Sunday, July 10, 2016

snuff \SNUHF\, verb:

1. To extinguish or suppress.

2. To cut off or remove the snuff of (candles, tapers, etc.).

noun:

1. The charred or partly consumed portion of a candlewick.

2. A preparation of tobacco, either powdered and taken into the nostrils by inhalation or ground and placed between the cheek and gum.

verb:

1. To draw in through the nose by inhaling.

The verb form of snuff has acquired layers of meaning through time: "to cut or pinch off the burned part of a candle wick," is an adaptation from the noun snoffe, the "burned part of a candle wick." The sense "to die" stems from the 1800s, and "to kill" appears in the 1930s, as in a snuff-film.

 

Inflight Refueler

• A man in a pub that takes his beer with his when he goes to the gents and drinks it while having a pee.

Right I'm off for a slash.

I'll look after your pint mate.

No it's OK I am an inflight refueler.

History 

• Monkey Trial: proceedings began against John Scopes, who broke Tennessee state law by teaching evolution to high school students (1925)
• Meher Baba: Indian spiritual master began a silence "to save mankind from monumental ignorance," which ended up lasting 44 years till his death (1925)
• Battle of Britain: German began to attack Britain by air (1940)
• Telstar: the first communications satellite was launched into orbit (1962)
• Coca-Cola Classic: the Coca-Cola Co. announced it would bring back its original formula after customers reacted negatively to New Coke (1985)

Birthdays

• John Calvin 1509
  Camille Pisarro 1830 (impressionist painter)
• James Whistler 1834
• Aldolphus Busch 1842
• Nikola Tesla 1856 (genius)
• Marcel Proust 1871
• Mary McLeod Bethune 1875
• Edmund Clerihew Bentley 1875
• John Gilbert 1897
• Ljuba Welitsch 1913
• Milt Buckner 1915
• Dick Cary 1916
• Don Herbert 1917
• David Brinkley 1920
• Jake LaMotta 1921
• Jeff Donnell 1921
• Eunice Kennedy Shriver 1921
• Jean Kerr 1923
• Fred Gwynne 1926

  
• David N. Dinkins 1927
• Ivan Passer 1933
• Jerry Herman 1933
• Sandy Stewart 1937
• Lawrence Pressman 1939
• Mills Watson 1940
• Robert Pine 1941
• Ian Whitcomb 1941
• Arthur Ashe 1943
• Jerry Miller 1943 - Musician (Moby Grape) 

  
• Ron Glass 1945
• Virginia Wade 1945
• Hal McRae 1946
• Sue Lyon 1946
• Arlo Guthrie 1947
• Ronnie James Dio 1949 - Musician (DIO)
• Cheryl Wheeler 1951
• Neil Tennant 1954 - Musician (Pet Shop Boys)
• Bela Fleck 1958
• Hawkshaw Wilson 1960 - Musician (BR5-49)
• Peter DiStefano 1965 - Musician (Porno for Pyros)
  Sofia Vergara 1972
• Jessica Simpson 1980