Sunday, August 1, 2010

fulsome (FUL-suhm) adjective:

1. Effusive; lavish.

2. Excessive to the point of being offensive.

Etymology: A combination of the words full and -some (having a particular quality). 

Lifetime 

• a bad channel that "inspires" women with stories about women with breast cancer that were molested as a child getting beat up by their alcoholic unemployed mullet husband.

I think lifetime is for man-hating lesbians 

Today's History

• Slavery Abolition Act 1833: abolished slavery in Britain and Ireland
• WWI: erupted as Germany declared war on Russia (1914)
• Fulbright: scholarship program was signed into US law (1946)
• MTV: cable music station was launched with, aptly, The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star" (1981)

Today's Birthdays

• Claudius (10 BCE-54 CE): 4th Roman emperor
• Jean Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829): the naturalist credited with first use of the word "biology"
• Francis Scott Key (1779-1843): attorney who wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner"

• Herman Melville (1819-1891): author of Moby Dick; plus, writer Anne Hébert (1916-2000)
• Dom DeLuise (1933-2009): actor and cookbook writer; actors Giancarlo Giannini (68) and John Carroll Lynch (47) share this birth date
• Yves Saint Laurent (1936-2008): fashion designer, popularized pants for women
• Robert Cray (57): blues guitarist and singer; musicians Jerry Garcia (1942-1995), Michael Penn (52), Joe Elliot (51), Chuck D (50), Coolio (47) and Adam Duritz (46) also celebrate birthdays today