Wednesday, August 3, 2011

hacienda \hah-see-EN-duh\, noun:

• A large estate, especially one used for farming or ranching.

Hacienda enters English from the Spanish word of the same meaning, which derives from the Latin facienda, "things to be done or made."

Boner Shock

• Expressions or actions performed that causes your boner to go into "shock" or go back into the flaccid stage.

That girl gave me boner shock when right before sex she said "I always forgets to take my birth control."

Trivia

What Hollywood figure’s first screen appearance was as the baby boy being christened in the famous baptism scene in The Godfather?

• Actress-director-producer Sofia Coppola, daughter of director Francis Ford Coppola. She was three weeks old when the scene was shot in 1971.

History

• Christopher Columbus: set sail from Palos, Spain, on the voyage that would take him to America (1492)
• La Scala: leading opera house opened in Milan with a production of Salieri's opera Europa riconosciuta, which was not performed again until December 7, 2004, when La Scala reopened after renovations (1788)
• NBA: the National Basketball League and the Basketball Association of America merged to form America's professional basketball league (1949)
• USS Nautilus: the world's first nuclear-powered submarine sailed over the North Pole underwater in a journey under the Arctic ice cap (1958)
• Air Traffic Controllers Strike: PATCO workers walked out, leading to the firing of nearly all air traffic controllers by President Ronald Reagan two days later; in the wake of this event, US labor unions were weakened (1981)
• Statue of Liberty: pedestal reopened to the public for first time since 9/11 (2004)

Birthdays

• Stanley Baldwin (1867-1947): British three-term prime minister; Tunisian president Habib Bourguiba (1903-2000) shared this birth date
• P.D. James (91): mystery writer; also, authors Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855-1896), Rupert Brooke (1887-1915), Ernie Pyle (1900-1945), Leon Uris (1924-2003) and Steven Millhauser (68)
• Tony Bennett (85): singer, "(I Left My Heart) in San Francisco"; also, musicians Richard Adler (90), Beverly Lee (70), B.B. Dickerson (62), Randy Scruggs (58) and James Hetfield (48)
• Martha Stewart (70): homemaker guru who's become a household name
• John C. McGinley (52): Perry Cox on Scrubs; also, actors Martin Sheen (71), Isaiah Washington (48), Brigid Brannagh (39) and Evangeline Lilly (32)
• Tom Brady (34): New England Patriots quarterback; plus, football coach Marv Levy (86) and hockey hall-of-famer Marcel Dionne (60)

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