Thursday, October 6, 2011

druthers \DRUHTH-erz\, noun:

• One's own way, choice, or preference.

Druthers comes from a jocular American English formation of the phrase "I'd ruther" meaning "I'd rather."

shitload

• more than an assload but still less than a fuckton.

I have a shitload of beer, but down at my friend's place, they have a whole fuckton.

Trivia

How many state capitals have the word “city” in their names?

• Four—Carson City, Nevada; Jefferson City, Missouri; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and Salt Lake City, Utah.

History

• Moulin Rouge: France's most famous cabaret opened in the Montmartre section in Paris (1889)
• The Jazz Singer: first full-length talkie debuted with songs and 291 spoken words (1927)
• The Curse of the Billy Goat: began when Billy Sianis and his goat were ejected from Wrigley Field during Game 4 of the 1945 World Series; Sianis predicted that the Cubs would never again win a World Series, and, so far, they haven't even been in one since then (1945)
• Yom Kippur War: Egypt and Syria attacked Israel on the holiest day of the Jewish year (1973)
• Anwar Sadat: Egypt's president was assassinated by Islamic fundamentalists while reviewing a military parade in Cairo (1981)

Birthdays

• Wenceslas III (1289-1306): king of Hungary
• James McGill (1744-1813): Canadian businessman whose bequest founded McGill University in Montreal
• Jenny Lind (1820-1887): the "Swedish Nightingale"
• George Westinghouse (1846-1914): inventor of the air brakes first used in trains
• Le Corbusier (1887-1965): city planner and painter who was also one of the most influential architects of the 20th century
• Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002): ethnographer and adventurer who went on the Kon Tiki expedition
• Jeremy Sisto (37): Detective Cyrus Lupo on Law & Order; also, actors Britt Ekland (69), Elisabeth Shue (48), Emily Mortimer (40) and Ioan Gruffudd (38)

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