Monday, December 11, 2023

à la mode \ah luh MOHD\, adjective:

1. In or according to the fashion.

2. Cookery. A.(Of pie or other dessert) Served with a portion of ice cream, often as a topping: apple pie à la mode. B.(Of beef) Larded and braised or stewed with vegetables, herbs, etc., and served with a rich brown gravy.

À la mode literally means “of the fashion” in French. (The sense of a scoop of ice cream on top of pie arose in 1903 in America.)

 

Beard Goggles

When a beard-bearing individual is convinced that his facial hair looks great, regardless of how bad it may look to everyone else.

Similar to beer goggles in that the more facial hair a person has, the better they think it looks.

"Wow, have you seen Dave's beard? It looks terrible, I don't know why he won't shave that thing."

"It's because he has beard goggles right now, in his mind it looks great."

History

• Indiana: the Hoosier State became America's 19th state (1816)
• Edward VIII: king of Great Britain and Ireland became the first English monarch to abdicate the throne voluntarily; he did it for love (1936)
• UNICEF: United Nations Children's Fund, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965, was founded (1946)
• Chechnya: Moscow sent in troops to restore control over the region (1994)
• Madoff scandal: Bernie Madoff: the former NASDAQ chairman was arrested for perpetrating what may be the largest Ponzi scheme in Wall Street history; he was sentenced to 150 years in prison (2008)

Birthdays

• Fiorello La Guardia 1882
• Carlo Ponti 1913
• Perez Prado 1918
• Alexander Solzhenitsyn 1918
• Maila Nurmi 1922 (Vampira)
• Betsy Blair 1923
• Willie Mae Thornton 1926
• Jean-Louis Trintignant 1930
• Rita Moreno 1931
• Ron Carey 1935
• J. Frank Wilson 1941
• David Gates (Bread) 1941
• Donna Mills 1943
• Brenda Lee 1944
• Tony Brown 1946
• Lynda Day George 1946
• Teri Garr 1949
• Susan Seidelman 1952
• Bess Armstrong 1953
• Jermaine Jackson 1954
• Mike Mesaros (Smithereens) 1957
• Franklin Carlton "Nikki Sixx" Serafino Feranna 1958 - "bassist"term used loosely (Mötley Crüe)
• David Schools (Widespread Panic) 1964
• Mo'Nique 1968
• Rider Strong 1979