Tuesday, March 07, 2017

Tuesday, March 7, 2017

chortle \CHOR-tl\, transitive and intransitive verb:
  • To utter, or express with, a snorting, exultant laugh or chuckle.
noun:
  • A snorting, exultant laugh or chuckle.
Chortle a combination of chuckle and snort. It was coined by Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson), in Through the Looking-Glass, published in 1872.
 
productive procrastination n.
  • Doing stuff to keep busy while avoiding what really needs doing. When all is said and done, your room is clean, your laundry is folded -- but you haven't started your English paper.
I should really do my program. But instead, I think it's time for some productive procrastination... Where's the mop??

History
  • Daniel Webster: orator delivered his Seventh of March speech defending the Compromise of 1850 (1850)
  • telephone: transmitter/receiver of sound was patented by Alexander Graham Bell (1876); exactly 50 years later, the first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversation took place, between New York City and London (1926)
  • fair use: the US Supreme Court ruled in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music that parodies are not copyright infringements (1994)
Birthdays
  • Luther Burbank 1849
  • Pieter Mondrian 1872
  • Maurice Ravel 1875
  • Anna Magnani 1908
  • Lee Young 1917 - Musician (Nat King Cole Trio)
  • Mahlon Clark 1923 - Musician (Lawrence Welk's band)
  • James Broderick 1927
  • Lord Snowdon 1930 - Photographer
  • Frank Morelli 1932
  • Willard Scott 1934 - Television personality ("Today")
  • Janet Guthrie 1938 - Auto racer
  • Homero Blancas 1938
  • Daniel J. Travanti 1940 - Actor ("Hill Street Blues")
  • Michael York 1942
  • Michael Eisner 1942 - Walt Disney CEO
  • Tammy Faye Bakker 1942
  • Billy MacMillan 1943
  • Chris White 1943 - Musician (The Zombies)
  • John Heard 1946
  • Peter Wolf 1946 - Musician (J. Geils Band)
  • Matthew Fisher 1946 - Musician (Procol Harum)
  • Donna Loren 1947
  • Peggy March 1948
  • Franco Harris 1950 - Football player
  • Lynn Swann 1952 - Football player
  • Ernie Isley 1952 - Musician (The Isley Brothers)
  • Jules Shear 1953
  • Bryan Cranston 1956
  • Ivan Lendl 1960 - Tennis player
  • Bill Brochtrup 1963
  • Wanda Sykes 1964 - Comedian, actress
  • Taylor Dayne 1965 - Singer
  • Paul Davis 1966 - Musician (Happy Mondays)
  • Randy Guss 1967 - Musician (Toad the Wet Sprocket)
  • Jeff Kent 1968 - Baseball player
  • Rachel Weisz 1971 - Actress
  • Peter Sarsgaard 1971 - Actor
  • Hugo Ferreira 1974 - Musician (Tantric)
  • Jenna Fischer 1974 - Actress ("The Office")
  • Laura Prepon 1980 - Actress ("That 70s Show")



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