Saturday, June 29, 2013

spelunk \spi-LUHNGK\, verb:

• to explore caves, especially as a hobby.

Spelunk entered English in the 1300s from the Latin spelunca meaning "cave" or "cavern."

friend jack

• When someone who is new to a social circle ends up becoming more important and loved in that group than the person who introduced them to said circle. Often times, the 'introducer' actually ends up getting kicked out of the group through a gradual phasing out. Most times friend jacking is the result of some inherent character flaw of the person who has been kicked out of the group.

Nikki introduced Nelson to Chloe and Cathy two months ago. Now they're BFF with Nelson but don't even talk to Nikki anymore. She got friend jacked.

Trivia

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History

• Globe Theatre: London theatre that showcased Shakespeare's plays burned down; it was reconstructed in 1997 (1613)
• Townshend Acts: were passed by the British Parliament, imposing import duties on paper, tea and other items shipped to America; they led to the Boston Massacre (1767)
• Furman v. Georgia: the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that capital punishment could constitute "cruel and unusual punishment" (1972)
• Atlantis: space shuttle docked with Russian space station Mir; together they formed the largest man-made satellite to orbit Earth (1995)
• iPhone: went on sale in the US amid enormous buzz (2007)

Birthdays

• George W. Goethals 1858
• William Mayo 1861
• George Ellery Hale (1868-1938): astronomer who invented the Hale telescope
• James Van Der Zee 1886
• Antoine de Saint-Exupery 1900
• Nelson Eddy 1901
• Frank Loesser 1910
• John Toland 1912
• Rafael Jeronym Kubelik 1914
• Ruth Warrick 1915
• Slim Pickens 1919
• Ralph Burns 1922
• Mousey Alexander 1922
• Cara Williams 1925
• Ian Bannen 1928
• Robert Evans 1930
• Stokeley Carmichael 1941
• Roger Ruskin Spear 1943
• Gary Busey 1944
• Little Eva Boyd 1945
• Richard Lewis 1947
• Fred Grandy 1948
• Ian Paice 1948 - Musician (Whitesnake)
• Dan Dierdorf 1949
• Colin Hay 1953 - Musician (Men at Work)
• Don Dokken 1953 - Heavy Metal

  
• Maria Conchita Alonso 1957
• Evelyn "Champagne" King 1960
• Sharon Lawrence 1961
• Amanda Donohoe 1962
• Steadman Pearson 1964 - Musician (Five Star)
• DJ Shadow (Josh Paul Davis) 1972 - Music producer, DJ, songwriter
• Zuleikha Robinson 1977 - Actress ("Lost")
• Nicole Scherzinger 1978 - lead singer of Pussycat Dolls, exotic beauty