Saturday, December 17, 2011

procellous \proh-SEL-uhs\, adjective:

• Stormy, as the sea.

Procellous is derived from the Latin word procella meaning “storm” and the suffix -ous which implies a general sense, like in the word operose.

Overjaculation

• When you masturbate so much that when you try to do so again, all that comes out is a puff of smoke; a general fatigue of the genitals.

"Brad had a mean chicken-beating marathon all day yesterday and when he tried to rub one out this morning, he failed miserably like he does at everything in life. It seems he has, once again, been the victim of overjaculation."

Trivia

How did the contents of the Olympic gold medal change after the 1912 games in Stockholm?

• The medal was no longer made entirely of gold. Under current regulations, each medal must be 92.5 percent silver and coated with at least 6 grams of 24-carat gold.

History

• Shimabara Rebellion: Japanese peasant uprising began due to heavy taxation; 37,000 were beheaded (1637)
• Kitty Hawk: the Wright brothers successfully conducted the first controlled, sustained flight of a motor-powered airplane; they had been building flying devices for less than five years (1903)
• Japanese American internment: the US army announced that it would no longer hold Japanese Americans in relocation centers, allowing "evacuees" to return home (1944)
• Harold Holt: the Australian prime minister went missing and was presumed drowned while swimming off the coast of Portsea, Victoria (1967)
• Project Blue Book: US Air Force investigation into UFOs was terminated; the conclusion was that sightings were due to mass hysteria, hoaxes, mistakes and the like (1969)
• The Simpsons: the longest-running prime-time animated series premiered on Fox (1989)
• NAFTA: trade agreement was signed by Canada, the US and Mexico (1992)

Birthdays

• Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829): chemist who discovered the anesthetic effect of nitrous oxide, or "laughing gas"
• Arthur Fiedler (1894-1979): conductor of the Boston Pops
• William L. Safire (1929-2009): Pulitzer Prize-winning writer on politics and the English language; also, writers Roger L'Estrange (1616-1704), John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939), Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987) and Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1908-1984)
• Art Neville (73): musician, The Neville Brothers
• Eugene Levy (65): actor, A Mighty Wind, American Pie; also, actors Armin Mueller-Stahl (81), George Lindsey (76), Tommy Steele (75), Bernard Hill (67), Christopher Cazenove (66), Wes Studi (64), Bill Pullman (58), Sean Patrick Thomas (41), Giovanni Ribisi and Marissa Ribisi (both 36) and Sarah Paulson, Milla Jovovich (both 35) and Jennifer Carpenter (32)
• Peter Farrelly (55): film-maker, There's Something About Mary

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