Monday, January 30, 2012

neoterism \nee-OT-uh-riz-uhm\, noun:

1. An innovation in language, as a new word, term, or expression.

2. The use of new words, terms, or expressions.

Though it did not come into English usage until the late 1800s, neoterism originally comes from the Greek word neōterismós which meant "an attempt to change."

Trash angel

Lying on the back, waving your arms and legs to form the impression of an angel, in a pile of trash. Typically performed by drunks in New York

Vanessa's night ended when she fell over the pile of garbage on the curb and performed trash angels in the street til the cab arrived.

Trivia

The first players in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League were required to attend what special evening classes during spring training?

• Charm school classes, run by the Helena Rubenstein Beauty Salon. The AAGPBL, which existed from 1943 to 1954, was memorialized in the 1992 film A League of Their Own.

History

• 1649 - England's King Charles I was beheaded.
• 1933 - "The Lone Ranger" was heard on radio for the first time. The program ran for 2,956 episodes and ended in 1955.
• 1933 - Adolf Hitler was named the German Chancellor.
• 1972 - In Northern Ireland, British soldiers shot and killed thirteen Roman Catholic civil rights marchers. The day is known as "Bloody Sunday."
• 1973 - KISS played their first show at Popcorn (The Coventry Club) in Queens, NY. The band performed 2 sets at the club that night for a crowd of under 10 people.
• 2002 - Slobodan Milosevic accused the U.N. war crimes tribunal of an "evil and hostile attack" against him. Milosevic was defending his actions during the Balkan wars.

Birthdays

• Anton Checkhov 1860
• Franklin D. Roosevelt (U.S.) 1882
• Roy Eldridge (Gene Krupa's Band) 1911
• David Wayne 1914
• John Ireland 1914
• Bennie Leighton 1921
• Gene Martin 1922
• Dick Martin 1922
• Barbara Hale 1922
• Dorothy Malone 1925
• Douglas Engelbart 1925
• Gene Hackman 1931
• Louis Rukeyser 1933
• Tammy Grimes 1934
• Horst Jankowski 1936
• Boris Spassky 1937
• Vanessa Redgrave 1937
• Norma Jean 1938
• Dick Cheney 1941
• Joe Terranova (Danny and the Juniors) 1941
• Marty Balin (Jefferson Airplane) 1942
• Steve Marriott (Humble Pie & Small Faces) 1947
• William King (The Commodores) 1949
• Charles Dutton 1951
• Brett Butler 1958
• Jody Watley 1959
• Christian Bale 1974