Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

sumpsimus \SUHMP-suh-muhs\, noun:
  1. Adherence to or persistence in using a strictly correct term, holding to a precise practice, etc., as a rejection of an erroneous but more common form (opposed to mumpsimus).
  2. A person who is obstinate or zealous about such strict correctness (opposed to mumpsimus).
Like its counterpart mumpsimus, sumpsimus comes from to a story about an illiterate priest. In this case, sumpsimus refers to the opposite practice as mumpsimus.
Tiger blood
  • The substance flowing through the veins of Charlie Sheen & other bad ass rock stars that allows them to survive epic partying (copious amounts of alcohol and illicit controlled substances like cocaine, etc) that would kill normal people.
Charlie Sheen-"The last time I took drugs I probably took more than anybody could survive, I was banging 7 gram rocks and and finishing them because that's how I roll!"
Interviewer-"How do you survive that??"
CS-"'Cause I'm me... I have a different brain, a different heart, ya' know, I got tiger blood man"
Trivia
.
History

  • Great Fire of Rome: a conflagration that destroyed Rome began; Nero (who probably didn't really fiddle while Rome burned) blamed it on Christians and began the first Roman persecutions of them (65)
  • secret ballot: new voting method was introduced in Britain (1872)
  • Spanish Civil War: General Francisco Franco led an uprising in Spanish North Africa, beginning a war that lasted for three years; at the war's end, Franco became dictator of Spain until his death in 1975 (1936)
  • FDR: the 32nd POTUS was nominated for an unprecedented third term in office (1940)
  • Nadia Comaneci: 14-year-old Romanian earned the first perfect 10 in Olympics gymnastics (1976)
Birthdays
  • Gilbert White 1720
  • William Makepeace Thackeray 1811
  • Vidkum Quisling 1887
  • Chill Willis 1903
  • S.I. Hayakawa 1906
  • Clifford Odetts 1906
  • Lou Busch 1910
  • Hume Cronyn 1911
  • Harriet Nelson 1912
  • Marvin Miller 1913
  • Richard "Red" Skelton 1913
  • Nelson Mandela 1918 - President of South Africa
  • John Glenn 1921 - Astronaut
  • Dick Button 1929
  • Screamin' Jay Hawkins 1929
  • 'Papa Dee' Allen (War) 1931
  • Tenley Albright 1935
  • Hunter S. Thompson 1937
  • Brian Auger (Mahavishnu Players) 1939
  • imagebam.comDion DiMucci (Dion and the Belmonts) 1939
  • James Brolin 1940
  • Lonnie Mack (Memphis) 1941
  • Martha Reeves (Martha and the Vandellas) 1941
  • Robin McDonald (Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas) 1943
  • Kurt Mann 1947
  • Glenn Hughes 1950
  • Ricky Skaggs 1954 - Singer
  • Terry Chambers (XTC) 1955
  • Nigel Twist (The Alarm) 1958
  • Audrey Landers 1959
  • Elizabeth McGovern 1961
  • Jack Irons (Pearl Jam) 1962
  • John Herman (Widespread Panic) 1962
  • Vin Diesel 1967 - Actor
  • Tony Fagenson (Eve 6) 1978
  • Jason Weaver 1979
  • Kristen Bell 1980
imagebam.com imagebam.com imagebam.com imagebam.com imagebam.com

0 comments: