Tuesday, September 03, 2013

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

lacerate \LAS-uh-reyt\, verb:
  1. to tear roughly; mangle: The barbed wire lacerated his hands.
  2. to distress or torture mentally or emotionally; wound deeply; pain greatly: His bitter criticism lacerated my heart.
adjective:
  1. lacerated.
Lacerate entered English in the late 1500s from the Latin lacer meaning "mangled" or "torn." 
batree
  • Commonly use in Ottawa. Word use to say bitch, ho or slut.
Damn look at that batree!
Trivia
Who asked, “Why don’t you speak for yourself, John?” in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s famous poem The Courtship of Miles Standish?
  • Priscilla Mullins. She posed the question to John Alden.
History
  • San Marino: independent country inside Italy — arguably the world's smallest and oldest republic — was founded (301)
  • Richard the Lion-Hearted: was crowned king of England after defeating his father, Henry II (1189)
  • Treaty of Paris: the US Revolutionary War came to an official end (1783)
  • Malcolm Campbell: English racer and journalist became the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph, at Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah (1935)
Birthdays
  • Nicolo Amati 1596
  • Ferdinand Porsche 1875
  • Alan Ladd 1913
  • Tom Glazer 1914
  • Kitty Carlisle-Hart 1914
  • Helen Wagner 1918
  • Mort Walker 1923
  • Hank Thompson 1925
  • Irene Papas 1926
  • Bill Fleming 1926
  • Anne Jackson 1926
  • Hugh Sidney 1927
  • Tompall Glaser 1933
  • Freddie King (Frederick Christian) 1934 - Guitarist and singer known as "the Texas Cannonball."
  • Richard Castellano 1934
  • Eileen Brennan 1935
  • Pauline Collins 1940
  • Al Jardine (Beach Boys) 1942
  • Valerie Perrine 1943
  • Dave Eichelberger 1943
  • Gary Leeds (The Walker Brothers) 1944
  • George Biondo (Steppenwolf) 1945
  • Donald Brewer (Grand Funk Railroad) 1948
  • Steve Jones (Sex Pistols) 1955 
  • Charlie Sheen 1965 - WINNING!
  • Costas Mandylor 1965
  • Todd Lewis (The Toadies) 1965
  • Jennifer Paige 1973

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