Saturday, December 3, 2022

divagate \DAHY-vuh-geyt\, verb:

1. To wander; stray.

2. To digress in speech.

The Latin roots of divagate are di-, "two," and vagare, "to wander."

 

Memory Hole

• The alteration or outright disappearance of inconvenient or embarrassing documents, photographs, transcripts, or other records, such as from a web site or other archive. Its origin comes from George Orwell's "1984", in which the memory hole was a small incinerator chute used for censoring, (through destroying), things Big Brother deemed necessary to censor.

Person One: "Did you hear about that scandal involving the President?"

Person Two: "Yeah! Looks like someone didn't have time to visit the memory hole." 

Dude One: "Yo bro, I like that picture on Facebook of you wearing the "I Love Barry Manilow" shirt!"

Dude Two: "Yeah, that's definitely going in the memory hole."

History

• coed: Oberlin College became the first institution of higher learning in the US to serve both male and female students (1833)

  
• A Streetcar Named Desire: Tennessee William's Pulitzer Prize-winning play opened on Broadway (1947)
• heart transplant: the procedure was first performed by Christiaan Barnard on Louis Washkansky in Cape Town; the patient lived 18 days before succumbing to pneumonia, but his new heart didn't fail (1967)
• 20th Century Limited: luxury NYC–Chicago train, on which passengers were routinely given flowers and perfume, finished its final run (1967)
• Bhopal disaster: poison gas emission from Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, killed thousands of people in arguably the worst industrial disaster ever (1984)

Birthdays

• George McClellan 1826
  
• Joseph Conrad 1857
• Carlos Montoya 1903
• Ferlin Husky 1925
• Andy Williams 1927
• Jean-Luc Godard 1930
• Jaye P. Morgan 1931
• Bobby Allison 1937
• John Cale 1940 - Musician (Velvet Underground)
• Mary Alice 1941
• Peter C. Schulz 1942
• Ozzy Osbourne 1948 
• Heather Menzies 1949
• Mickey Thomas 1949 - Musician (Jefferson Starship)
• Don Barnes 1952 - Musician (.38 Special) 
• Rick Mears 1953
• Steve Forbert 1954
• Paul Gregg 1954 - Musician (Restless Heart)
• Daryl Hannah 1960 - Actress

• Julianne Moore 1960
• Katarina Witt 1965
• Montell Jordan 1968
• Brendan Fraser 1968 - Actor ("George of the Jungle")
• Royale Watkins 1969
• Bruno Campos 1973
• Holly Marie Combs 1973
• Lauren Roman 1975
• Anna Chlumsky 1980
• Brian Bonsall 1981
• Amanda Seyfried 1985
• Michael Angaran 1987