Wednesday, March 23, 2022

matutinal \muh-TOOT-n-uhl\, adjective:

• Relating to or occurring in the morning; early.

Matutinal is from Late Latin matutinalis, from Latin matutinus, "early in the morning; pertaining to the morning."

 

Stealth-call

• When you have to call someone back but don't want to talk to them, so you wait until you know they can't talk and leave a voice mail.

"I don't want to tell Karen I can't make it tonight, so I'll Stealth-call her when she's on her flight and has her phone shut off."

Barsexual

• A girl who kisses other girls in bars and clubs, usually for attention and the approval of men.

A BISEXUAL girl kisses girls at home when no ones looking.

A BARSEXUAL girl only kisses them in places that charge a cover.

History

• "Give me liberty or give me death": in Richmond, Virginia, Patrick Henry demanded freedom from England for the colonies (1775)
• Pakistan: became the first Islamic republic (1956)
• Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan announced a plan to protect the US from nuclear missiles, quickly dubbed "Star Wars"; the program is now called the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (1983)
• Mir: the Russian space station ended 15 years of orbit, disintegrating and falling into the South Pacific ocean (2001)

Birthdays

• Erich Fromm 1900 - German-American psychologist and humanistic philosopher
• Joan Crawford 1905 - Actress (Mildred Pierce, The Unknown)
• Born: Lucille Fay LeSueur
• Akira Kurosawa 1910 - Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter (Sugata Sanshiro, Madadayo)
• Wernher Von Braun 1912 - Rocket scientist, generally regarded as the father of the United States space program (Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun)
• Johnny Guarnieri 1917 - Musician
• Marty Allen 1922 - Comedian
• Martha Wright 1926 - Actress
• Roger Gilbert Bannister 1929 - Neurologist, British athlete, first man to run the mile in less than four minutes
• Warren Godfrey 1931 - Hockey player
• Monique Van Vooren 1933 - Actress
• Mark Rydell 1934 - Director
• Craig Breedlove 1937 - First to reach 400 mi/h, 500 mi/h and 600 mi/h using turbojet-powered vehicles
• Ric Ocasek 1949 - Musician (The Cars), producer, zombie, married to former super-model Paulina Porizkova
• Chaka Khan 1953 - Singer ("I Feel For You")
• Moses Malone 1954 - Basketball player
• Teresa Ganzel 1957 - Comedienne, actress
• Amanda Plummer 1957 - Actress
• Richard Grieco 1965 - Actor
• Hope Davis 1964 - Actress
• Kevin Griffin 1965 - Country musician (Yankee Grey)
• Marti Pellow 1966 - Musician (Wet, Wet, Wet)
• Marin Hinkle 1966 - Actress ("Two and a Half Men", "Once and Again")
• Damon Albarn 1968 - Musician (Blur)
• John Humphrey 1970 - Musician (The Nixons)
• Karen McDougal 1971 Playmate(below)
• Jason Kidd 1973 - Basketball player
• Michelle Mohoghan 1976 - Actress
• Keri Russell 1976 - Actress ("Felicity")
• Nicholle Tom 1978 - Actress
• Paul Martin 1978 - Country singer (Marshall Dyllon)
• Maurice Jones-Drew 1985 - Football player
• Princess Eugenie (Eugenie Victoria Helena) 1990 - Daughter of Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and Sarah, Duchess of York.