Sunday, August 25, 2019

Sunday, August 25, 2019

finagle \fi-NEY-guhl\, verb: 
  1. to trick, swindle, or cheat (a person) (often followed by out of): He finagled the backers out of a fortune.
  2. to get or achieve (something) by guile, trickery, or manipulation: to finagle an assignment to the Membership Committee.
  3. to practice deception or fraud; scheme.
Finagle likely comes from the English dialect term fainaigue meaning "to cheat." It entered English in the 1920s.
 
literally
  • People often confuse this word with figuratively.
-Dude, you figuratively died of embarassment, you illiterate dipshit.

History
  • New Orleans: was founded by French colonists (1718)
  • Great Moon Hoax: the first of six articles appeared in The New York Sun, discussing a variety of animal life supposedly discovered on the moon (1835)
  • English Channel: was swum for the first time, by Matthew Webb (1875); he died eight years later attempting a swim in the rapids beneath Niagara Falls
  • Paris: was liberated by the Allies in World War II (1944)
  • Aaliyah: singer/actor died in a plane crash in the Bahamas (2001)
Birthdays
  • Allen Pinkerton 1819
  • Bret Harte 1836
  • Emile Kocher 1841
  • Charles Richet 1850
  • Sir Hans Adolf Krebs 1900
  • Clara Bow 1905
  • Ruby Keeler 1909
  • Michael Rennie 1909
  • Walt Kelly 1913
  • Van Johnson 1916
  • Frederick Robbins 1916
  • Mel Ferrer 1917
  • Dan DeFore 1917
  • Richard Greene 1918
  • Leonard Bernstein 1918
  • George C. Wallace 1919
  • Monty Hall 1923
  • Althea Gibson 1927
  • Sean Connery 1930
  • Page Johnson 1930
  • Regis Philbin 1931
  • Tom Skerritt 1933 (ALIEN)
  • Wayne Shorter 1933
  • Hugh Hudson 1936
  • David Canary 1938
  • Marshall Brickman 1941
  • Walter Williams (The O'Jays) 1942
  • Anthony Heald 1944
  • Jacques Demers 1944
  • Rollie Fingers 1946
  • Anne Archer 1947
  • John Savage 1949
  • Gene Simmons 1949 - Musician (KISS)
  • Henry Paul (Blackhawk) 1949
  • Rob Halford 1951 - Singer (Judas Priest)
  • Elvis Costello 1954
  • Tim Burton 1958
  • Ally Walker 1961
  • Billy Ray Cyrus 1961
  • Vivian Campbell (Def Leppard) 1962
  • Morgan Englund 1964
  • Blair Underwood 1964
  • Joanne Whalley-Kilmer 1964
  • Albert Belle 1966
  • Terminator X (Public Enemy) 1966
  • Robert Horry 1969
  • Jo Dee Messina 1969
  • Claudia Schiffer 1971
  • Kel Mitchell 1978
  • Rachel Bilson 1981
  • Blake Lively 1986
 

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