palter \PAWL-ter\, verb:
1. To talk or act insincerely or deceitfully; lie or use trickery.2. To bargain with; haggle.3. To act carelessly; trifle.
Palter is of unknown origin. It first arose in the 1540s, and it may be a variation of the word falter.
Subway salmon
- The one or two people who insist on going up a stairway or down a stairway (usually after a train arrives at a subway stop) while all the people leaving the train are going in the opposite direction.
"Of course there were subway salmon when I was late for work and I was trying to get out of the subway in a hurry ... Dude, couldn't they tell the train already left?"
Trivia
How many Star Wars performers appeared in the most films in the popular sci-fi adventure series?
- Only two. The diminutive Kenny Baker, who played R2-D2, and Anthony Daniels, who played C-3PO.
- perfect game: Don Larsen pitched what remains the only perfect game in World Series history; the Yankees beat the Dodgers, 2-0 (1956)
- Che Guevara: leftist revolutionary hero was captured by the Bolivian army; he was executed the next day (1967)
- water speed record: was set by Australian Ken Warby at 318 mph/510 kph near Tumut, New South Wales; it still stands (1978)
- Solidarity: and the rest of Poland's labor unions were banned (1982); Solidarity continued to work underground, until it was declared legal in 1989
- Kashmir: a 7.6 magnitude earthquake killed some 80,000 and injured 65,000 on the Pakistan-India border (2005)
Birthdays
- Eddie Rickenbacker 1890
- Juan Peron 1895
- Billy Conn 1917
- Rona Barrett 1936
- Fred Stolle 1938
- Paul Hogan 1939
- David Carradine 1940
- Fred Cash (The Impressions) 1940
- Jesse Jackson 1941
- George Bellamy (The Tornados) 1941
- Buzz Clifford 1942
- R.L. Stine 1943
- Chevy Chase 1943
- Susan Raye 1944
- Tony Wilson (Hot Chocolate) 1947
- Sarah Purcell 1948
- Brian Glenwright 1949
- Sigourney Weaver 1949
- Hamish Stuart (Average White Band) 1949
- Robert "Kool" Bell (Kool & the Gang) 1950
- Johnny Cummings (Ramones) 1951
- Ricky Lee Phelps (Brother Phelps) 1953
- Michael Dudikoff 1954
- Darrell Hammond 1955
- Stephanie Zimbalist 1956
- Mitch Marine (Tripping Daisy) 1961
- Steve Perry (Cherry Poppin' Daddies) 1963
- C.J. Ward (The Ramones) 1965
- Teddy Riley 1966
- Emily Proctor 1968
- Jeremy Davies 1969 - Actor ("Lost", "Saving Private Ryan")
- Matt Damon 1970 - Actor
- Kristanna Loken 1979
- Byron Reeder (Mista) 1979
- Nick Cannon 1980
- Angus T. Jones 1993
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