gammon \GAM-uhn\, verb:
- To deceive.
noun:
- In backgammon, a victory in which the winner throws off all his or her pieces before the opponent throws off any.
verb:
- To win a gammon (in the game of backgammon) over.
noun:
- A smoked or cured ham.
- Deceitful nonsense.
This sense of gammon owes its meaning to the Middle English gamen, the ancestor of the Modern English "game."
Ladyboner
- A slang term for when a woman is sexually attracted to a man or another woman. The word may also be used as a name for the said man or woman who is the object of attraction.
Woman 1: "David Beckham is so hot."
Woman 2: "Yeah, I have a total Ladyboner for him."
Woman 1: "T3h Bax0jayz is my ultimate Ladyboner."
History
- William McKinley: US president was shot by an anarchist; he died eight days later (1901)
- Piggly Wiggly: the first self-service supermarket opened in Memphis, Tennessee (1916)
- Queen Juliana: popular monarch assumed the throne of the Netherlands, which she retained until 1980 (1948)
- Hendrik Verwoerd: South African prime minister was stabbed to death by a deranged parliamentary messenger in parliament in Cape Town (1966)
- Saint Petersburg: the original name was restored after the Russian city had been Leningrad since 1924 (1991)
- Cal Ripken Jr.: played in his 2,131st consecutive game and broke Lou Gehrig's "unbreakable" record (1995); his streak ended at 2,632 games on September 20, 1998
Birthdays
- Marquis de Lafayette 1757
- Jane Addams 1860
- Max Schreck 1879
- Otto Kruger 1885
- Joseph P. Kennedy 1888 - bootlegger
- Billy Rose 1899
- Morgan Beatty 1902
- Maxie ‘Slapsie’ Rosenbloom 1904
- Vince DiMaggio 1912
- Jimmy Reed (Matthew James Reed Leland) 1925
- JoAnne Worley 1937
- David Allen Coe 1939
- Brian Smith 1940
- Mel McDaniel 1942
- Swoosie Kurtz 1944
- Roger Waters 1944 - Musician (Pink Floyd)
- Ron Boone 1946
- Jane Curtin 1947
- Claydes Smith 1948 - Musician (Kool & the Gang)
- Banner Thomas 1954 - Musician (Molly Hatchet)
- Joe Smyth 1957 - Musician (Sawyer Brown)
- Jeff Foxworthy 1958
- Michael Winslow 1960
- Perry Bamonte 1960 - Musician (The Cure)
- Paul Waaktaar 1961 - Musician (a-ha)
- Mark Chestnut 1963
- Rosie Perez 1964
- William DuVall 1967 - Musician (Alice in Chains, Comes With The Fall)
- CeCe Peniston 1969
- Darryl Anthony 1969 - Musician (Az Yet)
- Dolores O'Riordan (The Cranberries) 1971
- Justin Whalen 1974
- Nina Persson 1974 - Musician (The Cardigans)
- Foxy Brown 1979
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