Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Tuesday, January 31, 2017

thimblerig \THIM-buhl-rig\, verb:
1. To cheat or swindle, as in the traditional shell game known as thimblerig.
noun:
1. A game in which the operator rapidly moves about three inverted thimbles, often with sleight of hand, one of which conceals a token, the other player betting on which thimble the token is under.
Thimblerig as a verb derives from the con artist's game of the same name. The word is a combination of thimble, the small metal cap used in sewing, and rig, in the archaic sense of "to trick or scheme."
 
Hype Aversion
  • Rejection of an insanely popular idea, game, show, place etc. simply because it is so insanely popular.
I'm enjoying season three of 'TWD'."
"Season three came out four or five years ago."
"I know, I suffer from hype aversion."

History
  • Guy Fawkes: was hanged for his part in the Gunpowder Plot to blow up Parliament and kill the king of England (1606)
  • first US Social Security check: the sum of $22.54 was received by Ida May Fuller, who had paid three years of payroll taxes; she lived to 100, collecting a total of $22,888.92 from Social Security (1940)
  • Great Flood of 1953: tidal surge killed thousands and affected shorelines in the UK and the Netherlands
  • Explorer I: the US launched its first Earth satellite, whose mission was to detect cosmic rays (1958)
  • McDonald's: first opened in the Soviet Union, in Moscow (1990)
Birthdays 
  • Franz Shubert 1797
  • Zane Grey 1872
  • Irving Langmuir 1881
  • Anna Pavlova 1882
  • Eddie Cantor (Iskowitz) 1892
  • Freya Stark 1893
  • Tallulah Bankhead 1902
  • Jersey Joe Walcott 1914
  • Garry Moore 1915
  • Frank Parker (Paikowski) 1916
  • Jackie Robinson 1919
  • John Agar 1921
  • Mario Lanza 1921
  • Carol Channing 1923
  • Joanne Dru (LaCock) 1923
  • Chuck Willis 1928
  • Jean Simmons 1929
  • Norman Mailer 1929
  • Ernie Banks 1931
  • James Franciscus 1934
  • Philip Glass 1937
  • Suzanne Pleshette 1937
  • Queen Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard (Netherlands) 1938
  • Stuart Margolin 1940
  • Richard Gephardt 1941
  • Jessica Walter 1944
  • Charlie Musselwhite 1944
  • Terry Kath (Chicago) 1946
  • Nolan Ryan 1947
  • Phil Manzanera (Roxy Music) 1951
  • Harry Wayne Casey (KC and the Sunshine Band) 1951
  • Johnny "Rotten" Lydon (The Sex Pistols) 1956 
  • Shirley Babashoff 1957
  • Kelly Lunch 1959
  • Anthony LaPaglia 1959
  • Lloyd Cole (Lloyd Cole and The Commotions) 1961
  • John Dye 1963
  • Al Jaworski (Jesus Jones) 1966
  • Minnie Driver 1971
  • Portia de Rossi 1973
  • Justin Timberlake ('N Sync) 1981

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