Saturday, September 24, 2011

lionize \LY-uh-nyz\, transitive verb:

• To treat or regard as an object of great interest or importance.

Lionize, comes from lion, in the sense of "a person of great interest or importance."

Layout Bitching

• The act of users posting statuses on Facebook, bitching and moaning unecessarily about new layouts.

Person A: "WHAT THE HELL FACEBOOK, Y U ALWAYS CHANGE LAYOUT?"

Person B: "Shut the hell up and stop layout bitching."

Trivia

Whose home is the only national landmark site in the U.S. associated with a classical musician?

• Aaron Copland’s two-bedroom home, Rock Hill, in Cortlandt Manor, New York.

History

• Black Friday: Wall Street panicked as speculators tried to corner the gold market, causing a collapse (1869)
• USS Enterprise: first nuclear aircraft carrier was launched, in Newport News, Virginia (1960)
• 60 Minutes: investigative TV newsmagazine debuted on CBS (1968)

Birthdays

• John Marshall (1755-1835): fourth US Chief Justice
• F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940): Jazz Age author, The Great Gatsby
• Jim Henson (1936-1990): puppeteer, creator of The Muppets; Kermit and Ernie's new voice, Steve Whitmire (52), shares this birth date
• Gerry Marsden (69): singer, Gerry and the Pacemakers; also, lyricist Anthony Newley (80) and musician/photographer Linda McCartney (1941-1998)
• "Mean" Joe Greene (65): NFL legend; also, athletes Rafael Palmeiro (47), Kevin Millar (40) and Eddie George (38)
• Nia Vardalos (49): writer/actor, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, I Hate Valentine's Day; also, actors Phil Hartman (1948-1998), Gordon Clapp (63), Kevin Sorbo (53), Megan Ward (42) and Kyle Sullivan (23)
• Paul and Morgan Hamm (both 28): Olympics gymnasts; Olympics sportscaster Jim McKay (1921-2008) was also born on this date

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