Wednesday, June 08, 2011

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

cater-cousin \KEY-ter-kuhz-uhn\, noun:
  • An intimate friend.
Cater-cousin combines the common English cousin with Cater-, an archaic prefix meaning "to buy, or serve."
ProcrastinEating
  • The consumption of food undertaken to avoid a dull or arduous task, irrespective of hunger levels or the time of day.
Mark: Man, this History paper's taking me forever...I could go for some Guacamole and Spicy Salsa dip on crackers...
John: Dude, you ate lunch half an hour ago. Quit ProcrastinEating and get back into it!
Trivia
What advertising icon came in second when Eleanor Roosevelt was voted the most famous woman in the U.S. in a 1945 Fortune magazine survey?
  • The fictitious Betty Crocker, who was created in 1921 to answer consumer baking questions received by the Washburn Crosby Co., a forerunner of General Mills.
History
  • Muhammad: the founder of Islam, PBUH, died in Medina, shortly after delivering his Farewell Sermon (632)
  • desegregation: the US Supreme Court ruled that restaurants in Washington, DC, could not refuse black patrons (1953)
  • Scott O'Grady: US Air Force pilot was rescued by Marines; he had avoided capture for six days after being shot down over Bosnia (1995)
  • PHP: scripting language was publicly released by Danish-Greenlandic programmer Rasmus Lerdorf (1995)
Birthdays
  • Robert Schumann (1810-1856): Romantic composer, especially famous for his works for the piano
  • Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959): iconic architect
  • Robert Aumann (81): Nobel laureate in Economics; plus, the co-discoverer of DNA's double-helix structure, Francis Crick (1916-2004)
  • Sara Paretsky (64): author, V.I. Warshawski detective stories; also, writers Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987) and Dan Futterman (44)
  • Tim Berners-Lee (56): guy who wove the World Wide Web
  • Scott Adams (54): cartoonist who created Dilbert
  • Julianna Margulies (45): star of The Good Wife; also, stars Jerry Stiller (84), Joan Rivers (78), Bernie Casey (72), Sonia Braga and Kathy Baker (both 61), Griffin Dunne (56), Keenan Ivory Wayans (53), Kelli Williams (41) and Mark Feuerstein (40)
  • Kanye West (34): Grammy-winning rapper; also, musicians Nancy Sinatra (71), Chuck Negron (69), Boz Scaggs (67) and Nick Rhodes (49)
  • Kim Clijsters (28): world-class tennis pro

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