Thursday, August 17, 2017

Thursday, August 17, 2017

palsy-walsy, adjective [pal-zee-wal-zee] 
  • Slang. friendly or appearing to be friendly in a very intimate or hearty way: The police kept their eye on him because he was trying to get palsy-walsy with the security guard.
ORIGIN: Palsy-walsy came to English in the 1930s. It’s a rhyming compound based on the slang term palsy, which was first recorded in the 1920s. 

wypipo
  • Twitter slang or dialect that with read aloud sounds like "white people" which is its actual meaning
Girl wypipo are crazy, they let their dogs lick their mouths

 
Trivia
In what city was celebrity socialite Paris Hilton born?
  • New York City—not Paris.
History
  • Robert Fulton: launches his steamboat trip up the Hudson from New York to Albany (1807)
  • Pike Place Market: Seattle's top tourist destination and one of the oldest farmers' markets in the US opened for business (1907)
  • Peter Fechter: 18-year-old was killed as he attempted to cross the Berlin Wall; East German guards shot him and he was left to bleed to death (1962)
  • Double Eagle II: became the first hot-air balloon to complete a transatlantic flight, from Presque Isle, Maine, to Miserey, France (1978)
Birthdays
  • Davy Crockett 1786
  • Samuel Goldwyn 1882
  • Monty Woolley 1888
  • Mae West 1893
  • Quincy Howe 1900
  • Ann Harding 1901
  • Larry Clinton 1909
  • Maureen O'Hara 1921
  • Larry Rivers 1923
  • Gary Powers 1929
  • Glenn Corbett 1929
  • Duke Pearson 1932
  • Luther Allison 1939
  • Robert De Niro 1943
  • Martha Coolidge 1946
  • Gary Talley 1947
  • Sib Hashian (Boston)1949
  • Robert Joy 1951
  • Nelson Piquet 1952
  • Kevin Rowland (Dexy's Midnight Runners) 1953
  • Kevin Welch 1955
  • Colin Moulding (XTC) 1955
  • Belinda Carlisle (Go-Go's) 1958
  • Sean Penn 1960
  • Everette Harp 1961
  • Gilby Clark (Guns N' Roses) 1962
  • Maria McKee 1964
  • Steve Gorman (The Black Crowes) 1965
  • Jill Cunniff (Luscious Jackson) 1966
  • David Conrad 1967
  • Posdnuos 1969
  • Donnie Wahlberg (New Kids on the Block) 1969
  • Jim Courier 1970
  • Bryton McClure 1986


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