Saturday, January 31, 2015

Saturday, January 31, 2015

canine \KEY-nahyn\, adjective:
  1. of or like a dog or member of the dog family
  2. any animal belonging to a group of meat-eaters including dogs, foxes, and wolves
  3. pertaining to a canine tooth
  4. one of the four teeth next to the incisors; cuspid
by 1398 as "pointed teeth," from Latin caninus "of the dog," from canis "dog," from Proto Indo-European base *kwon- "dog." The adjective is attested from 1613 and the noun meaning "dog" is first recorded 1869.

fornicating fido
  • fucking the dog, to do nothing productive
What were you up to today? 
Oh you know, fornicating fido.

History
  • Guy Fawkes: was hanged for his part in the Gunpowder Plot to blow up Parliament and kill the king of England (1606)
  • first US Social Security check: the sum of $22.54 was received by Ida May Fuller, who had paid three years of payroll taxes; she lived to 100, collecting a total of $22,888.92 from Social Security (1940)
  • Great Flood of 1953: tidal surge killed thousands and affected shorelines in the UK and the Netherlands
  • Explorer I: the US launched its first Earth satellite, whose mission was to detect cosmic rays (1958)
  • McDonald's: first opened in the Soviet Union, in Moscow (1990)
Birthdays 
  • Franz Shubert 1797
  • Zane Grey 1872
  • Irving Langmuir 1881
  • Anna Pavlova 1882
  • Eddie Cantor (Iskowitz) 1892
  • Freya Stark 1893
  • Tallulah Bankhead 1902
  • Jersey Joe Walcott 1914
  • Garry Moore 1915
  • Frank Parker (Paikowski) 1916
  • Jackie Robinson 1919
  • John Agar 1921
  • Mario Lanza 1921
  • Carol Channing 1923
  • Joanne Dru (LaCock) 1923
  • Chuck Willis 1928
  • Jean Simmons 1929
  • Norman Mailer 1929
  • Ernie Banks 1931
  • James Franciscus 1934
  • Philip Glass 1937
  • Suzanne Pleshette 1937
  • Queen Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard (Netherlands) 1938
  • Stuart Margolin 1940
  • Richard Gephardt 1941
  • Jessica Walter 1944
  • Charlie Musselwhite 1944
  • Terry Kath (Chicago) 1946
  • Nolan Ryan 1947
  • Phil Manzanera (Roxy Music) 1951
  • Harry Wayne Casey (KC and the Sunshine Band) 1951
  • Johnny "Rotten" Lydon (The Sex Pistols) 1956 
  • Shirley Babashoff 1957
  • Kelly Lunch 1959
  • Anthony LaPaglia 1959
  • Lloyd Cole (Lloyd Cole and The Commotions) 1961
  • John Dye 1963
  • Al Jaworski (Jesus Jones) 1966
  • Minnie Driver 1971
  • Portia de Rossi 1973
  • Justin Timberlake ('N Sync) 1981

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