Thursday, May 19, 2011

fungible \FUHN-juh-buhl\, adjective:

1. (Law) Freely exchangeable for or replaceable by another of like nature or kind in the satisfaction of an obligation.

2. Interchangeable.

noun:

1. Something that is exchangeable or substitutable. Usually used in the plural.

Fungible comes from Medieval Latin fungibilis, from Latin fungi (vice), "to perform (in place of)."

post-acquaintance friend request

• The friend request sent right after meeting someone for the first time.

After meeting Ryan at the party, Dave sent him a post-acquaintance friend request to secure their friendship.

Trivia

What did concessionaire Anton Feuchtwanger give customers to help them eat his sausages at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair—before he invented the split hot-dog bun?

• White gloves, so they wouldn’t burn or dirty their hands. When customers routinely walked off with the gloves, he had his baker brother-in-law make special dog-size split buns.

History

• Anne Boleyn: Henry VIII's second wife was beheaded (1536)
• New England's Dark Day: clouds, smoke and fog combined to obliterate the sun over the northeastern United States (1780)
• Tariff of 1828: was passed to protect US industry; it was denounced as a "tariff of abominations" by critics in the South (1828)
• Marilyn Monroe: crooned ''Happy Birthday, Mr. President'' to John F. Kennedy at a Madison Square Garden fundraiser (1962)

Birthdays

• Peter Mayhew (67): English actor known for playing the Wookiee Chewbacca in the Star Wars movies. His peak height was 7 feet 3 inches (2.21 m) tall.
• Johns Hopkins (1795-1873): merchant, philanthropist who endowed Johns Hopkins University
• Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969): leader of North Vietnam
• Malcolm X (1925-1965): a leader of the Black Muslim movement in America
• Nora Ephron (70): writer, When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle; writer Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) shared this birth date
• Pete Townshend (66): guitarist/songwriter, The Who
• Kevin Garnett (35): power forward for the Celtics
• Joe Michael "Dusty" Hill (61): bassist and vocalist with Texas Boogie-Blues-Rock group ZZ Top.

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