Monday, October 08, 2018

Monday, October 8, 2018

palter \PAWL-ter\, verb:
1. To talk or act insincerely or deceitfully; lie or use trickery.
2. To bargain with; haggle.
3. To act carelessly; trifle.
Palter is of unknown origin. It first arose in the 1540s, and it may be a variation of the word falter.
Subway salmon
  • The one or two people who insist on going up a stairway or down a stairway (usually after a train arrives at a subway stop) while all the people leaving the train are going in the opposite direction.
"Of course there were subway salmon when I was late for work and I was trying to get out of the subway in a hurry ... Dude, couldn't they tell the train already left?"

Trivia
How many Star Wars performers appeared in the most films in the popular sci-fi adventure series?
  • Only two. The diminutive Kenny Baker, who played R2-D2, and Anthony Daniels, who played C-3PO.
Holiday
  • Columbus Day (US)
 Trivia
How old was Christopher Columbus when he went to sea for the first time?

  • 14.

 History
  • Empress Myeongseong: the last empress of Korea was assassinated by the Japanese (1895)
  • perfect game: Don Larsen pitched what remains the only perfect game in World Series history; the Yankees beat the Dodgers, 2-0 (1956)
  • Che Guevara: leftist revolutionary hero was captured by the Bolivian army; he was executed the next day (1967)
  • water speed record: was set by Australian Ken Warby at 318 mph/510 kph near Tumut, New South Wales; it still stands (1978)
  • Solidarity: and the rest of Poland's labor unions were banned (1982); Solidarity continued to work underground, until it was declared legal in 1989
  • Kashmir: a 7.6 magnitude earthquake killed some 80,000 and injured 65,000 on the Pakistan-India border (2005)
Birthdays
  • Eddie Rickenbacker 1890
  • Juan Peron 1895
  • Billy Conn 1917
  • Rona Barrett 1936
  • Fred Stolle 1938
  • Paul Hogan 1939
  • David Carradine 1940
  • Fred Cash (The Impressions) 1940
  • Jesse Jackson 1941
  • George Bellamy (The Tornados) 1941
  • Buzz Clifford 1942
  • R.L. Stine 1943
  • Chevy Chase 1943
  • Susan Raye 1944
  • Tony Wilson (Hot Chocolate) 1947
  • Sarah Purcell 1948
  • Brian Glenwright 1949
  • Sigourney Weaver 1949
  • Hamish Stuart (Average White Band) 1949
  • Robert "Kool" Bell (Kool & the Gang) 1950
  • Johnny Cummings (Ramones) 1951
  • Ricky Lee Phelps (Brother Phelps) 1953
  • Michael Dudikoff 1954
  • Darrell Hammond 1955
  • Stephanie Zimbalist 1956
  • Mitch Marine (Tripping Daisy) 1961
  • Steve Perry (Cherry Poppin' Daddies) 1963
  • C.J. Ward (The Ramones) 1965
  • Teddy Riley 1966
  • Emily Proctor 1968
  • Jeremy Davies 1969 - Actor ("Lost", "Saving Private Ryan") 
  • Matt Damon 1970 - Actor
  • Kristanna Loken 1979
  • Byron Reeder (Mista) 1979
  • Nick Cannon 1980
  • Angus T. Jones 1993
 
 



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