Monday, October 17, 2016

fulsome \FUL-sum\, adjective:

1. Offensive to the taste or sensibilities. 

2. Insincere or excessively lavish; especially, offensive from excess of praise.

Fulsome is from Middle English fulsom, from full + -som, "-some."
 
cock of the block 

• The one who struts his stuff the most in a given vicinity

Phil has had the most girlfriends and the most financial independence amongst his peers. Clearly he is cock of the block.

underboob 

• cleavage visible from the part of the shirt that covers the bottom of the female breasts

If that is not a deliberate underboob, I don't know what is.

History

• Battle of Saratoga: key battle of the American Revolutionary War ended with a major British surrender (1777)
• Al Capone: mobster called Scarface who ruled much of Chicago was finally convicted — of income tax evasion; he served eight years of an 11-year sentence (1931)
• 1973 Oil Crisis: was sparked when OPEC cut oil supplies to nations that supported Israel in the Yom Kippur War

Birthdays 

• Jupiter Hammon 1711
• Charles Kraft 1880 - Founder of Kraft
• Spring Byington 1893
• Jean Arthur 1900
• Irene Ryan 1902
• Cozy (William) Cole 1909
• John Mosley 1914
• Jerry Siegel 1914
• Arthur Miller 1915
• Marsha Hunt 1917
• Rita Hayworth 1918
• Elie Abel 1920
• Montgomery Clift 1920
• Julie Adams 1926
• Beverly Garland 1926
• Tom Poston 1927
• Johnny Klippstein (MLB) 1927
• Jimmy Breslin 1930
• Evel Knievel (Robert Craig) 1938
• James Seals (Seals and Crofts) 1940
• Earl Thomas Conley 1941
• Gary Puckett (The Union Gap) 1942
• Bob Seagren 1946
• Jim Tucker (The Turtles) 1946
• Michael McKean 1947
• George Wendt 1948
• Margot Kidder 1948
• Bill Hudson (The Hudson Brothers) 1949
  
• Howard Rollins 1950
• Sam Bottoms 1955
• Mae Jemison 1956
• Vincent Van Patten 1957
• Alan Jackson 1958
• Mike Judge 1962
• Norm MacDonald 1963
• Ziggy Marley 1968
• Chris Kirkpatrick ('N Sync) 1971
• Eminem 1972
• Felicity Jones 1983