Sunday, September 25, 2016

Sunday, September 25, 2016

frabjous \FRAB-juhs\, adjective:
  • Wonderful, elegant, superb, or delicious.
Frabjous is one of many words coined by Lewis Caroll in Through the Looking-Glass.
 
pabst blue ribbon
  • The best beer that comes in a 30 rack.
Person 1:Dude, here's ten bucks get some beer.
Person 2: What kind? 
Person 1: Busch Light. 
Person 2: Fuck that, I'm buying PBR?

History 
  • Pacific Ocean: was first seen by Europeans when Vasco Núñez de Balboa and his Spanish crew crossed the Isthmus of Panama (1513)
  • polygamy: Mormon practice was renounced by Wilford Woodruff, the president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1890)
  • Little Rock Nine: in a step for racial integration, black students entered a segregated Arkansas high school, protected by federal troops and over the protests of the state's governor (1957)
  • Sandra Day O'Connor: became the first woman to be sworn into the US Supreme Court (1981)
Birthdays
  • William Faulkner 1897
  • Red Smith 1905
  • Johnny Sain 1917
  • Phil Rizzuto 1918
  • Aldo Ray (daRe) 1926
  • Barbara Walters 1931
  • Glenn Gould 1932
  • Ian Tyson (Ian and Sylvia) 1933
  • Erik Darling (The Tarriers, Rooftop Singers) 1933
  • Juliet Prowse 1936
  • Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes 1936
  • Joe Russel (The Persuasions) 1939
  • Oscar Bonavena 1942
  • Robert Walden 1943
  • Gary Alexander (The Association) 1943
  • Michael Douglas 1944
  • Onnie McIntyre (Average White Band) 1945
  • Chery Tiegs 1947
  • Mimi Kennedy 1949
  • Anson Williams 1949
  • Mark Hamill 1951
  • Colin Friels 1952
  • Christopher Reeve 1952
  • John Locke (Spirit) 1953
  • Steve Severin (Siouxsie & The Banshees) 1955
  • Michael Madsen 1958
  • Heather Locklear 1961
  • Aida Turturro 1962
  • Scottie Pippen 1965
  • Will Smith (Fresh Prince) 1968
  • Catherine Zeta-Jones 1969
  • Bridgette Wilson 1973
  • Chris Owen 1980
  • Diana Ortiz 1985

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