Thursday, October 27, 2011

perdition \per-DISH-uhn\, noun:

1. A state of final spiritual ruin; loss of the soul; damnation.

2. The future state of the wicked.

3. Hell.

4. Utter destruction or ruin.

5. Obsolete. Loss.

Perdition stems from the Latin perditiōn- meaning destruction. It was the equivalent of perdit, the past participle of perdere meaning to do in, ruin or lose.

skeezy

• A combination of Sketchy (dubious) and sleazy(dirty or vulgar)

That middle-aged man hanging outside the high school parking lot was majorly skeezy

Trivia

Why did the British rock band Led Zeppelin change its name for a concert in Copenhagen in 1970?

• The band, which changed its name to the Nabs, had been threatened with a show-stopping lawsuit by Eva von Zeppelin, a descendant of airship inventor Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. She claimed the picture of the Hindenburg crashing in flames on the cover of the band’s first LP dishonored her family’s name.

History

• Philadelphia: the City of Brotherly Love was founded (1682)
• Federalist Papers: the first of a series of essays was published, calling for the ratification of the US Constitution; the essays were written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay (1787)
• IRT: New York City's first rapid transit subway opened (1904)
• nylon: chemical company DuPont announced the name of its new synthetic fiber (1938)
• Wall Street crash: trading was halted for a cooling-off period after the Dow fell more than 500 points (1997)

Birthdays

• Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919): 26th POTUS; he and first wife, Alice Lee, were married on this date in 1880
• Emily Post (1872-1960): etiquette authority
• Dylan Thomas (1914-1953): playwright and poet; plus, writers Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), Maxine Hong Kingston (71) and Fran Lebowitz (61)
• John Cleese (72): actor who played Basil Fawlty, Nearly Headless Nick and Q; also, actors Nanette Fabray (91), Ruby Dee (87), Peter Firth and Robert Picardo (both 57), and Sheeri Rappaport (34)
• Ivan Reitman (65): director/producer, Ghostbusters; plus, director/producer Roberto Benigni (59)
• Scott Weiland (44): rock singer and songwriter, Velvet Revolver; also, musicians Niccoló Paganini (1782-1840), Lee Greenwood (69), Garry Tallent (62), K.K. Downing (60), Simon LeBon (53) and Kelly Osbourne (27)

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