Sunday, February 7, 2016

ignoramus \ig-nuh-RAY-mus\, noun:

• An ignorant person; a dunce.

Ignoramus was the name of a character in George Ruggle's 1615 play of the same name. The name was derived from the Latin, literally, "we are ignorant," from ignorare, "not to know," from ignarus, "not knowing," from ig- (for in-), "not" + gnarus, "knowing, acquainted with, expert in." It is related to ignorant and ignore. 
 
LCD Trip

• When you watch too much football on your LCD big-screen. Can apply to other sports or programming in which you sit, staring at it for hours. Known to have negative effects on you health.

Joe Sixpack gets an LCD Trip every night watching ESPN. 
 
History

• 1795 - The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified.
• 1940 - "Pinocchio" world premiered at the Center Theatre in Manhattan.
• 1962 - The U.S. government banned all Cuban imports and re-export of U.S. products to Cuba from other countries.
• 1964 - British invasion: The Beatles arrived in US for the first time and were mobbed at JFK International Airport
• 1977 - Russia launched Soyuz 24
• 1979 - Pluto: the dwarf planet moved closer to the Sun than Neptune for the first time since its discovery
• 1984 - Space shuttle astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart made the first untethered space walk.
• 1985 - "New York, New York" became the official anthem of the Big Apple.
• 1985 - "Sports Illustrated" released its annual swimsuit edition. It was the largest regular edition in the magazine’s history at 218 pages.
• 1992 - Maastricht Treaty: was signed in the Netherlands; it created the European Union as a successor to the European Community, and established a central banking system and a common currency — the euro
• 1993 - Carmen Electra's self-titled debut album was released.
• 1995 - Tupac Shakur was sentenced to 1 to 4 1/2 years in jail for sexual abuse.

Birthdays

• Sir Thomas More 1478
  

  
• John Deere 1804
• Charles Dickens 1812
• Frederick Douglas 1817
• Laura Ingalls Wilder 1867
• Eubie (James Hubert) Blake 1883
• Sinclair Lewis 1885
• Larry "Buster" Crabbe 1908
• Oscar Brand 1920
• An Wang 1920
• Eddie Bracken 1920
• Wilma Lee Cooper (Leary) 1921
• Keefe Brasselle 1923
• Gay Talese 1932
• Earl King 1934
• King Curtis 1934
  

  
• Dieter Bohlen 1944
• Sammy Johns 1946
• Jimmy Greenspoon (Three Dog Night) 1948
• Alan Lancaster (Status Quo) 1949
• Marilyn Cochran 1950
• Miguel Ferrer 1954
• Brian Travers (UB40) 1959
• James Spader 1960
• Garth Brooks 1962
• David Bryan (Bon Jovi) 1962
• Chris Rock 1966
• Jason Gedrick 1967
• Edward Bergenholz 1974
• Ashton Kutcher 1978
• Tina Majorino 1985