Friday, September 29, 2017

woolgathering \WOOL-gath-(uh)-ring\, noun:

• Indulgence in idle daydreaming.

Woolgathering derives from the literal sense, "gathering fragments of wool."

 

floss d'oeuvres

• The food remnants that are collected by flossing which for the most part are covertly re-eaten by the owner since spitting them across the room would be regarded as tacky and vulgar.

John: Did you just eat the crap you pulled from your teeth with that flossing stick Fab??

Fab: And why not?? No reason to waste a good floss d'oeuvres boy!

History

• Richard II: became the first English king to abdicate his throne; he was forced to do so by his successor, Henry IV, and died shortly thereafter (1399)
• bobbies: Sir Robert Peel's police force went on duty at Scotland Yard (1829)
• Tylenol scare: began with the first of seven deaths in the Chicago area from ingestion of cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules (1982)
• Dow Jones: had its steepest one-day drop in history, 778 points (2008)

Birthdays

• Miguel de Cervantes 1547
• Horatio Nelson (England) 1758
• Gene Autry 1907
  
• Richard Harkness 1907
• Greer Garson 1908
• Michelangelo Antonioni 1912
• Stanley Kramer 1913
• Trevor Howard 1916
• Lizabeth Scott 1922
• Bum Phillips 1923
• Steve Forrest 1924
• Anita Ekberg 1931
• Jerry Lee Lewis 1935 - Musician
• Larry Linville 1939
• Jean-Luc Ponty 1942
• Madeline Kahn 1942
• Ian McShane 1942
• Lech Walesa 1943
• Mike Post 1944
• Patricia Hodge 1946
• Bryant Gumbel 1948
  
• Mike Pinera (Iron Butterfly) 1948
• Mark Farner (Grand Funk Railroad) 1948
• Alvin Crow 1950
• Sebastian Coe 1956
• Suzzy Roche (The Roches) 1956
• Andrew "Dice" Clay 1958
• Les Claypool (Primus) 1963
• Devante Swing 1969
• Emily Lloyd 1970
• Natasha Gregson Wagner 1970