Friday, March 13, 2020

FRIDAY THE 13TH!

triskaidekaphobia \ tris-kahy-dek-uh-FOH-bee-uh, tris-kuh- \ , noun;

• fear or a phobia concerning the number 13. 

Origin: Triskaidekaphobia derives from the Greek word for thirteen, triskaídeka and the Greek word for fear, phobos . It entered English in the early 1900s.

  

Holiday

• Friday the 13th: No one really knows the origin of the superstition about Friday the 13th, although in Dan Brown's The DaVinci Code, he suggested that it started with the arrest of the Knights Templar on Friday, October 13, 1307.

fusty \FUHS-tee\, adjective: 

1. old-fashioned or out-of-date, as architecture, furnishings, or the like: They still live in that fusty, gingerbread house.
2. having a stale smell; moldy; musty: fusty rooms that were in need of a good airing.
3. stubbornly conservative or old-fashioned; fogyish.

Fusty can be traced back to the Latin fustis meaning "staff, stick of wood." It entered English in the 1390s. 

cray cray

• So unbelievably close to sheer insanity that one word cannot express the sentiment alone.

Yo, did you see the way Anando pounded shot after shot of straight eerclear at that party? That shit was cray cray.

Did you hear how cray cray Bryan got last night? Remember that chick from the bar? He took her home and gave her the Tony Danza treatment, no lie.

Note: The power of this adjective phrase is often misunderstood and underestimated. Harm from misuse may occur. Use with caution and only under appropriate circumstances.

History

• Uranus: seventh planet from the Sun was discovered by William Herschel (1781)
• Andrew Johnson: the 17th POTUS's impeachment trial began in the US Senate (1868)
• Czar Alexander II: was assassinated in St. Petersburg (Gregorian date) (1881)
• Pluto: the discovery of the dwarf planet was announced by Clyde W. Tombaugh (1930)
• Kitty Genovese: was murdered in Queens, New York, while neighbors ignored her screams; this prompted investigation into the bystander effect (1964)
• Phoenix lights: unusual lights of various sorts were seen over Arizona, Nevada and Sonora; among the eyewitnesses was Arizona Governor Fife Symington (1997)

Birthdays

• Joseph Priestley 1733
• Charles Earl Grey 1764
• Lorenzo Delmonico 1813
• Percival Lowell 1855
• Helen Sinclair Glatz 1908
• Sammy Kaye 1910
• L. Ron Hubbard 1911 sci-fi writer who invented Scientology
• William Casey 1913
• Bobby Haggart 1914
• Ina Ray Hutton 1916
• Tessie O'Shea 1918
• Roy Haynes 1926 - Jazz drummer
• Jan Howard 1930 - Country singer
• Peter Breck 1930
• Liz Anderson 1930
• Rosalind Elias 1931 - Opera singer
• Mike Stoller 1933 - Songwriter
• Dick Katz 1934
• Neil Sedaka 1939 - Singer, songwriter
• Robin Duke 1944 - Comedian
• Donald York 1949 - Musician (Sha Na Na)
• William H. Macy 1950 - Actor
• Fred Berry 1951
• Deborah Raffin 1953
• Dana Delany 1956 - Actress ("China Beach")
• Glenne Headly 1957
• Adam Clayton 1960 - Musician (U2)
• Terence Blanchard 1962 - Jazz trumpeter
• Christopher Collet 1968 - Actor
• Tracey Wells 1971 - Actress
• Annabeth Gish 1971 - Actress: X-Files
• Common 1972 - Rapper
• Trent Dilfer 1972 - Football player
• Khujo 1972 - Rapper (Goodie Mob)
• Glenn Lewis 1975 - Singer
• Danny Masterson 1976 - Actor ("That 70's Show")
• Johan Santana 1979 - Baseball player
• Emile Hirsch 1985 - Actor
• Natalie Albino 1986 Singer (Nina Sky)
• Nicole Albino 1986 Singer (Nina Sky