Sunday, May 29, 2011

toothsome \TOOTH-suhm\, adjective:

1. Pleasing to the taste; delicious; as, "a toothsome pie."
2. Agreeable; attractive; as, "a toothsome offer."
3. Sexually attractive.

Toothsome is derived from tooth + -some.
reality challenged (adj.)

• being in a state in which one is utterly and completely unable to distinguish fact from fiction, and is thus obviously and undeniably full of shit. Most politicians are reality challenged. So are a number of attorneys, as well as most people living in Hollywood.

To use it in a sentence: "That guy is SO reality challenged... that he can't even tell shit from Shinola!"

Trivia

Which of the U.S.’s 50 state capitals is at the highest elevation?

• Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 7,000 feet.

History

• Rhode Island: ratified the US constitution; it was the last of the original 13 colonies to do so (1790)
• Wisconsin: became the 30th US state; it leads the country in cheese production (1848)
• Mount Everest: the world's highest peak was summited for the first time, by New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa Tenzing Norgay (1953)
• Discovery: space shuttle completed the first docking with the International Space Station (1999)

Birthdays

• Charles II (1630-1685): king of England, Scotland, and Ireland
• Patrick Henry (1736-1799): American patriot who said "Give me liberty or give me death!"
• T.H. White (1906-1964): novelist, The Once and Future King; also, writer G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
• John F. Kennedy (1917-1963): 35th POTUS; established the Peace Corps
• Al Unser Sr. (72): championship automobile racer
• Rupert Everett (52): actor and Vanity Fair contributing editor; also, entertainers Bob Hope (1903-2003), Helmut Berger (67), Anthony Geary (64), Annette Bening (53) and Tracey Bregman (48)
• Melanie Brown (36): singer, The Spice Girls' "Scary Spice"'; musicians Gary Brooker (66), Danny Elfman (58), LaToya Jackson (55), Melissa Etheridge (50) and Noel Gallagher (44) were also born on this date

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