Saturday, August 26, 2017

Saturday, August 26, 2017

consuetude noun [kon-swi-tood, -tyood] 
  • custom, especially as having legal force. 
ORIGIN: Consuetude comes from Old French consuetude, in Old French a learned borrowing or Latinism from Latin consuētūdō “custom, usage, habit; idiom or usage (in language); customary right or usage in law (its usual modern sense); companionship, familiarity, social intercourse, sexual intercourse, illicit love affair.” Consuetude entered English in the 14th century.

sleepwait
  • The act of lying down and drifting in and out of sleep while you wait for something or some one.
1) I gotta go. John is sleepwaiting for me in the other room.
2) Jane alway makes me sleepwait. How long does it take to get ready for bed?
3) John: wyd?

Jane: sleepwaiting til my bf gets here

History
  • Battle of Crécy: longbows helped the heavily outnumbered English defeat the French, marking the decline of chivalry and the rise of England as a world power (1346)
  • 19th Amendment: women's suffrage became the law of the land in the US (1920)
  • Donoghue v Stevenson: woman found a snail in her ginger beer; this case became a cornerstone of British law in the field of negligence (1928)
  • MLB on TV: the first Major League Baseball game was televised from Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York; the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers split a doubleheader (1939)
  • Pope John Paul I: Italian cardinal dubbed the Smiling Pope assumed the papacy; he died 33 days later (1978)
Birthdays
  • Lee Deforest 1873
  • Christopher Isherwood 1904
  • Albert Sabine 1906
  • Mother Teresa (Agnesë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu) 1910
  • Jim Davis 1915
  • Ronnie Graham 1919
  • Georgia Gibbs 1920
  • Ben Bradlee 1921
  • Irving R. Levine 1922
  • Jan Clayton 1925
  • Ben J. Wattenberg 1933
  • Tommy Heinsohn 1934
  • Geraldine Ferraro 1935
  • Don Bowman 1937
  • Bill White 1939
  • Vic Dana 1942
  • Swede Savage 1946
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  • Valerie Simpson 1948
  • Bob Cowsill (The Cowsills) 1949
  • Michael Jeter 1952
  • Brett Cullen 1956
  • Alex Trevino 1957
  • John O'Neill 1957
  • Jet Black (The Stranglers) 1958
  • Branford Marsalis 1960
  • Jimmy Olander (Diamond Rio) 1961
  • Chris Burke 1965
  • Shirley Manson (Garbage) 1966
  • Adrian Young (No Doubt) 1969
  • Melissa McCarthy 1971
  • David Grubka 1972
  • Chris Pine 1980 (Captain Kirk)
  • Macaulay Culkin 1980
  • Shellie Chapman aka Tori Black 1988 (t3h pr0n)





1 comments:

Marion said...

Fascinating!!! What you need is some POETRY!!! Yeah, baby! LOL! xo