Saturday, September 3, 2011

darkle \DAHR-kuhl\, verb:

1. To grow dark, gloomy, etc.

2. To appear dark; show indistinctly.

Darkle is a back-formation from the obsolete darkling, "to be in the dark."

feed bankruptcy

• feed bankruptcy is the result of being away from social media for so long that it is impossible to catch up on all the posts in your feed since you were last logged on.

Jeff: "Been away for the weekend. Declaring feed bankruptcy. None of y'all did anything interesting anyways, right?"

Trivia

What is the only word in the English language that is shorter in its feminine form than in its masculine form?

• Widow. The masculine form is widower.

History

• San Marino: independent country inside Italy — arguably the world's smallest and oldest republic — was founded (301)
• Richard the Lion-Hearted: was crowned king of England after defeating his father, Henry II (1189)
• Treaty of Paris: the US Revolutionary War came to an official end (1783)
• Malcolm Campbell: English racer and journalist became the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph, at Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah (1935)

Birthdays

• Edward Filene (1860-1937): eponymous retailer and a developer of the "bargain basement"; merchant Mark Hopkins (1814-1878) shared this birth date
• Ferdinand Porsche (1875-1951): auto designer
• Mort Walker (88): cartoonist, Beetle Bailey and Hi and Lois
• Alison Lurie (85): Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, Foreign Affairs; also, writers Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) and Caryl Churchill (73)
• Ruth Orkin (1921-1985): photographer and filmmaker
• Charlie Sheen (46): actor, Two and a Half Men; other actors who celebrate a birthday today include Helen Wagner (1918-2010), Anne Jackson (85), Eileen Brennan (79), Pauline Collins (71), Valerie Perrine (68), Steve Schirripa (54), Costas Mandylor (46) and Nick Wechsler (33)
• Shaun White (25): skate- and snowboard gold medalist

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