Friday, December 12, 2014

TGIF! Friday, December 12, 2014

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pusillanimous \ pyoo-suh-LAN-uh-muhs \ , adjective; 
  1. lacking courage or resolution; cowardly; faint-hearted; timid. 
  2. proceeding from or indicating a cowardly spirit. 
Origin: Pusillanimous is derived from the Latin words pusillis meaning "small" and animus meaning "spirit." It entered English in the late 1500s. 

Short story long 
  • Something that could have been told in a more concise way but is dragged out because the teller doesn't know how to tell a story. It's a play on the annoying clarifier, "Long story short," people use to sum up a digression, which really never seems to be that short anyway. So instead you say the opposite.
So I was walking into the store the other day, I wanted to get some aspirin because I had this massive headache and I walked down aisle four but they only had Tylenol but that doesn't work and I went to the counter and short story long this guy was holding up the store! 
History
  • Joseph Rainey: became the first African American to sit in the US House of Representatives (1870)
  • The Katzenjammer Kids: oldest comic strip still in syndication debuted (1897)
  • Guglielmo Marconi: transmitted the first transatlantic radio signal, from Cornwall to Newfoundland; the feat was unsubstantiated (1901)
  • Boys Town: youth center was founded by Father Flanagan (1917)
  • Arthur Ashe: became the first African American to be ranked #1 in tennis (1968)
  • Keiko: Willy of Free Willy, a killer whale, died of pneumonia in his mid-20s in a Norwegian fjord (2003)
Birthdays
  • Gustave Flaubert 1821
  • Edvard Munch 1863
  • Edward G. Robinson 1893
  • Robert Covington 1914
  • Frank Sinatra 1915
  • Joe Williams 1918
  • Bob Barker 1923
  • Ed Koch 1924
  • Robert N. Noyce 1927
  • Connie Francis 1938
  • Dionne Warwick 1940
  • Mike Pinder (Moody Blues) 1942
  • Grover Washington Jr. 1943
  • Dickey Betts (The Allman Brothers) 1943
  • Wings Hauser 1947
  • Bill Nighy 1949
  • Paul Rodgers (Bad Company) 1949
  • Cathy Rigby 1952
  • Sheila E. 1957
  • Cy Curnin (Fixx) 1957
  • Sheree J. Wilson 1958
  • Tracy Ann Austin Holt 1962 - Tennis player
  • Mädchen Amick 1970
  • Jennifer Connelly 1970
  • Bobbi Billard 1975 - t3h pr0n
  • Mayim Bialik 1975

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