Monday, February 16, 2015

interminable \in-TUR-muh-nuh-buhl\, adjective:

• so long as to seem endless; never stopping

c.1374, from Late Latin interminabilis, from in- "not" + terminabilis

Slip of the thumbs

• When sending a text message and the recipient of the message was not the intended recipient. Alternatively, when you try to reply to one person, and another message comes in just as you're about to reply, and you end up replying to the wrong person. This issue can have detrimental effects.

Girl to married guy: "Hey, what are you up to?" (Guy is getting ready to reply, when he's distracted for two seconds, during which time, the following message hits his phone."

Wife to her husband: "I made it to Dallas." (Now husband, thinking he's replying to his girlfriend says)

Husband to his wife (slip of the thumbs): "Nothing, my wife is out of town if you want to sleep over tonight."

Wife to husband: "WTF!?!?!"

Holiday

• Washington's Birthday (2/16/15)
• President's Day

History

• Tutankhamen's tomb: Egyptian king's burial chamber was opened, mesmerizing the world with the wealth inside; among the treasures found were a gold throne, a gold sarcophagus and the king's mummified body (1923)
• nylon: the high-strength synthetic polymer was patented by industrial chemist Wallace Hume Carothers (1937)
• Fidel Castro: became leader of Cuba after ousting Fulgencio Batista; he stepped down in 2008 due to ill health, and his brother Raúl took office (1959)
• 911: Alabama's speaker of the house placed the first call on the US emergency telephone system, in Haleyville (1968)

Birthdays

• Henry Adams 1838
• Robert Flaherty 1884
• Van Wyck Brooks 1886
• Katharine Cornell 1898
• Chester Morris 1901
• Wayne King (The Waltz King) 1901
• Edgar Bergen 1903
• Hugh Beaumont 1909
• Jimmy Wakely 1914
• Bill Doggett 1916
• Patty Marie Andrews 1918 - Singer (The Andrews Sisters)
• Jean Behra 1921
• Vera-Ellen Westmeyer Rohe 1921
• Otis Blackwell 1932
• Gretchen Wyler 1932
• Sonny Bono 1935 - Singer (Sonny and Cher)
• Barry Primus 1938
• Herbie & Harold Kalin (The Kalin Twins) 1939
• Jeremy Bulloch 1946 - Actor (Boba Fett)
• Pete Postlethwaite 1946 - Actor
• William Katt 1951 - Actor
• Margaux Hemingway 1955
• James Ingram 1956 - Singer
• LeVar Burton 1957 - Actor
• Ice-T 1958 - Rapper
• Lisa Loring 1958 - Actress
• John McEnroe 1959 - Tennis player
• Andy Taylor 1961 - Musician (Duran Duran)
• Jerome Bettis 1972 - Football player
• Ahman Green 1977 - Football player
• Sam Salter 1978 - Singer