Tuesday, January 24, 2012

educe \ih-DOOS\, verb:

1. To draw forth or bring out, as something potential or latent.

2. To infer or deduce.

Related to educate, educe is derived from the Latin roots ex- meaning "out" and ducere meaning "to lead." Shakespeare was the first writer to use it in the sense of "to provide schooling" in Loves Labours Lost.

fartriloquism

• Art of “throwing” one's farts in such a way that the sound and/or smell seems to come from a source other than the farter.

A person who practices the art is called an ventriloquist.

"Trey,I was in the middle of the room when all of a sudeen I smelled a nasty fart"

"Dude, sorry, was doing my fartriloquism act, I was aiming for Anthony."

Trivia

What book is mentioned in both the Beatles’ song “Rocky Raccoon” and Jethro Tull’s “Locomotive Breath”?

• Gideon’s Bible.

History

1935 - Krueger Brewing Company placed the first canned beer on sale in Richmond, VA.

1957 - Elvis Presley recorded "Teddy Bear."

1978 - A nuclear-powered Soviet satellite plunged through Earth's atmosphere and disintegrated. The radioactive debris was scattered over parts of Canada's Northwest Territory.

1986 - The Voyager 2 space probe flew past Uranus. The probe came within 50,679 miles of the seventh planet of the solar system.

1989 - Ted Bundy, the confessed serial killer, was put to death in Florida's electric chair for the 1978 kidnap-murder of 12-year-old Kimberly Leach.

1995 - Van Halen released their "Balance" LP. It was the last album recorded with lead singer Sammy Hagar.

2005 - The iTunes Music Store reached 250 million songs sold.

Birthdays

William Congreve - dramatist (1670)
Frederick the Great - Prussian King (1712)

Robert Motherwell - artist (1915)

Ernest Borgnine - actor (1917)

Maria Tallchief - ballerina (1925)

Aaron Neville - singer (1941)

Neil Diamond - singer, songwriter (1941)

Warren Zevon - singer, songwriter (1947)

John Belushi - actor, comedian (1949)
Mary Lou Retton - gymnast (1968)
Matthew Lillard - actor (1970)
Mischa Barton - actor, model (1986)
Nicole Marie Lenz (32): Playmate