Tuesday, July 23, 2013

yawp \yawp, yahp\, verb: 

1. to utter a loud, harsh cry; to yelp, squawk, or bawl.
2. Slang. to talk noisily and foolishly or complainingly. 

noun:

1. a harsh cry.
2. Slang. a. raucous or querulous speech. b. a noisy, foolish utterance.

Yawp is a very old English word. It entered English in the 1300s and comes from the Middle English word yolpen. It is related to the word yelp. Walt Whitman popularized the noun sense of the word in his book Song of Myself.

Food Herp 

• The spreading of a craving/desire for a specific food or restaurant from person to person. Usually spread almost instantaneously after leaving someone's mouth.

Person 1 "I could really go for some Qdoba right now!"
Person 2 "Thanks for the food herp, now I really want some to!"

Trivia

What was controversial about the U.S. postage stamps issued to honor journalist Edward R. Murrow, artist Jackson Pollock, and blues guitarist Robert Johnson?

• Their designs were all based on photos showing the honored individual with a cigarette, but the cigarettes were airbrushed out of existence on the stamps. The 29-cent Murrow and Johnson stamps were issued in 1994; the 33-cent Pollock stamp, in 1999.

History

• typographer: William Burt received a patent for his forerunner of the typewriter (1829)
• Gamal Abdel Nasser: led the Egyptian army in an overthrow of King Farouk I (1952)
• 12th Street riot: police raid at a blind pig sparked five days of race riots in Detroit; 43 people died and 2,000 buildings burned down (1967)
• Tiger Woods: at 24, became the youngest golfer to win a career Grand Slam (2000)

Birthdays

• Karl Menninger 1893
• Vincent Sardi 1894
• Arthur Treacher 1894
• Karl Swenson 1908
• Michael Wilding 1912
• Coral Browne 1913
• Calvert DeForest 1921
• Gloria De Haven 1925
• Billy Maxwell 1929
• Bert Convey 1933
• Stacy Lacy 1934
• Cleveland Duncan 1935 - Musician (Penguins)
• Don Drysdale 1936
• Ronny Cox 1938
• Nicholas Gage 1939
• Don Imus 1940 - Radio personality
• Gary Stites 1940
• Tony Joe White 1943
• Dino Danelli 1945 - Musician (The Rascals)
• Andy Mackay 1946 - Musician (Roxy Music)
• David Essex 1947
• Larry Manetti 1947
• Belinda Montgomery 1950
• Blair Thornton 1950 - Musician (Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
• Edie McClurg 1951
• Woody Harrelson 1961
• Martin Lee Gore 1961 - Musician (Depeche Mode)
  
• Eriq LaSalle 1962
• Yuval Gabay (Soul Coughing) 1963
• Nick Menza 1964 - Musician (Megadeth)
• Slash (Saul Hudson) 1965 - Muscian (Guns N' Roses)
• Stephanie Seymour 1968
• Charisma Carpenter 1970
• Sam Watters 1970 - Musician (Color Me Badd)
• Alison Krauss 1971
• Chad Gracey 1971 - Musician (Live)
• Mr. Dalvin (Jodeci) 1971
• Marlon Wayans 1972 Omar Epps 1973
• Michelle Williams 1980 - Singer (Destiny's Child)