Tuesday, June 23, 2015

pule \PYOOL\, intransitive verb:

• To whimper; to whine.

Pule is perhaps from French piauler, "to whine, to pule," ultimately of imitative origin. 

drop a dime 

• To snitch on someone. Often, to save their own ass. Comes from the old cost for a payphone call, ten cents.

"John got popped, so he dropped a dime on his supplier and they let him go."

History

• typewriter: Christopher Sholes received a patent for his new typing machine (1868)
• Banff National Park: Canada's first national park was signed into law; it is in Alberta, on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains (1887)
• SAT: standardized college-admission exam was first administered; 8,000 test-takers had 90 minutes to answer 315 questions (1924)
• Warren E. Burger: was sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States; he served until 1986 (1969)
• John Gotti: the "Teflon don," boss of the Gambino crime family, was sentenced to life in prison (1992)
• Mr & Mrs Bax0jayz tie the (balloon) knot (2001)

Birthdays

• Josephine Marinique 1763
• Irvin Cobb 1876
• Alfred Kinsey 1894
• Edward Patrick David 1894
• Edward P. Morgan 1910
• Jean Marie Anouilh 1910
• David Ogilvy 1911
• Alan Turing 1912
  
• Irene Worth 1916
• Larry Blyden 1925
• Bob Fosse 1927
• June Carter Cash 1929
• Adam Faith 1940
• Diana Trask 1940
• Wilma Rudolph 1940
• James Levine 1943
• Rosetta Hightower (The Orlons) 1944
• Ted Shackelford 1946
• Bryan Brown 1947
• Clarence Thomas 1948
• Jim Metzler 1954
  Glenn Danzig 1955
• Randy Jackson (Randall Darius Jackson) 1956 - Musician, judge on "American Idol"
• Frances McDormand 1957
• Karin Gustafson 1959
• Paul La Greca 1962
• Richard Coles (Communards) 1962
• Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth) 1962
• Chico DeBarge 1970
• Selma Blair 1972
• Virgo Williams (Ghostowns DJs) 1975