Saturday, June 03, 2017

Saturday, June 3, 2017

Buridan's ass (byoo-RUHD-uhnz ass)noun:
  • A situation demonstrating the impracticality of decision-making using pure reason, especially a situation involving two equal choices.
Etymology: Named after French philosopher Jean Buridan (1300-1358).
 
Loltracktor
  • The pet name of the german Ltractor tank in the Game World of Tanks
First guy- "Wtf is a Loltractor doing in a tier 10 game"
Second guy-"hes in platoon with the IS-4"
First guy-"Shit i dont want to have waste the ammo to kill him to expensive"
Second guy-"I cant belive the loltracktor killed us becuase no one wanted to pay 1k for the shell that would kill him" *facepalm*
 
Holiday
  • National Doughnut Day (US)
History
  • ''Casey at the Bat'': was first published, in the San Francisco Examiner (1888)
  • Duke of Windsor: the former King Edward VIII wed American divorcee Wallis Simpson, for love of whom he abdicated the throne of England (1937)
  • Edward White: Gemini 4 astronaut became the first American to walk in space (1965)
  • Tupolev Tu-144: Soviet jet crashed at the Paris Air Show; it was the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft (1973)
  • The Producers: Broadway musical by Mel Brooks won a record 12 Tony Awards (2001)
Birthdays
  • William Hone 1780
  • Richard Cobden 1804
  • Jefferson Davis 1808
  • Maurice Evans 1901
  • Jan Pierce 1904
  • Josephine Baker 1906
  • Ellen Corby 1911
  • Paulette Goddard 1911
  • Leo Gorcey 1915
  • Lily St. Cyr 1917
  • Tony Curtis 1925 - Actor
  • Allen Ginsberg 1926
  • Colleen Dewhurst 1926
  • Boots Randolph 1927
  • Chuck Barris 1929 - Game show host ("The Gong Show")
  • Dakota Stanton 1932
  • Larry McMurtry 1936 - Author
  • Curtis Mayfield 1942
  • Billy Cunningham 1943 - Basketball player
  • Emmit Thomas 1943 - Football player
  • Mike Clark 1944 - Musician (The Byrds)
  • Ian Hunter 1946 - Musician (Mott the Hoople)
  • John Paul Jones 1946 - Musician (Led Zeppelin)
  • Michael Burton 1947
  • Too Slim 1948 - Musician (Riders in the Sky)
  • Suzi Quatro 1950 - Singer
  • Deniece Williams 1951 - Actress
  • Billy Powell 1952 - Musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
  • Dan Hill 1954
  • Scott Valentine 1958
  • Charles Hart 1961 
    Kerry King (1964): guitarist, Slayer
  • Mike Gordon 1965 - Musician (Phish)
  • Anderson Cooper 1967 - Broadcast journalist
  • Gabriel Hernandez (No Mercy) 1971
  • Ariel Hernandez (No Mercy) 1971
  • Rafael Nadal 1986 - Tennis player
    Imogen Poots 1989 - Actress

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