Sunday, June 16, 2013

battology \buh-TOL-uh-jee\, noun:

• wearisome repetition of words in speaking or writing.

Battology entered English in the late 1500s from the Greek word battologia meaning "speaking stammeringly" from battos meaning "stammerer" and -logia meaning "one who speaks (in a certain manner)."

Gift Card Millionaire

• A person who holds a significant amount of money tied up in Gift Cards, Store Credit, Groupons and other forms of vouchers.

Financial Advisor: Do you know your networth?

Gift Card Millionaire: Do you include Gift Cards? Because that would significantly affect the day I can retire.

Trivia

• Monday

Holiday

• Father's Day

History

• Battle of Stoke: marked the tail end of the Wars of the Roses (1487)
• House Divided speech: Abraham Lincoln, as a senatorial candidate, warned that the Union must become either all-slave or all-free (1858)
• Bloomsday: James Joyce's Ulysses follows Leopold Bloom through this one day of his life (1904)
• New Deal: FDR opened his recovery program, signing bank, rail and industry bills and initiating farm aid (1933)
• Valentina Tereshkova: Soviet cosmonaut became the first woman in space aboard Vostok 6 (1963)

Birthdays

• Stan Laurel 1890
• Helen Traubel 1899
• Jack Albertson 1910
• Hank Lusetti 1916
• Katherine Graham 1917
• John Howard Griffin 1920
• Erich Segal 1937
• Joyce Carol Oates 1938 - Author
• Corin Redgrave 1939
• Billy 'Crash' Craddock 1939 - Country singer
• Lamont Dozier 1941 - Songwriter
• Eddie Levert 1942 - Musician (The O'Jays)
• Joan Van Ark 1943 - Actress ("Knot's Landing")
• Ian Matthews 1945 - Musician (Fairport Convention)
• Derek Sanderson 1946
• James Smith 1950 - Musician (The Stylistics)
• Roberto Duran 1951 - Boxer
• Gino Vannelli 1952 - Singer
• Laurie Metcalf 1955 - Actress ("Roseanne")
• Jenny Smimizu 1967
• Phil Mickelson 1970 - Golf player
• Tupac Shakur 1971 - Rapper
• Eddie Cibrian 1973
• Frederick Koehler 1975
• China Shavers 1977
• Kerry Wood 1977 - Baseball player
• Missy Peregrym 1982 - Actress
• Olivia Hack 1983