Wednesday, August 29, 2012

phthisis \THAHY-sis\, noun:

1. A wasting away.
2. Pulmonary tuberculosis; consumption.

Phthisis comes from the Greek root phthí which meant "to decay."
ego waffles

• waffles made out of ego which are consumed by narcissistic people in order to sustain a delicate ego

That condescending bitch is so full of herself, I'll bet she ate ego waffles for breakfast.
Trivia 

Anatomy-wise, what is the meaning of the slang term cankle?

• Fat ankle. A combination of the words calf and ankle, it is used when a person’s calf and ankle appear to be the same thickness.

History

• Atahualpa: last sovereign Incan emperor was garroted by Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizzaro, who thus defeated the Incan Empire and conquered Peru (1533)
• Royal George: some 900 drowned when the ship sank at port; the event was immortalized in William Cowper's "On the Loss of the Royal George" (1782)
• Shay's Rebellion: uprising began in Massachusetts, led by Revolutionary War captain Daniel Shays; farmers were protesting crushing debt and taxes (1786)
• Treaty of Nanking: marked the end of the First Opium War and the ceding of Hong Kong Island to Britain (1842)
• The Beatles: gave their last paid concert, at San Francisco's Candlestick Park, now Monster Park (1966)
• Hurricane Katrina: the costliest natural disaster in US history made landfall in Louisiana and Mississippi, devastating cities, most notably New Orleans (2005)

Birthdays

• John Locke 1632
• Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809
• Preston Sturges 1898
• Barry Sullivan 1912
• Ingrid Bergman 1915
• George Montgomery 1916
• Isabel Sanford 1917
• Charles White 1920
• Charlie "Bird" Parker 1920
• Wendell Scott 1921
• Sir Richard Attenborough 1923
• Dinah Washington 1924
• Dick O'Neill 1928
• Elliott Gould 1938
• William Friedkin 1939
• Ellen Geer 1941
• Robin Leach 1941
• Sterling Morrison (The Velvet Underground) 1942
• Deborah Van Valkenburgh 1952
• Mark Morris 1956
• Dan Truman (Diamond Rio) 1956
• Michael Joseph Jackson 1958
• Rebecca DeMornay 1962
• Liz Fraser (Cocteau Twins) 1963
• Me'Shell NdegeOcello 1969
• Carl Martin (Shai) 1970
• Carla Gugino 1971
• A+ 1982