Saturday, September 17, 2011

postprandial \post-PRAN-dee-uhl\, adjective:

• Happening or done after a meal.

Postprandial is from post- + prandial, from Latin prandium, "a late breakfast or lunch."

A Ghetto Condom

• Someone who is too cheap or too poor to use a real condom and ends wraping up their "Package" up in some seran wrap or foil or even a ballon.

Dave was too cheap to buy a real condom so he used a ghetto condom and now his girl is pregnant.

Trivia

What world-famous sculptor created the bright-orange 53-foot-tall abstract flamingo that is displayed in Chicago’s Federal Center Plaza?

• Alexander Calder.

History

• United States Constitution: the supreme law of the land was signed at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia (1787)
• Norton I: Joshua Abraham Norton, a native Englishman who ended up in San Francisco, declared himself emperor of the United States (1859)
• Battle of Antietam: bloody day — 23,000 killed — of carnage during the American Civil War (1862)
• Lt. Thomas Selfridge: became the first person to die in an airplane crash, in a plane piloted by Orville Wright (1908)
• M*A*S*H: the TV show whose final episode remains the top-viewed program on American TV debuted (1972)

Birthdays

• Cassandra Peterson (62): actress best known as Elvira
• William Carlos Williams (1883-1963): physician and Pulitzer Prize-winning author; plus, author Ken Kesey (1935-2001)
• Sir Frederick Ashton (1904-1988): choreographer, director of the Royal Ballet
• David Oistrakh (1908 [OS]-1974): violin virtuoso; also, musicians Hank Williams (1923-1953), LaMonte McLemore (72), Anastacia (43) and Chuck Comeau (32)
• David Souter (72): US Supreme Court justice; plus, Chief Justice Warren Burger (1907-1995)
• Matthew Settle (42): Gossip Girl's Rufus Humphrey; also, actors Anne Bancroft (1931-2005), John Ritter (1948-2003) and Kyle Chandler (46) and directors Baz Luhrmann (49) and Bryan Singer (46)
• Mark Brunell (41): NFL quarterback; plus, team players Rube Foster (1879-1930), George Blanda (84), Phil Jackson (66) and Dan Haren (31)
• Douglas E. Davis (45): rapper and beat box also known as Doug E. Fresh