Thursday, November 23, 2023

crepitate \KREP-i-teyt\, verb:

• To make a crackling sound; crackle

Crepitate is from the Latin crepitare which meant “to rustle or chatter.”

Youtube degree

• A bachelor's level certificate that people award to themselves after they have deemed themselves to be experts in a particular field of study by watching various instructional and how-to videos on Youtube.

Ben: Whoa! That is NOT the correct way to put on cologne! You spray and then you walk into it. 
Joey: Okay and since when did you become the expert on all things cologne?
Ben: Since last spring when I got my Youtube degree in cologne management.
 

thanksgiving

• Only in America do have a Federal holiday to remember what we are thankful for, immediately followed by the largest shopping day of the year to max out our credit cards for the next holiday, Christmas.

Thanksgiving is not just a holiday but should be a state of mind all year long.

Thanksgiving

• Another excuse for Americans to spend an entire day eating

"Damn, it's not a weekend, and i want to eat all day"

"Why Don't we invent a holiday and give it a stupid name?"

"Fo Shizzle, My Pilgrizzle!"

Holiday 

• Thanksgiving - national holiday in the United States commemorating the Pilgrims' celebration of the harvest reaped by the Plymouth Colony in 1621, after a winter of great starvation and privation. The celebration was probably held in October. The neighboring Wampanoags, who outnumbered the colonists, joined them for three days and contributed food to the celebration. The first proclaimed day of thanksgiving in the colony was not held until 1623 (probably at the end of July), following an improvement in prospects for the still struggling colony, and was a day of prayer, not feasting. Fourth Thursday in November.

History 

• Battle of Chattanooga: huge battle at a railway junction began during the US Civil War, ending with a Union victory (1863)

  
• jukebox: the first coin-operated phonograph was installed at the Palais Royal Saloon in San Francisco (1889)
• Doctor Who: British sci-fi TV program about a doctor who time-travels in a TARDIS debuted; it is still running (1963)
• China: the People's Republic took over Taiwan's seat in the UN Security Council (1971)

Birthdays

• Franklin Pierce (U.S.) 1804
• William H. Bonney (Billy the Kid) 1859
• Boris Karloff 1887
• Harpo Marx 1888
• Maurice Zolotow 1913
  
• Ellen Drew 1915
• Michael Gough 1917
• Jerry Bock 1928
• Betty Everett 1939
• Susan Anspach 1945
• Steve Landesberg 1945
• David Rappaport 1951
• Cyb and Patricia Barnstable 1951
  
• Boris Gebenchikov 1953
• Bruce Hornsby 1954
• John Henton 1960
• Maxwell Caulfield 1961
• Charlie Grover (Sponge) 1966
• Ken Block (Sister Hazel) 1966
• Salli Richardson (Eureka) 1967
  
• Kurupt (The Dogg Pound) 1972
• Kelly Brook 1980
• Destiny Hope "Miley Ray" Cyrus 1992