Thursday, January 29, 2015

acclaim \uh-KLEYM\, verb:

1. to welcome with loud approval; praise highly
2. a shout or show of approval

c 1320 from Latin acclamare "to shout" from medieval Latin acclamare "to claim."

Piss Window

• The ability to poop in the amount of time it would normally take you to piss, so as not to alert guests or hosts as to what you are truly doing. Making the Piss Window is most critical when dining out with friends, entertaining guests in your home, or visiting the home of another. Failure to make the Piss Window will usually result in bouts of awkwardness as you exit the bathroom, because everyone will know you just took a shit.

Joe: Dude, 2 minutes and 14 seconds...you just barely made the Piss Window.
Sam: Tell me about it. It'd be pretty embarrassing if Julie found out I took a shit on our first date.
Joe: Too late, I just told her.

History

• John Beckley: became the first Librarian of Congress; he was paid $2 a day (1802)
• "The Raven": Edgar Allen Poe's poetic lament for the lost Lenore was first published, in The New York Evening Mirror (1845)
• Compromise of 1850: Henry Clay introduced to Congress his proposal to settle slavery issues
• Baseball Hall of Fame: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson were named the first inductees; the hall of fame and museum opened 3 years later (1936)
• Axis of Evil: Iran, Iraq and North Korea were named "regimes that sponsor terror" in President George W. Bush's State of the Union address (2002)

Birthdays

• Thomas Paine 1737
• William McKinley (U.S.) 1843
• Lawrence Hargrave 1850
• W.C. Fields 1880
• Huddie Ledbetter 1889
• Allen B. DuMont 1901
• Joe Primeau 1906
• "Professor" Irwin Corey 1912
• Victor Mature 1916
• John Raitty 1917
• John Forsythe 1918
• Paddy Chayefsky 1923
• Noel Harrison 1936
• Germaine Greer 1939
• Katherine Ross 1942
• Claudine Longet 1942
• Tom Selleck 1945
• David Byron (Uriah Heep) 1947
• Marc Singer 1948
• Tommy Erdelyi (The Ramones) 1952
• Ann Jillian 1950
• Louie Perez (Los Lobos) 1953
• Oprah Winfrey 1954
• Diane Delano 1957
• Irlene Mandrell 1957
• Judy Norton Taylor 1958
• Johnny Spampinato (NRBQ) 1959
• Greg Louganis 1960
• Eddie Jackson (Queensryche) 1961
• David Baynton-Power (James) 1961
• Nicholas Turturro 1962
• Roddy Frame (Aztec Camera) 1964
• Dominik Hasek (NHL) 1965
• Edward Burns 1968
• Aeneas Williams (NFL) 1968
• Thomas Jane 1969
• Heather Graham 1970
• Sara Gilbert 1975
• Andrew Keegan 1979
• Jonny Lang 1981