Sunday, December 02, 2012

Sunday, December 2, 2012

fainaigue \fuh-NEYG\, verb:
1. To shirk; evade work or responsibility.
2. To renege at cards.
Fainaigue stems from British dialect, but its exact origins are unclear. Whether or not it has a relationship to finagle is a source of debate.
Thanksgiving Tetris
  • The annual act of rearranging your refridgerator in order to accommodate all of your Thanksgiving leftovers.
Girlfriend: Ugh, the fridge is completely full of our regular food. I don't know how we're ever going to cram all of these leftovers in here.
Boyfriend: Looks like it's time for a round of Thanksgiving Tetris! Here, take this milk carton and hand me those yams.
Trivia
  • Tomorrow.
History
  • Napoleon Bonaparte: was crowned emperor of France at Notre Dame (1804)
  • Monroe Doctrine: was articulated by President James Monroe; it told Europe to stay out of the Americas (1823)
  • EPA: Richard Nixon established a federal agency to set and enforce national pollution-control standards (1970)
  • scientific experimentation: Enrico Fermi produced the first nuclear chain reaction at the University of Chicago (1942); Louis Paul Cailletet liquified oxygen (1877)
  • artificial heart: Barney Clark was the recipient of the first such transplant, a Jarvik-7; he lived for 112 days (1982)
  • Benazir Bhutto: was sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head a modern Muslim nation (1988)
Birthdays
  • George Seurat 1859
  • Charles Ringling 1862
  • S. Joseph Begun 1905
  • Ray Walston 1914
  • Adolph Greene 1915
  • Leo Gordon 1922
  • Maria Callas 1923
  • Alexander M. Haig 1924
  • Julie Harris 1925
  • Edwin Meese III 1931
  • Cathy Lee Crosby 1948
  • John Wesley Ryles 1950
  • Keith Szarabajka 1952
  • Dan Butler 1954
  • Stone Phillips 1954
  • Dennis Christopher 1955
  • Steven Bauer 1956
  • Sydney Youngblood 1960
  • Rick Savage (Def Leppard) 1960 
  • Nate Mendel (Foo Fighters) 1968
  • Jimi Haha (Jimmie's Chicken Shack) 1968
  • Anthony "Treach" Criss (Naughty By Nature) 1970
  • Monica Seles 1973
  • Nelly Furtado 1978
  • Britney Spears 1981

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