Tuesday, July 27, 2010

nitid \NIT-id\, adjective:

• Bright; lustrous.

Nitid is related to the Latin nitidus, "glistening."

Clutch Oven

• To fart in a car full of people, crank the heat for maximum effectiveness.

Mike was driving us to Jake's party and he farted, trapping us in his clutch oven

Trivia

What is the primary source of the earth’s oxygen?

• Algae.

History

• transatlantic telegraph cable: was completed, linking the US and Europe; the cord shortened communication time from days to minutes (1866)
• insulin: physiologists isolated the hormone used to manage diabetes (1921)
• Bugs Bunny: debuted in The Wild Hare (1940)
• Billboard: the magazine published its first singles record chart (1940)
• Coronation Street: British soap characters Ken Barlow and Deirdre Langton tied the knot; their wedding got higher telly ratings than that of Prince Charles and Lady Di (1981)

Birthdays

• Geoffrey De Havilland (1882-1965): aviation pioneer who designed and built military planes

• Norman Lear (88): TV producer, All in the Family
• Bobbie Gentry (66): country singer, Ode to Billie Joe; also, singers Maureen McGovern (61), Karrin Allyson (47), Stacy Dean Campbell and Juliana Hatfield (both 43) and Pete Yorn (36)
• Peggy Fleming (62): champion figure-skater
• Julian McMahon (42): demon in love on Charmed, materialistic human on Nip/Tuck; plus, actors Jerry Van Dyke (79), John Pleshette (68), Betty Thomas (62), Maury Chaykin (61), Roxanne Hart (58), Maya Rudolph (38) and Jonathan Rhys Meyers (33)
• Alex Rodriguez (35): third-baseman for the Yankees; also, baseball player and manager Leo Durocher (1905-1991)