fastidious \fa-STID-ee-uhs\, adjective:
- hard to please; extremely refined or critical
c 1440, "full of pride," from Latin fastidiosus "disdainful, squeamish, exacting," from fastidium "loathing," most likely from fastu-taidiom, a compound of fastus "contempt, arrogance" and tædium "aversion, disgust." The meaning "squeamish, over-nice" emerged in England by 1612.
- When you're in the kitchen going around in circles because you can't remember what you were doing there.
I was in the kitchen this morning walking around in circles wondering what the hell I was looking for when the microwave beeped reminding me I was heating up my cup of coffee. My Kitchenheimer's is getting worse!
History
- Julius Caesar: crossed the Rubicon with his army (49 BCE)
- Common Sense: Thomas Paine published (anonymously) his influential pamphlet calling for American independence from Britain via revolution (1776)
- gusher: oil was discovered near Beaumont, Texas (1901)
- League of Nations: precursor to the United Nations held its first meeting; though it was proposed by a US president, the US never did join (1920)
- Vatican City: the US reestablished full diplomatic relations with the Holy See after having been out of touch for over a century (1984)
- Where's the beef?: Wendy's ad campaign began; it quickly morphed into a political slogan (1984)
Ethan Allen 1738- Francis X. Bushman 1883
- Ray Bolger 1904
- Paul Henried 1908
- Max Roach 1925
- Johnnie Ray 1927
- Gisele MacKenzie (LaFleche) 1927
- Donald Brooks 1928
- Maurice Sendak 1928
- Tintin 1929 (fictional character)
- Sherrill Milnes 1935
- Ronnie Hawkins 1935
Willie McCovey 1938- Sal Mineo 1939
- Bill Toomey 1939
- Scott McKenzie 1939
- Walter Hill 1941
- Jim Croce 1943
- Frank Sinatra Jr. 1944
- Ronny Light 1945
- Rod Stewart 1945
- Bob Lang (Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders) 1946
- Donald Fagen (Steely Dan) 1948
Cyril Neville (The Neville Brothers) 1948- George Foreman 1949
- Bobby Rahal 1953
- Pat Benatar 1953
- Michel Schenker (Scorpions) 1955
- Shawn Colvin 1958
- Curt Kirkwood (Meat Puppets) 1959
- Evan Handler 1961
- Brad Roberts (Crash Test Dummies) 1963
- Trini Alvarado 1967
- Jill Marie Nicolini 1978 (bottom)
- Chris Smith (Kris Kross) 1979
- Sarah Shahi 1980 (below)
- Josh Ryan Evans 1982












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