wassail \WAH-sul; wah-SAYL\, noun:
1. An expression of good wishes on a festive occasion, especially in drinking to someone.2. An occasion on which such good wishes are expressed in drinking; a drinking bout; a carouse.3. The liquor used for a wassail; especially, a beverage formerly much used in England at Christmas and other festivals, made of ale (or wine) flavored with spices, sugar, toast, roasted apples, etc.
adjective:
1. Of or pertaining to wassail, or to a wassail; convivial; as, a wassail bowl.
transitive verb:
1. To drink to the health of; a toast.
intransitive verb:
1. To drink a wassail.
Wassail is from the Middle English expression of festive benevolence, wæs hæil!, be well!, from Old Norse ves heill, be (ves) well (heill).
facebook fever, noun:
- The uncontrollable urge to check one's facebook every time one comes in contact with a computer.
Sam: "Dude, you've been on the computer for four hours reloading the same page. Don't you have a final exam tomorrow?"
Kyle: "Facebook Fever."
Sam: "No one has posted on your wall in days."
Kyle: "How do you know? They could have posted in between now and the last time that I reloaded the page!"
Trivia
How many Star Wars performers appeared in all six films in the popular sci-fi adventure series?
- Only two. The diminutive Kenny Baker, who played R2-D2, and Anthony Daniels, who played C-3PO.
History
- perfect game: Don Larsen pitched what remains the only perfect game in World Series history; the Yankees beat the Dodgers, 2-0 (1956)
- Che Guevara: leftist revolutionary hero was captured by the Bolivian army; he was executed the next day (1967)
- water speed record: was set by Australian Ken Warby at 318 mph/510 kph near Tumut, New South Wales; it still stands (1978)
- Solidarity: and the rest of Poland's labor unions were banned (1982); Solidarity continued to work underground, until it was declared legal in 1989
- Kashmir: a 7.6 magnitude earthquake killed some 80,000 and injured 65,000 on the Pakistan-India border (2005)
- Eddie Rickenbacker 1890
- Juan Peron 1895
- Billy Conn 1917
- Rona Barrett 1936
- Fred Stolle 1938
- Paul Hogan 1939
- David Carradine 1940
- Fred Cash (The Impressions) 1940
- Jesse Jackson 1941
- George Bellamy (The Tornados) 1941
- Buzz Clifford 1942
- R.L. Stine 1943
- Chevy Chase 1943
- Susan Raye 1944
- Tony Wilson (Hot Chocolate) 1947
- Sarah Purcell 1948
- Brian Glenwright 1949
- Sigourney Weaver 1949
- Hamish Stuart (Average White Band) 1949
- Robert "Kool" Bell (Kool & the Gang) 1950
- Johnny Cummings (Ramones) 1951
- Ricky Lee Phelps (Brother Phelps) 1953
- Michael Dudikoff 1954
- Darrell Hammond 1955
- Stephanie Zimbalist 1956
- Mitch Marine (Tripping Daisy) 1961
- Steve Perry (Cherry Poppin' Daddies) 1963
- C.J. Ward (The Ramones) 1965
- Teddy Riley 1966
- Emily Proctor 1968
- Jeremy Davies 1969 - Actor ("Lost", "Saving Private Ryan")
- Matt Damon 1970 - Actor
- Kristanna Loken 1979
- Byron Reeder (Mista) 1979
- Nick Cannon 1980
- Angus T. Jones 1993
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