Sunday, August 10, 2014

garboil \ GAHR-boil \ , noun;

• Archaic . confusion. 

Origin: Garboil hails from the Old Italian garbuglio . It entered English in the mid-1500s. 

aggressive passive

• A word describing somebody who is uncomfortable being openly amiable and kind, so they give more subtle hints to their goodwill while maintaining a disagreeable exterior. 

That man spent the entire meal complaining to me about my service, and then he left me a $5 tip. He's totally aggressive passive.

History

• Ferdinand Magellan: set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe; of the five ships that set out under his command, only one — the Victoria — returned to Spain (1519)
• Smithsonian Institution: was created with $500,000 left by English scientist James Smithson (1846)
• Son of Sam: New York serial killer David Berkowitz was arrested (1977)
• Yuri Malenchenko: Ukrainian cosmonaut became the first person to be married in space, to a woman on the ground in Texas (2003)

Birthdays

• Herbert Clark Hoover (U.S.) 1874
• Leo Fender 1909
• Jeff Corey 1914
• Al Alberts (Four Aces) 1922
• Rhonda Fleming 1923
• Claus Von Bulow 1926
• Jimmy Martin 1927
• Jimmy Dean 1928
• Eddie Fisher 1928
• Rocky Colavito 1933
• Bobby Hatfield (The Righteous Brothers) 1940
• Ronnie Spector 1947
• Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) 1947
• Patti Austin 1948
• Gene Johnson (Diamond Rio) 1949
• Daniel Hugh Kelly 1952
• Rosanna Arquette 1959
• Antonio Banderas 1960
• John Farriss (INXS) 1961
• Julia Fordham 1962
• Aaron Hall 1964
• Lorraine Pearson (Five Star) 1967
• Todd Nichols (Toad The Wet Sprocket) 1967
• Michael Bivins 1968
• Angie Harmon 1972
• Nikki Bratcher (Divine) 1980