Wednesday, January 25, 2012

bleb \bleb\, noun:

1. A bubble.

2. Medicine/Medical. A blister or vesicle.

Bleb was first used in the early 1600s. It is considered imitative of a blister itself. It is also related to the Middle English word blob.

eye broccoli

• opposite of eye candy, someone unappealing to look at, eg. (how i met your mother) marshall's ex-assistant

barney: "so, who's the eye broccoli?"

marshall: "my new assistant"

Trivia

What country elected a TV celebrity chef as its prime minister and then ousted him for hosting his cooking shows while in office?

• Thailand, in 2008. The late Samak Sundaravej, whose signature dish was pork leg stewed in Coca-Cola, was found guilty of conflict of interest and ordered to resign by Thailand’s constitutional court after nine months in office.

History

• 1881 - Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell and others signed an agreement to organize the Oriental Telephone Company.
• 1915 - In New York, Alexander Graham Bell spoke to his assistant in San Francisco, inaugurating the first transcontinental telephone service.
• 1958 - Elvis Presley's "Jailhouse Rock" became the first single to ever enter the U.K. pop chart at Number One.
• 1959 - In the U.S., American Airlines had the first scheduled transcontinental flight of a Boeing 707.
• 1969 - Creedence Clearwater Revival released the "Proud Mary" LP.
• 1971 - Charles Manson and three female members of his "family" were found guilty of one count of conspiracy to commit murder and seven counts of murder in the first degree. They were all sentenced to death for the 1969 killings. The sentences were later commuted to life sentences.
• 1971 - Maj. Gen. Idi Amin led a coup that deposed Milton Obote and became president of Uganda.
• 1980 - Paul McCartney was released from a Tokyo jail where he had been imprisoned for nine days after trying to carry a half pound of marijuana through customs at the Tokyo airport.
• 1981 - The 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived in the United States and were reunited with their families.
• 1987 - The New York Giants defeated the Denver Broncos, 39-20, in Super Bowl XXI on NBC. The game featured TV commercials cost $550,000 for 30 seconds.
• 1999 - At least 1,000 people were killed when an earthquake hit western Columbia. The quake registered 6.0 on the Richter Scale.

Birthdays

• Robert Boyle 1627
• Robert Burns 1759
• W. Somerset Maugham 1874
• Ernst F. W. Alexanderson 1878
• Virginia Woolf 1882
• Earnie Halwell 1918
• Edwin Newman 1919
• Barbara Carroll 1925
• Eduard Shevardnadze (Georgia) 1928
• Dean Jones 1931
• Corazon Aquino 1933
• Elizabeth Allen 1934
• Diana Hyland (Gentner) 1936
• Etta James 1938
• Leigh Taylor-Young 1944
• Richard Finch (KC and the Sunshine) 1954
• Jennifer Lewis 1957
• Dinah Manoff 1958
• Andy Cox (Fine Young Cannibals) 1960
• Mike Burch (River Road) 1966
• Kina Cosper (Brownstone) 1969
• China Kantner 1971
• Alicia Keys 1981