Friday, January 15, 2010

pallid \PAL-id\, adjective:

1. Having an abnormally pale or wan complexion.
2. Lacking intensity of color or luminousness.
3. Lacking in vitality or interest.

Pallid is from Latin pallidus "pale," from root of pallere "be pale".
working hard or hardly working

• Funny play on words used by successful management types. Can be combined with finger guns for the ultimate combo.

Supervisor: Hey Joe! Working hard or hardly working? Hahahaha.
Joe: Hahahahaha! You're the best boss ever!
Trivia

What future movie star’s delivery in an Atlanta, Georgia, hospital was paid for by Coretta Scott King, the wife of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.?

• Julia Roberts, in October 1967. Mrs. King took care of the hospital bill as thanks for the drama lessons Julia’s mom, Betty Lou Roberts, had given the King children.

Today in history

• Elizabeth I: Good Queen Bess was crowned in Westminster Abbey(1559)
• Harper's Weekly: published an editorial cartoon drawn by Thomas Nast in which he used a donkey to represent the Democratic party; he had meant for the animal to indicate an anti-war faction (1870)
• the Pentagon: opened; at the time, it was the world's largest office building (1943)
• Super Bowl I: the Green Bay Packers beat the Kansas City Chiefs (35-10) at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (1967)

Today's birthdays

• Molière (1622-1673): playwright,Tartuffe, The Misanthrope
• Edward Teller (1908-2003): the main architect of the hydrogen bomb
• Gamal Abdul Nasser (1918-1970): Egyptian president from 1954 to 1970
• Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968): civil rights leader, Nobel Peace Prize winner
• James Nesbitt (45): actor, Jekyll, Five Minutes of Heaven; other actors who share this birth date include Lloyd Bridges (1913-1998), Andrea Martin (63), Mario Van Peebles (53), Chad Lowe (42), Regina King (39) and Eddie Cahill (32)
• Matt Holliday (30): free agent left-fielder; also, tennis player Mary Pierce (35)