Wednesday, June 25, 2014

zedonk \ ZEE-dongk, -dawngk, -duhngk \ , noun; 

• the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. 

Origin: This portmanteau is a combination of ze(bra) + donk(ey). It came to English in the 1970s.

email bail

• using email to back out or ditch on plans, dates and even relationships.

he didn't want a confrontation so he decided to email bail on the chick he promised to call last night.

History

• Battle of Little Bighorn: Lt. Col. George A. Custer and his men were killed by Indians in what became known as "Custer's Last Stand" (1876)
• Douglas Hyde: became the first president of Ireland (1938)
• Korean War: broke out when the communist North invaded the South (1950)
• Yugoslavia: former republics Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence (1991)
• Mir space station: was struck by an unmanned Progress spacecraft (1997)
• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Teheran mayor was elected president of Iran (2005)
• Michael Jackson: the "King of Pop" died of acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication after suffering cardiac arrest at his home in Los Angeles.

Birthdays

• Rosie O'Neill 1874
• Henry "Hap" Arnold 1886
• George Abbott 1887
• Lord Louis Mountbatten (Burma) 1900
• Anne Revere 1903
• George Orwell 1903
• Peter Lind Hayes 1915
• Johnny Smith 1922
• Dorothy Gilman 1923
• Sidney Lumet 1924
• June Lockhart 1925
• Eddie Floyd (Falcons) 1935
• Barbara Montgomery 1939
• Clint Warwick (The Moody Blues) 1940
• Willis Reed 1942
• Carly Simon 1945
• Ian McDonald (Foreigner) 1946
• Allen Lanier (Blue Oyster Cult) 1946
• Jimmy Walker 1947
  
• Michael Lembeck 1948
• Phyllis George 1949
• Tim Finn (Split Enz) 1952
• David Paich (Toto) 1954
• George Michael 1963
• Dikembe Mutombo 1966
• Richie Rich 1967
• Candyman 1968
• Sean Kelly (Sixpence None the Richer) 1971
• Michael Kroeger (Michael Douglas Henry Kroeger ) 1972 - Bass player (Nickelback)
• Carlos Delgado 1972
• Mario Calire (Wallflowers) 1974
• Albert Costa 1975
• Linda Cardellini 1975