Friday, October 03, 2014

TGIF! Friday, October 3, 2014

Salchow \SAL-kou\, noun:
  • Ice Skating. a jump in which the skater leaps from the back inside edge of one skate, making one full rotation of the body in the air, and lands on the back outside edge of the other skate.
Salchow entered English courtesy of Swedish figure skater Ulrich Salchow, who invented the jump and first performed it in 1909.
 
maybe later
  • a slightly less (or more) dick way of saying "no fucking way."
"Hey man wanna come over later and catch Dancing With the Stars?"
"Maybe later."
"You fuckin' dick."

History
  • The Mickey Mouse Club: children's variety show debuted on ABC (1955)
  • German Unity Day: marks the date that East and West reunited after 45 years (1990)
  • O.J. Simpson: after a sensational trial, the former football player was acquitted of the murder of his ex-wife and her friend (1995)
  • Siegfried and Roy: On Roy Horn's 59th birthday, a tiger grabbed him by the neck and dragged him offstage in the middle of a performance (2002); Roy was critically injured, and only returned to the stage in 2009 to briefly reunite with Siegfried and the tiger that had caused Roy's injuries.
Birthdays
  • Emily Post (Price) 1873
  • Thomas Wolf 1900
  • Harvey Kurtzman 1902 - Founder of "Mad" magazine
  • James Herriot 1916
  • Gore Vidal 1925
  • Erik Bruhn 1928
  • Andy Hebenton 1929
  • Glenn Hall 1931
  • Harold Henning 1932
  • Neale Fraser 1933
  • Madlyn Rhue 1934
  • Eddie Cochran 1938
  • Felix Pappalardi (Mountain) 1938
  • Alan O'Day 1940
  • Barbara Ferris 1940
  • Chubby Checker 1941
  • Michael Gallagher 1941
  • Alan Rachins 1942
  • Lindsey Buckingham (Fleetwood Mac) 1947
  • Ronnie Laws 1950
  • Pamela Hensley 1950
  • Dennis Eckersley 1954
  • Stevie Ray Vaughan 1954
  • Peter Frechette 1956
  • Jack Wagner 1959
  • Louis Marchiony Jr. 1960
  • Tommy Lee 1961 "Musician" (Motley Crue)
  • Gwen Stefani (No Doubt) 1969
  • Kevin Richardson (Backstreet Boys) 1971
  • Lena Headey 1973 Actress (300, Dredd)
  • Neve Campbell 1973
  • Erik Von Detten 1982

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