mithridate \MITH-ri-deyt\, noun:
- A confection believed to contain an antidote to every poison.
Mithridate originates from the name of Mithridates VI, a legendary king who had an immunity to poisons
Adverblasting
- When a commercials audio is much louder than the program that you actually want to watch's audio.
Man, I was watching NCIS, and then I had to turn down my TV when the commercials came on because of damn adverblasting.
History
- jukebox: the first coin-operated phonograph was installed at the Palais Royal Saloon in San Francisco (1889)
- Doctor Who: British sci-fi TV program about a doctor who time-travels in a TARDIS debuted; it is still running (1963)
- China: the People's Republic took over Taiwan's seat in the UN Security Council (1971)
- Franklin Pierce (U.S.) 1804
- William H. Bonney (Billy the Kid) 1859
- Boris Karloff 1887
- Harpo Marx 1888
- Maurice Zolotow 1913
- Ellen Drew 1915
- Michael Gough 1917
- Jerry Bock 1928
- Betty Everett 1939
- Susan Anspach 1945
- Steve Landesberg 1945
- David Rappaport 1951
- Cyb and Patricia Barnstable 1951
- Boris Gebenchikov 1953
- Bruce Hornsby 1954
- John Henton 1960
- Maxwell Caulfield 1961
- Charlie Grover (Sponge) 1966
- Ken Block (Sister Hazel) 1966
- Kurupt (The Dogg Pound) 1972
- Kelly Brook 1980
- Destiny Hope "Miley Ray" Cyrus 1992
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