Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Neg Larynx

• Basically a short version of a long and negative answer.
• Negative = Neg
• Larynx = noise, chat, etc

1: Did the guy have any Potent Chronic ?

2: Neg Larynx, he did have some shitty schwag though.

History

• Meiji Restoration: re-established the authority of Japan's emperor and led to the fall of the shoguns (1868)
• the Curse of the Bambino: Red Sox losing streak began with the team's sale of Babe Ruth to the Yankees; it lasted till 2004 (1920)
• March of Dimes: fundraising organization was founded by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to raise funds for the battle against poliomyelitis; it later expanded its aim to the prevention of premature birth, birth defects and infant mortality (1938)
• Alaska: the territory once known as Seward's Folly became the 49th and largest US state (1959)

Birthdays

• Cicero (106 BCE-43 BCE): orator and essayist who delivered 14 Philippic orations against Marc Antony
• Lucretia Mott (1793-1880): women's rights activist
• Robert Whitehead (1823-1905): inventor of the self-propelled torpedo; plus, aircraft designer T. Claude Ryan (18989-1982)
• Clement Attlee (1883-1967): post-WWII PM; plus, S. Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem (1901-1963)
• J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973): writer, LOTR trilogy
• George Martin (85): producer of nearly all The Beatles' albums; plus musicians Victor Borge (1909-2000), Arik Einstein (73), Stephen Stills (67), John Paul Jones (66), James Carter (43) and Kimberley Locke (34)
• Sergio Leone (1929-1989): director of "spaghetti westerns"
• Eli Manning (31): Giants quarterback; also, athletes Bobby Hull (72) and Michael Schumacher (43)
• Victoria Principal (62): actor, Dallas; also, actors Robert Loggia (82), Dabney Coleman (80), Mel Gibson (56), Jason Marsden and Danica McKellar (both 37) and Nicholas Gonzalez (36)