Tuesday, February 5, 2019

antipathetic \an-ti-puh-THET-ik\, adjective:

1. Opposed, averse, or contrary; having or showing antipathy: They were antipathetic to many of the proposed changes .
2. Causing or likely to cause antipathy: The new management was antipathetic to all of us.

Antipathetic stems from the Greek root pathos which meant "suffering, sensation." The Greek word antipathḗs meant "opposed in feeling."

reaching on a double

• Getting too ambitious with a girl after getting to second base, getting subsequently denied when reaching out for third

I rounded second a bit too hard and got denied at third. Talk about reaching on a double!

Trivia

What is anatomically incorrect about Squidward, the grouchy octopus in TV’s SpongeBob SquarePants kiddie cartoon series?

• He has only six tentacles, not the eight common to the octopus. The show’s animators thought he would look too bulky with eight legs.

Holiday

• Chinese New Year - Year of the Pig!

History

• United Artists: US film company was founded by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith; a current version of the studio is owned, in part, by Tom Cruise (1919)
• Reader's Digest: DeWittand Lila Wallace published their first issue of condensed articles; the pocket-sized volume cost 25 cents (1922)
• BBC pips: six short tones used to mark the end of the hour were broadcast for the first time from the Royal Greenwich Observatory (1924)
• Tybee bomb: the US lost a hydrogen bomb off the coast of Georgia; some 14 nuclear weapons are known to be missing from the US arsenal alone (1958)
• Kelly Ripa became Regis Philbin's cohost. The show was renamed to "Live! With Regis and Kelly." (2001)

Birthdays

• John Jeffries 1744
• Robert Peel 1788
• Felix Mendelssohn 1809
• John Boyd Dunlop 1840
• Belle Starr 1848
• Andre-Gustave Citroen 1878
• Adlai Stevenson 1900
• John Carradine 1906
• William Burroughs 1914
• Red Buttons (Aaron Chwatt) 1919
• Andrew Greeley 1928
• Hal Blaine 1929
• Don Goldie 1930
• Claude King 1933
• Henry "Hank" Aaron 1934
• Stuart Damon 1937
• Jane Bryant Quint 1937
• H.R. Giger 1940
• Stephen Cannell 1940
• David Selby 1941
• Barrett Strong 1941
• Roger Staubach 1942
• Cory Wells (Three Dog Night) 1942
• Al Kooper 1944
• J.R. Cobb 1944
• Charles Winfield (Blood, Sweat & Tears) 1944
• Charlotte Rampling 1946
• David Ladd 1947
• Barbara Hershey 1948
• Christopher Guest 1948
• Nigel Olsson (Elton John) 1949
• Jennifer Jason Leigh1962
• Duff McKagan (Guns 'N Roses) 1964
• Chris Baron (Spin Doctors) 1968
• Bobby Brown 1969
• Michael Sheen 1969 (Lucian from Underworld)
• Sara Evans 1971
• Bjorn Bores 1974

 

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