Sunday, August 29, 2010

kith \KITH\, noun:

• Acquaintances, friends, neighbors, or the like; persons living in the same general locality and forming a more or less cohesive group.

Kith finds its origin in the Old English cunnan, "to know." Can and other English words stem from the same source.

I'm picking the corn out your shit

1) Understanding what another person is saying,

2) Hearing the main points of a conversation, lecture or instructions and filtering out the rest

Many uses for this phrase,

1. "Get to the Point Man, I'm having to pick the corn out your shit here"

2. "I'm picking the corn out your shit, I smell what your steppin' in, I'm picking up what you're putting down, I've been there before, it'll be alright"

Trivia

Under the rules of professional football, what score is recorded for a forfeited game?

• 2-0

History

• Atahualpa: last sovereign Incan emperor was garroted by Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizzaro, who thus defeated the Incan Empire and conquered Peru (1533)
• Royal George: some 900 drowned when the ship sank at port; the event was immortalized in William Cowper's "On the Loss of the Royal George" (1782)
• Shay's Rebellion: uprising began in Massachusetts, led by Revolutionary War captain Daniel Shays; farmers were protesting crushing debt and taxes (1786)
• Treaty of Nanking: marked the end of the First Opium War and the ceding of Hong Kong Island to Britain (1842)
• The Beatles: gave their last paid concert, at San Francisco's Candlestick Park, now Monster Park (1966)
• Hurricane Katrina: the costliest natural disaster in US history made landfall in Louisiana and Mississippi, devastating cities, most notably New Orleans (2005)

Birthdays

• John Locke (1632-1704): English empiricist philosopher who influenced the American and French revolutions
• Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949): Nobel Prize-winning author; plus, writer Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
• Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982): Oscar-, Emmy- and Tony-award winning actress; and, actors Elliot Gould (72), G.W. Bailey (65), Ray Wise (63), Rebecca DeMornay (49?), Carla Gugino (39), Dante Basco (35) and Lea Michele (24)
• Richard Attenborough (87): director of Gandhi and Cry Freedom; also, directors Preston Sturges (1898-1959), William Friedkin (75) and Joel Schumacher (71)
• John McCain (74): US senator from Arizona
• Michael Jackson (1958-2009): pop megastar; plus, musicians Charlie Parker (1920-1955) and Dinah Washington (1924-1963)