Monday, August 1, 2011

melismatic \mi-liz-MA-tik\, adjective:

• Characterized by the singing of several notes to one syllable of text, for emotional impact, as in blues and other musical styles.

Melismatic finds its source in the Greek melisma, "music."

Bag Texting

• When you try not to be rude texting while you are out with friends so you hide it by texting with the phone still in your bag. This is an attempt to trick people that you are with into not thinking you are rude when in fact it is so obvious when you are standing there with your bag open and your whole hand is in the bag, holding your phone, texting.

"Hey! what are you looking for in your bag, Jenn?"

"Oh nothing, I'm just bag texting".

Trivia

What business sponsored the haplesss Little League team chronicled in the 1976 family movie comedy The Bad News Bears?

• Chico’s Bail Bonds.

History

• Slavery Abolition Act 1833: abolished slavery in Britain and Ireland
• WWI: erupted as Germany declared war on Russia (1914)
• Fulbright: scholarship program was signed into US law (1946)
• MTV: cable music station was launched with, aptly, The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star" (1981)

Birthdays

• Claudius (10 BCE-54 CE): 4th Roman emperor
• Jean Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829): the naturalist credited with first use of the word "biology"
• Francis Scott Key (1779-1843): attorney who wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner"
• Herman Melville (1819-1891): author of Moby Dick; plus, writer Anne Hébert (1916-2000)
• Dom DeLuise (1933-2009): actor and cookbook writer; actors Giancarlo Giannini (69) and John Carroll Lynch (48) share this birth date
• Yves Saint Laurent (1936-2008): fashion designer, popularized pants for women
• Robert Cray (58): blues guitarist and singer; musicians Jerry Garcia (1942-1995), Michael Penn (53), Joe Elliot (52), Chuck D (51), Coolio (48) and Adam Duritz (47) also celebrate birthdays today

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