Friday, July 15, 2016

TGIF! Friday, July 15, 2016

brannigan \BRAN-i-guhn\, noun:
1. A carouse.
2. A squabble; a brawl.
A brannigan is a case of a word acquiring general meaning after already existing as a family name.
 
Peegret
  • The regret you experience when you leave the bar hastily at the end of the night without relieving yourself.
noun: Hold on a sec, I have to make a pit stop, I have a serious case of peegret.
verb: You better go before you leave, or you'll peegret it.

History

  • margarine: Hippolyte Mège Mouriés got a patent for the butter substitute in France (1869)
  • Reconstruction: Georgia became the last of the Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union after the American Civil War (1870)
  • Second Battle of the Marne: World War I fight began; the Allies' victory halted the German advance toward Paris (1918)
  • MSNBC: the 24-hour all-news network debuted on cable TV and the Internet (1996)
  • the Mozilla Foundation: was founded to govern development of the open source Mozilla project; it's the creator of the Firefox browser and other web products (2003)
Birthdays

  • Rembrandt Van Rijn 1606
  • Clement Clarke Moore 1779
  • William Winter 1836
  • Dorothy Fields 1905
  • Richard W. Armour 1906
  • Cowboy Copas 1913
  • Philip Carey 1925
  • Non Clow Martin 1927
  • Clive Cussler 1931
  • Julian Bream 1933
  • Alex Karras 1935
  • Ken Kercheval 1935
  • Patrick Wayne 1939
  • Tommy Dee 1940
  • Millie Jackson 1944
  • Jan-Michael Vincent 1944
  • Peter Lewis 1945 - Musician (Moby Grape)
  • Linda Ronstadt 1946
  • Peter Banks 1947 - Musician (YES)
  • Trevor Horn 1949 - Musician (Buggles, YES)
  • Jesse Ventura 1951
  • Rick Kehoe 1951
  • Terry O'Quinn 1952 - Actor ("Lost")
  • Jeff Carlisi 1952 - Musician (.38 Special)
  • David Pack 1953 - Musician (Ambrosia)
  • Joe Satriani 1956 - Musician
  • Marc Bell 1956 - Musician (The Ramones)
  • Ian Curtis 1956 - Musician (Joy Division)
  • Kim Alexis 1960
  • William Aames 1960
  • Forest Whitaker 1961
  • Lolita Davidovich 1961
  • Brigitte Nielsen 1963 - Actress
  • Phillip Fisher 1967 - Musician (Fishbone)
  • Stan Kirsch 1968
  • Beth Ostrosky Stern1972
  • Scott Foley 1972
  • Brian Austin Green 1973 (Mr Megan Fox) 






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