Monday, July 6, 2020

wildling \ WAHYLD-ling \ , noun;

• a wild plant, flower, or animal. 

Origin: Wildling joins the word wild , "living in a state of nature," with -ling , an Old English suffix meaning "a person or thing concerned with." It entered English in the mid-1800s.

Sorry for party rockin'

• An apology for any acts that you may (or may not) remember after a bout of drinking/partying. While not required, it is almost always accepted by the receiving party. It is almost always said while hungover.

Friend 1: "Dude, you left the club last night with my sister, and banged her. Then when you were leaving you stumbled in my mom's room and had sex with her too!"

Friend 2: "Sorry for party rockin'"

Friend 1: Oh when you put it that way...it's cool

History

• Sir Thomas More: author of Utopia was beheaded for refusing to recognize Henry VIII as head of the new Church of England; More was canonized 400 years later (1535)
• Major League Baseball All-Star Game: was first played, in Chicago, as part of the 1933 World's Fair; AL over NL, 4-2 (1933)
• Anne Frank: 13-year-old diarist took refuge from the Nazis, along with her family, in the Secret Annex; they were discovered two years later and most were slaughtered (1942)
• AK-47 production begins. Goes on to become the most reliable and widely used rifle in the world (1947)
• The Beatles: John Lennon and Paul McCartney met for the first time (1957)
• Althea Gibson: became the first black woman to win the women's singles tennis match at Wimbledon and the US Open (1957)

Birthdays

• John Paul Jones 1747 - First United States' well known naval fighter in the American Revolutionary War
• Harold Vanderbilt 1884 - American railroad executive
• LaVerne Andrews 1911 - Singer (The Andrews Sisters)
• Sebastian Cabot 1918 - Actor
• Nancy Reagan (Anne Frances Robbins) 1921 - Wife of U.S. President Ronald Reagan, actress
• William Schallert 1922 - Actor ("The Patty Duke Show")
• Merv Griffin 1925 - Television host, singer
• Susan Cabot 1927 - Actress
• Pat Paulsen (Patrick Layton "Pat" Paulsen) 1927 - Comedian, satirist
• Janet Leigh 1927 - Actress
• Bill Haley 1927 - Musician (Bill Haley and His Comets)
• Della Reese 1931 - Actress, singer
• Dalai Lama (Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, usually shortened to Tenzin Gyatso) 1935 - Fourteenth Dalai Lama
• Ned Beatty 1937 - Actor
• Gene Chandler (Eugene Dixon) 1937 - Singer, known as "The Duke of Earl"
• Jeannie Seely 1940 - Country music singer
• Ric Elswit 1945 - Musician (Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show)
• Burt Ward 1946 - Actor, best known for his role as Robin in the television series "Batman"
• Fred Dryer 1946 - Football player, actor ("Hunter")
• Jamie Wyeth 1946 - Artist
• Sylvester Stallone 1946 - Actor ("Rocky" series of movies)
• George W. Bush (U.S.) 1946 - 43rd President of the United States
• Nathalie Baye 1948 - Actress
• Geoffrey Rush 1951 - Actor
• Shelly Hack 1952 - Actress, model
• Grant Goodeve 1952 - Actor ("Eight is Enough"), television host
• Nanci Griffith 1953 - Singer, guitarist, songwriter
• Allyse Beasley 1954 - Actress ("Moonlighting")
• Willie Randolph 1954 - Baseball player, manager
• John Jorgenson 1956 - Musician (Desert Rose Band, The Hellecasters, Elton John)
• Ron Duguay 1957 - Hockey player, coach
• Jon Keeble 1959 - Musician (Spandau Ballet)
• Glenn Scarpelli 1968 - Actor ("One Day at a Time")
• Stacey "Mrs. Bax0jayz" 1971 - super hot hottie of the forevers!
• 50 Cent (Curtis James Jackson III) 1976 - Rapper, actor
• Tia Mowry (Tia Dashon Mowry Hardrict) 1978 - Actress
• Tamera Mowry (Tamera Darvette Mowry) 1978 - Actress
  Kevin Hart 1979 - Comedian 
  Eva Green 1980 - Actress
• Brandon Jacobs 1982 - Football player 

  

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