Wednesday, November 20, 2013

vexatious \vek-SEY-shuhs\, adjective:

1. causing vexation; troublesome; annoying: a vexatious situation.
2. Law. (of legal actions) instituted without sufficient grounds and serving only to cause annoyance to the defendant.
3. disorderly; confused; troubled.

Vexatious entered English from the Latin word vexāre which meant "to shake, jolt, harass, annoy."
poverty porn

• Maury, Jerry Springer, and any show that purposefully uses the extremely poor and/or desperate uneducated people to exploit them for the purpose of entertainment.

"Every time I see a show that involves poor people fighting, it just gives me the worst poverty porn vibe."
Trivia

What was the original title of the 1961 Academy Award–winning song “Moon River”?

• “Blue River.” The name was changed when lyricist Johnny Mercer realized another songwriter had already used the title. Written by Mercer with composer Henry Mancini for the film Breakfast at Tiffany’s, “Moon River” won the Oscar for Best Original Song.

History 

• Peregrine White: the first child of English parents born in present-day New England, came into the world on the Mayflower, docked in Massachusetts Bay (1620)
• New Jersey: the Garden State became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights (1789)
• Nuremberg trials: an Allied tribunal began trying Nazis for war crimes; the defense of "I was following orders" was not accepted (1945)
• Elizabeth II: the future queen of England married Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in Westminster Abbey (1947)

Birthdays

• Edwin Hubble 1889
• Chester Gould 1900
• Alistair Cooke 1908
• Evelyn Keyes 1919
• Beryl Sprinkel 1923
• Robert F. Kennedy 1925
• Kaye Ballard 1926
• Estelle Parsons 1927
• Richard Dawson 1932
• Kim Weston 1939
• Dick Smothers 1939
• Norman Greenbaum 1942
• Veronica Hamel 1943
• Judy Woodruff 1946
• Duane Allman 1946 - Musician (Allman Brothers)
• Joseph Fidler "Joe" Walsh 1947 - Musician (James Gang, Eagles)
• Richard Masur 1948
• Bo Derek 1956
• Jim Brown 1957 - Musician (UB40)
• Sean Young 1959
• Todd Nance 1962 - Musician (Widespread Panic)
• Mike D. 1965 - Musician (The Beastie Boys)
• Sen Dog 1965 - Musician (Cypress Hill)
• Ming-Na Wen 1967
• Phife Dog 1970
• Marisa Ryan 1974
• Josh Turner 1977 - Country singer
• Nadine Velasquez 1978 - Actress
• CJ Gibson 1983 - Model, Actress