Sunday, January 16, 2022

countervail \kown-tur-VAYL\, transitive verb:

1. To act against with equal force, power, or effect; to counteract.
2. To compensate for; to offset; to furnish or serve as an equivalent to.

intransitive verb:

1. To exert force against an opposing, often bad, influence or power.

Countervail derives from Old French contrevaloir, from contre-, "counter-" (from Latin contra, "against") + valoir, "to be worth" (from Latin valere, "to be strong, to avail").

 

Towel permanence

• The need or desire to use the same towel each time after showering. This may be a favorite towel with sentimental value, or the beach sized one that covers all your parts. This condition is frequently only suffered by one member of a family, causing much frustration upon finding that someone else has used "your" towel.

Boy: "Mom, where's my green towel?" 
Mom: "It's in the wash, hon. I used it to dry off the dog earlier."

sideboob

• A view of the female breast seen from a side; generally under loosely-fitting clothes. Very titillating (pun intended) and sexual without showing any overt nudity.

There is so much sideboob at Los Angeles awards shows!

 

My brother's g/f's sideboob totally distracted me from my own g/f.

 

History

• Ivan the Terrible: grand prince of Moscow was crowned the first czar of Russia (1547)
• US civil service: US government commission was reestablished by the Pendleton Act, ending the spoils system; from then on, appointments to public office were to be made based on merit, not loyalty (1883)
  

  
• Amendment 18: the law beginning Prohibition was ratified (1920); it was repealed in 1933
• Mickey Mantle: signed a $75,000-a-year contract, becoming the highest-paid baseball player at the time (1961)
• Operation Desert Storm: the White House announced the start of the campaign to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait (1991)
• Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: was sworn in as president of Liberia, becoming Africa's first elected female head of state (2006)

Birthdays

• Andre Michelin 1853
• Evelyn Levine 1902
• Ethel Merman 1909
• Dizzy Dean 1911
• Elliott Reid 1920
• Katy Jurado 1927
• Pilar Lorengar 1928
• William Kennedy 1928
• G.T. (Granville) Hogan 1929
• Norman Podhoretz 1930
• Susan Sontag 1933
• Marilyn Horne 1934
• A.J. Foyt 1935
• Bob Bogle (The Ventures) 1937
• Barbara Lynn 1942
• Bill Francis (Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show) 1942
• Jim Stafford 1944
• Ronnie Milsap 1943
  Dr. Laura Schlessinger1947 quack
• John Carpenter 1948 horror dude
• Caroline Munro 1949 
  Debbie Allen 1950
• Sade Adu (singer) 1959
• Paul Webb (Talk Talk) 1962
• Maxine Jones (En Vogue) 1966
• David Chokachi 1968
  John Davison 1971 Current singer of YES
• Kate Moss 1974
• Aaliyah 1979
• Yvonne Zima 1989