Sunday, June 19, 2011

virilocal \vir-uh-LOH-kuhl\, adjective:

• Living with or located near a husband's father's family.

Virilocal combines the Latin roots Viri-, "man," and -local, "of a specific place."

cellular isolation

• Occurs when a two person group is partitioned by one party’s separate conversation via phone call or text message using a cellular device.

The conversation was quite riveting until Becky initiated cellular isolation by sexting for the remainder of the evening.

Trivia

Which actors play bachelor-fathers in the 1987 film comedy Three Men and a Baby?

• Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, and Ted Danson.

Holidays

• Father's Day (many countries)
• Juneteenth (US, especially Texas)

History

• Belmont Stakes: had its first running (1867)
• Julius and Ethel Rosenberg: were executed in New York's Sing Sing prison for conspiracy to commit espionage for the USSR (1953)
• Civil Rights Act of 1964: was approved after outlasting an 83-day US Senate filibuster
• The Rocky Horror Show: romped for the first time, on stage in London (1973)
• John Neumann: Philadelphia bishop became the first US male saint when he was canonized by Pope Paul VI (1977)
• Garfield: Jim Davis's comic strip about a lazy, overeating cat debuted (1978)

Birthdays

• James I of England (1566-1625): aka James VI of Scotland
• Blaise Pascal (1623-1662): scientist, mathematician and religious philosopher
• Lou Gehrig (1903-1941): NY Yankees' "Iron Horse"
• Aung San Suu Kyi (66): winner of 1991's Nobel Peace Prize, who was a political prisoner for about 20 years in Myanmar
• Salman Rushdie (64): author of The Satanic Verses; and, writer Laura Hobson (1900-1986)
• Paula Abdul (49): singer and former American Idol judge
• Zoë Saldana (33): Uhura in Star Trek (2009) and Neytiri in Avatar; also, actors Louis Jourdan (90?), Gena Rowlands (81), Phylicia Rashad (63), Kathleen Turner (57), Robin Tunney (39), Poppy Montgomery (36), Lauren Lee Smith (31) and Paul Dano (27)

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