Tuesday, April 23, 2019

percipient \per-SIP-ee-uhnt\, adjective:

1. having perception; discerning; discriminating: a percipient choice of wines.
2. perceiving or capable of perceiving.

noun:

1. a person or thing that perceives.

Percipient entered English in the mid-1600s from the Anglo-Norman perceivre meaning "to take notice of."

 

leftfielding, adj:

• the act of contributing a comment amongst a group of friends that is completely irrelevant to the current subject matter currently discussed.

We were all having a fantastic group discussion about sports until Mike decided to do a little leftfielding and talk about his mom's body odor.

History

• Order of the Garter: oldest existing order of knights was founded by King Edward III of England (1348)
• Baedeker blitz: a series of German Luftwaffe raids on the English cities of Exeter, Bath, Norwich and York began in retaliation for the RAF bombing of Lübeck (1942)
• Hank Aaron: hit his first of 755 major league home runs; his career total is second only to Barry Bonds (1954)
• New Coke: Coca-Cola launched its marketing flop (1985)
• "Me at the Zoo": YouTube's first video was launched on the fledgling website (2005)

Birthdays

• William Shakespeare 1564 - Poet, playwright ("Julius Caesar", "Romeo and Juliet", "MacBeth"), believed to have been born on April 23 based on his baptism on April 26, 1564
• James Buchanan 1791 - 15th U.S. President, nickname: Old Buck
• Serbei Prokofiev 1891 - Pianist, composer ("Peter and the Wolf")
• (Charles Burnham) Bud Wilkinson 1916 - Football player
• Janet Blair (Martha Jane Lafferty) 1921 - Actress ("My Sister Eileen", "The Fabulous Dorseys")
• Shirley (Jane) Temple Black 1928 - Child actress ("Little Miss Marker", "Heidi", "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm")
• Alan Oppenheimer 1930 - Actor ("Murphy Brown", "The Six Million Dollar Man", "The Bionic Woman")
• Halston (Roy Frowick) 1932 - Fashion designer, created the pillbox hat that was worn by Jackie Kennedy at President Kennedy's inauguration
• Roy Orbison 1936 - Singer
• Don Massengale 1937 - Golfer
• Ray Peterson 1939 - Singer
• David Birney 1939 - Actor ("Oh, God! Book 2", "St. Elsewhere")
• Lee Majors (Harvey Lee Yeary II) 1940 - Actor ("The Six Million Dollar Man", "Big Valley")

  
• Sandra Dee (Alexandra Zuck) 1942 - Actress ("Gidget")
• Hervé Villechaize 1943 - Actor ("Fantasy Island")
• Tony Esposito 1944 - Hockey player
• Marty Fleckman 1944 - Golfer
• Bernadette Devlin (McAliskey) 1948 - Irish civil rights leader
• Blair Brown 1948 - Actress
• Joyce DeWitt 1949 - Actress ("Three's Company)
• Paul Brickman 1949 - Director, writer
• Narada Michael Walden 1952 - Musician (Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report), record producer, songwriter
• James Russo 1953 - Actor
• Captain Sensible 1954 - Musician (Damned)

  
• Michael Moore 1954 - Lib-tard, biased filmmaker, fat slob, shit-head, liberal mouthpiece.
• Judy Davis 1955 - Actress
• Jan Hooks 1957 - Actress ("Designing Women", "Saturday Night Live", "Batman Returns")
• Craig Sheffer 1960 - Actor
• Valerie Bertinelli 1960 - Actress ("One Day at a Time")
• Steve Clark 1960 - Musician (Def Leppard)
• George Lopez 1961 - Actor
• Gen 1964 - Musician (Jesus Jones)
• Melina Kanakaredes 1967 - Actress ("Providence", "Guiding Light", "CSI: New York")
• Tim Womack 1968 - Musician (Sons of the Desert)
• Stan Frazier 1968 - Musician (Sugar Ray)
• Scott Bairstow 1970 - Actor
• Andruw Jones 1977 - Baseball player
• Kal Penn 1977 - Actor ("House M.D.")
• Daniela Hantuchova 1983 - Tennis player
• Rachel Skarsten 1985 - Actress
• Camryn Walling 1990 - Actor ("The Agency")
• Dev Patel 1977 - Actor ("Slumdog Millionaire")