Greek man produced the title and everything checked out. The
loan officer agreed to hold the car as collateral for the loan and
apologized for having to charge 12% interest.

Later, the bank's president and its officers all enjoyed a good laugh
at the Greek man for using a $250,000 Ferrari as collateral for a
$5,000 loan. An employee of the bank then drove the Ferrari into the
bank's underground garage and parked it.

Two weeks later, the Greek man returned, repaid the $5,000 and the
interest of $23.07 in full. The loan officer said, "Sir, we are very
happy to have had your business, and this transaction has worked out
very nicely, but we are a little puzzled. While you were away, we
checked you out and found that you are a millionaire. What puzzles us
is why would you bother to borrow $5,000 when you are a millionaire?"

The Greek man replied, "Malaka, where else in New York City can I
park my car for two weeks for only $23.07 and expect it to be there
when I return?

Ah, the Greeks..

Thursday, November 26, 2009

echt (ekht) adjective

• Authentic; typical.

EtymologyFrom German echt (genuine, typical)
Trivia
What bird was pictured in Plate No. 1 in John James Audubon’s book The Birds of America?

• The wild turkey.

Today in History

• Kappa Alpha Society: Union College student society became the first college fraternity in the US (1825)
• Alice in Wonderland: pseudonymous author Lewis Carroll gave an illustrated manuscript of the tale to the eponymous Alice as an early Christmas gift (1864)
• King Tut's tomb: the burial site of King Tutankhamen was entered for the first time in over 3,000 years, by archeologist Howard Carter and George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1922)
• Casablanca: film set in wartime Morocco premiered in New York City (1942)
• Diamant-A: rocket launched France's space program with the Astérix-1 satellite, which blasted off from Hammaguir, Algeria (1965)

Today's Birthdays

• John Harvard (1607-1638): founder of Harvard College
• Norbert Wiener (1894-1964): mathematician and educator
• Eugene Ionesco (1912-1994): playwright of theater of the absurd; plus, writers William Cowper(1731-1800) and Eric Sevareid (1912-1992)
• Charles Schulz (1922-2000): creator of Charlie Brown and Peanuts
• Rich Little (71): impressionist famous for his take-off on every US president from 1960 to 2002
• Tina Turner (70): rock singer, "What's Love Got to Do With It?"; other musicians born on this date include Robert Goulet (1933-2007), John McVie (64), Bernard Allison (44), Natasha Bedingfield (28) and Lil' Fizz (24)
• Peter Facinelli (36): Carlisle Cullen in Twilight

Today's Holiday:

• Thanksgiving

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

Turtle Thursday: Basking

My wife and I are probably basking like Snappy and Ty are in this pic, except we're on a nice beach in Puerto Rico.

NY Giants Girl! (aka Reby Sky)

She would make ME want to win a game!


http://www.nygiantsgirl.com/

http://rebysky.com/

Hasselhoff Wednesday: Ah the classics!

Hoff and Pesci sharing a screen? Winner!

Tricia Helfer

cuz why not?

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

delitescent (del-i-TES-uhnt) adjective

• Hidden; latent.

Etymology: From Latin delitescent-, stem of delitescens, present participle of delitescere (to hide away).

Trivia
What is the only rock that can float on water?

• Pumice.

Today in History

• Hollywood Ten: screenwriters were blacklisted by producers for being suspected Communists; the previous day they were cited and jailed for refusing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee (1947)
• Yukio Mishima: much-read Japanese author who believed in imperial loyalty and a militarized, unwesternized Japan committed suicide by seppuku at the headquarters of the Japan Self-Defense Forces (1970)
• Iran-contra affair: arms-sales scandal blew open; US National Security Council aide Oliver North was fired for planning to ship arms secretly to Iran (1986)
• Elián González: 6-year-old Cuban émigré was rescued by fishermen off Florida's coast, sparking a political asylum/child custody battle (1999)

Today's Birthdays

• Lope de Vega (1562-1635): prolific dramatist; plus, writers John Bigelow (1817-1911) and Ba Jin (1904-2005)
• Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919): industrialist and philanthropist
• Pope John XXIII (1881-1963): 261st pontiff
• Joe DiMaggio (1914-1999): legendary slugger; hall-of-famer Joe Gibbs (69) shares this birth date
• John F. Kennedy, Jr. (1960-1999): lawyer and publisher, son of JFK; presidential daughters Jenna and Barbara Bush (28) were also born on this date
• Amy Grant (49): country-gospel singer; other musicians born on this date include Virgil Thomson (1896-1989), Percy Sledge (69?) and Stacy Lattisaw (43)
• Christina Applegate (38): amnesiac titular star of Samantha Who?; also, actors Ricardo Montalban (1920-2009), Noel Neill (89), Matt Clark (73), Ben Stein (65), John Larroquette (62), Jill Hennessy (41) and Eddie Steeples (36)