Wednesday, June 15, 2011

crotchet \KROCH-it\, noun:

1. An odd fancy or whimsical notion.

2. A small hook.

3. In British musical nomenclature, a quarter note.

4. A curved surgical instrument with a sharp hook.

Crotchet stems from the Middle English term for a staff with a hook at the end. The sense of whimsy most likely derives from its other meaning as a hook-shaped musical note.

Master Sexting

• to add your own phone number to your address book in your cell phone under the name of a different person and then sending dirty texts to yourself in an attempt to impress your friends.

Jason is so lame. Those texts weren't from a girl named Jasmine, he was master sexting!

Trivia

Where on earth are you if you’re at 0° latitude and 0° longitude?

• At the spot where the equator intersects with the prime meridian—in the Atlantic (in the Gulf of Guinea), off the coast of Africa, about 380 miles south of Ghana.

History

• King John: signed and sealed the Magna Carta at Runnymede (1215)
• Charles Goodyear: received a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber (1844)
• John Lennon: first met Paul McCartney when Lennon's rock group, The Quarrymen, performed at a church dinner; Lennon was 15, McCartney was 13 (1956)
• Dan Quayle: famous "potatoe" misspelling incident occurred (1992)
• 2002 MN: asteroid had a near miss as it flew by Earth (2002)

Birthdays

• Edward the Black Prince (1330-1376): heir apparent to the English throne; he always wore black armor
• Erik Erikson (1902-1994): psychoanalyst who coined the phrase "identity crisis"
• Waylon Jennings (1937-2002): country music singer; also, musicians Franz Danzi (1763-1826), Edvard Grieg (1843-1907), Terri Gibbs (57) and Dryden Mitchell (35) share this birth date
• Jim Belushi (57): actor, According to Jim; also, actors Julie Hagerty (56), Eileen Davidson (52), Helen Hunt (48), Courtney Cox (47), Ice Cube (42), Leah Remini (41), Neil Patrick Harris (38) and Elizabeth Reaser (36)
• Wade Boggs (53): baseball hall-of-famer; plus, sports stars Billy Williams (73), Mike Holmgren (63) and Andy Pettitte (39)

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