Thursday, June 16, 2011

brindled \BRIN-dld\, adjective:

• Gray or tawny with darker streaks or spots.

Brindled is alteration of brinded "brown or marked as if with brands" with -le, perhaps influenced by words like speckled, etc.

toothpaste hangover

• The effect that makes everything taste disgusting after you brush your teeth.

Augh! This orange juice tastes horrible, thanks to that gosh-darned toothpaste hangover!

Trivia

In Spaceballs, Mel Brooks’ spoof of the Star Wars trilogy, what is the name of the character parodying Jabba the Hutt?

• Pizza the Hut.

History

• Battle of Stoke: marked the tail end of the Wars of the Roses (1487)
• House Divided speech: Abraham Lincoln, as a senatorial candidate, warned that the Union must become either all-slave or all-free (1858)
• Bloomsday: James Joyce's Ulysses follows Leopold Bloom through this one day of his life (1904)
• New Deal: FDR opened his recovery program, signing bank, rail and industry bills and initiating farm aid (1933)
• Valentina Tereshkova: Soviet cosmonaut became the first woman in space aboard Vostok 6 (1963)

Birthdays

• Geronimo (1829-1909): Apache leader
• Barbara McClintock (1902-1992): Nobel Prize winner for discoveries about genetic mobility; also, scientists Julius Plucker (1801-1868), Edward Davy (1806-1885) and Georg Wittig (1897-1987)
• Irving Penn (1917-2009): prolific fashion photographer
• Erich Segal (1937-2010): author, Love Story; and, writers John Howard Griffin (1920-1980) and Joyce Carol Oates (73)
• Laurie Metcalf (56): Emmy Award-winner for Roseanne; plus, actors Stan Laurel (1890-1965), Joan Van Ark (68), Eddie Cibrian (38), Missy Peregrym (29) and Abby Elliot (24)
• Phil Mickelson (41): pro golfer; and, boxer Roberto Duran (60)
• Tupac Shakur (1971-1996): rapper, 2Pacalypse Now

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