Tuesday, October 11, 2011

jaundiced \JAWN-dist\, adjective:

1. Affected with or exhibiting prejudice, as from envy or resentment.

2. Affected with or colored by or as if by jaundice; yellowed.

noun:

1. In Pathology yellow discoloration of the skin, whites of the eyes, etc., due to an increase of bile pigments in the blood, often symptomatic of certain diseases, as hepatitis.

2. Grasserie

3. A state of feeling in which views are prejudiced or judgment is distorted, as by envy or resentment.

verb:

1. To distort or prejudice, as by envy or resentment.

Jaundiced comes from the Old French jaunisse meaning "yellowness" from jaune "yellow."

buffet momentum

The lack of self-restraint one experiences after having started eating at a buffet. This phenomenon causes a person to consume above and beyond what comprises a regularly sized meal. This feeling usually occurs in the first fifteen minutes of the buffet and is further perpetuated by:

a) remembering something delicious that you saw earlier and didn't have room on your plate for

b) wanting more of something you just tried

c) the desire to make the price you paid worthwhile

d) the need to illustrate to your friends that your stomach is indeed a bottomless pit.

"Wow, I just consumed three plates of food. Maybe we should wait a while before hitting up the dessert table."

"I disagree. In about 10 minutes my stomach is going to realize that it's full, so I think I'll just make use of the buffet momentum that I've developed and get dessert right now."

Trivia

How many last names were shared by U.S. presidents?

• Five—Adams (father and son John and John Quincy); Harrison (grandfather and grandson William H. and Benjamin); Johnson (non-relatives Andrew and Lyndon); Roosevelt (distant cousins Theodore and Franklin D.); and Bush (father and son George H.W. and George W.).

History

• Daughters of the American Revolution: lineage-based, conservative patriotic society was founded (1890)
• Vatican II: ecumenical council that led to liberalization and modernization of the church was convened by Pope John XXIII (1962)

Birthdays

• H. J. Heinz (1844-1919): manufacturer of 57 varieties; industrialist Charles Revson (1906-1975) shared this birth date
• Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962): former FLOTUS, social activist
• Jerome Robbins (1918-1998): choreographer, West Side Story
• Elmore Leonard (86): crime, western writer, Get Shorty
• Steve Young (50): quarterback for the 49ers
• Emily Deschanel (36): Dr. Temperance Brennan on Bones; also, actors Ron Leibman (74), David Morse (58), Stephen Spinella (55), Joan Cusack (49), Sean Patrick Flanery (46), Luke Perry (45), Jane Krakowski (43) and Michelle Trachtenberg (26)
• Michelle Wie (22): golf prodigy from Hawaii

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