Monday, July 18, 2011

canonical \kuh-NON-i-kuhl\, adjective:

1. Authorized; recognized; accepted.

2. Included in the canon of the Bible.

3. In mathematics, (of an equation, coordinate, etc.) in simplest or standard form.

Canonical derives from the Late Latin canon, "measuring line."

Fuckit List

• A list of people, male or female, you want to have sexual intercourse with before you die.

G-Mo: Bob has an awesome Fuckit List:

1. Kate Beckinsale

2. Megan Fox

3. Olga Kurlyenko

4. Olivia Wilde
5. Mila Kunis

Trivia

What cameo role did legendary guitarist Bo Diddley play in the 1983 Eddie Murphy-Dan Aykroyd film Trading Places?

• The pawnbroker to whom Aykroyd, as Louis Winthorpe III, sold his watch.

History

• Great Fire of Rome: a conflagration that destroyed Rome began; Nero (who probably didn't really fiddle while Rome burned) blamed it on Christians and began the first Roman persecutions of them (65)
• secret ballot: new voting method was introduced in Britain (1872)
• Spanish Civil War: General Francisco Franco led an uprising in Spanish North Africa, beginning a war that lasted for three years; at the war's end, Franco became dictator of Spain until his death in 1975 (1936)
• FDR: the 32nd POTUS was nominated for an unprecedented third term in office (1940)
• Nadia Comaneci: 14-year-old Romanian earned the first perfect 10 in Olympics gymnastics (1976)

Birthdays

• Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005): author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; plus, writers William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), Clifford Odets (1906-1963), Jessamyn West (1907-1984) and Yevgeny Yevtushenko (78)
• Andrey Gromyko (1909-1989): Soviet statesman
• Nelson Mandela (93): former South African president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
• John Glenn, Jr. (90): astronaut and senator
• Dick Button (82): champion figure skater
• Dion DiMucci (72): singer, Dion and the Belmonts; musicians Martha Reeves (70) and Jack Irons (49) were also born on this date
• Chace Crawford (26): Gossip Girl's Nate Archibald, and a People magazine hottest bachelor; also, actors James Brolin (71), Vin Diesel (44), Elizabeth McGovern (50), Kristen Bell (31) and Priyanka Chopra (29)

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