Sunday, May 31, 2020

Sunday, May 31, 2020

toothsome \TOOTH-suhm\, adjective:
1. Pleasing to the taste; delicious; as, "a toothsome pie."
2. Agreeable; attractive; as, "a toothsome offer."
3. Sexually attractive.
Toothsome is derived from tooth + -some.
As You Know
  • A derogatory prepatory statement in a sentence used when telling someone something they should already know, but, in fact the author knows they do not.
As you know, gang leadership is run from the Prison Infrastructure.

History
  • Copyright Act of 1790: was signed into law by US president George Washington; it initially covered only books, maps and charts
  • Ford Motor Company: produced the last "Tin Lizzie" and began producing the Model A (1927)
  • South Africa: became an independent republic (1961)
  • Ancash earthquake: killed more than 47,000 in Peru (1970)
  • Deep Throat: Watergate whistleblower's identity was revealed after 30 years of secrecy; he was W. Mark Felt, a former associate director of the FBI (2005)
Birthdays
  • Alexander Cruden 1701
  • Walt Whitman 1819 - Poet, essayist, journalist, humanist
  • Fred Allen 1894
  • Norman Vincent Peale 1898
  • Don Ameche 1908
  • Edward Bennett Williams 1920
  • Denholm Elliot 1922
  • Ellsworth Kelly 1923
  • Prince Rainier III 1923
  • Clint Eastwood 1930 - Actor ("Dirty Harry")
  • Shirley Verrett 1933
  • Jim Hutton 1934
  • Ronald Laird 1935
  • Keir Dullea 1936
  • Johnny Paycheck 1938
  • Peter Yarrow 1938 - Musician (Peter, Paul and Mary)
  • Augie Meyers 1940 - Musician (Texas Tornados)
  • Terry Waite 1939
  • Joe Namath 1943 - Football player
  • Sharon Gless 1943 - Actress ("Cagney and Lacey") 
  • John Bonham 1948 - Musician (Led Zeppelin)
  • Stanley Dancer 1949
  • Tom Berenger 1950 - Actor ("The Big Chill," "Platoon")
  • Gregory Harrison 1950 - Actor
  • Colm Meaney 1953
  • Roma Maffia 1958 - Actress ("Nip/Tuck")
  • Kyle Secor 1960
  • Chris Elliot 1960 - Comedian
  • Lea Thompson 1961 - Actress ("Back to the Future" movies)
  • Corey Hart 1962 - Singer
  • Wendy Smith 1963 - Musician (Prefab Sprout)
  • Darryl McDaniels (DMC) 1964 - Rapper
  • Kid Frost 1964 - Rapper
  • Brooke Shields 1965 - Actress
  • Charlie Schlatter 1966
  • Kenny Lofton 1967 - Baseball player
  • Christian McBride 1972 - Musician
  • Colin Farrell 1976 - Actor
  • Jake Peavy 1981 - Baseball player
  • Curtis Williams Jr. 1987 

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