Saturday, July 18, 2015

Saturday, July 18, 2015

adumbrate \AD-uhm-brayt; uh-DUHM-\, transitive verb:
1. To produce a faint image or resemblance of; to outline or sketch.2. To prefigure indistinctly; foreshadow.3. To suggest, indicate, or disclose partially.4. To cast a shadow over; to shade; to obscure
Adumbrate derives from Latin adumbrare, "to sketch" (literally, "to shade towards," hence "to foreshadow or prefigure"), from ad-, "towards" + umbrare, "to shade," from umbra, "shadow."
elbow tag

  • When in a theater with shared armrests, the act of carefully adjusting one's posture so that your arm touches the arm of the person next to you, but not so much that they move their arm away.
Jenna was pretty sure Mark still believed in cooties, so she got all giddy during their Ice Age 3 date when she "won" a game of elbow tag.
Land of the Lost was so painful, I had to amuse myself by playing elbow tag with the stranger on my left.
 
Fuckit List
  • A list of people, male or female, you want to have sexual intercourse with before you die.
G-Mo: Bob has an awesome Fuckit List:
1. Kate Beckinsale
2. Megan Fox
3. Olga Kurlyenko
4. Olivia Wilde
5. Mila Kunis


History
  • Great Fire of Rome: a conflagration that destroyed Rome began; Nero (who probably didn't really fiddle while Rome burned) blamed it on Christians and began the first Roman persecutions of them (65)
  • secret ballot: new voting method was introduced in Britain (1872)
  • Spanish Civil War: General Francisco Franco led an uprising in Spanish North Africa, beginning a war that lasted for three years; at the war's end, Franco became dictator of Spain until his death in 1975 (1936)
  • FDR: the 32nd POTUS was nominated for an unprecedented third term in office (1940)
    Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy (a married man) killed Mary Jo Kopechne after leaving a party with her at 11:15 PM. After submerging his car, he escaped, leaving her in it at Chappaquiddick after a night of drinking. She was alive for at least two hours in the submerged car. He didn't report the accident and didn't surrender to the police until the car and her body were already discovered. He ended up getting away with vehicular homicide (1969)
  • Nadia Comaneci: 14-year-old Romanian earned the first perfect 10 in Olympics gymnastics (1976)
Birthdays
  • Gilbert White 1720
  • William Makepeace Thackeray 1811
  • Vidkum Quisling 1887
  • Chill Willis 1903
  • S.I. Hayakawa 1906
  • Clifford Odetts 1906
  • Lou Busch 1910
  • Hume Cronyn 1911
  • Harriet Nelson 1912
  • Marvin Miller 1913
  • Richard "Red" Skelton 1913
  • Nelson Mandela 1918 - President of South Africa
  • John Glenn 1921 - Astronaut
  • Dick Button 1929
  • Screamin' Jay Hawkins 1929
  • 'Papa Dee' Allen (War) 1931
  • Tenley Albright 1935
  • Hunter S. Thompson 1937
  • Brian Auger (Mahavishnu Players) 1939
  • Dion DiMucci (Dion and the Belmonts) 1939
  • James Brolin 1940
  • Lonnie Mack (Memphis) 1941
  • Martha Reeves (Martha and the Vandellas) 1941
  • Robin McDonald (Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas) 1943
  • Kurt Mann 1947
  • Glenn Hughes 1950
  • Ricky Skaggs 1954 - Singer
  • Terry Chambers (XTC) 1955imagebam.com
  • Nigel Twist (The Alarm) 1958
  • Audrey Landers 1959
  • Elizabeth McGovern 1961
  • Jack Irons (Pearl Jam) 1962
  • John Herman (Widespread Panic) 1962
  • Vin Diesel 1967 - Actor
  • Tony Fagenson (Eve 6) 1978
  • Jason Weaver 1979
  • Kristen Bell 1980

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