Saturday, November 30, 2013

subjoin \suhb-JOIN\, verb:

1. to add at the end, as of something said or written; append.
2. to place in sequence or juxtaposition to something else.

Subjoin is derived from the Middle French word subjoindre which meant "to add at the end."

crackstituents

• People who smoke crack with their favourite politician.

Mayor Ford smoked crack with his crackstituents.

Trivia

A cryptogram is something written in code or cipher. What is a cryptogam?

• It’s a plant or plantlike organism such as a fern, fungus, moss, or alga, which reproduces by means of spores rather than seeds.

History

• Russo-Finnish War: began; at its conclusion, Finland ceded part of its territory to Russia (1939)
• Lucille Ball: zany redheaded comedienne married Cuban bandleader Desi Arnaz, who became her costar in I Love Lucy (1940)
• Barbados: gained its independence from Great Britain (1966)
• 1996 - Tiny Tim died after collapsing after ending a show early because he felt ill.

Birthdays

• Jonathan Swift 1667
• Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) 1835
• Winston Churchill (Britain) 1874
• Brownie McGhee 1915
• Efren Zimbalist, Jr. 1918
• Virginia Mayo 1920
• Richard Crenna 1926
• Dick Clark 1929

• G. Gordon Liddy 1930
• Teddy Wilburn 1931
• Bob Moore 1932
• Abbie Hoffman 1936
• Jimmy Bowen 1937
• Robert Guillaume 1937
• Frank Ifield 1937
• Ridley Scott 1937
• Luther Ingram 1944
• Rob Grill (The Grassroots) 1944
• Roger Glover (Deep Purple) 1945
• David Mamet 1947
• Margaret Whitton 1950
• Mandy Patinkin 1952
• Shuggie Otis 1953
• June Pointer (The Pointer Sisters) 1954
• Jeannie Kendall (The Kendalls) 1954
• Billy Idol 1955 
• John Ashton (Psychedelic Furs) 1957
• Bo Jackson (NFL, MLB) 1962
• Jalil (Whodini) 1963
• Ben Stiller 1965
• Paul Wheeler (Icehouse) 1965
• Allan Sherman 1975
• Mindy McCready 1975
• Clay Aiken (Clayton Holmes Grissom) 1978
• Elisha Cuthbert 1982
• Kaley Cuoco 1985