Friday, August 10, 2012

integument \in-TEG-yuh-muhnt\, noun:

1. A natural covering, as a skin, shell, or rind.
2. Any covering, coating, enclosure, etc.

Integument stems from the Latin root tegumentum meaning "a covering." It is also the root of the dinosaur name stegosaurus.
No armed bandit

• A cash machine, or even an ATM.

'Your round.'
'Hold up, mate. Gotta smash the no armed bandit.'
'If I give you my card, will you bang me a purple out?'
'Yeah, no worries.'
'Cheers boss.'
'In a while, paedophile.'
Trivia

What 1963 hit single by the Kingsmen did the FBI clear of obscenity charges after finding its lyrics “unintelligible at any speed”?

• “Louie Louie.”

History

• Ferdinand Magellan: set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe; of the five ships that set out under his command, only one — the Victoria — returned to Spain (1519)
• Smithsonian Institution: was created with $500,000 left by English scientist James Smithson (1846)
• Son of Sam: New York serial killer David Berkowitz was arrested (1977)
• Yuri Malenchenko: Ukrainian cosmonaut became the first person to be married in space, to a woman on the ground in Texas (2003)

Birthdays

• Herbert Clark Hoover (U.S.) 1874
• Leo Fender 1909
• Jeff Corey 1914
• Al Alberts (Four Aces) 1922
• Rhonda Fleming 1923
• Claus Von Bulow 1926
• Jimmy Martin 1927
• Jimmy Dean 1928
• Eddie Fisher 1928
• Rocky Colavito 1933
• Bobby Hatfield (The Righteous Brothers) 1940
• Ronnie Spector 1947
• Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) 1947
• Patti Austin 1948
• Gene Johnson (Diamond Rio) 1949
• Daniel Hugh Kelly 1952
• Rosanna Arquette 1959
• Antonio Banderas 1960
• John Farriss (INXS) 1961
• Julia Fordham 1962
• Aaron Hall 1964
• Lorraine Pearson (Five Star) 1967
• Todd Nichols (Toad The Wet Sprocket) 1967
• Michael Bivins 1968
• Angie Harmon 1972
• Nikki Bratcher (Divine) 1980