versicolor \VUR-si-kuhl-er\, adjective:
- Changeable in color: versicolor skies.
- Of various colors; parti-colored: a versicolor flower arrangement.
pocket veto
- The act of taking no act, most often used as a passive aggressive response to undesirable advances. Easiest way to "respond" to a written request to have lunch or just-go-do-something. Neither "yes" nor "no," but really "no."
Hey, you know I think you're pretty cool and all. I was wondering if you weren't doing anything this weekend if you wanna catch a movie or something...
Sincerely,
Vulnerable Girl
-Pocket vetoed. 10 years later- Still no response.-
October 23
- National Oral Sex day. Guys and Gals shriek with excitement as October 23 rounds the corner.
“Hey babe, October 23 is today! You know what that means....
History
- Brutus: committed suicide after losing to Mark Anthony and Octavian in the Second Battle of Philippi, a war fought to avenge the assassination of Julius Caesar (42 BCE)
- War of Jenkins' Ear: British PM Robert Walpole reluctantly declared war on Spain after a ship's captain brought in his ear, pickled, and told the House of Commons it had been severed by the Spanish coast guard (1739)
- suffragists: some 25,000 women marched in NYC, demanding the right to vote (1915)
- Hungarian Revolution: spontaneous protest began, marking the first anti-Soviet revolt; many thousands were killed or fled; the Hungarian Republic was declared exactly 33 years later (1956)
- iPod: digital music player, mp3 rip-off, was launched by Apple (2001)
- Moscow Theater Crisis: Chechen terrorists took 700 hostages; many died during a Russian raid the next day (2002)
- Nicolas Appert 1752
- Gertrude Ederle 1906
- 'Bruiser' (Frank) Kinard 1914
- James Daly 1918
- Ewel Blackwell 1922
- Ned Rorem 1923
- Johnny Carson 1925
- Sonny Criss 1927
- Boozoo Chavis 1930
- Diana Dors 1931
- Jim Bunning 1931
- Juan "Chi-Chi" Rodriguez 1935
- Charlie Foxx 1939
- Pelé 1940
- Eleanor (Ellie) Greenwich 1940
- Michael Crichton 1942
- Barbara Ann Hawkins (The Dixie Cups) 1943
- Greg Ridley (Spooky Tooth) 1947
- Michael Rupert 1951
- Pauline Black (Selecter) 1953
- Dwight Yoakam 1956
- Sam Raimi 1959
- "Weird Al" Yankovic 1959
- Doug Flutie 1962
- Mike Tomczak (NFL) 1962
- Roberto Agustin Trujillo 1964 - Musician (Metallica)
- Al Leiter 1965
- David Thomas (Take 6) 1966
- Brian Nevin (Big Head Todd and the Monsters) 1966
- Junior Bryant (Ricochet) 1968
- Jimmy Wayne 1972
- Keith Van Horn 1975
- Ryan Reynolds 1976
- Masiela Lusha 1985
- Jessica Stroup 1986
- Belle Delphine 1999 (cosplayer)
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