Saturday, March 14, 2015

belie 

1. to show to be false; contradict: His trembling hands belied his calm voice.
2. to misrepresent: The newspaper belied the facts.
3. to act unworthily according to the standards of (a tradition, one's ancestry, one's faith, etc.). 

Belie entered English prior to 1000, and is formed with the prefix be- meaning "around," and the verb lie meaning "to speak falsely."

Steak and Blowjob Day

• Celebrated on March 14th, Steak and Blowjob Day is a holiday for men, celebrated the month after Valentine's Day -- a holiday for women. The idea is simple: no cards, flowers, candy or other whimsical gifts. Ladies (and gay men), you simply bestow your partner with a steak and a blowjob. Not necessarily in that order.

Jeff: "Hey Bob, what did Stacey get you for Steak and Blowjob Day?" 

Bob: "Well Jeff, that would be a big juicy steak, and a big juicy blowjob."

Pi Time 

• The time of the day where a digital clock reads 3:14.

Dude, what time is? Dude, it's pi time.

Holiday

• Pi Day: today's date is 3:14!

History

• The Cradle of Liberty: Boston's Faneuil Hall hosted its first town meeting; the building hosted speeches by Revolutionary War figures who urged independence from Great Britain (1748)
• cotton gin: machine designed to extract seeds from cotton was patented by Eli Whitney, contributing greatly to the economic development of the South (1794)
• Ten Most Wanted: the FBI announced its top fugitives list for the first time (1950)
• Birmingham Six: Irishmen convicted in Birmingham pub bombings were freed after years in jail for pub bombings; the appeals court said police had fabricated evidence (1991)

Birthdays

• Lucy Hobbs Taylor 1833
• Paul Ehrlich 1854
• Casey Jones (John Luther) 1864
• Albert Einstein 1879
• Les Brown 1912
• Max Shulman 1919
• Hank Ketcham 1920
• Bill Rexford 1927
• Frank Borman II 1928 - Astronaut
• Bob Goalby
• Phil Phillips 1931
• Quincy Jones 1933
• Michael Caine 1933 - Actor ("Dark Knight" Trilogy)
• Shirly Scott 1934
• Eugene Cernan 1934
• Bob Charles 1936
• Raymond J. Barry 1939 - Actor
• Rita Tushingham 1942
• Clyde Lee 1944
• Michael Martin Murphey 1945
• Walt Parazaider 1945 - Musician (Chicago)
• Wes Unseld 1946
• Steve Kanaly 1946
• Billy Crystal 1948 - Actor, comedian
• Rick Dees 1950
• Adrian Zmed 1954
• Jann Browne 1954
• Boon Gould 1955 - Musician (Level 42)
• Tessa Sanderson 1957
• Prince Albert 1958 - Member of Monaco's royal family
• Tamara Tunie 1959 - Actress ("Law & Order: SVU")
  Louise Robey 1960 - Actress (Friday the 13th: The Series) see bottom
• Gary "Ba Ba Booey" Dell'Abate 1961 - producer of the Howard Stern Radio Show
• Kevin Williamson 1965 - Producer ("Dawson's Creek")
• Kevin Brown 1965 - Baseball player
• Megan Follows 1968
• Jake Fogelnest 1979
• Chris Klein 1979 - Actor ("American Pie" movies)
• Kate Maberly 1982
• Taylor Hanson 1983 - Musician (Hanson)
• Marina Ann Hantzis (aka Sasha Grey) 1988 - t3h pr0n