Sunday, May 23, 2010

habitué \huh-BICH-oo-ey\, noun:

• One who frequents a particular place, especially a place offering a specific pleasurable activity.

Habitué comes from the French past participle of habituer, "to frequent." The English habituate is closely related.
Papal Pound

• When at Church giving thanks, instead of shaking the person's hand, you give them a fist pound instead.

I am a huge germaphobe, so at church i give people a Papal Pound.
Some young punk at Sunday Mass tried to Papal Pound me.
The Pope, Papal Pounded Howie Mandel on the set of Deal or No Deal.
Trivia
How frequently does the human stomach produce a new lining?

• Every three days.

History

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  Captain Kidd: was hanged in London for murder and piracy (1701)
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  Baltimore and Ohio Railroad: began the first passenger service in the US (1830)
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  Mounties: the North West Mounted Police was created; it would later become the federal police force of Canada (1873)
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  Bonnie and Clyde: Depression-era outlaws were ambushed and killed by police in Louisiana (1934)
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  West Germany: was reconstituted from post-WWII occupation zones (1949)

Birthdays

• Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778): botanist, known as the "father of modern taxonomy"
• Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815): physician who sought to heal with an early form of hypnosis
• Pär Lagerkvist (1891-1974): poet, novelist, dramatist who won the 1951 Nobel Prize for Literature; plus, writers Thomas Hood (1799-1844), Margaret Wise Brown (1910-1952), Ursula Hegi (64) and Mitch Albom (58)
• John Newcombe (66): tennis hall-of-famer

• Anatoly Karpov (59): chess grandmaster
• Charles Kimbrough (74): Murphy Brown's Jim Dial; also, actors Betty Garrett (91), Barbara Barrie (79), Joan Collins (77), Drew Carey (52), Laurel Holloman (39), Lane Garrison (30) and Adam Wylie (26)
• Jewel (36): singer/songwriter; other musicians born on this date include Artie Shaw (1910-2004), Scatman Crothers (1910-1986), Rosemary Clooney (1928-2002) and Matt Flynn (40)