Sunday, October 30, 2011

thanatopsis \than-uh-TOP-sis\, noun:

1. A view or contemplation of death.

2. A poem (1817) by William Cullen Bryant.

Thanatopsis was first used in English by poet William Cullen Bryant in his 1817 poem. The word literally comes from the Greek thanato- meaning death and -opsis meaning likeness or idea.

Halloweenorexia

• An eating disorder that only proceeds a month before Halloween. Mainly occuring in young women, characterized by a self-induced starvation in order to look hot in their slutty Halloween costumes. Halloweenorexia ends the following day and is usually followed by a food binge.

Giovanna: Did you see Sabreena in her lingerie outfit on Halloween?

AunaLee: Ya she lost so much weight! She looked bomb!

Giovanna: She'll gain it all back, she suffers from Halloweenorexia.

Trivia

How many decks are there on the Queen Mary 2?

• 17—of which 13 are dedicated to passengers.

History

• Act of Supremacy: the English parliament passed a law making King Henry VIII head of the English church (1534)
• War of the Worlds: Orson Welles' radio broadcast purported to deliver news of a fictional Martian invasion; outrage and panic ensued (1930)
• Tsar Bomba: the largest and most powerful nuclear weapon ever tested was detonated by the Soviet Union over the Arctic archipelago of Novaya Zemlya (1961)
• the rumble in the jungle: Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman for the world heavyweight title (1974)
• Quebec: voters opted to stay part of Canada by a hair's-breadth majority of 50.6% to 49.4% (1995)

Birthdays

• Bobby "the Blue" Bax0jayz (40): accountant, drummer, blogger, supreme dictator of the universe, will become a saint.
• John Adams (1735-1826): the first vice president of the US, and its second president
• Alfred Sisley (1839-1899): landscape artist
• Charles Atlas (1893-1972): Italian-born bodybuilder who ran a mail order course for "97-pound weaklings"
• Louis Malle (1932-1995): New Wave film director, My Dinner With André; also, director Claude Lelouche (74) and broadcast pioneer Fred Friendly (1915-1998)
• Grace Slick (72): rock singer, Jefferson Airplane; and, rocker Timothy Schmit (64)
• Henry Winkler (66): The Fonz of Happy Days; also, actors Ruth Gordon (1896-1985), Dick Gautier (74), Harry Hamlin (60), Kevin Pollack (54), Jack Plotnick (43), Nia Long and Ben Bailey (both 40) and Gael Garcia Bernal (33)
• Diego Maradona (51): Argentinian soccer great who led his country to the 1986 World Cup; also, gold-medal gymnast Nastia Liukin (22)

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