Monday, October 21, 2019

Monday, October 21, 2019

whirligig \HWUR-li-gig, WUR-\, noun:
1. something that whirls or revolves.
2. a whirling motion or course: the whirligig of fashion.
3. a giddy or flighty person.
4. Dialect. a merry-go-round or carrousel.
5. a toy for whirling or spinning, as a top.
Whirligig combines the words whirl with gig. Gig comes from the Middle English ghyg meaning "spinning top." 
mullet over
  •  When a guy with a mullet ponders or considers a decision at great length such as whether to buy Keystone beer or Iron City beer.
You want to go to the tough man contest at the armory?
Let me mullet over and I'll let you know.
Trivia
How old was Louis Braille when he devised his raised-dot writing system for the blind?
  • Only 15. Braille, who lost his sight when he was three, started working on the dot patterns when he was 12.
History 
  • Old Ironsides: the United States Navy frigate USS Constitution was launched in Boston Harbor (1797)
  • Thomas Edison: invented a workable incandescent electric lamp in his Menlo Park lab (1879)
  • Guggenheim: stunning Frank Lloyd Wright structure housing a museum of modern art opened on Museum Mile in New York (1959)
  • Vietnam War: tens of thousands marched in Washington, DC, protesting America's involvement in the war (1967)
  • 1975 World Series: Carlton Fisk hit a ball that bounced off a left field foul pole, giving him a home run and a Red Sox win over the Reds in 12 innings in the series' sixth game (1975)
Birthdays
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772
  • Alfred Nobel 1833
  • Sir Georg Solti 1912
  • Dizzy Gillespie 1917
  • Bob Rosburg 1926
  • Whitey Ford (MLB) 1928
  • Ursula LeGuin 1929
  • Georgia Brown 1933
  • Manfred Mann 1940
  • Francis Fitzgerald 1940
  • Steve Cropper (Booker T & the MGs, Blues Brothers) 1941
  • Elvin Bishop 1942
  • Brian Picolo (NFL) 1943
  • Ron Elliot (Beau Brummels) 1943
  • Everett McGill 1945
  • Lee Loughnane (Chicago) 1946
  • Bill Russell (MLB) 1948
  • Benjamin Netanyahu (Israel) 1949
  • Charlotte Caffey (Go-Go's) 1953
  • Eric Faulkner (Bay City Rollers) 1955
  • Carrie Fisher 1956
  • Julian Cope 1957
  • Steve Lukather (Toto) 1957
  • Che Colovita Lemon (Jimmie's Chicken Shack) 1970
  • Jade Jagger 1971
  • Jeremy Miller 1976
  • Will Estes 1977
  • Kim Kardashian 1980 - "Actress"
  • Juliete Cabrera 1987 
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