Wednesday, September 30, 2015

gaucherie \goh-shuh-REE\, noun:

1. A socially awkward or tactless act.
2. Lack of tact; boorishness; awkwardness.

Gaucherie comes from the French, from gauche, "lefthanded; awkward," from Old French, from gauchir, "to turn aside, to swerve, to walk clumsily."
 

The book off 

• The act of getting a book out on the train, tube bus or plane in order to avoid talking to the person next to you. Substitutes include a newspaper, phone or iPod.

Person one: "Blablabla isn't the weather terrible blablabla" 
Person two: (gets book out thus giving Person one "The book off") Person one stops talking. 

 

History

• US Senate: Pennsylvanians William Maclay and Robert Morris became the first two members elected to the federal body (1788)
• The Magic Flute: Mozart's opera opened in Vienna (1791)
• ether: was used as an anesthetic for the first time by Boston dentist William Morton (1846)
• Little Women: Louisa May Alcott's classic novel of four sisters growing up during the US Civil War was published (1868)
• Munich Agreement: France, Italy, Germany and Britain signed a pact allowing Germany's annexation of the Sudetenland; it became synonymous with appeasement (1938)
• Nuremberg Trials: 22 Nazi leaders were found guilty of war crimes (1946)
• James Dean: Rebel Without a Cause star died in a car crash at age 24 (1955)
• 
  Republic of Botswana: African nation declared its independence from Britain (1966)

Birthdays

• William Wrigley, Jr. 1861 - Chewing gum tycoon
• Johnny (John Thomas) Allen 1905 - Baseball pitcher
• Deborah Kerr (Trimmer) 1921 - Actress ("The King and I", "Separate Tables")
• Oscar Pettiford 1922 - Musician, played with Charlie Barnet, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Woody Herman, Stan Getz
• Truman Capote (Streckfus Persons) 1924 - Writer (In Cold Blood, Other Voices, Breakfast at Tiffany's), actor
• Robin Roberts 1926 - Baseball pitcher
• Angie Dickinson 1931 - Actress (Police Woman, Cassie and Company)
• Johnny Podres 1932 - Baseball pitcher
• Cissy Houston 1933
• Jill Corey 1935 - Singer
• Johnny Mathis 1935 - Singer
• Len Cariou 1939
• Dewey Martin 1942 - Musician (Buffalo Springfield)
• Frankie Lymon 1942
• Marilyn McCoo 1943 - Singer (5th Dimension), TV hostess (Solid Gold)
• Austin "Red" Robbins 1944 - Basketball player
• Sylvia Peterson 1947 - Singer (The Chiffons)
• Marc Bolan (Mark Feld) 1947 - Musician (T.Rex)
• Rula Lenska 1947
• Andy Maurer 1948 - Football player
• Catie Ball-Condon 1951 - Swimmer
  

  
• John Lombardo (10,000 Maniacs) 1952
• Deborah Allen 1953 - Singer
• Victoria Tennant 1953 - Actress
• Calvin Levels 1954
• Patrice Rushen 1954
• Barry Williams (Blenkhorn) 1954 - Actor (The Brady Bunch)
• Basia 1956
• Vondie Curtis-Hall 1956
• Fran Drescher 1957
• Marty Stuart 1958
• Debrah Farentino 1959
• Eric Stoltz 1961 - Actor (Some Kind of Wonderful, The Glass Menagerie)
• Crystal Bernard 1961 - Actress (Happy Days, Wings)
• Dave Magadan 1962 - Baseball player
• Marley Marl 1962
• Eddie Montgomery 1963
• Robby Takac 1964 - (Goo Goo Dolls)
• Lisa Thornhill 1966
• Monica Bellucci 1968
• Jenna Elfman 1971
• Ashley Hamilton 1974
• Mike Damus 1979
• Martina Hingis 1980
• Dominique Moceanu 1981
• Lacy Chabert 1982
• Kieran Culkin 1982
  Rosana Arkle 1988

Rosana Arkle