Wednesday, October 7, 2015

foofaraw \FOO-fuh-raw\ , noun:

1. Excessive or flashy ornamentation or decoration.
2. A fuss over a matter of little importance.

Origin: Foofaraw is perhaps from Spanish fanfarrón, "a braggart."

 
call the roll

• When it feels like everyone you know is at a bar, club, or pub, so you could do a roll call like back at school.People may optionally call out to all their mates, lads, hoods, bros, crew, etc one by one like at school roll call.Similar concept occurs when teachers go out at night and see all of their current or former students out at the same venue.

"Wow, everyone's here, we could call the roll."

 
"I went to the local bar last night but had to leave because half of my students were drinking there. I nearly had to call the roll."

History 

• Battle of Lepanto: victory of Christians over Ottoman Empire (1571)
• Cats: long-running musical based on T.S. Eliot's poems opened on Broadway (1982)
• Achille Lauro: Italian ship was hijacked by Palestinian terrorists; Leon Klinghoffer, a wheelchair-bound passenger, was killed the next day (1985)
• gubernatorial recall: California governor Gray Davis was replaced by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the state's first gubernatorial recall election (2003)

Birthdays

• James Whitcomb Riley 1853
• Niels Bohr 1885
• Henry Wallace 1888
• Andy Devine 1905
  
• Vaughn Monroe 1911
• Jo (Jonathan) Jones 1911
• Alfred Drake 1914
• June Allyson 1917
• Martha Stewart (Haworth) 1922
• Al Martino 1927
• R.D. Laing 1927
• Diana Lynn 1927
• Desmond Tutu (South Africa) 1931
• Imamu Amiri Baraka 1934
• Thomas Keneally 1935
• Charles Dutoit 1936
• Gary Bergman 1938
• Martin Murray (Honeycombs) 1941
• Oliver North 1943
• Kevin Godley (10cc, Godley & Creme) 1945
• David Hope (Kansas) 1949
• Kiernan Kane (The O'Kanes) 1949
• John Cougar Mellencamp 1951
• Jacques Richard 1952
• Vladimir Putin 1952 - Russian dictator
• Christopher Norris 1953
• Tico Torres (Bon Jovi) 1953
• Yo-Yo Ma 1955
• Michael W. Smith 1957
• Simon Cowell 1959 - Judge on "American Idol" 
• Judy Landers 1961
• Dale Watson 1962
• Toni Braxton 1968
• Thom York (Radiohead) 1968
• Leeroy Thornhill (Prodigy) 1969
• Nicole Air Parker 1970
• Charles Woodson 1976