Thursday, December 13, 2012

empurple \em-PUR-puhl\, verb:

1. To color or become purple or purplish.

2. To darken or redden; flush.

Empurple originated in the late 1580s from the Greek prefix em- meaning 'to become' and the color 'purple,' a word of Tyrian descent for the shellfish from which purple dye was made.

synergasm

• Expressing oneself using several business buzzwords in rapid succession.

Alex released his synergasm onto the crowd, "At the end of the day, we have to leverage our value add paradigm by aligning our solution with our customer centric core competencies."

Trivia

Why did writer Rudyard Kipling paint his golf balls red when he lived in Vermont in the 1890s?

• He wanted to play snow golf—a version of golf that he invented—and the red paint made it easier for him to locate balls in the snow.

History

• Francis Drake: British explorer set out on a three-year circumnavigation of the globe, looting Spanish ships as he sailed (1577)
• New Zealand: was sighted for the first time by a European, Dutch explorer Abel Tasman (1642)
• Susan B. Anthony dollar: the US Mint began stamping out the first US coin to honor a woman, suffragist Susan B. Anthony (1978)
• United States presidential election of 2000: Democratic candidate Al Gore conceded the race to President Bush 36 days after Election Day
• Saddam Hussein: Iraqi dictator was captured hiding in a spider hole near Tikrit (2003)

Birthdays

• Dick Van Dyke 1925
• Christopher Plummer 1929

• Buck White 1930
• Robert Prosky 1930
• Richard Zanuck 1934
• John Davidson 1941
• Ted Nugent 1948
• Ron Getman (The Tractors) 1948
• Jeff Baxter (The Doobie Brothers) 1948
• Randy Owen (Alabama) 1949
• Tom Veralain (Television) 1949
• Wendy Malick 1950
• Robert Lindsay 1951
• Steve Forbert 1954
• John Anderson 1954
• Steve Buscemi 1957
• John Whitaker 1959
• Dana Strum (Slaughter) 1959
• Jamie Foxx 1967
• Amy Lee 1981
• Chelsea Hertford 1981
• Taylor Swift 1989