Thursday, January 26, 2012

mettle \MET-l\, noun:

1. Courage and fortitude.
2. Disposition or temperament.

Mettle was used interchangeably with the material metal until the early 1700s. Mettle continued to be used in the figurative sense of "stuff of which a person is made" even as the spellings diverged.

Haters Gonna Hate

• A phrase that represents ones complete and total disregard of another's negative comment towards the original person.

*Guy 1 is walking down the street and passes Guy 2*
Guy 2: Why are you so ugly?
Guy 1: Haters Gonna Hate.
*Keeps on walking*

 Dude 1: Hey Fatty!
Dude 2: Haters Gonna Hate

Trivia
The last two letters of which state’s name are the same as its official U.S. Postal Service abbreviation?

• Kentucky’s. Its official abbreviation is KY.

History

• 1500 - Vicente Yáñez Pinzón discovered Brazil.
• 1788 - The first European settlers in Australia, led by Captain Arthur Phillip, landed in what became known as Sydney. The group had first settled at Botany Bay eight days before. This day is celebrated as Australia Day. Aussie society and culture hasn't progressed since.
• 1911 - Inventor Glenn H. Curtiss flew the first successful seaplane.
• 1934 - The Apollo Theatre opened in New York City.
• 1970 - John Lennon wrote and recorded "Instant Karma."
• 1972 - In Hermsdorf, Czechoslovakia, a JAT Yugoslav Airlines flight crashed after the detonation of a bomb in the forward cargo hold killing 27 people. The bomb was believed to have been placed on the plane by a Croatian extremist group. Vesna Vulovic, a stewardess, survived after falling 33,000 feet in the tail section. She broke both legs and became paralyzed from the waist down.
• 1979 - The ‘Gizmo’ guitar synthesizer was first demonstrated.
• 1988 - The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical "Phantom of the Opera" opened at Broadway's Majestic Theater.
• 1992 - Russian president Boris Yeltsin announced that his country would stop targeting U.S. cities with nuclear weapons.
• 1994 - In Sydney, Australia, a young man lunged at and fired two blank shots at Britain's Prince Charles.
• 1998 - U.S. President Clinton denied having an affair with a former White House intern, saying "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky."
• 2010 - It was announced that James Cameron's movie "Avatar" had become the highest-grossing film worldwide. At the time it was the second highest-grossing film in the United States. 

Birthdays

• Douglas MacArthur 1880
• Stephane Grappelli 1908
• Cora Baird 1912
• William Prince 1913
• James Van Heusen 1913
• William Hopper 1915
• Derek Bond 1919
• Page Cavanaugh (Page Cavanaugh Trio) 1922
• Anne Jeffreys 1923
• Paul Newman 1925
• Joan Leslie 1925
• Roger Vadim 1928
• Jules Feiffer 1929
• Mary Murphy 1931
• Claude Gray (The Tall Texan) 1932
• Huey "Piano" Smith 1934
• Bob Uecker 1935
• Scott Glenn 1942
• Jean Knight 1943
• Angela Davis 1944
• Gene Siskel 1946
• David Strathairn 1949
• David Briggs (The Little River Band) 1951
• Lucinda Williams 1953 - Singer
• Eddie Van Halen 1957 - Guitar legend (Van Halen)
• Ellen DeGeneres 1958 - Actress-comedian.
• Norman Hassan (UB40) 1958 - Musician
• Tom Keifer 1961 - Musician (Cinderella)
• Wayne Gretzky 1961 - Hockey hall-of-famer. He is known as "The Great One". He won four Stanley Cups.
• Andrew Ridgeley (Wham!) 1963
• Jazzie B. (Soul II Soul) 1963
• Kirk Franklin 1970