Saturday, December 3, 2011

operose \OP-uh-rohs\, adjective:

1. Done with or involving much labor.

2. Industrious, as a person.

Operose is from the Latin word operosus meaning “taking great pains.” It shares a root with the word opus meaning “work.”

crocodile arms

• When going out with peers to a bar or restaurant and nobody offers to pay the bill, hence they and yourself have the short arms of a crocodile.

It's kinda of a turn off when you go on a date with a girl and you got crocodile arms all night.

Trivia

What do crocodiles do to help themselves dive deeper and remain submerged longer?

• They swallow stones, which also aid their digestion.

History

• coed: Oberlin College became the first institution of higher learning in the US to serve both male and female students (1833)
• A Streetcar Named Desire: Tennessee William's Pulitzer Prize-winning play opened on Broadway (1947)
• heart transplant: the procedure was first performed by Christiaan Barnard on Louis Washkansky in Cape Town; the patient lived 18 days before succumbing to pneumonia, but his new heart didn't fail (1967)
• 20th Century Limited: luxury NYC–Chicago train, on which passengers were routinely given flowers and perfume, finished its final run (1967)
• Bhopal disaster: poison gas emission from Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, killed thousands of people in arguably the worst industrial disaster ever (1984)

Birthdays

• Joseph Conrad (1857-1924): author of "Heart of Darkness," which was adapted into Apocalypse Now
• Jean-Luc Godard (81): filmmaker who ushered in the New Wave movement
• Ozzy Osbourne (63): heavy metal musician and reality TV star; other singers born on this date include Ferlin Husky (86), Andy Williams (84), Jaye P. Morgan (80) and Montell Jordan (43)
• Katarina Witt (46): award-winning figure skater
• Brendan Fraser (43): actor, The Mummy; also, actors Steven Culp (56), Julianne Moore and Daryl Hannah (both 50), Holly Marie Combs and Bruno Campos (both 37), Anna Chlumsky (31), Amanda Seyfried (26) and Michael Angarano (24)