Tuesday, November 29, 2011

serry \SER-ee\, verb:

• To crowd closely together.

Serry is from the Middle Frenceh serré which was the past participle of serrer meaning “to press tightly together.”

Recyclopath, noun:

1) A person who militantly engages in recycling and is so hostile to simply throwing away garbage, it borders on mental illness.

2) Pejorative for an extreme environmentalist

Leigh pees in a bucket and uses it to water and fertilize her garden--what a recyclopath!

Trivia

What popular 1969 buddy movie ends with the understatement, “For a moment, I thought we were in trouble”?

• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford. The words were spoken by Cassidy (Newman).

History

• Army-Navy game: football rivalry began at West Point; Navy won 24-0 (1890)
• South Pole: was flown over for the first time by American explorer Richard E. Byrd and three others (1929)
• Palestine: the UN voted to divide the region between Jews and Arabs (1947)
• "I Want to Hold Your Hand": The Beatles released their first No. 1 hit in Great Britain (1963)
• Warren Commission: was established by US president Lyndon Johnson to investigate JFK's assassination (1963)

Birthdays

• Krystal Steal (26) t3h pr0n
• Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888): author, Little Women; also, authors C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) and Madeline L'Engle (1918-2007)
• Ambrose Fleming (1849-1945): inventor of the diode; also, scientists Christian Doppler (1803-1853) and Yuan T. Lee (75)
• Jacques Chirac (79): former president of France; plus, former Liberian president William V. S. Tubman (1895-1971)
• Chuck Mangione (71): jazz composer/musician who plays the flugelhorn; also, Shlomo Artzi (62)
• Joel Coen (57): half of the Coen Brothers filmmaking duo, Fargo, No Country for Old Men
• Don Cheadle (47): actor and activist, Hotel Rwanda; also, actors Diane Ladd (78?), Garry Shandling (62), Howie Mandel (56), Jeff Fahey (55), Cathy Moriarty (51), Kim Delaney and Tom Sizemore (both 48), Andrew McCarthy (49), Larry Joe Campbell (41), Brian Baumgartner (39), Gena Lynn Nolin (37), Anna Faris and Julian Ovenden (both 34) and Lucas Black (29)
• Howard K. Stern (40): lawyer best known for representing Anna Nicole Smith

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