Wednesday, February 16, 2011

factotum \fak-TOH-tuhm\, noun:

• A person employed to do all kinds of work or business.

Factotum is from Medieval Latin, from Latin fac totum, "do everything," from facere, "to do" + totus, "all."

going ham

• a derivative of the word mayhem

v.

• meaning to raise mayhem

Shelley hit me in the balls and ran, I'm going ham the next time i see her.

Trivia

Who was both the youngest boxer to win a world heavyweight championship and the youngest to lose it?

• Mike Tyson. He won the title from Trevor Berbick in November 1986 at age 20 years and 4 months, and lost it to James “Buster” Douglas in 1990 at age 23 years and 7 months.

History

• Tutankhamen's tomb: Egyptian king's burial chamber was opened, mesmerizing the world with the wealth inside; among the treasures found were a gold throne, a gold sarcophagus and the king's mummified body (1923)
• nylon: the high-strength synthetic polymer was patented by industrial chemist Wallace Hume Carothers (1937)
• Fidel Castro: became leader of Cuba after ousting Fulgencio Batista; he stepped down in 2008 due to ill health, and his brother Raúl took office (1959)
• 911: Alabama's speaker of the house placed the first call on the US emergency telephone system, in Haleyville (1968)

Birthdays

• Robert Flaherty (1884-1951): filmmaker who made Nanook of the North
• Sonny Bono (1935-1998): singer, mayor, congressman
• Richard Ford (67): novelist, The Sportswriter; writers Nikolay Semyonovich Leskov (1831-1895) and Henry Adams (1838-1918) shared this birth date
• Ice-T (53): gangsta rapper/actor, O.G. Original Gangster, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit; also, actors Jeremy Bulloch (65), Pete Postlethwaite (1946-2011), William Katt (60), LeVar Burton (54), Lisa Loring (53) and Christopher Eccleston (47)
• John McEnroe (52): tennis superstar
• Andy Taylor (50): rock musician, Duran Duran; also, singers Patty Andrews (93) and James Ingram (59)
• Valentino Rossi (32): Italian-born world champ of motorcycle racing