Sunday, April 17, 2016

transmogrify \trans-MOG-ruh-fy\, transitive verb:

• To change into a different shape or to transform, often with bizarre or humorous effect.

Transmogrify is perhaps a humorous blend of transmigrate (for the form) and transmute (for the sense).

Circle Back 

• Middle-management buzzword for the need to discuss an issue at a later time.

Since Andy dropped the ball on this one, we will have to circle back next week and go over the numbers.

History

• Daffy Duck: was introduced on Porky's Duck Hunt (1937)
• Mickey Mantle: MLB hall-of-famer made major league debut with the Yankees (1951)
• Bay of Pigs: unsuccessful invasion of Cuba was launched by US-supported exiles after JFK double crossed them and didn't send the back-up he promised. (1961)
  
  

  Ford Mustang: made its debut in US showrooms; by the end of the year, it had already starred in Goldfinger(1964)
• Shea Stadium: Queens, New York, baseball park opened (1964); it served the Mets for 44 years before being demolished to make room for parking for the new Citi Field
• Apollo 13: splashed down safely, ending the near-disastrous flight (1970)
• Cambodia: fell to the Khmer Rouge with the capture of Phnom Penh, resulting in genocidal killing fields (1975)

Birthdays

• Henry Vaughan 1622
• J.P. (John Pierpoint) Morgan 1837 - Financier
• Nikita Khrushchev 1894 - U.S.S.R. premier
• Thornton Wilder 1897 - Novelist, playwright
• Gregor Piatigorsky 1903 - Cellist
• Arthur Lake 1905 - Actor ("Blondie" series)
• Sirimavo Bandaranaike 1916 - Ceylon Prime Minister, the world's first woman prime minister
• William Holden (Beedle Jr.) 1918 - Actor ("Stalag 17 [1953]", "The Bridge on the River Kwai", "The Towering Inferno")
• Harry Reasoner 1923 - Newsman ("Sixty Minutes")
• Lon McCallister 1923
• Solly (Solomon Joseph) Hemus 1923 - Baseball player
• Lindsay Anderson 1923 - Director
• Roy Gallant 1924 - Author
• Chris Barber 1930 - Musician, bandleader
• Don Kirshner 1934 - Music publisher, created The Monkees
• Warren Chiasson 1934 - Jazz musician (Warren Chiasson Duo)
• Lamar Lundy 1935 - Football player
• Dennis Hextall 1943 - Hockey player
• Bobby Curtola 1944 - Singer
• Jan Hammer 1948 - Composer, musician
• Pedro (Modesto Delfi) Garcia 1950 - Baseball player
• Olivia Hussey 1951 - Actress ("Ice Cream Man", "Psycho 4: The Beginning")
• Pete Shelley (McNeish) 1955 - Musician (The Buzzcocks)
• Sean Bean 1958 - Actor ("Goldeneye", "The Lord of the Rings" series)
• Teri Austin 1959
• Stephen Singleton 1959 - Musician (ABC)
• Boomer (Norman) Esiason 1961 - Football player, TV commentator
• Lela Rochon 1964
• William Mapother 1965 - Actor ("Lost)
• Henry Cusick 1967 - Actor ("Lost")
• Marquis Grissom 1967 - Baseball player
• Liz Phair 1967 - Singer, songwriter
• Redman 1970 - Rapper, actor
• Jennifer Anne Garner 1972 - Actress ("Daredevil", "Electra", "Alias")
• Victoria Beckham (Victoria Caroline Adams) 1974 - Singer (Posh Spice of the Spice Girls) 
  Rebekah Parmar-Teasdale 1979 DJ, t3h pron