Sunday, June 30, 2024

abstergent \ab-STUR-juhnt\, adjective:

1. Cleansing.
2. Purgative.

noun:

1. A cleansing agent, as a detergent or soap.

Abstergent comes from the Latin word abstergēre which meant "to wipe off". 

liketurbate

• Liking your own post or comment on Facebook.

You just know Brad is going to sit over there and liketurbate

History

• The Great Blondin: French acrobat crossed Niagara Falls on a tightrope; walking from the US to Canada took him eight minutes (1859)
• Tunguska event: 2,000 sq. km of central Siberia were flattened in an explosion likely caused by a meteor disintegrating above the Earth's surface (1908)
• Gone With the Wind: classic Civil War-era novel was published (1936)
• 26th Amendment: was ratified, lowering the US voting age to 18 (1971)

Birthdays

• David Wayne 1916
• Lena Horne 1917
• Susan Hayward 1919
• Shirley Fry 1927
• June Valli 1930
• Harry Blackstone, Jr. 1934
• Tony Musante 1936
• Nancy Dussault 1936
• Florence Ballard (The Supremes) 1943
• Glenn Shorrock (The Little River Band) 1944
• William Atherton 1947
• Stanley Clarke 1951
• Andy Scott (Sweet) 1951
• Hal Lindes (Dire Straits) 1953
• David Alan Grier 1955
• Adrian Wright (Human League) 1956
• Doug Sampson 1957 - Musician (Iron Maiden, Smiler)
• Vincent D'Onofrio 1959
• Rupert Graves 1963
• Mike Tyson 1966
• Phil Anselmo (Pantera) 1968
• Tom Drummond (Better Than Ezra) 1969
• Brian Bloom 1970
• Brian Vincent 1970
• Monica Potter 1971
  Elizabeth Anne "Lizzy" Caplan 1982