Saturday, April 23, 2016

Saturday, April 23, 2016

moil \MOYL\, intransitive verb:
1. To work with painful effort; to labor; to toil; to drudge.
2. To churn or swirl about continuously.
noun:
1. Toil; hard work; drudgery.
2. Confusion; turmoil.
Moil comes from Middle English moillen, "to soak, to wet," hence "to soil, to soil one's hands, to work very hard," from Old French moillier, "to soften, especially by making wet," ultimately from Latin mollis, "soft."
 
lol right?
  • Declaring that something is funny and asking if others agree with you. Usually used in a sarcastic or obvious manner.
Check out that duck taking a shit. lol, right?

History
  • Order of the Garter: oldest existing order of knights was founded by King Edward III of England (1348)
  • Baedeker blitz: a series of German Luftwaffe raids on the English cities of Exeter, Bath, Norwich and York began in retaliation for the RAF bombing of Lübeck (1942)
  • Hank Aaron: hit his first of 755 major league home runs; his career total is second only to Barry Bonds (1954)
  • New Coke: Coca-Cola launched its marketing flop (1985)
  • "Me at the Zoo": YouTube's first video was launched on the fledgling website (2005)
Birthdays
  • William Shakespeare 1564 - Poet, playwright ("Julius Caesar", "Romeo and Juliet", "MacBeth"), believed to have been born on April 23 based on his baptism on April 26, 1564
  • James Buchanan 1791 - 15th U.S. President, nickname: Old Buck
  • Serbei Prokofiev 1891 - Pianist, composer ("Peter and the Wolf")
  • (Charles Burnham) Bud Wilkinson 1916 - Football player
  • Janet Blair (Martha Jane Lafferty) 1921 - Actress ("My Sister Eileen", "The Fabulous Dorseys")
  • Shirley (Jane) Temple Black 1928 - Child actress ("Little Miss Marker", "Heidi", "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm")
  • Alan Oppenheimer 1930 - Actor ("Murphy Brown", "The Six Million Dollar Man", "The Bionic Woman")
  • Halston (Roy Frowick) 1932 - Fashion designer, created the pillbox hat that was worn by Jackie Kennedy at President Kennedy's inauguration
  • Roy Orbison 1936 - Singer
  • Don Massengale 1937 - Golfer
  • Ray Peterson 1939 - Singer
  • David Birney 1939 - Actor ("Oh, God! Book 2", "St. Elsewhere")
  • Lee Majors (Harvey Lee Yeary II) 1940 - Actor ("The Six Million Dollar Man", "Big Valley")
  • Sandra Dee (Alexandra Zuck) 1942 - Actress ("Gidget")
  • Hervé Villechaize 1943 - Actor ("Fantasy Island")
  • Tony Esposito 1944 - Hockey player
  • Marty Fleckman 1944 - Golfer
  • Bernadette Devlin (McAliskey) 1948 - Irish civil rights leader
  • Blair Brown 1948 - Actress
  • Joyce DeWitt 1949 - Actress ("Three's Company)
  • Paul Brickman 1949 - Director, writer
  • Narada Michael Walden 1952 - Musician (Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report), record producer, songwriter
  • James Russo 1953 - Actor
  • Captain Sensible 1954 - Musician (Damned)
  • Michael Moore 1954 - Lib-tard, biased filmmaker, fat slob, shit-head, liberal mouthpiece.
  • Judy Davis 1955 - Actress
  • Jan Hooks 1957 - Actress ("Designing Women", "Saturday Night Live", "Batman Returns")
  • Craig Sheffer 1960 - Actor
  • Valerie Bertinelli 1960 - Actress ("One Day at a Time")
  • Steve Clark 1960 - Musician (Def Leppard)
  • George Lopez 1961 - Actor
  • Gen 1964 - Musician (Jesus Jones)
  • Melina Kanakaredes 1967 - Actress ("Providence", "Guiding Light", "CSI: New York")
  • Tim Womack 1968 - Musician (Sons of the Desert)
  • Stan Frazier 1968 - Musician (Sugar Ray)
  • Scott Bairstow 1970 - Actor
  • Andruw Jones 1977 - Baseball player
  • Kal Penn 1977 - Actor ("House M.D.")
  • Daniela Hantuchova 1983 - Tennis player
  • Rachel Skarsten 1985 - Actress
  • Camryn Walling 1990 - Actor ("The Agency")
  • Dev Patel 1977 - Actor ("Slumdog Millionaire") 


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