Saturday, May 11, 2013

cull \kuhl\, verb:

1. to choose; select; pick.

2. to gather the choice things or parts from.

3. to collect; gather; pluck.

noun:

1. act of culling.

2. something culled, especially something picked out and put aside as inferior.

Cull entered English in the 1300s as a verb derived from the Latin colligere meaning "gather together" or "collect." It was another 300 years before the noun form of cull entered the language.

billy bob

• the name of almost any trailer trash, regarless of gender.

Look by the trailer, billy bobs passed out again.

Trivia

• Monday.

History

• Minnesota: became the 32nd US state; its name is Sioux for "cloudy water" (1858)
• CARE package: first ones arrived in Le Havre, France; they cost $10 each and contained a variety of food products (1946)
• Israel: was admitted to the United Nations (1949)
• Deep Blue: IBM's supercomputer defeated world champion Garry Kasparov in game 6 of their chess tournament (1997)
• euro: the currency's first coin was struck in a French mint (1998)

Birthdays

• Irving Berlin 1888 - Composer, lyricist
• Martha Graham 1894 - Dancer, choreographer
• William Grant Still 1895 - Classical composer
• Salvador Dali (Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech) 1904 - Surrealist painter
• Phil Silvers 1912 - Entertainer, comedy actor ("The Phil Silvers Show"), known as "The King of Chutzpah"
• Foster Brooks 1912 - Actor, comedian
• Doodles Weaver (Winstead Sheffield "Doodles" Weaver) 1914 - Actor, comedian
• Denver Dell Pyle 1920 - Actor
• Mort Sahl (Morton Lyon "Mort" Sahl) 1927 - Comedian, actor
• Stanley Elkin 1930 - Novelist, short story writer, essayist
• Louis Farrakhan (Louis Eugene Walcott) 1933 - National Representative of the Nation of Islam
• Dick Garcia 1938 - Musician
• Doug McClure 1938 - Actor
• Eric Burdon 1941 - Musician (The Animals)
• Les Chadwick 1943 - Musician (Gerry & The Pacemakers)
• Dr. Robert Jarvik 1946 - Scientist, researcher, entrepreneur
• Frances Fisher 1952 - Actress ("Titanic," "Unforgiven")
• Shohreh Adhdashloo 1952 - Actress
• Boyd Gaines 1953 - Actor
• Mark Herndon 1955 - Musician (Alabama)
• J.J. Jeczalik 1955 - Musician (Art of Noise)
• Martha Quinn 1959 - One of the original video jockeys on MTV
• Natasha Richardson 1963 - Actress
• Jeffrey Donovan 1968 - Actor ("Burn Notice")
• Austin O'Brien 1980 - Actor
• Jonathan Jackson 1982 - Actor
• Cory Monteith 1982 - Actor ("Glee")
• Matt Leinart 1983 - Football player