Tuesday, June 14, 2011

orison \AWR-uh-zuhn\, noun:

• A prayer.

Orison derives from the Late Latin oratio-, a conjugation of the Latin "plea, oration."

facebook wit

• The intellegent humor that nearly everyone seems to gain when they have a half an hour to contemplate a witty response. It is usually a bad comparison to a person's actually conversational skills since they can sit and contemplate the response for as long as they need.

(Facebook wit conversation)

Susie (7:12): So... supposedly the world is ending on Saturday...

Dan: (7:32): Hell yeah! (pun totally intended ;)

Susie (7:34): You think you'll still be here after the rapture?

Dan: (8:01): Oh, I'm throwing a rapture party! Devil juice and Satan cakes, with the Antichrist spinning!

Susie: (8:04): ROFL!

 

(Real conversation)

Susie (7:12): So... supposedly the world is ending on Saturday...

Dan (7:13): Oh, wow, that's really interesting...

(Crickets chirping)

Trivia

What grade did Ohio high school student Robert Heft get for the history class project for which he designed what is now the U.S.’s 50-star flag?

• B-minus. That was in 1958, when there were 48 states. Heft’s teacher promised to change the grade to an A if Congress ever adopted the design. That happened two years later, after Alaska and Hawaii became states.

Holiday

• Flag Day (US)

History

• Munich: Benedictine monks founded the Bavarian city on the banks of the Isar River (1158)
• US Army: was founded to fight the British (1775)
• Bear Flag Revolt: the California Republic was declared by Sonoma settlers while California was still ruled by Mexico (1846)
• UNIVAC I: the first commercial computer was dedicated at the US Census Bureau (1951)
• Pledge of Allegiance: President Eisenhower signed the order inserting the words "under God" (1954)
• Falkland Islands: military dispute ended as Argentine forces surrendered to the British (1982)

Birthdays

• Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736-1806): physicist
• Alois Alzheimer (1864-1915: the psychiatrist and pathologist who first described the eponymous disease
• Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971): photo-journalist
• Kevin McHale (23): Artie Abrams in Glee; other actors born on this date include Gene Barry (1919-2009) Jack Bannon (71), Will Patton (57), Yasmine Bleeth (43) and Traylor Howard (40)
• Che Guevara (1928-1967): revolutionary
• Donald Trump (65): real estate mogul
• Boy George (50): singer with androgynous look
• Steffi Graf (42): tennis pro; also, champion athlete Eric Heiden (53)
• Diablo Cody (33): award-winning author of Juno; also, writers Vasile Alecsandri (1821-1890), Jerzy Kosinski (1933-1991) and Peter Mayle (72)

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