Tuesday, September 27, 2011

gadabout \GAD-uh-bout\, noun:

• Someone who roams about in search of amusement or social activity.

Gadabout is formed from the verb gad, "to rove or go about without purpose or restlessly" (from Middle English gadden, "to hurry") + about.

sexercism

• Having sex with someone new to get over someone old. A way to cut any last emotional ties to a person you used to have sex with. A non-religious, therapeutic exercise.

Person 1: She needs to get over her ex already!

Person 2: Yeah, she needs a sexercism real fast.

Trivia

What character created by Nathaniel Hawthorne was the first superhero in American fiction?

• The Gray Champion, an aged ghostlike figure who stands up alone against British troops advancing toward colonists gathered on a Boston street. He appears in the short story “The Gray Champion,” published in The New-England Magazine in 1835.

History

• Society of Jesus: the Jesuits' order was chartered by Pope Paul III (1540)
• Locomotion No. 1: steam-powered locomotive hauled its first passenger train on England's Stockton and Darlington line (1825)
• Warren Commission: government investigative team concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating President John F. Kennedy (1964)
• NC-17: rating for adult-oriented films was introduced by the MPAA (1990)
• Taliban: a group of Islamic religious students captured Afghanistan's capital, Kabul (1996)

Birthdays

• Samuel Adams (1722-1803): American Revolutionary leader, signer of the Declaration of Independence
• Thomas Nast (1840-1902): caricaturist who came up with the symbols of the Republican and Democratic Parties
• Harry Blackstone (1885-1965): magician
• Kathleen Nolan (78): the Screen Actors Guild's first female president; also, actors Jayne Meadows (91), Sada Thompson (82), Wilford Brimley (77), Greg Morris (1933-1996), Liz Torres (64), A Martinez (63), Sofia Milos (46), Patrick Muldoon (43), Amanda Detmer (40) and Gwyneth Paltrow (39)
• Avril Lavigne (27): punk/rock singer of "Sk8er Boi" and "Girlfriend"; other musicians born on this date include Bud Powell (1924-1966), Randy Bachman (68), Meat Loaf (64), Shaun Cassidy (53) and Lil' Wayne (29)

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