Saturday, October 15, 2011

askance \uh-SKANS\, adverb:

1. With suspicion, mistrust, or disapproval.

2. With a side glance; sidewise; obliquely.

The origin of askance has not been verifiably determined. It is possibly a variant of the Old Norse word askew meaning "to one side."

suisexual

• a person who is neither heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, or asexual. they are not attracted to anyone but themselves, therefore, they jackoff a lot.

Fuck sex, I'm a suisexual! Vaginas and penises are GROSS!

Trivia

What Hollywood heartthrob once co-owned a film company called Section Eight Productions?

• George Clooney. He formed Section Eight in 1999 with director Steven Soderbergh, and closed it in 2006 when he set up Smoke House Pictures with actor-writer-producer-director Grant Heslov.

History

• Gregorian calendar: was adopted by Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain; the Julian calendar ended the previous day, October 4, and the intervening 10 days were deleted (1582)
• Abraham Lincoln: was encouraged to grow a beard in a letter he received from 11-year-old Grace Bedell (1860)
• The Great Dictator: Charlie Chaplin's scathing satirical film attack on Nazi Germany was released (1940)
• I Love Lucy: one of television history's most popular sitcoms debuted (1951)
• Department of Transportation: was signed into existence by LBJ (1966)
• sound barrier: was broken on land for the first time, by RAF pilot Andy Green in Black Rock Desert in Nevada, 50 years and a day after it was broken in the air by Chuck Yeager (1997)

Birthdays

• Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900): German philosopher who wrote about the Übermensch, or superman; plus philosopher/historian Michel Foucault (1926-1984) and historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (1917-2007)
• John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006): economist
• Mario Puzo (1920-1999): novelist, The Godfather; also, writers Virgil (70-19 BCE), Allan Ramsay (1686-1758), Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov (1814-1841 OS), Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885), P.G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) and C. P. Snow (1905-1980)
• Jim Palmer (66): three-time winner of the Cy Young Award
• Emeril Lagasse (52): celebrity chef
• Sarah Ferguson (52): one-time member of the British Royal Family
• Keyshia Cole (30): R&B singer and songwriter, The Way it Is; plus, musicians Barry McGuire (76), Don Stevenson (70), Richard Carpenter (65) and Tito Jackson (58)
• Tanya Roberts (56) actress, Charlie's Angels, That 70's Show, hottie