Thursday, September 24, 2015

Thursday, September 24, 2015

too-too \TOO-TOO\
adjective
  1. Informal. excessively and tastelessly affected: The movie was simply too-too. 
adverb
  1. Informal. in an excessively and tastelessly affected manner. 
Origin: Too-too entered English in the late 1800s and is a reduplication of the adverb too. 
 
mundane \muhn-DEYN, MUHN-deyn\ adjective 
  1. common; ordinary; banal; unimaginative. 
  2. of or relating to this world or earth as contrasted with heaven; worldly; earthly: mundane affairs.
Origin:Mundane came to English in 1400s from the Latin mundānus meaning "of or belonging to the world; earthly."

confident turtle
  • When one sticks their neck out so far as to avoid double chins and exude the confidence of a turtle that comes out of its shell.
She used the confident turtle to replace duck face in photos.

History

  • Black Friday: Wall Street panicked as speculators tried to corner the gold market, causing a collapse (1869)
  • USS Enterprise: first nuclear aircraft carrier was launched, in Newport News, Virginia (1960)
  • 60 Minutes: investigative TV news-magazine debuted on CBS (1968)
Birthdays 
  • John Marshall 1755
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald 1896
  • Don Porter 1912
  • Larry Gates 1915
  • Jim McKay 1921
  • Sheila MacRae 1924
  • Anthony Newley 1931
  • Jim Henson 1936
  • Barbara Allbut (The Angels) 1940
  • Linda McCartney 1941 - Musician (Wings), wife of Paul McCartney (Beatles)
  • Phyllis "Jiggs" Allbut (The Angels) 1942
  • Gerry Marsden (Gerry and the Pacemakers) 1942
  • "Mean" Joe Green (NFL) 1946
  • Phil Hartman 1948
  • Gordon Clapp 1948
  • Kevin Sorbo 1958
  • Nia Vardalos 1962
  • Cedric Dent (Take 6) 1962
  • Rafael Palmeiro 1964
  • Lisa Matthews (born Lisa Reich) 1969 (PB Playmate Apr 1990)
  • Marty Mitchell (Ricochet) 1969
  • Megan Ward 1969
  • Marty Cintron (No Mercy) 1971
  • Kyle Sullivan 1988
 
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