Wednesday, October 12, 2016

retrograde \RE-truh-greyd\, adjective:

1. Having a backward motion or direction; retiring or retreating.

2. Inverse or reversed, as order.

3. Exhibiting degeneration or deterioration.

Retrograde derives from the Latin retrogradus, "going back."

 

NBB

• (Nose blow burn) The inevitable chaffing of the nose due to excessive snot blowing and wiping.

Dude, i was fine tuning the trumpet snout, and now i got some straight up nasty NBB

History

• New World: Christopher Columbus first set foot in the Bahamas (1492)
• Oktoberfest: tradition of beery celebration began with the wedding reception of King Ludwig I of Bavaria and Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1810)

  
• The Pledge of Allegiance: was first recited in US public schools (1892)
• Nikita Krushchev: the Soviet premier made an impact when he pounded his shoe on his desk at a UN General Assembly meeting (1960)
• the day of six billion: the official UN-designated approximate day that the world population hit 6 billion; it was 12 years after the population reached 5 billion (1999)
• USS Cole: suicide bombers on an explosives-laden boat rammed into the American destroyer in Yemen; 17 US sailors died (2000)
• Bali: 202 people died when a terrorist's bomb destroyed a nightclub on the Indonesian island (2002)

Birthdays

• Elmer Sperry 1860
• Perle Mesta 1891
• Joe Cronin (MLB) 1906
  
• Guitar Gabriel 1925
• Antonia Rey 1927
• Nappy Brown 1929
• Ned Jarrett 1932
• Jean Nidetch 1932
• Dick Gregory 1932
• Luciano Pavarotti 1935
• Samuel Moore (Sam & Dave) 1935
  
• Lawrence Jeffrey 1940
• Melvin Franklin (Temptations) 1942
• Chris Wallace 1947
• Rick Parfitt (Status Quo) 1948
• Susan Anton 1950
• Ronald E. McNair 1950
• Pat DiNizzio (Smithereens) 1955
• Dave Vanian (The Damned) 1956
• Claude McKnight (Take 6) 1962
• Adam Rich 1968
• Hugh Jackman 1968
• Garfield Bright (Shai) 1969
• Martie Seidel (Dixie Chicks) 1969
• Kirk Cameron 1970