Friday, July 27, 2012

tawpie \TAW-pee\, noun:

• A foolish or thoughtless young person.

Tawpie comes from the Swedish word tåbe meaning "a simpleton."
Chik-Fil-Atheist

• A person who loves Chik-Fil-A, but not God, and is therefore pissed that Chik-Fil-A is closed on Sundays.

Even though I'm an avowed Chik-Fil-Atheist, I tried to go to Chik-Fil-A on Sunday again. Goddamn it!

Trivia

What French artist scattered and then pasted torn pieces of paper onto a large sheet of paper to create “Collage with Squares Arranged According to the Laws of Chance”?

• Dadaist Jean Arp. The work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

History

• transatlantic telegraph cable: was completed, linking the US and Europe; the cord shortened communication time from days to minutes (1866)
• insulin: physiologists isolated the hormone used to manage diabetes (1921)
• Bugs Bunny: debuted in The Wild Hare (1940)
• Billboard: the magazine published its first singles record chart (1940)
• Korean War: the conflict ended with no clear winner, splitting the country into North and South (1953)
• Coronation Street: British soap characters Ken Barlow and Deirdre Langton tied the knot; their wedding got higher telly ratings than that of Prince Charles and Lady Di (1981)

Birthdays

• Charlotte Corday 1768
• George Foster Peabody 1852
• Keenan Wynn 1916
• Homer (Henry D. Haynes) 1918
• Charles P. Ginsburg 1920
• Norman Lear 1922
• Bob Morse (Hi-Lo's) 1927
• Harvey Fuqua (The Moonglows) 1929
• Jerry Van Dyke 1931
• Nick Reynolds (The Kingston Trio) 1933
• Don Galloway 1937
• Irv Cross 1939
• James Victor 1939
• Dennis Ralston 1942
• John Pleshette 1942
• Bobbie Gentry 1944
• Al Ramsey (Gary Lewis & The Playboys) 1946
• Betty Thomas 1948
• Peggy Fleming 1948
• Maury Chaykin 1949
• Maureen McGovern 1949
• Michael Vaughn (Paperlace) 1950
• Janet Eilber 1951
• Roxanne Hart 1952
• Duncan Cameron (Sawyer Brown) 1956
• Karl Mueller (Soul Asylum) 1963
• Rex Brown (Pantera) 1964
• Juliana Hatfield 1967
• Stacy Dean Campbell 1967
• Julian McMahon 1968
• Maya Rudolph 1972
• Peter Yorn 1974
• Alex Rodriguez (MLB) 1975
• John Rhys Meyers 1977