Friday, February 05, 2016

TGIF! Friday, February 5, 2016

methuselah (meh-THOO-zuh-luh) noun:
  1. An extremely old man.
  2. An oversized wine bottle holding approx. 6 liters.
EtymologyAfter biblical figure Methuselah, who was said to have lived 969 years.
 
slurring your text

  • when you're so drunk that you're texts are unreadable
(310) heryls so imsd gaonna bea tah the apartty tognlaoit!!!!
(510) chris, u gotta stop slurring your texts.

History
  • United Artists: US film company was founded by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith; a current version of the studio is owned, in part, by Tom Cruise (1919)
  • Reader's Digest: DeWittand Lila Wallace published their first issue of condensed articles; the pocket-sized volume cost 25 cents (1922)
  • BBC pips: six short tones used to mark the end of the hour were broadcast for the first time from the Royal Greenwich Observatory (1924)
  • Tybee bomb: the US lost a hydrogen bomb off the coast of Georgia; some 14 nuclear weapons are known to be missing from the US arsenal alone (1958)
  • Kelly Ripa became Regis Philbin's cohost. The show was renamed to "Live! With Regis and Kelly." (2001)
Birthdays
  • John Jeffries 1744
  • Robert Peel 1788
  • Felix Mendelssohn 1809
  • John Boyd Dunlop 1840
  • Belle Starr 1848
  • Andre-Gustave Citroen 1878
  • Adlai Stevenson 1900
  • John Carradine 1906
  • William Burroughs 1914
  • Red Buttons (Aaron Chwatt) 1919
  • Andrew Greeley 1928
  • Hal Blaine 1929
  • Don Goldie 1930
  • Claude King 1933
  • Henry "Hank" Aaron 1934
  • Stuart Damon 1937
  • Jane Bryant Quint 1937
  • imagebam.comH.R. Giger 1940
  • Stephen Cannell 1940
  • David Selby 1941
  • Barrett Strong 1941
  • Roger Staubach 1942
  • Cory Wells (Three Dog Night) 1942
  • Al Kooper 1944
  • J.R. Cobb 1944
  • Charles Winfield (Blood, Sweat & Tears) 1944
  • Charlotte Rampling 1946
  • David Ladd 1947
  • Barbara Hershey 1948
  • Christopher Guest 1948
  • Nigel Olsson (Elton John) 1949
  • Jennifer Jason Leigh1962
  • Duff McKagan (Guns 'N Roses) 1964
  • Chris Baron (Spin Doctors) 1968
  • Bobby Brown 1969
  • Michael Sheen 1969 (Lucian from Underworld)
  • Sara Evans 1971
  • Bjorn Bores 1974



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