Thursday, June 2, 2016

goad \GOHD\, verb:

1. To prick or drive with, or as if with, a goad; prod; incite.

noun:

1. A stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.; prod.

2. Anything that pricks or wounds like such a stick.

3. Something that encourages, urges, or drives; a stimulus.

Goad starts out in Old English as gad, "spearhead", and takes on a more figurative meaning as "to prod as if with a spear" in the 1600s.

 

Birthday Brother

• A male who shares the same birthday as you. You were born on the same day of the same year. Even though you are not true brothers, this is a significantly close bond

See also Birthday Sister

Brady: Happy Birthday James.

James: Happy Birthday to you too, Birthday Brother.

History

• Grover Cleveland: married Frances Folsom, becoming the first (and, so far, only) president to be married in the White House (1886)
• Native Americans: were granted US citizenship (1924)
• Lou Gehrig: Yankee slugger died of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, a rare degenerative disease that now carries his name (1941)
• Queen Elizabeth II: coronation of the long-reigning monarch was held in Westminster Abbey; she wore a gown embroidered with floral emblems of the countries of the Commonwealth (1953)

Birthdays

• Marquis de Sade 1740 - French aristocrat, revolutionary and writer
• Thomas Hardy 1840 - Novelist and poet of the naturalist movement
• Johnny Weissmuller 1904 - Olympic swimmer, he was the sixth actor to portray Tarzan in movies
• Ben Grauer 1908 - Radio and television personality
• Max Showalter 1917 - Film, television, stage actor, composer, pianist, singer
• Milo O'Shea 1926 - Actor
• Carl Butler 1927 - Country music singer
• Pete Conrad (Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr.) 1930 - American naval officer, third person to walk on the moon
• Barry Levinson 1933 - Screenwriter, film director, actor
• Sally Kellerman 1937 - Actress
• Charles Miller (Charles "Charlie" Miller) 1939 - Scottish football player
• Stacy Keach 1941 - Actor
• William Guest 1941 - Singer (Gladys Knight and The Pips)
• Charlie Watts 1941 - Musician (Rolling Stones)
• Charles Haid 1943 - Actor ("Hill Street Blues")
• Marvin Hamlisch 1944 - Composer
• Jon Peters (John H. Peters) 1945 - Movie producer
• Jerry Mathers 1948 - Actor ("Leave it to Beaver")
• Joanna Gleason 1950 - Actress
• Diana Canova 1953 - Actress
• Dennis Haysbert 1954 - Actor ("24")
• Dana Carvey 1955 - Comedian, actor ("Saturday Night Live," "Moving")
• Gary Grimes 1955 - Actor
• Lydia Lynch 1959 - Singer, poet, writer, actress
• Michael Steel 1959 - Musician (Bangles)
• Tony Hadley 1959 - Musician (Spandau Ballet)
• Kyle Petty 1960 - Auto racer
  Lester Napoleon Green 1968 - Beetlejuice (Stern Show)
• Merril Bainbridge 1968 - Singer, songwriter
• B-Real 1970 - Musician (Cypress Hill)
• Conny Valentina 1971 - Artist

  
• Wayne Brady 1972 - Actor, comedian ("Whose Line is it Anyway")
• Wentworth Miller 1972 - Actor ("Prison Break")
• Zachary Quinto 1977 - Actor ("Star Trek")
• Nikki Cox 1978 - Actress
• Justin Long 1978 - Actor ("Dodge Ball," "Live Free or Die Hard")
• Dominic Cooper 1978 - Actor
  Morena Baccarin 1979 - Actress (V, Firefly)
• Irish Grinstead 1980 - Musician (702)