Sunday, January 13, 2019

Sunday, January 13, 2019

compotation \kom-puh-TEY-shuhn\, noun:
  • An act or instance of drinking or tippling together.
This lively term is derived from a Latin translation compōtātiō of the Greek word symposium or "a convivial meeting for drinking and intellectual conversation."
 
5 To 3 Scale
  • A scale used to amaze and confuse stoners and otherwise slow people.
Person 1: Dude, on a 5 to 3 scale, how high are you right now?
Person 2: .....WHAT?!

History
  • J'accuse: French journalist Emile Zola published his defense of Alfred Dreyfus, the army captain falsely convicted of treason because he was Jewish (1898)
  • Henry Ford: patented his plastic car, which ran on ethanol; the plastic was soybean-based, and the car was unsuccessful (1942)
  • L. Douglas Wilder: became the first African American elected governor of a US state — Virginia (1990)
  • The Fantasticks: the world's longest-running musical ended its off-Broadway run after 17,162 shows and nearly 42 years (2002)
Birthdays
  • Horatio Alger 1834
  • Sophie Tucker 1884
  • Alfred Fuller 1885
  • Earle Wheeler 1908
  • Butter (Quentin) Jackson 1909
  • Jeff Morrow 1913
  • Robert Stack 1919
  • Gwen Verdon 1926
  • Liz Anderson 1930
  • Frances Sternhagen 1930
  • Robert ‘Squirrel’ Lester (The Chi-Lites) 1930
  • Charles Nelson Reilly 1931
    Rip Taylor 1934
  • Billy Gray 1938
  • Richard Moll 1943
  • Trevor Rabin (Yes) 1954
  • Kevin Anderson 1960
  • Julia Louis-Dreyfus 1961
  • Graham McPherson (Madness) 1961
  • Penelope Ann Miller 1964
  • Patrick Dempsey 1966
  • Tim Kelly (Slaughter) 1967
  • Anna Marie Goddard 1970 (actress / playmate)
  • Nicole Eggert 1972
    Orlando Bloom 1977 
    Liam Hemsworth 1990 (Thor)




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