Monday, August 8, 2016

prognosticate \prog-NOS-ti-keyt\, verb:

1. To forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy.
2. To provide an indication of future events through actions or signs.

Prognosticate derives from the Latin prognōsticāre, "to tell the future."

Cunty

• A word generally associated and used in gay society. It means an overwhelming feeling of self-conceit or cockiness. Associated with many feelings, usually of being a bitch, cocky, conceited, arrogant, obnoxious and the list goes on.

I'm feeling cunty!

Ohh she is FIERCE!, cunty!

That bitch is being really cunty today...

History

• Mont Blanc: the tallest Alp was summited for the first time, by Frenchmen Jacques Balmat and Michel-Gabriel Paccard (1786)
• mimeograph: was patented by Thomas A. Edison (1876)
• Great Train Robbery: 15 thieves stole more than £2m. from a London-bound traveling post office after stopping the train with a false red signal in Buckinghamshire (1963)
• Richard Nixon: announced his resignation from the presidency in the wake of Watergate, six years to the day after he was nominated by the Republican Party (1974)

Birthdays

• Matthew Henson 1866 - Explorer, along with Robert Peary and their Eskimo guide, were the first people to reach the North Pole
  

  
• Fredric March 1897
• Russel Markert 1899
• Benny Carter 1907
• Sylvia Sidney 1910
• Rosetta LeNoire 1911
• Dino DeLaurentis 1919
• Rory Calhoun 1922
• Esther Williams 1923
• Jimmy Witherspoon 1923
• Webb Pierce 1926
• Urbie Green 1926
• Richard Anderson 1926
• Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer 1927
• Nita Talbot 1930
• Jerry Tarkanian 1930
• Mel Tillis 1932
• Joe Tex 1933
• Frank Howard (MLB) 1936
• Dustin Hoffman 1937
• Connie Stevens 1938
• Phil Balsley (The Statler Brothers) 1939
• John David (Dr. Hook) 1942
• Peter Weir 1944
• Larry Wilcox 1944
• Keith Carradine 1949
• Airrion Love (The Stylistics) 1949
• Jamie O'Hara 1950
• Fairweather-Low (Amen Corner) 1950
• Randy Shilts 1951
• Robin Quivers 1952
  

  
• Donny Most 1953
• Ali Score (A Flock of Seagulls) 1956
• Dennis Drew (10,000 Maniacs) 1957
• Harry Crosby 1958
• Deborah Norville 1958
• Chris Foreman (Madness) 1958
• Rikki Rockett (Poison) 1961
• "The Edge" David Evans(U2) 1961
• Kool Moe Dee 1962
• Brett Hull (NHL) 1964
• Mark Wills 1973
• Scott Alan Stapp 1973 - Singer (Creed)
• Tom Linton (Jimmy Eat World) 1975
• JC Chasez ('N Sync) 1976
• Drew Lachey (98 Degrees) 1976
• Marsha Ambrosius (Floetry) 1977
• Countess Vaughn 1978
• Odie (from Garfield comic) 1978
• Meagan Good 1981
• Beatrice Elizabeth Mary 1988