Sunday, July 14, 2013

snood \snood\, noun:

1. a netlike hat or part of a hat or fabric that holds or covers the back of a woman's hair.
2. a headband for the hair.
3. the distinctive headband formerly worn by young unmarried women in Scotland and northern England.
4. the pendulous skin over the beak of a turkey.

verb:

1. to bind or confine (the hair) with a snood.

Snood comes from the Old English term snod meaning "ribbon for the hair."
Piss Angle

• Piss angle is an intense math calculation that dudes use when trying not to get back-sprayed while pissing into a urinal. Pissing against the back wall of the urinal at a 90 degree angle will cause extreme backspray. Thus, a man must strategically place his piss stream onto the side wall of the urinal, preferably at less than 20 degrees to prevent getting back-sprayed.

Dude why are your pants all wet?
Dude I was pissing in the urinal, and I forgot to adjust my Piss Angle
Bro, never forget to adjust your Piss Angle

I gotta go take a piss guys
Mind your Piss Angle, Bro!

Trivia
Who was the only former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives to serve as president?

• James K. Polk, who was speaker from 1835 to 1838 and president from 1845 to 1849.

Before the invention of ball joints and tie rods, what held together automotive front suspensions?

• Kingpins, a single pin on which the moveable axle was pivoted beneath the frame.

History

• Sedition Act: Congress passed a law prohibiting publishing false, scandalous or malicious writing against the US government (1798)
• the Matterhorn: the Swiss-Italian Alp was first scaled, by British mountaineer Edward Whymper (1865)
  

  
• Billy the Kid: the 21-year-old outlaw was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in New Mexico (1881)
• Sacco and Vanzetti: the two infamous anarchists were convicted of murder and sentenced to death (1921)
• Mariner 4: spacecraft performed the first flyby of another planet and sent back the first pictures of the surface of Mars (1965)
• large denominations of US currency: were officially discontinued by the Federal Reserve System, leaving the $100 bill as the largest unit of circulating currency (1969)

Birthdays

• Andrea del Sarto 1486
• Emmeline Pankhurst 1858
• Florence Bascom 1862
• William Leefe Robinson 1895
• Ken Murray 1903
• Irving Stone 1903
• Gloria Stuart 1910
• William Hanna 1910
• Terry-Thomas 1911
• Woody Guthrie 1912
• Gerald Rudolph Ford (U.S.) 1913
  

  
• Douglas Edwards 1917
• Ingmar Bergman 1918
• Arthur Laurents 1918 - Playwright ("West Side Story," "Gypsy")
• Frances Lear 1923
• Dale Robertson 1923
• Harry Dean Stanton 1926 - Actor
• John Chancellor 1927
• Nancy Olson 1928
• Polly Bergen 1930 - Actress, singer
• Del Reeves 1932
• Roosevelt "Rosey" Grier 1932 - Football player
• Karel Gott 1939
• Spencer Davis 1941
• Vincent Pastore 1946 - Actor ("The Sopranos")
• Chris Cross 1952
• Jerry Houser 1952
• Eric Laneuville 1952
• Jane Lynch 1960 - Actress ("Glee")
• Jackie Earle Haley 1961
• Darrelle Revis 1961 - Actor
• Matthew Fox 1966 - Actor ("Lost", "Party of Five")
• Tonya Donelly 1966 - Musician (Belly)
• Missy Gold 1970 - Actress
• Tameka Cottle 1975 - (Xscape)
• Taboo (Jaime Luis Gomez) 1975 - Rapper/singer (Black Eyed Peas)
• Scott Porter 1979 - Actor ("Friday Night Lights")