Wednesday, February 9, 2022

vitiate \VISH-ee-ayt\, transitive verb:

1. To make faulty or imperfect; to render defective; to impair; as, "exaggeration vitiates a style of writing."
2. To corrupt morally; to debase.
3. To render ineffective; as, "fraud vitiates a contract."

Vitiate comes from Latin vitiare, from vitium, fault. It is related to vice (a moral failing or fault), which comes from vitium via French.

 

snowpocalypse

• snow + apocalypse = snowpocalypse. When weathermen predict large amounts of snowfall in a short period of time.

Clint: Dude, I heard on the weather channel you had a snowpocalypse last night in your area 
Paul: Naw, just a couple inches, the weather man is an idiot.

 

Holiday

• World LADY DEATH Day - character was first published on this date in 1994. More HERE.

 
 

History

• John Quincy Adams: the House of Representatives chose America's sixth POTUS, when no candidate received a majority of electoral votes (1825)
• National Weather Service: then known as the United States Weather Bureau, was founded under the US Army Signal Corps; it used to alert fruit growers to the approach of stormy weather by telegraph (1870)
• Volley Ball was invented by W.G. Morgan (1895)
• Davis Cup: international tennis competition was played for the first time; its donor, Dwight F. Davis, won (1900)
• Hollywood Walk of Fame: the first embedded star was awarded, honoring Joanne Woodward (1960)
• The Beatles: the Fab Four appeared for the first time on The Ed Sullivan Show (1964)
• Satchel Paige: became the first Negro League player elected into Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame (1971)

Birthdays

• William Henry Harrison (U.S.) 1773
• George Ade 1866
• Amy Lowell 1874
• Ronald Colman 1891
• Brian Donlevy 1899
• Carmen Miranda 1909
• Bill Veeck 1914
• Ernest Tubb 1914
• Gypsy Rose Lee 1914
• Kathryn Grayson 1922
• Brendan Behan 1923
  Frank Frazetta 1928
• Roger Mudd 1928
• Robert Morris 1931
• Jo Ann Prentice 1933
• Janet Suzman 1939
• Barry Mann 1942
• Carole King 1942
• Joe Pesci 1943
• Barbara Lewis 1943
• Alice Walker 1944
• Mia Farrow 1945
• Joe Ely 1947
• Major Harris 1947
• Judith Light 1949
• Dennis "DT" Thomas (Kool & the Gang) 1951
• Charles Shaughnessy 1955
• Holly Johnson (Frankie Goes to Hollywood) 1960
• Travis Tritt 1963
• Julie Warner 1965
• Dannie Leigh 1970
  Tom Hiddleston 1981 (Loki) 
• David Gallagher 1985