Saturday, May 14, 2011

misnomer \mis-NO-muhr\, noun:

1. The misnaming of a person in a legal instrument, as in a complaint or indictment.

2. Any misnaming of a person or thing; also, a wrong or inapplicable name or designation.

Misnomer is from Medieval French mesnommer, "to misname," from mes-, "wrongly" + nommer, "to name," from Latin nominare, "to name," from nomen, "a name."

pop culture shock

• When a person is out of the loop or not up to date on pop culture, and your attempts to explain them just confuse them even more.

Guy #1: did you see that paris hilton sex tape?

Guy #2: someone made a sex tape at the hilton in paris?

Guy #1: you don't know paris hilton? geez pop culture shock

Trivia

In Burger King’s “Have It Your Way” jingle, what line follows, “Hold the pickle, hold the lettuce”?

• “Special orders don’t upset us.” The jingle was introduced in 1974.

HIstory

• Jamestown: America's first permanent English colony was established in Virginia (1607)
• Louis XIV: became king of France at age 4 (1643)
• smallpox: Edward Jenner administered the first vaccine against the highly contagious disease to an eight-year-old boy (1796)
• Lewis and Clark expedition: began its exploratory journey to the Pacific Ocean (1804)
• Olympic Games: were held in the US for the first time, in St. Louis, Missouri (1904)
• Israel: the Jewish state was proclaimed independent; Egypt, Transjordan (later Jordan), Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq declared war on it almost immediately (1948)
• Skylab: America's first space station was launched into orbit (1973)
• Seinfeld: the final episode aired, with 76 million viewers watching (1998)

Birthdays

• Ian Astbury (49): singer, The Cult, The New Doors
• Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788): painter of The Blue Boy
• David Byrne (59): singer with the Talking Heads; also, musicians Otto Klemperer (1885-1973), Sidney Bechet (1897-1959), Patrice Munsel (86), Bobby Darin (1936-1973), Jack Bruce (68), C.C. DeVille (49), Danny Wood (42) and Shanice (38)
• Robert Zemeckis (59): director/producer, Cast Away, Forrest Gump, Beowulf; plus, filmmakers George Lucas (67), Tim Roth (50) and Sofia Coppola (40)
• Cate Blanchett (42): Oscar-winner for The Aviator; also, actors Tim Roth (50), Martine McCutcheon (35) and Amber Tamblyn (28)
• Mark Zuckerberg (27): founder of Facebook

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