Saturday, October 5, 2024

pharisaic \far-uh-SEY-ik\, adjective:

1. Practicing or advocating strict observance of external forms and ceremonies of religion or conduct without regard to the spirit; self-righteous; hypocritical.
2. Of or pertaining to the Pharisees.

Pharisaic comes from the story in the Bible about the Pharisees, a religious sect who purportedly only practiced the doctrine and ritual of their faith without corresponding inner devotion. 

Pleb 

• Refers to an un-educated individual. Usually used by stuck up, middle class, university student types to describe any other normal person.

Oh i say im too good for them, their lowlife plebs.

History

• "From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever": Chief Joseph of the Nez Percé tribe makes his famous statement of surrender to US Cavalry troops (1877)
• Jarrow March: 200 protesters set out on a walk from Jarrow in northeastern England to Parliament in London in a bid to draw attention to their unemployment and poverty (1936)
• Dr. No: the first James Bond 007 movie came out (1962)
• Monty Python's Flying Circus: debuted on BBC-TV (1969)
• PBS: nonprofit TV network began broadcasting (1970)

  

Birthdays

• Chester A. Arthur (U.S.) 1830
• Robert H. Goddard 1882 - Known as the "Father of the Space Age"
• Ray Kroc 1902 - Founder of McDonalds
  
• Larry Fine 1902
• Joshua Logan 1908
• Allen Ludden 1918
• Donald Pleasence 1919
• Bil Keane 1922
• Glynis Johns 1923
• Bill Dana 1924
• Gail Davis 1925
• Richard Gordon, Jr. 1929
• Skip (George) Homeier 1930
• Diane Cilento 1933
• Margie Singleton 1935
• Vaclav Havel (Czechoslovakia) 1936
• Johnny Duncan 1938
• Carlo Mastangelo (Dion and The Belmonts) 1938
• Arlene Smith (The Chantels) 1941
• Richard Street (The Temptations) 1942
• Steve Miller (The Steve Miller Band) 1943
• Brian Connolly (The Sweet) 1948
• Jeff Conaway 1949
• B.W. Stevenson 1949
• Brian Johnson (AC/DC) 1947 
• Eddie Clarke (Motorhead) 1950
• Karen Allen 1951
• Clive Barker 1952
• Harold Faltemeyer 1952
• Russ Mael (Sparks) 1953
• Bob Geldof (Boomtown Rats) 1954
• David Bryson (Counting Crows) 1954
• Leo Barnes (Hothouse Flowers) 1955
• Bernie Mac 1957
• Daniel Baldwin 1960
• Michael Andretti 1962
• Dave Dederer (Presidents of the U.S.A.) 1964
• Mario Lemieux (NHL) 1965
• Guy Pearce 1967
• Josie Bissett 1970
• Grant Hill 1972
• Kate Winslet 1975
• Scott Weinger 1975
• Brian Mashburn (Save Ferris) 1975
• Paul Thomas (Good Charlotte) 1980