Sunday, September 14, 2014

taradiddle \ tar-uh-DID-l \ , noun; 

1. Informal . a small lie; fib. 
2. Informal . pretentious nonsense. 

Origin: Taradiddle builds on the term diddle , "to cheat or swindle" or "a deception," however, the origin of the first element, tara , is uncertain. It entered English in the late 1700s.

liptease

• The act of putting on lipstick suggestively; The oral equivalent of a striptease.

Diane was giving me a liptease from across the room, so I went over and asked her out.

History 

• "The Star Spangled Banner": US anthem was written by attorney Francis Scott Key during the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore (1814)
• Selective Service Act: Congress authorized the first peacetime draft in US history (1940)
• Luna 2: the spherical Soviet spacecraft became the first man-made object to reach the Moon; it crashed onto the lunar surface (1959)
• Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton: widow who founded the American Sisters of Charity was canonized by Pope Paul VI, becoming the first US-born saint (1975)
• 1994 Major League Baseball season: was officially canceled by acting commissioner Bud Selig, 34 days after the players' strike began (1994)

Birthdays 

• Ivan Pavlov 1849
• Charles Dana Gibson 1867
• Margaret Sanger 1879
• Jack Hawkins 1910
• Clayton Moore 1914
• Kay Medford 1920
• Hughes Rudd 1921
• Constance Baker Motley 1921
• Bud Palmer 1923
• Jerry Coleman 1924
• Allan Bloom 1930
• Zoe Caldwell 1933
  
• Harve Presnell 1933
• Kate Millett 1934
• Walter Koenig 1936
• Nicol Williamson 1938
• Priscilla Mitchell 1941
• Joey Heatherton 1944
• Pete Agnew (Nazareth) 1946
• Sam Neill 1947
• John "Bowser" Bauman (Sha Na Na) 1947
• Steven Gaines (Lynyrd Skynyrd) 1949 
• Paul Kossoff (Free) 1950
• Barry Cowsill (The Cowsills) 1954
• Steve Berlin (Los Lobos) 1955
• Joe Penny 1956
• John Berry 1959
• Mary Crosby 1959
• Mary Frances 1959
• Morton Harket (a-ha) 1959
• Faith Ford 1964
• Don Cortese 1968
• Tyler Perry 1969
• Craig Montoya (Everclear) 1970
• Kimberly Williams-Paisley 1971
• Andrew Lincoln 1973 (Rick Grimes from The Walking Dead)
• Nas 1973
• Amy Weinhouse 1983 (singer turned zombie)
• Adam Lamberg 1984