Friday, March 22, 2019

Friday March 22, 2019

shilly-shally \SHIL-ee-shal-ee\, verb:
  1. to show indecision or hesitation; be irresolute; vacillate.
  2. to waste time; dawdle.
noun:
  1. irresolution; indecision; vacillation: It was sheer shilly-shally on his part.
adjective:
  1. irresolute; undecided; vacillating.
In the great tradition of reduplicating a phrase to infuse it with a dose of levity, shilly-shally comes from the phrase “shall I, shall I.” When shilly-shally first entered English at the turn of the eighteenth century, it was spelled "shill I, shall I."
 
ermahgerd
  • used for internet memes. An obnoxious way to say "Oh, My God" with strong emphasis on the R sounds. Typically followed by other words with emphasis on the R sounds.
ERMAHGERD, ERNSTAGERM (Oh, my god, Instagram)
ERMAHGERD, MER FERCE HERTS (Oh, my god, my face hurts)
 
 
History
  • Stamp Act: tax was imposed by Britain on the American colonies; it raised intense opposition (1765)
  • hockey: the first Stanley Cup championship game was played; Montreal's Amateur Athletic Association beat the Ottawa Capitals, 3-1 (1894)
  • motion pictures: August and Louis Lumière demonstrated the first movies using celluloid film in Paris (1895)
  • Equal Rights Amendment: was approved by US Congress; it was never ratified by requisite majority of states (1972)
  • Flying Wallendas: patriarch Karl Wallenda fell to his death from a tightrope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico (1978)
  • Hale-Bopp: comet passed the closest to Earth till the year 4397 at a distance of 1.315 AU (1997)
Birthdays
  • Sir Anthony Van Dyke 1599
  • Johnny Evers 1883 - Baseball player
  • Chico Marx 1887
  • Louis L'Amour 1908 - Author
  • Wilfrid Brambell 1912
  • Karl Malden 1913 - Actor
  • Virginia Grey 1917
  • Ross Martin 1920
  • Werner Klemperer 1920
  • Marcel Marceau 1923 - Pantomimist
  • Bill Wendell 1924
  • Allen H. Neuharth 1924 - Founder of USA Today
  • Easy Ed Macauley 1928
  • Pat Robertson 1930
  • Stephen Sondheim 1930 - Composer, lyricist
  • William Shatner 1931 - Actor
  • May Britt 1933
  • J.P. McCarthy 1933
  • M. Emmett Walsh 1935 - Actor
  • Glen Campbell 1936
  • Tom Flores 1937 - Football player
  • Johnny Ferguson 1937
  • Dave Keon 1940 - Hockey player
  • Bruno Ganz 1941
  • imagebam.comBarbara Parkins 1942
  • George Benson 1943 - Singer, musician
  • Keith Relf 1943 - Musician (Yardbirds)
  • Jeremy Clyde 1944 - Actor, singer (Chad & Jeremy)
  • Harry Vanda 1947 - Musician (The Easybeats)
  • James Patterson 1947 - Author
  • Wolf Blitzer 1948 - liberal mouthpiece
  • Andrew Lloyd Webber 1948 - Composer
  • Randy Hobbs 1948 - Musician (The McCoys)
  • Fanny Ardent 1949 - Actress
  • Bob Costas 1952 - Sportscaster
  • James House 1955 - Country singer
  • Lena Olin 1955 - Actress ("Alias")
  • Stephani Mills 1957 - Actress, singer
  • Matthew Modine 1959 - Actor
  • Marcus Camby 1974 - Basketball player
  • Cole Hauser 1975 - Actor
  • Kellie Williams 1976 - Actress
  • Reese Witherspoon 1976 - Actress ("American Psycho")
  • John Otto 1977 - Musician (Limp Bizkit)

  
  

 

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