Tuesday, August 31, 2010

beek \BEEK\, verb:

1. To bask or warm in the sunshine or before a fire.

2. (Of wood) to season by exposure to heat.

Beek is related to the same Middle English root that results in bake.

pockets on swole

• Having pockets full of money, i.e. swolen

"Pockets on swole lookin like they got the mumps" - Yung Joc

"I pull up in tha lambo

Pockets stay on swole" - Bow Wow

Trivia

What’s the name of the legendary monster that some people believe lurks beneath the surface of Lake Tahoe, on the California-Nevada border?

• Tahoe Tessie—named for its supposed resemblance to the Loch Ness Monster, which is popularly known as Nessie.

History

• Malaya: became independent of the United Kingdom (1957); a few years later this federation of states became Malaysia
• Trinidad and Tobago: island nation of the southern Caribbean, birthplace of limbo, became independent of the United Kingdom (1962)
• Jack the Ripper: first victim was found with her throat cut in London's East End (1888)
• Princess Diana: was killed in a car crash along with her companion, Dodi Fayed, and her driver as they attempted to evade paparazzi (1997)
• Baghdad bridge stampede: 1,000 pilgrims were killed when panic over a supposed suicide bomber caused a crush of people on the Al-Aaimmah bridge over the Tigris River (2005)

Birthdays

• William Saroyan (1908-1981): novelist/playwright, The Time of Your Life; other writers born on this date are DuBose Heyward (1885-1940), Dore Schary (1905-1980), William Shawn (1907-1992), Daniel Schorr (94) and Alan Jay Lerner (1918-1986)
• Frank Robinson (75): baseball hall-of-famer; NFL coach Tom Coughlin (64) also has a birthday today
• Itzhak Perlman (65): world-class violinist and promoter of disabled rights; musician Van Morrison (65) shares this birth date
• Richard Gere (61): recently on the screen in Nights in Rodanthe and Brooklyn's Finest; also, actors Warren Berlinger (73), Deborah Gibson (40), Chris Tucker (38) and Sara Ramirez (35)
• Queen Rania (40): Jordan's queen, wife of Abdullah II