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Provided by the compucert futilitarian \fyoo-til-i-TAIR-ee-uhn\, adjective:
- Believing that human hopes are vain and unjustified.
Futilitarian is a satirical coinage from the 1820s combining "futility" and "utilitarian."
Guysmaids
- A gay guy's groomsman.
Alex: You're silly, I'm gonna make you one of my guysmaids!
Adam: Faaaaaaaaaaaabulous!
Trivia
What team’s uniform was actress Shirley MacLaine wearing when she appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated’s1964 college football preview issue?
- Notre Dame’s. MacLaine was promoting her football film comedy John Goldfarb, Please Come Home.
History
- California: was annexed to the US after a Mexican garrison surrendered; Hawaii was annexed 52 years later (1846, 1898)
- sliced bread: first commercially produced loaf was sold in Chillicothe, Missouri (1928)
- Hoover Dam: work began on the Colorado River project, then known as Boulder Dam (1930)
- Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini: was canonized as the first American saint (1946)
- London bombings: explosions on a bus and in three Underground stations killed 52 (2005)
Berfdays, yo!
- Gustav Mahler (1860-1911): Viennese composer/conductor
- Marc Chagall (1887-1985): painter and stained-glass artist
- Leroy "Satchel" Paige (1906-1982): hall-of-fame pitcher
Pinetop Perkins (98): Blues Hall-of-Famer; also, musicians Doc Severinsen (84), Warren Entner (67) and Vonda Shepard (48)
- Pierre Cardin (89): French fashion designer
- David McCullough (78): Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Truman, John Adams; plus, sci-fi writer Robert Heinlein
(1907-1988)
- Billy Campbell (52): actor, Once and Again, The 4400; also, actors Joe Spano (65), Shelley Duvall (62), Jorja Fox (43), Kirsten Vangsness (39) and Hamish Linklater (35)
- Michelle Kwan (31): five-time world figure-skating champ
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