Monday, January 23, 2012

slimsy \SLIM-zee\, adjective:

• Flimsy; frail.

Slimsy is an Americanism that came into common use in the 1830s and early 1840s. It is a combination of slim and flimsy.

Congressional Review

• To loosely read or breeze through a document, likely missing a fair amount of the information contained within.

How tough will the upgrade be?

I'm not too sure, I only gave the guide a Congressional Review.

Trivia

How much water does it take to grow a single watermelon?

• A hundred gallons.

History

• 1937 - In Moscow, seventeen people went on trial during Josef Stalin's "Great Purge."
• 1943 - Duke Ellington and the band played for a black-tie crowd at Carnegie Hall in New York City for the first time.
• 1973 - U.S. President Nixon announced that an accord had been reached to end the Vietnam War.
• 1975 - "Barney Miller" made his debut on ABC-TV.
• 1977 - The TV mini-series "Roots," began airing on ABC. The show was based on the Alex Haley novel.
• 1983 - "The A-Team" debuted on TV.
• 1988 - Nirvana recorded a ten song demo tape with producer Jack Endino. The Melvin's Dale Crover was on drums.

Birthdays

• John Hancock 1737
• Edouard Manet 1832
• Joseph Nathan Kane 1899
• Randolph Scott 1903
• Dan Duryea 1907
• David Duncan 1916
• Ernie Kovacs 1919
• Ray Abrams 1920
• Marty Paich 1925
• Jeanne Moreau 1928
• Ken Errair (The Four Freshmen) 1928
• Chita Rivera 1933
• Lou Antonio 1934
• Eugene Church 1938
• Johnny Russel 1940
• Gil Gerard 1943
• Rutger Hauer 1944
• Jerry Lawson (The Persuasions) 1944
• Anita Pointer (The Pointer Sisters) 1948
• Richard Dean Anderson 1950
• Bill Cunningham (The Box Tops) 1950
• Danny Federici (E Street Band) 1950
• Robin Zander (Cheap Trick) 1953
• Princess Caroline of Monaco 1957
• Anita Baker 1958
• Earl Falconer (UB40) 1959
• Gail O'Grady 1963
• Mariska Hargitay 1964
• Marc Nelson 1971
• Tiffany-Amber Thiessen 1974