Wednesday, October 11, 2017

jaundiced \JAWN-dist\, adjective:

1. Affected with or exhibiting prejudice, as from envy or resentment.

2. Affected with or colored by or as if by jaundice; yellowed.

noun:

1. In Pathology yellow discoloration of the skin, whites of the eyes, etc., due to an increase of bile pigments in the blood, often symptomatic of certain diseases, as hepatitis.

2. Grasserie

3. A state of feeling in which views are prejudiced or judgment is distorted, as by envy or resentment.

verb:

1. To distort or prejudice, as by envy or resentment.

Jaundiced comes from the Old French jaunisse meaning "yellowness" from jaune "yellow."

 

buffet momentum

The lack of self-restraint one experiences after having started eating at a buffet. This phenomenon causes a person to consume above and beyond what comprises a regularly sized meal. This feeling usually occurs in the first fifteen minutes of the buffet and is further perpetuated by:

a) remembering something delicious that you saw earlier and didn't have room on your plate for

b) wanting more of something you just tried

c) the desire to make the price you paid worthwhile

d) the need to illustrate to your friends that your stomach is indeed a bottomless pit.

"Wow, I just consumed three plates of food. Maybe we should wait a while before hitting up the dessert table."

"I disagree. In about 10 minutes my stomach is going to realize that it's full, so I think I'll just make use of the buffet momentum that I've developed and get dessert right now."

History 

• Daughters of the American Revolution: lineage-based, conservative patriotic society was founded (1890)
• Vatican II: ecumenical council that led to liberalization and modernization of the church was convened by Pope John XXIII(1962)
• Saturday Night Live: late-night comedy-variety show debuted on NBC; George Carlin hosted (1975) 

Birthdays

• Parson Mason Weems 1759 - He was responsible for the story about George Washington cutting down his father's cherry tree.
• Henry Heinz 1884
• Eleanor Roosevelt 1884
• Willie Hoppe 1887
• Charles Revson 1906
• Joseph Alsop 1910
• Jerome Robbins 1918
• Art Blakey 1919
• Linda Stirling 1921
• Knobby (Grant) Warwick 1921
• Elmore Leonard 1925
• James Morrison 1931
• Dottie West 1932
• Ron Leibman 1937
• Maria Bueno 1939
• Gene Watson 1943
• Robert Gale 1945
• Daryl Hall (Hall & Oates) 1948
• Catlin Adams 1950
• Andre Woolfolk (Earth, Wind and Fire) 1950
• David Morse 1953
• Paulette Carlson 1953
• Lindy Boone (The Boone Family) 1955
• Steve Young (NFL) 1961
• Joan Cusack 1962
• Sean Patrick Flanery 1965
• Luke Perry 1966
• Jane Kradowski 1968
• MC Lyte 1971
• NeeNa Lee 1975
• Michelle Trachtenberg 1985