Thursday, February 20, 2020

farceur \fahr-SUR\, noun: 

1. a joker; wag.
2. a writer or director of or actor in farce.

Farceur comes from the French word of the same spelling, which in turn is rooted in the Latin word farcire meaning "to stuff, cram."

Marlin vs. Mullet

• A marlin is a hot ass chick -- similar to pulling in a massive fish against all odds. Pictures are usually taken with the marlin (to share on Facebook later). A mullet is the opposite -- similar to reeling in a line and wondering how that fish ate your bait.

Daddy: "Dude! Did you see that girl I was talking to at the bar?! Marlin status." 

Murray: "Marlin? Um...more like mullet. Total marlin vs. mullet confusion. I took a photo of you guys and put it on Facebook. I tagged it #thewrongkindofbigfish."

History

• scalping: first recorded case of white men scalping Native Americans (1725)

  
• United States Post Office Department: was established when George Washington signed the Postal Service Act; it lasted until 1971, when it was replaced with the United States Postal Service (1792)
• Metropolitan Museum of Art: opened in New York City, aiming to promote class harmony through art (1872)
• Canberra: colorful politician King O'Malley drove in the stake which marked the beginning of the development of Australia's capital city (1913)
• 1962 - John Glenn made space history when he orbited the world three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes. He was the first American to orbit the Earth. He was aboard the Friendship 7 Mercury capsule.
• 1965 - Ranger 8 crashed on the moon after sending back thousands of pictures of its surface.
• 1970 - John Lennon's "Instant Karma" was released in the U.S.
• 2003 - In West Warwick, RI, 99 people were killed when fire destroyed the nightclub The Station. The fire started with sparks from a pyrotechnic display being used by Great White. Ty Longley, guitarist for Great White, was one of the victims in the fire.

Birthdays

• William Prescott 1726 - American Revolutionary soldier, know for the quote "Don't fire until you see the white's of their eyes."
• Joseph Jefferson 1829 - Actor ("Rip Van Winkle")
• Ansel Adams 1902 - Artist

  
• Aleksei Kosygin 1904 - Soviet premier from 1964-1980
• Carl Stotz 1910 - Founded Little League baseball organization
• John Daly 1914 - Reporter, TV host ("What's My Line")
• Chick (Melvin) Harbert 1915 - Golfer
• Kenneth H. Olsen 1926
• Sidney Poitier 1927 - Actor ("Lillies of the Field", "To Sir With Love")
• Gloria Vanderbilt 1924 - Fashion designer
• Robert Altman 1925 - Director ("M*A*S*H")
• Bob Richards 1926 - Olympic pole-vaulter
• Roy Face (Roy Elroy Leon) 1928 - Baseball player

  
• Amanda Blake (Beverly Louise Neill) 1929 - Actress ("Gunsmoke", "The Glass Slipper")
• Patricia Smith 1930 - Actress ("Save the Tiger")
• Bobby Unser 1934 - Race car driver
• Marj Dusay 1936
• Nancy Wilson 1937 - Singer
• Roger Penske 1937 - Race car driver
• Richard Beymer 1938 - Actor ("The Diary of Anne Frank", "West Side Story")
• Barbara Ellis 1939 - Musician (Fleetwoods)
• Buffy (Beverly) Sainte-Marie 1941 - Singer, songwriter
• Clyde Wright 1941 - Baseball player
• Phil Esposito 1942 - Hockey player

  
• Sandy Duncan 1946 - Dancer, actress ("Peter Pan", "Roots")
• Brenda Blethyn 1946
• Jerome Geils 1946 - Musician (The J. Geils Band)
• Peter Strauss 1947 - Actor ("Peter Gunn", "The Yearling")
• Jennifer O'Neill 1948 - Actress ("Summer of '42")
• Pierre Bouchard 1948 - Hockey player
• Ivana Trump 1949
• Walter Becker 1950 - Musician (Steely Dan)
• Edward Albert 1951 - Actor ("Mind Games", "The Heist", "Guarding Tess")

  
• Kathie Baillie 1951
• Randy California (Wolfe) 1951 - Singer (Spirit)
  Anthony Stewart Head 1954 - actor (Rupert Giles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Patty Hearst (Patricia Hearst Shaw) 1954 - Publishing heiress, kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) and ultimately joined her captors, pardoned by President Clinton
• James Wilby 1958 - Actor ("A Summer Story", "Dreamchild")
• Sebastian Steinberg 1959 - Musician (Soul Coughing)
• Joel Hodgson 1960
• Charles Barkley 1963 - Basketball player
• Ian Brown 1963 - Singer (Stone Roses)
• French Stewart 1964
• Cindy Crawford 1966 - Supermodel, actress ("Fair Game")
• Lili Taylor 1967 - Actress
• Andrew Shue 1967 - Actor ("Melrose Place")
• Kurt Cobain 1967 - Musician, singer (Nirvana)
• Brian Littrell 1975 - Singer (The Backstreet Boys)
• Jay Hernandez 1978 - Actor
• Majandra Delfino 1981 - Actress
• Chris Thile 1981 - Musician (Nickel Creek)
• Jack Richardson 1985
• Rihanna - 1989