lagniappe \LAN-yap\, noun:
1. A small gift given with a purchase to a customer, for good measure.2. A gratuity or tip.3. An unexpected or indirect benefit.
Lagniappe originates chiefly in Southern Louisiana and Southeast Texas and ultimately comes from a variant of the Quechua yapa, "that which is added."
gift card laundering
gift card laundering
- The act of using a gift card to purchase another gift card of equal or slightly greater value in order to hide the fact that you're just regifting the original gift card.
After I do some gift card laundering at the mall today, these gift cards I got last Christmas will be squeaky clean and ready for regifting. No one will ever catch on to my operation - muhahaHAHA!
santaclaustrophobia
- fear of too many santa clauses
What famous American political figure wrote and published a “letter of advice” on the subject of choosing a mistress?
- Benjamin Franklin, in 1745.
History
- Embargo Act: the US banned trade with foreign countries in response to interference with neutral American ships by France and Britain, which were at war with each other (1807)
- Beethoven's Fifth: and Sixth Symphonies premiered (1808)
- Dreyfus Affair: French Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus was wrongly convicted of treason in a trial that raised cries of anti-Semitism; he was later exonerated (1894)
- USGA: governing body of golf was founded (1894)
- Colo: the first gorilla bred in captivity was born in the Columbus Zoo; she is now a great-great-grandmother (1956)
- Flight 63: American Airlines passenger Richard Reid attempted to blow up a plane with a shoe bomb; he is serving a life sentence for that plot (2001)
- Giacomo Puccini 1858
- Connie Mack 1862
- Andre Kostelanetz 1885
- Dame Edith Margaret 1907
- Lady Bird Johnson 1912
- Gene Rayburn (Rubessa) 1917
- Frankie Darro (Johnson) 1917
- Barbara Billingsley 1922
- Peggy Castle (Blair) 1927
- Hector Elizondo 1936
- Red Steagall 1937
- Steve Carlton (MLB) 1944
- Barry Jenkins (Nashville Teens, Animals) 1944
- Diane Sawyer 1945
- Steve Garvey (MLB) 1948
- Robin Gibb (Bee Gees) 1949
- Maurice Gibb (Bee Gees) 1949
- Bob Fitchner 1950
- Rick Nielsen (Cheap Trick) 1950
- Jan Stephenson 1951
- Ian Turnbull 1953
- Bernadette Stanis 1953
- Ricky Ross (Deacon Blue) 1957
- Luther Campbell 1960
- Chuck Mead (BR5-49) 1960
- Ralph Fiennes 1962
- Dina Meyer 1968
- Lauralee Bell 1968
- Heather Donahue 1974
- Teresa Noreen 1976
- Josi Paula 1988
- Jordin Sparks 1989
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