Tuesday, November 8, 2016

demotic \dih-MOT-ik\, adjective:

1. Of or pertaining to the common people; popular.

2. Of or pertaining to the ordinary, everyday, current form of a language; vernacular.

3. Of, pertaining to, or noting the simplified form of hieratic writing used in ancient Egypt between 700 b.c. and a.d. 500.

Demotic stems from the same Greek root as democracy, demotikos, "of or for the common people." Originally, the term described the simpler of two forms of ancient Egyptian writing.

no homo

Phrase used after one inadvertently says something that sounds gay.

His ass is mine. No homo.

Holiday

• Election Day (USA) 

 History

• Louvre: the former royal French palace opened as a museum; it is now the most-visited art museum in the world (1793)
• x-rays: were discovered by William Röntgen; he was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physics for this achievement (1895)
• Three Gorges Dam: the Yangtze, China's largest river, was diverted in a massive ongoing construction project (1997)

Birthdays

• Bram Stoker 1847
• Margaret Mitchell 1900
• Norman Lloyd 1914
• June Havoc 1916
• Gene Saks 1921
• Dr. Christian Barnard 1922
• Jack S. Kilby 1923
• Joe Flynn 1924
• Patti Page 1927
• Chris Connor 1927
• Morley Safer 1931
• Esther Rolle 1933
• Alain Delon 1935
  
• Bonnie Bramlett (Delanry & Bonnie) 1944
• Roy Wood (ELO, Wizzard) 1946
• Minne Riperton 1948
• Bonnie Raitt 1949
• Mary Hart 1951
• Christie Hefner 1952
• Alfre Woodard 1953
  
• Rickie Lee Jones 1954
• Porl Thompson (Cure) 1958
• Leif Garrett 1961
• Parker Posey 1968 .
• Courtney Thorne-Smith 1968
• Roxana Zal 1969
• Jimmy Chaney (Jimmie's Chicken Shack) 1969
• Diana King 1970
• Tara Reid 1975
• Azura Skye 1980