Sunday, July 10, 2022

Sunday, July 10, 2022

snuff \SNUHF\, verb:
1. To extinguish or suppress.
2. To cut off or remove the snuff of (candles, tapers, etc.).
noun:
1. The charred or partly consumed portion of a candlewick.
2. A preparation of tobacco, either powdered and taken into the nostrils by inhalation or ground and placed between the cheek and gum.
verb:
1. To draw in through the nose by inhaling.
The verb form of snuff has acquired layers of meaning through time: "to cut or pinch off the burned part of a candle wick," is an adaptation from the noun snoffe, the "burned part of a candle wick." The sense "to die" stems from the 1800s, and "to kill" appears in the 1930s, as in a snuff-film.
 
Inflight Refueler
  • A man in a pub that takes his beer with his when he goes to the gents and drinks it while having a pee.
Right I'm off for a slash.
I'll look after your pint mate.
No it's OK I am an inflight refueler.

History 
  • Monkey Trial: proceedings began against John Scopes, who broke Tennessee state law by teaching evolution to high school students (1925)
  • Meher Baba: Indian spiritual master began a silence "to save mankind from monumental ignorance," which ended up lasting 44 years till his death (1925)
  • Battle of Britain: German began to attack Britain by air (1940)
  • Telstar: the first communications satellite was launched into orbit (1962)
  • Coca-Cola Classic: the Coca-Cola Co. announced it would bring back its original formula after customers reacted negatively to New Coke (1985)
Birthdays
  • John Calvin 1509
    Camille Pisarro 1830 (impressionist painter)
  • James Whistler 1834
  • Aldolphus Busch 1842
  • Nikola Tesla 1856 (genius)
  • Marcel Proust 1871
  • Mary McLeod Bethune 1875
  • Edmund Clerihew Bentley 1875
  • John Gilbert 1897
  • Ljuba Welitsch 1913
  • Milt Buckner 1915
  • Dick Cary 1916
  • Don Herbert 1917
  • David Brinkley 1920
  • Jake LaMotta 1921
  • Jeff Donnell 1921
  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver 1921
  • Jean Kerr 1923
  • Fred Gwynne 1926
  • David N. Dinkins 1927
  • Ivan Passer 1933
  • Jerry Herman 1933
  • Sandy Stewart 1937
  • Lawrence Pressman 1939
  • Mills Watson 1940
  • Robert Pine 1941
  • Ian Whitcomb 1941
  • Arthur Ashe 1943
  • Jerry Miller 1943 - Musician (Moby Grape) 
  • Ron Glass 1945
  • Virginia Wade 1945
  • Hal McRae 1946
  • Sue Lyon 1946
  • Arlo Guthrie 1947
  • Ronnie James Dio 1949 - Musician (DIO)
  • Cheryl Wheeler 1951
  • Neil Tennant 1954 - Musician (Pet Shop Boys)
  • Bela Fleck 1958
  • Hawkshaw Wilson 1960 - Musician (BR5-49)
  • Peter DiStefano 1965 - Musician (Porno for Pyros)
    Sofia Vergara 1972
  • Jessica Simpson 1980 
 
 
 
 

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