Thursday, October 23, 2014

geep \ geep \ , noun; 

• the hybrid offspring of a goat and a sheep.

Origin: Geep is a portmanteau from the 1970s that combines the words goat and sheep.

Stoptional

• When the braking of a car is left to one's choice due to an unnecessary stop sign.

Passenger: Did you just blow through that stop sign?
Driver: Oh, no worries. It was stoptional.

History

• Brutus: committed suicide after losing to Mark Anthony and Octavian in the Second Battle of Philippi, a war fought to avenge the assassination of Julius Caesar (42 BCE)
• War of Jenkins' Ear: British PM Robert Walpole reluctantly declared war on Spain after a ship's captain brought in his ear, pickled, and told the House of Commons it had been severed by the Spanish coast guard (1739)
• suffragists: some 25,000 women marched in NYC, demanding the right to vote (1915)
• Hungarian Revolution: spontaneous protest began, marking the first anti-Soviet revolt; many thousands were killed or fled; the Hungarian Republic was declared exactly 33 years later (1956)
• iPod: digital music player was launched by Apple (2001)
• Moscow Theater Crisis: Chechen terrorists took 700 hostages; many died during a Russian raid the next day (2002)

Birthdays

• Nicolas Appert 1752
  
• Gertrude Ederle 1906
• 'Bruiser' (Frank) Kinard 1914
• James Daly 1918
• Ewel Blackwell 1922
• Ned Rorem 1923
• Johnny Carson 1925
• Sonny Criss 1927
• Boozoo Chavis 1930
• Diana Dors 1931
• Jim Bunning 1931
• Juan "Chi-Chi" Rodriguez 1935
• Charlie Foxx 1939
  
• Pelé 1940
• Eleanor (Ellie) Greenwich 1940
• Michael Crichton 1942
• Barbara Ann Hawkins (The Dixie Cups) 1943
• Greg Ridley (Spooky Tooth) 1947
• Michael Rupert 1951
• Pauline Black (Selecter) 1953
• Dwight Yoakam 1956
• Sam Raimi 1959
• "Weird Al" Yankovic 1959
• Doug Flutie 1962
• Mike Tomczak (NFL) 1962
• Roberto Agustin Trujillo 1964 - Musician (Metallica)

• Al Leiter 1965
• David Thomas (Take 6) 1966
• Brian Nevin (Big Head Todd and the Monsters) 1966
• Junior Bryant (Ricochet) 1968
• Jimmy Wayne 1972
• Keith Van Horn 1975
• Ryan Reynolds 1976
• Masiela Lusha 1985
• Jessica Stroup 1986