Friday, June 2, 2023

intestable \in-TES-tuh-buhl\, adjective:

• Not legally qualified to make a will, as an infant or a lunatic.

Intestable shares the same root as testify, the Latin testā, "to bear witness."

 

MBAese

• The indecipherable language taught in MBA factories where the user has mastered the art of using large, multisyllabic words to make meaningless, intelligent sounding action statements.

The presenter stated in MBAese, "We are aggressively leveraging existing assets to affect a paradigm shift interdepartmental synergy."

quoted translation: We got a loan to buy a new phone, and then called Steve from HR.

Holiday

• National Doughnut Day (US) (1st Friday of June, annually)
  

  

History

• Grover Cleveland: married Frances Folsom, becoming the first (and, so far, only) president to be married in the White House (1886)
• Native Americans: were granted US citizenship (1924)
• Lou Gehrig: Yankee slugger died of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, a rare degenerative disease that now carries his name (1941)
• Queen Elizabeth II: coronation of the long-reigning monarch was held in Westminster Abbey; she wore a gown embroidered with floral emblems of the countries of the Commonwealth (1953)

Birthdays

• Marquis de Sade 1740 - French aristocrat, revolutionary and writer
• Thomas Hardy 1840 - Novelist and poet of the naturalist movement
• Johnny Weissmuller 1904 - Olympic swimmer, he was the sixth actor to portray Tarzan in movies
• Ben Grauer 1908 - Radio and television personality
• Max Showalter 1917 - Film, television, stage actor, composer, pianist, singer
• Milo O'Shea 1926 - Actor
• Carl Butler 1927 - Country music singer
• Pete Conrad (Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr.) 1930 - American naval officer, third person to walk on the moon
• Barry Levinson 1933 - Screenwriter, film director, actor
• Sally Kellerman 1937 - Actress
• Charles Miller (Charles "Charlie" Miller) 1939 - Scottish football player
• Stacy Keach 1941 - Actor
• William Guest 1941 - Singer (Gladys Knight and The Pips)
• Charlie Watts 1941 - Musician (Rolling Stones)
• Charles Haid 1943 - Actor ("Hill Street Blues")
• Marvin Hamlisch 1944 - Composer
• Jon Peters (John H. Peters) 1945 - Movie producer
• Jerry Mathers 1948 - Actor ("Leave it to Beaver")
• Joanna Gleason 1950 - Actress
• Diana Canova 1953 - Actress
• Dennis Haysbert 1954 - Actor ("24")
• Dana Carvey 1955 - Comedian, actor ("Saturday Night Live," "Moving")
• Gary Grimes 1955 - Actor
• Lydia Lynch 1959 - Singer, poet, writer, actress
• Michael Steel 1959 - Musician (Bangles)
• Tony Hadley 1959 - Musician (Spandau Ballet)
• Kyle Petty 1960 - Auto racer
  Lester Napoleon Green 1968 - Beetlejuice (Stern Show)
• Merril Bainbridge 1968 - Singer, songwriter
• B-Real 1970 - Musician (Cypress Hill)
• Conny Valentina 1971 - Artist

  
• Wayne Brady 1972 - Actor, comedian ("Whose Line is it Anyway")
• Wentworth Miller 1972 - Actor ("Prison Break")
• Zachary Quinto 1977 - Actor ("Star Trek")
• Nikki Cox 1978 - Actress
• Justin Long 1978 - Actor ("Dodge Ball," "Live Free or Die Hard")
• Dominic Cooper 1978 - Actor
  Morena Baccarin 1979 - Actress (V, Firefly)
• Irish Grinstead 1980 - Musician (702)