Saturday, June 15, 2013

isolato \ahy-suh-LEY-toh\, noun:

• a person who is spiritually isolated from or out of sympathy with his or her times or society.

Isolato was popularized by Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick. The word comes through Italian from the Latin word insulātus meaning "made into an island."

vurp

• a burp laced with a little vomit, usually occurs when you've had one too many and it has become difficult to distinguish between the two

I made it through the whole night without vomiting, not including vurps, of course.

Trivia

• Monday

History

• King John: signed and sealed the Magna Carta at Runnymede (1215)
• Charles Goodyear: received a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber (1844)
• John Lennon: first met Paul McCartney when Lennon's rock group, The Quarrymen, performed at a church dinner; Lennon was 15, McCartney was 13 (1956)
• Dan Quayle: famous "potatoe" misspelling incident occurred (1992)
• 2002 MN: asteroid had a near miss as it flew by Earth (2002)

Birthdays

• Edward the Black 1330
• Erik H. Erickson 1902
• David Rose 1910
• Erroll Garner 1921
• Mario Cuomo 1932
• Waylon Jennings 1937
• Harry Nilson 1941
• Janet Lennon 1946 - Singer (The Lennon Sisters)
• Jim Varney 1949
• Simon Callow 1949
• Russell Hitchcock 1949 - Musician (Air Supply)
• Steve Walsh 1951 - Musician (Kansas)
• Terri Gibbs 1954
• Jim Belushi 1954
• Julie Hagerty 1955
• Brett Butler 1957 - Baseball player
• Wade Boggs 1958
• Helen Hunt 1963
• Scott Rockenfield 1963 - Musician (Queensryche)
• Courteney Cox 1964 - Actress ("Friends")
• Michael Britt 1966 - Musician (Lonestar)
• Jimmy McD 1968
• Ice Cube 1969 - Rapper
• Leah Remini 1970
• T-Bone Willy 1972 - Musician (Save Farris)
• Neil Patrick Harris 1973
• Elizabeth Reasor 1975 - Actress ("The Family Stone", "Twilight")
• Billy Martin 1981 - Musician (Good Charlotte)