Friday, November 25, 2022

consanguineous \kon-san(g)-GWIN-ee-us\, adjective:

• Of the same blood; related by birth; descended from the same parent or ancestor.

Consanguineous is from Latin consanguineus, from com-, con-, "with, together" + sanguineus, from sanguis, sanguin-, "blood." The noun form is consanguinity, "relationship by blood, or close relation or connection."

Redneck First Class

• When you are flying in the coach section of an airplane and one or both of the other two seats are unoccupied giving you more room, to stretch, lean or lie down.

The middle seat was unoccupied on my recent flight home so I got to sit in Redneck First Class

 

History

• Hollywood Ten: screenwriters were blacklisted by producers for being suspected Communists (1947)
   The Star Wars Ewok Adventure aired on the ABC Sunday Night Movie. (1984)
• Iran-contra affair: arms-sales scandal blew open; US National Security Council aide Oliver North was fired for planning to ship arms secretly to Iran (1986)
• Elián González: 6-year-old Cuban émigré was rescued by fishermen off Florida's coast, sparking a political asylum/child custody battle (1999)
• Department of Homeland Security: was signed into law by George W. Bush; Tom Ridge was named the first department head (2002)

Birthdays

• Andrew Carnegie 1835
  
• Carry Nation 1846
• Virgil Thomson 1896
• Joe DiMaggio (MLB) 1914
• Augusto Pinochet (Chili) 1915
• Ricardo Montalban 1920
• Etta Jones 1928
• Nat Adderley 1931
• Kathryn Crosby 1933
• Matt Clark 1936
• Percy Sledge 1940
• Tracey Walter 1942
• Ben Stein 1944
• Bob Lind (Elusive Butterfly) 1944
• Bev Bevan (Electric Light Orchestra) 1946
• Jonathan Kaplan 1947
• John Larroquette 1947
• Amy Grant 1960
• John F. Kennedy, Jr. 1960
• Bernie Kosar (NFL) 1963
• Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees) 1964
• Dougray Scott 1965
• Stacy Lattisaw 1966
• Deborah Wells 1968 t3h pr0n
• Erick Sermon 1968
• Jill Hennessy 1968
• Christina Applegate 1971