Tuesday, September 20, 2011

acme \ACK-mee\, noun:

• The highest point of something; the highest level or degree attainable.

Acme comes from Greek akme, point, highest point, culmination.

masternap

• The act - either planned or unplanned - of falling to sleep after masturbating.

I was just going to rub one out, but I ended up masternapping for an hour.

Trivia

What oddball baseball player’s nickname was inspired by a Sesame Street character?

• Detroit Tigers pitcher Mark “The Bird” Fidrych, who sported a full head of golden curls, walked with a gawky gait regularly rearranged the dirt on the pitcher’s mound, and talked to the ball.

History

• Ferdinand Magellan: explorer set sail from southern Spain to circumnavigate the globe (1519)
• Victor Emmanuel II: seized the Papal States from the French; later he became the first king of modern Italy (1870)
• civil rights: Mississippi governor Ross Barnett personally blocked the entrance of African-American James Meredith to the University of Mississippi; Meredith did end up attending (1962)
• Battle of the Sexes tennis match: Billie Jean King won against Bobby Riggs, who had said women couldn't stand the pressure of the game; 30,000 attended and millions watched on TV (1973)

Birthdays

• Sir James Dewar (1842-1923): chemist and physicist who came up with the Dewar flask
• Upton Sinclair (1878-1968): writer/reformer, The Jungle
• Red Auerbach (1917-2006): basketball coach who led the Boston Celtics to eight consecutive NBA titles; hockey hall-of-famer Guy LaFleur (59) shares this birth date
• Dr. Joyce Brothers (83): pop psychologist
• Sophia Loren (77): Oscar-winning actress for Two Women — in 1991 she got a special Oscar for her full body of work; also, actors Anne Meara (82), Betsy Brantley (56), Gary Cole and Debbi Morgan (both 54) and Kristen Johnston (44)
• Taro Aso (71): former prime minister of Japan

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