Thursday, January 16, 2014

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Yarborough \YAHR-bur-oh, -buhr-oh or, esp. British, -ber-uh\, noun: 
  • Whist, Bridge. a hand in which no card is higher than a nine.
Yarborough came to English in the late 1800s after the 2nd Earl of Yarborough, who was said to have bet 1000 to 1 against the occurrence of a card hand in which no card is higher than a nine.
polar vortex
  • A weather system that results in record-breaking cold temperatures. Can also be used as euphemism for "really fucking cold" or "fucking freezing."
Schools are closed because the polar vortex dropped temperatures below zero F.

My heater broke, now my house is a polar vortex.


History

  • Ivan the Terrible: grand prince of Moscow was crowned the first czar of Russia (1547)
  • US civil service: US government commission was reestablished by the Pendleton Act, ending the spoils system; from then on, appointments to public office were to be made based on merit, not loyalty (1883)
  • Amendment 18: the law beginning Prohibition was ratified (1920); it was repealed in 1933
  • Mickey Mantle: signed a $75,000-a-year contract, becoming the highest-paid baseball player at the time (1961)
  • Operation Desert Storm: the White House announced the start of the campaign to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait (1991)
  • Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: was sworn in as president of Liberia, becoming Africa's first elected female head of state (2006)
Birthdays
  • imagebam.comimagebam.comAndre Michelin 1853
  • Evelyn Levine 1902
  • Ethel Merman 1909
  • Dizzy Dean 1911
  • Elliott Reid 1920
  • Katy Jurado 1927
  • Pilar Lorengar 1928
  • William Kennedy 1928
  • G.T. (Granville) Hogan 1929
  • Norman Podhoretz 1930
  • Susan Sontag 1933
  • Marilyn Horne 1934
  • A.J. Foyt 1935
  • Bob Bogle (The Ventures) 1937
  • Barbara Lynn 1942
  • Bill Francis (Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show) 1942
  • Jim Stafford 1944
  • Ronnie Milsap 1943
    Dr. Laura Schlessinger 1947 quack
  • John Carpenter 1948 horror dude
  • Debbie Allen 1950
  • Sade Adu 1959
  • Paul Webb (Talk Talk) 1962
  • Maxine Jones (En Vogue) 1966
  • David Chokachi 1968
    John Davison 1971 Current singer of YES
  • Kate Moss 1974
  • Aaliyah 1979
  • Yvonne Zima 1989
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