Monday, September 26, 2011

sapid \SAP-id\, adjective:

1. Having taste or flavor, especially having a strong pleasant flavor.

2. Agreeable to the mind; to one's liking.

Sapid comes from Latin sapidus, "savory," from sapere, "to taste."

Fart and Dart, verb:

• To fart and leave others to enjoy the fumes.

See also: Shit and Split

I like to Fart and Dart in the grocery store. It's awesome to see the expressions when people walk through the cloud with their mouths wide open.

Trivia

Where is the most Mars-like environment on earth, according to the National Aeronautical and Space Administration?

• In northern Chile, in the Atacama Desert which has the driest and most lifeless soil on our planet.

History

• Sir Francis Drake: arrived in Plymouth aboard the Golden Hind, completing his circumnavigation of the globe (1580)
• Thomas Jefferson: was named America's first secretary of state; John Jay was the first chief justice (1789)
• Federal Trade Commission: agency whose aim is to protect consumers and guard against harmful business practices was founded (1914)
• Abbey Road: the last Beatles album to be recorded was released in the UK (1969); Let It Be was the last of the Fab Four's albums to be released (1970)
• Biosphere 2: eight people, four men and four women, entered a sealed complex in Oracle, Arizona, for an experiment in self-sustained living; they exited two hungry years later on the same date (1991)

Birthdays

• Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786): philosopher, literary critic and Bible scholar; plus, philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889-1976)
• John Chapman (1774-1845): conservationist aka Johnny Appleseed
• Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936): experimental psychologist who wrote of conditioned response
• Paul VI (1897-1978): pope of the Roman Catholic Church
• George Gershwin (1898-1937): composer of An American in Paris and Rhapsody in Blue
• Jack LaLanne (97): father of modern fitness
• Olivia Newton-John (63): pop singer who played Sandy in Grease
• Jane Smiley (62): Pulitzer-winning author, A Thousand Acres; also, writer T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
• Serena Williams (30): tennis star

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