Friday, November 24, 2023

appetence \AP-i-tuhns\, noun:

1. Intense desire; strong natural craving; appetite.

2. Instinctive inclination or natural tendency.

3. Material or chemical attraction or affinity.

Appetence, from the same root as appetite, comes from the Latin appete meaning “to seek for or long for.”

Thanksgiving Hangover

• The result of eating too much on Thanksgiving, and feeling like shit the next morning.

Person 1: I have a major Thanksgiving hangover right now.

Person 2: Yeah, me too, I ate so much yesterday.

History

• Tasmania: southeast Australian island was first seen by Dutchman Abel Tasman, for whom it was later named (1642)
• The Origin of Species: naturalist Charles Darwin published his book explaining evolution (1859)
• Lee Harvey Oswald: JFK assassin was shot to death by Jack Ruby (1963)
• Lucy: Australopithecus skeleton was found in Ethiopia; she was about 3 foot 7 (109 cm.) and 3 million years old (1974)
  Freddie Mercury passed away from HIV (1991)

Birthdays

• Zachary Taylor (U.S.) 1784

  
• Bat Masterson 1853
• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 1864
• Scott Joplin 1868
• Dale Carnegie 1888
• Garson Kanin 1912
• William F. Buckley, Jr. 1925
• Johnny Carver 1940
• Paul Tagliabue 1940
• Pete Best 1941 - Musician (Beatles), early member of the Beatles
• Donald "Duck" Dunn (Booker T. & the MG's) 1941
• Billy Connolly 1942
• Lee Michaels 1945

• Dwight Schultz 1947
• Stanley Livingston 1950
• Clem Burke (Blondie) 1955
• Terry Lewis (The Time) 1956
• Denise Crosby 1957
• John Squire (The Stone Roses) 1962
• Gary Stonadge (Big Audio) 1962
• Chad Taylor (Live) 1970
• Collin Hanks 1977
• Katherine Heigl 1978