Saturday, October 08, 2016

Saturday, October 8, 2016

wassail \WAH-sul; wah-SAYL\, noun:
1. An expression of good wishes on a festive occasion, especially in drinking to someone.
2. An occasion on which such good wishes are expressed in drinking; a drinking bout; a carouse.
3. The liquor used for a wassail; especially, a beverage formerly much used in England at Christmas and other festivals, made of ale (or wine) flavored with spices, sugar, toast, roasted apples, etc.
adjective:
1. Of or pertaining to wassail, or to a wassail; convivial; as, a wassail bowl.
transitive verb:
1. To drink to the health of; a toast.
intransitive verb:
1. To drink a wassail.
Wassail is from the Middle English expression of festive benevolence, wæs hæil!, be well!, from Old Norse ves heill, be (ves) well (heill).
  • The uncontrollable urge to check one's facebook every time one comes in contact with a computer.
Sam: "Dude, you've been on the computer for four hours reloading the same page. Don't you have a final exam tomorrow?"
Kyle: "Facebook Fever."
Sam: "No one has posted on your wall in days."
Kyle: "How do you know? They could have posted in between now and the last time that I reloaded the page!"

Trivia

How many Star Wars performers appeared in all seven films in the popular sci-fi adventure series?
  • Only two. The diminutive Kenny Baker, who played R2-D2, and Anthony Daniels, who played C-3PO.
History
  • Empress Myeongseong: the last empress of Korea was assassinated by the Japanese (1895)
  • perfect game: Don Larsen pitched what remains the only perfect game in World Series history; the Yankees beat the Dodgers, 2-0 (1956)
  • Che Guevara: leftist revolutionary hero was captured by the Bolivian army; he was executed the next day (1967)
  • water speed record: was set by Australian Ken Warby at 318 mph/510 kph near Tumut, New South Wales; it still stands (1978)
  • Solidarity: and the rest of Poland's labor unions were banned (1982); Solidarity continued to work underground, until it was declared legal in 1989
  • Kashmir: a 7.6 magnitude earthquake killed some 80,000 and injured 65,000 on the Pakistan-India border (2005)
Birthdays
  • Eddie Rickenbacker 1890
  • Juan Peron 1895
  • Billy Conn 1917
  • Rona Barrett 1936
  • Fred Stolle 1938
  • Paul Hogan 1939
  • David Carradine 1940
  • Fred Cash (The Impressions) 1940
  • Jesse Jackson 1941
  • George Bellamy (The Tornados) 1941
  • Buzz Clifford 1942
  • R.L. Stine 1943
  • Chevy Chase 1943
  • Susan Raye 1944
  • Tony Wilson (Hot Chocolate) 1947
  • Sarah Purcell 1948
  • Brian Glenwright 1949
  • Sigourney Weaver 1949
  • Hamish Stuart (Average White Band) 1949
  • Robert "Kool" Bell (Kool & the Gang) 1950
  • Johnny Cummings (Ramones) 1951
  • Ricky Lee Phelps (Brother Phelps) 1953
  • Michael Dudikoff 1954
  • Darrell Hammond 1955
  • Stephanie Zimbalist 1956
  • Mitch Marine (Tripping Daisy) 1961
  • Steve Perry (Cherry Poppin' Daddies) 1963
  • C.J. Ward (The Ramones) 1965
  • Teddy Riley 1966
  • Emily Proctor 1968
  • Jeremy Davies 1969 - Actor ("Lost", "Saving Private Ryan") 
  • Matt Damon 1970 - Actor
  • Kristanna Loken 1979
  • Byron Reeder (Mista) 1979
  • Nick Cannon 1980
  • Angus T. Jones 1993

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