Sunday, April 14, 2024

irriguous \ih-RIG-yoo-uhs\, adjective:

• Well-watered, as land.

irriguous comes from the Latin word irrigāre meaning "to wet" and the suffix -ous which turns a verb into an adjective, like nervous.

 

Speaker Phony

Someone who uses a speaker phone to feel like they’re important or doing some sort of important business even thought it’s for something stupid.

Mike hated talking to speaker phony customers. He couldn’t hear half the shit they said and, because they were only ordering pizza, he thought they could just pick up the phone instead of trying to shout at it from half way across the room.

“That guy was such a speaker phony. He called in to talk about his late fee and was 'too busy' to use the regular phone because he was playing x-box 360.”

History

• Noah Webster: published his American Dictionary of the English Language, insisting on American spelling (1828)
• Abraham Lincoln: was shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC; the president died of his wounds the following day (1865)
• J.C. Penney: opened his first store, in Kemmerer, Wyoming, earning a first-year profit of $8,514.36 on sales of $28,898.11 (1902)
• first pitch: President William H. Taft threw the ceremonial first baseball, on the Washington Senators' opening day; every president since has thrown out at least one (1910)
• Titanic: the supposedly unsinkable luxury liner hit an iceberg; it sank a few hours later (1912)
  IRON MAIDEN: the band's self titled album was released (1980)

Birthdays

• Christian Huygens 1629
• Antole France 1844
• Anne Mansfield Sullivan 1866 - "The Miracle Worker", famous for teaching Helen Keller to read, write and speak
• Arnold (Joseph) Toynbee 1889 - Historian, author
• Harold Stephen Black 1898
• John Gielgud 1904 - Actor (Movies: "Arthur")
• Mary Healy 1918
• Robert DeVicenzo 1923 - Golfer
• Shorty Rogers (Milton Rajonsky) 1924 - Musician, bandleader, songwriter, composer, arranger
• Rod Steiger (Rodney Stephen Steiger) 1925 - Actor ("Dr. Zhivago", "The Longest Day")
• Gloria Jean (Schoonover) 1926 - Actress ("Copacabana", "The Ladies Man")
• Jay Robinson 1930 - Actor
• Bradford Dillman 1930 - Actor ("Compulsion", "Falcon Crest")
• Buddy Knox 1933
• Frank Serpico 1934
• Loretta Lynn 1935 - Country singer, first woman to earn the CMA's Entertainer of the Year award

  
• Joan Darling 1935 - Actress
• Marty Keough 1935 - Baseball player
• Bobby Nichols 1936 - Golfer
• Julie Christie 1941 - Actress ("Dr. Zhivago", "Shampoo")
• Pete Rose (Peter Edward Rose) 1941 - Baseball player
• Dick Brooks 1942 - Auto racer
• Ritchie Blackmore 1945 - Musician (Deep Purple)
• Larry Ferguson 1948 - Musician (Hot Chocolate)
• John Shea 1949 - Actor ("Lois & Clark", "Honey, I Blew Up the Kid")
• Dennis Bryon 1949 - Musician (Amen Corner)
  
  
• Matimaa Kinuani Mpiosso 1951
• Brad Garrett 1960 - Actor ("Everybody Loves Raymond")
• Robert Carlyle 1961 - Actor
• John Bell 1962 - Musician (Widespread Panic)
• Greg Maddux 1966 - Baseball player
• Barrett Martin 1967 - Musician (Screaming Trees)
• Anthony Michael Hall 1968 - Actor (Movies:"Sixteen Candles", "The Breakfast Club", TV: "The Dead Zone")
• Brad Ausmus 1969 - Baseball player
• DaBrat 1974 - Rapper
• Adrien Brody 1973 - Actor (Predators)
  Veronica Zemanova 1975 - t3h pr0n
• Sarah Michelle Gellar 1977 - Actress ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer")
• Vivien Cardone 1993 - Actress ("Everwood")
• Abigail Breslin 1996 - Actress ("Abigail Breslin")