Friday, January 27, 2012

conciliate \kuhn-SIL-ee-eyt\, verb:

1. To overcome the distrust or hostility of; placate; win over.
2. To win or gain (goodwill, regard, or favor).
3. To make compatible; reconcile.
4. To become agreeable or reconciled.

Conciliate comes from the Latin word conciliāre meaning "to bring together." It is related to the words council and calendar.

Petri Douche

1. A place/location where a lot of douchebags are known to congregate.
2. A place that attracts and seemingly breeds chavs/douchebags/jackwagons/etc etc.

Oh hell no I'm not going to Wetherspoons, that place is a petri douche!
Or:
urgh why would you want to go to Las Vegas, that place is such a petri douche.
Trivia
In American diner slang of yore, what was a “Noah’s boy”?

• A slice of ham—a reference to Noah’s second son, Ham.

History

• 1880 - Thomas Edison patented the electric incandescent lamp.
• 1888 - The National Geographic Society was founded in Washington, DC.
• 1945 - Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland.
• 1951 - In the U.S., atomic testing in the Nevada desert began as an Air Force plane dropped a one-kiloton bomb on Frenchman Flats.
• 1956 - Elvis Presley released "Heartbreak Hotel."
• 1967 - At Cape Kennedy, FL, astronauts Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo I spacecraft.
• 1967 - More than 60 nations signed the Outer Space Treaty which banned the orbiting of nuclear weapons and placing weapons on celestial bodies or space stations.
• 1973 - The Vietnam peace accords were signed in Paris.

Birthdays

• Dante (1/27/1991 - 7/4/2010): diamond back terrapin (turtle), nuclear physicist, noble prize winner, 3 time oscar winner, 6 pulitzer prizes, ninja, dragon slayer, likes krill

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756
• Lewis Carroll 1832
• Jerome Kern 1885
• Harry Ruby (Rubinstein) 1895
• Hyman Rickover 1900
• William Randolph Hearst Jr. 1908
• Milt Raskin 1916
• Skitch (Lyle) Henderson 1918
• David Seville (Chipmunks) 1919
• Donna Reed 1921
• Giovanni Verga 1922
• Bobby 'Blue' Bland 1930
• George Follmer 1934
• Troy Donahue 1936
• James Cromwell 1940
• Tommy Cromwell 1940
• Nick Mason (Pink Floyd) 1944 - Official Pink Floyd Store
• Nedra Talley (The Ronettes) 1947
• Milkail Baryshnikov 1948
• Carl Mannerheim 1951
• Brian Downey (Thin Lizzy) 1951
• Seth Justman (The J. Geils Band) 1951
• Cheryl White (The Whites) 1955
• Richard Young (The Kentucky Headhunters) 1955
• Mimi Rogers 1956
• Cris Collinsworth (NFL) 1959
• Gillian Gilbert (New Order) 1961
• Margo Timmons (Cowboy Junkies) 1961
• Bridget Fonda 1964
• Tracy Lawrence 1968
• Mike Patton (Faith No More) 1968
• Mark Owen 1972
• Mackenenzie Lynn Adkins 1998