Sunday, October 19, 2014

pratfall \ PRAT-fawl \ , noun; 

1. a fall in which one lands on the buttocks, often regarded as comical or humiliating. 
2. a humiliating blunder or defeat. 

Origin: Pratfall entered English in the 1930s. It combines prat and fall . The origin of prat is unknown. Fall comes from the Old English feallan.

haberdash

• A bunch of bullshit; unsupported bullshit; a notion stated a fact.

Aww, thats haberdash if he says he can jump across that huge river in one bound.

History

• Yorktown campaign: British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered, effectively ending the land war of the American Revolution (1781)
• Black Monday: the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 508 points — over 22% — setting a record for percentage decline that still stands (1987)
• Guildford Four: men wrongly convicted for a deadly IRA bombing were cleared after 15 years in jail (1989)

Birthdays

• Thomas Browne 1605
• Annie Peck 1850
• Charles Merrill 1885
• Robert Beatty 1909
• George Cates 1911
• Lawanda Page 1920
• Bern Bennett 1921
• George Nader 1921
• Jack Anderson 1922
• John le Carre 1931
• Robert Reed 1932
• Peter Max 1937
• Michael Gambon 1940
• Simon Ward 1941
• Peter Tosh 1944
• Divine 1945

• John Lithgow 1945
• Patricia Ireland 1945
• Jeannie C. Riley 1945
• Patrick Simmons (Doobie Brothers) 1948
• Lynn Dickey (NFL) 1949
• Charlie Chase 1952
• Nino DeFranco (The DeFranco Family) 1956
• Karl Wallinger (Waterboys, World Party) 1957
• Jennifer Holliday 1960
• Evander Holyfield 1962
• Todd Park Mohr (Big Head Todd and the Monsters) 1965
• Jon Favreau 1966
  
• Trey Parker 1969
• Chris Kattan 1970
• Pras Michel (The Fugees) 1972
• Omar Gooding 1976
• Cyndi Thompson 1976
• Benjamin Salisbury 1980