hornswoggle \HAWRN-swog-uhl\, verb:
that's a good question
What are you doing here?
Sreya:
That's a good question!
Holiday
- to swindle, cheat, hoodwink, or hoax.
that's a good question
- A phrase usually indicating that the speaker has absolutely no idea how to answer said question. Often used to stall for time.
What are you doing here?
Sreya:
That's a good question!
Holiday
- Chinese New Year: Because the Chinese calendar is lunisolar, the Chinese New Year is often referred to as the "Lunar New Year". Gong hey fat choi!
Year of the Horse!
History
- Guy Fawkes: was hanged for his part in the Gunpowder Plot to blow up Parliament and kill the king of England (1606)
- first US Social Security check: the sum of $22.54 was received by Ida May Fuller, who had paid three years of payroll taxes; she lived to 100, collecting a total of $22,888.92 from Social Security (1940)
- Great Flood of 1953: tidal surge killed thousands and affected shorelines in the UK and the Netherlands
- Explorer I: the US launched its first Earth satellite, whose mission was to detect cosmic rays (1958)
- McDonald's: first opened in the Soviet Union, in Moscow (1990)
Birthdays
- Franz Shubert 1797
- Zane Grey 1872
- Irving Langmuir 1881
- Anna Pavlova 1882
- Eddie Cantor (Iskowitz) 1892
- Freya Stark 1893
- Tallulah Bankhead 1902
- Jersey Joe Walcott 1914
- Garry Moore 1915
- Frank Parker (Paikowski) 1916
- Jackie Robinson 1919
- John Agar 1921
- Mario Lanza 1921
- Joanne Dru (LaCock) 1923
- Chuck Willis 1928
- Jean Simmons 1929
- Norman Mailer 1929
- Ernie Banks 1931
- James Franciscus 1934
- Suzanne Pleshette 1937
- Queen Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard (Netherlands) 1938
- Stuart Margolin 1940
- Richard Gephardt 1941
- Jessica Walter 1944
- Charlie Musselwhite 1944
- Terry Kath (Chicago) 1946
- Nolan Ryan 1947
- Harry Wayne Casey (KC and the Sunshine Band) 1951
- Johnny "Rotten" Lydon (The Sex Pistols) 1956
- Shirley Babashoff 1957
- Kelly Lunch 1959
- Anthony LaPaglia 1959
- Lloyd Cole (Lloyd Cole and The Commotions) 1961
- John Dye 1963
- Al Jaworski (Jesus Jones) 1966
- Minnie Driver 1971
- Portia de Rossi 1973
- Justin Timberlake ('N Sync) 1981














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