Friday, May 11, 2012

pother \POTH-er\, noun:

1. A heated discussion, debate, or argument; fuss; to-do.
2. Commotion; uproar.
3. A choking or suffocating cloud, as of smoke or dust.

verb:

1. To worry; bother.

Pother is of unknown origin. It is not related to the word bother which did not enter English until the 1700s and is related to the word both.

side girl

• A female companion kept by a classy gentleman as a secondary, or perhaps tertiary option for sexual encounters or other decadent functions. Side girls can be arranged by geography. As stated previously, in less polished vernacular, "having hoes in different area codes." Other playboys may choose to keep his girls on the side by specific traits or functions they may perform. Sometimes, although rarely, side girls can be promoted to main girl status. However, this is typically frowned upon. It's important that side girls know their place in the sociological realm of their male counterpart, or else they can become apparent to the male's main girl, a situation which could make a side girl a main girl, in a pinch.

Mike: Who's that girl you were with?
Marty: The ginger with the big tits?
Mike: Yeah.
Marty: Ohh, that's Connie, she's my side girl.
Trivia

What is kept in an arctic “doomsday vault” at the end of a tunnel hundreds of feet beneath the permafrost on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen?

• Seeds. The bomb- and earthquake-proof Global Seed Vault was designed to help humanity recover from future disasters and/or to help restore plant life destroyed by genetic modification.

History

• Minnesota: became the 32nd US state; its name is Sioux for "cloudy water" (1858)
• CARE package: first ones arrived in Le Havre, France; they cost $10 each and contained a variety of food products (1946)
• Israel: was admitted to the United Nations (1949)
• Deep Blue: IBM's supercomputer defeated world champion Garry Kasparov in game 6 of their chess tournament (1997)
• euro: the currency's first coin was struck in a French mint (1998)

Birthdays

• Irving Berlin 1888 - Composer, lyricist
• Martha Graham 1894 - Dancer, choreographer
• William Grant Still 1895 - Classical composer
• Salvador Dali (Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech) 1904 - Surrealist painter
• Phil Silvers 1912 - Entertainer, comedy actor ("The Phil Silvers Show"), known as "The King of Chutzpah"
• Foster Brooks 1912 - Actor, comedian
• Doodles Weaver (Winstead Sheffield "Doodles" Weaver) 1914 - Actor, comedian
• Denver Dell Pyle 1920 - Actor
• Mort Sahl (Morton Lyon "Mort" Sahl) 1927 - Comedian, actor
• Stanley Elkin 1930 - Novelist, short story writer, essayist
• Louis Farrakhan (Louis Eugene Walcott) 1933 - National Representative of the Nation of Islam
• Dick Garcia 1938 - Musician
• Doug McClure 1938 - Actor
• Eric Burdon 1941 - Musician (The Animals)
• Les Chadwick 1943 - Musician (Gerry & The Pacemakers)
• Dr. Robert Jarvik 1946 - Scientist, researcher, entrepreneur
• Frances Fisher 1952 - Actress ("Titanic," "Unforgiven")
• Shohreh Adhdashloo 1952 - Actress
• Boyd Gaines 1953 - Actor
• Mark Herndon 1955 - Musician (Alabama)
• J.J. Jeczalik 1955 - Musician (Art of Noise)
• Martha Quinn 1959 - One of the original video jockeys on MTV
• Natasha Richardson 1963 - Actress
• Jeffrey Donovan 1968 - Actor ("Burn Notice")
• Austin O'Brien 1980 - Actor
• Jonathan Jackson 1982 - Actor
• Cory Monteith 1982 - Actor ("Glee")
• Matt Leinart 1983 - Football player