Friday, April 15, 2016

pelf \PELF\, noun:

• Money; riches; gain; -- generally conveying the idea of something ill-gotten.

Pelf comes from Old French pelfre, "booty, stolen goods." It is related to pilfer.
 
It pays the taxes

• The replacement saying for "It pays the bills" in reference to writing off a job as merely a means of income, and in no way an enjoyable or lucrative way of making a living.
• Due to the increase in taxes "It pays the taxes" takes the place of "It pays the bills" while it takes a second job or additional income to actually pay the bills.

"How's your new job going?"
"It's going ... it pays the taxes. I'm looking for a part-time job now to pay the bills"

IRS

• Income Removal System

The IRS folks tried to jack 5 grand off my bank account

Holiday

• Emancipation Day (Observed) The District of Columbia celebrates April 16 as Emancipation Day. On that day in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act (an act of Compensated emancipation) for the release of certain persons held to service or labor in the District of Columbia. The Act freed about 3,100 enslaved persons in the District of Columbia nine months before President Lincoln issued his broader Emancipation Proclamation. The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act represents the only example of compensation by the federal government to former owners of emancipated slaves.

History

• Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet: opened the first free American school for the deaf in Hartford, Connecticut (1817)
• Titanic: the "unsinkable" luxury liner sank after hitting an iceberg; over 1,500 died (1912)
• Bergen-Belsen: Nazi concentration camp was liberated by British and Canadian forces (1945)
• Jackie Robinson: made his debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers, scoring the game-winning run (1947)
• McDonald's: Ray Kroc opened the store that launched the empire (1955)
• Botox: botulinum toxin was approved by the FDA for treatment of moderate-to-severe frown lines (2002)
• Boston Marathon Bombing: terrorists set off explosives near the finish line just before 3 PM (2013) 

Birthdays

• Leonardo da Vinci 1452 - Artist ("Mona Lisa", "The Last Supper")
  

  
• Charles Peale 1741 - Artist, portrait painter, primarily created works of colonial and American Revolutionary War figures
• Henry James 1843 - Author ("The Turn of the Screw", "The Portrait of a Lady")
• Thomas Benton 1889 - Artist
• Bessie Smith 1894 - Blues singer
• Hans Conried 1917 - Actor ("Bus Stop", "Oh! God: Book 2")
• Jim Timmens 1920 - Composer, jazz musician, musical director
• Michael Ansara 1922
• Herb Pomeroy 1930 - Musician, bandleader
  Elizabeth Montgomery 1933 - Actress
• Roy Clark 1933 - Country musician, singer
• Bob Luman 1937 - Singer
• Claudia Cardinale 1939 - Actress ("The Pink Panther")
• Reginald Smith (Marty Wilde) 1939 - Singer, father of singer Kim Wilde
• Willie (William Henry) Davis 1940 - Baseball player
• Clarence Satchell 1940 - Musician (The Ohio Plyers)
• Woody (Woodrow Thompson) Fryman 1940 - Baseball player
• Walt Hazzard 1942 - Basketball player
• Julie Sommars 1942 - Actress ("Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo")
• Allan Clarke 1942 - Musician (Hollies)
• Dave Edmunds 1944 - Musician (Rockpile)
• Ted Sizemore 1945 - Baseball player
• Amy Wright 1950 - Actress ("The Deer Hunter", "The Scarlet Letter")
• Dick (Richard Louis) Sharon 1950 - Baseball player
• Michael Tucci 1950 
  
• Heloise (Ponce Kiah Marchelle Heloise Cruse Evans) 1951 - Newspaper columnist, daughter of original Heloise
• Pete Shelley 1955 - Musician (Buzzcocks)
• Evelyn Ashford 1957 - Track athlete, 4-time Olympic gold medalist
• Emma Thompson 1959 - Actress
• Samantha Fox 1966 - Singer, Page 3 Girl, monster jugs
• Graeme Clark 1966 - Musician (Wet Wet Wet)
• Ed O'Brien 1968 - Musician (Radiohead)
• Seth Rogan 1982 - Actor, writer ("Knocked Up", "Superbad")
• Emma Watson 1990 - Actress ("Harry Potter" movie series)
  

  

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