Friday, February 12, 2010

quietus \kwy-EE-tuhs\, noun:

1. Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation.
2. Removal from activity; rest; death.
3. Something that serves to suppress or quiet.

Quietus is from Medieval Latin quietus (est), "(it is) at rest" (said of an obligation that has been discharged), from Latin quietus, "at rest."
Jack off all trades

• A person who does not use profession as criteria for choosing sexual partners

How'd you swing that? I thought Jane only fucked above a certain income bracket.
Naa man, she's a jack off all trades
Trivia
What U.S. president wore a ring that contained some of Abraham Lincoln’s hair?

• Theodore Roosevelt, at his inauguration in 1905. The ring was given to him for the occasion by John Jay, his secretary of state. As a young man Jay had served as one of Lincoln’s personal secretaries. He paid $100 for six strands of hair removed during Lincoln’s autopsy.

History

• Chile: Santiago, the capital city, was founded (1541); country declared independence from Spain (1818)
• NAACP: early civil rights organization was founded (1909)
• the Last Emperor: the Republic of China banished 7-year-old Qingemperor Puyi to the Forbidden City(1912)
• Bill Clinton: impeachment trial ended in Senate acquittal (1999)
• NEAR Shoemaker: space probe touched down on Eros, becoming the first craft to land upon an asteroid (2001)
• Mattel: announced the breakup of Barbie and Ken after 43 years (2004)

Berfdays, yo!

• Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865): America's 16th president
• Charles Darwin (1809-1882): naturalist who proposed the theory of evolution
• Anna Pavlova (1881[NS]-1931): classical ballerina
• Omar Bradley (1893-1981): WWII general
• Franco Zeffirelli (87): film director, Romeo and Juliet; also, director Constantine Costa-Gavras (77)
• Bill Russell (76): NBA legend; as Celtics' coach in 1967, became the first-ever black NBA head coach; sportscaster Joe Garagiola (84) shares this birth date
• Judy Blume (72): author of fiction for young people, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret; plus writer Cotton Mather (1663-1728)
• Chynna Phillips (42): singer, Wilson Phillips; plus, musician Ray Manzarek (71)
• Josh Brolin (42): SAG-winner and Oscar nominee for his portrayal of Dan White in Milk; other actors born today include Joe Don Baker (74), Maud Adams (65), Cliff DeYoung (64), Joanna Kerns (57), Arsenio Hall (55), John Michael Higgins (47), Jesse Spencer (31), and Sarah Lancaster and Christina Ricci (both 30)