Tuesday, September 30, 2014

cherry-pick \ CHER-ee-pik \ , verb; 

1. Informal . to select with great care: You can cherry-pick your own stereo components . 
2. Informal . (in retail use) to buy only the sale items and ignore the other merchandise. 

Origin: Cherry-pick entered English in the 1960s possibly as an extension of the slang term cherry-picker , defined by Railroad Magazine in 1940 as a "switchman, so called because of red lights on switch stands. Also any railroad man who is always figuring on the best jobs and sidestepping undesirable ones." 

FNG

• Military term, 'Fucking New Guy' usually someone just out of training or just transfered into the unit/AO, who either hasn't proved his worth or doesn't know how to operate properly due to lack of experiance.

"Damnit, nearly everyone here is an FNG, we'll be wiped out on the next op"

 
History

• US Senate: Pennsylvanians William Maclay and Robert Morris became the first two members elected to the federal body (1788)
• The Magic Flute: Mozart's opera opened in Vienna (1791)
• ether: was used as an anesthetic for the first time by Boston dentist William Morton (1846)
• Little Women: Louisa May Alcott's classic novel of four sisters growing up during the US Civil War was published (1868)
• Munich Agreement: France, Italy, Germany and Britain signed a pact allowing Germany's annexation of the Sudetenland; it became synonymous with appeasement (1938)
• Nuremberg Trials: 22 Nazi leaders were found guilty of war crimes (1946)
• James Dean: Rebel Without a Cause star died in a car crash at age 24 (1955)
• 
  Republic of Botswana: African nation declared its independence from Britain (1966)

Birthdays

• William Wrigley, Jr. 1861 - Chewing gum tycoon
• Johnny (John Thomas) Allen 1905 - Baseball pitcher
• Deborah Kerr (Trimmer) 1921 - Actress ("The King and I", "Separate Tables")
• Oscar Pettiford 1922 - Musician, played with Charlie Barnet, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Woody Herman, Stan Getz
• Truman Capote (Streckfus Persons) 1924 - Writer (In Cold Blood, Other Voices, Breakfast at Tiffany's), actor
• Robin Roberts 1926 - Baseball pitcher
• Angie Dickinson 1931 - Actress (Police Woman, Cassie and Company)
• Johnny Podres 1932 - Baseball pitcher
• Cissy Houston 1933
• Jill Corey 1935 - Singer
• Johnny Mathis 1935 - Singer
• Len Cariou 1939
• Dewey Martin 1942 - Musician (Buffalo Springfield)
• Frankie Lymon 1942
• Marilyn McCoo 1943 - Singer (5th Dimension), TV hostess (Solid Gold)
• Austin "Red" Robbins 1944 - Basketball player
• Sylvia Peterson 1947 - Singer (The Chiffons)
• Marc Bolan (Mark Feld) 1947 - Musician (T.Rex)
• Rula Lenska 1947
• Andy Maurer 1948 - Football player
• Catie Ball-Condon 1951 - Swimmer
  

  
• John Lombardo (10,000 Maniacs) 1952
• Deborah Allen 1953 - Singer
• Victoria Tennant 1953 - Actress
• Calvin Levels 1954
• Patrice Rushen 1954
• Barry Williams (Blenkhorn) 1954 - Actor (The Brady Bunch)
• Basia 1956
• Vondie Curtis-Hall 1956
• Fran Drescher 1957
• Marty Stuart 1958
• Debrah Farentino 1959
• Eric Stoltz 1961 - Actor (Some Kind of Wonderful, The Glass Menagerie)
• Crystal Bernard 1961 - Actress (Happy Days, Wings)
• Dave Magadan 1962 - Baseball player
• Marley Marl 1962
• Eddie Montgomery 1963
• Robby Takac 1964 - (Goo Goo Dolls)
• Lisa Thornhill 1966
• Monica Bellucci 1968
• Jenna Elfman 1971
• Ashley Hamilton 1974
• Mike Damus 1979
• Martina Hingis 1980
• Dominique Moceanu 1981
• Lacy Chabert 1982
• Kieran Culkin 1982
  Rosana Arkle 1988

 

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Rosana Arkle