Tuesday, February 15, 2013

couthie \KOO-thee\, adjective:

• Agreeable; genial; kindly.

Couthie stems from the Old English word cūth, originally meaning "to know." It arose in the 1700s in Scotland in the sense of "agreeable."

Driving the Bronco

1. An accomplice or accessory to an act.
2. A reference to A.C. Cowlings driving O.J. Simpson on a nationally televised slow-speed freeway chase after the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.

"Did you get your little brother drunk at that underage party?"

"Naw, but I guess I was driving the Bronco since I told him about it."

Trivia

Which major league baseball team was the last to break the color barrier by signing an African American player?

• The Boston Red Sox, in 1959, when Elijah “Pumpsie” Green joined the team—12 years after Jackie Robinson signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

History

• British Museum: opened to the public in Montague House in the Bloomsbury district of London (1759)
• Harper's Weekly: published an editorial cartoon drawn by Thomas Nast in which he used a donkey to represent the Democratic party; he had meant for the animal to indicate an anti-war faction (1870)
• the Pentagon: opened; at the time, it was the world's largest office building (1943)
• Super Bowl I: the Green Bay Packers beat the Kansas City Chiefs (35-10) at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (1967)

Birthdays

• Jean Baptiste Moliere 1622
• Frederick Authur Stanley 1841
• Pierre S. DuPont 1870
• Rex Ingram (Hitchcock) 1892
• Edward Teller 1908
• Gene Krupa 1909
• Lloyd Bridges 1913
• Steve Gromek 1920
• Maria Schell 1926
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929
• Margaret O'Brien 1937
• Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band) 1941
• Mike Marshall 1943
• Andrea Martin 1947
• Ronnie Van Zandt (Lynyrd Skynyrd) 1949
• Nate Hawthorne 1950
• Duke Erikson 1951 (Garbage)
• Bobby Wilson 1951
• Ernie DiGregorio 1951
• Charo (Maria Martinez) 1951
• Martha Davis (The Motels) 1951
• Mario Van Peebles 1957
• Julian Sands 1958
• Peter Trewavas (Marillion) 1959
• Lisa Lisa (Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam) 1967
• Chad Lowe 1968
• Regina King 1971