Saturday, December 7, 2024

giblets \JIB-lits\, noun:

• The heart, liver, gizzard, and the like, of a fowl, often cooked separately.

Giblets most likely derives from the Old French gibelet, "a stew made from wild game."

 

cute porn

• Any film, video, or series of photos that exists solely to garner the ubiquitous "awww" from its viewers.

The movie /We Bought a Zoo/ is really nothing more than an exercise in cute porn filmmaking.

 

Trivia

In what game was the term “grand slam” first used?

• Whist, a forerunner of bridge, where it means winning all 13 card tricks in a hand. The term is also used in baseball, golf, tennis, and rugby.

Holiday

• Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day: a day to commemorate when Japan launched an unprovoked cowardly sneak-attack on a sleeping American Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, drawing the US into WWII (1941)

  

History

• Delaware: the First State ratified the US Constitution and was admitted to the Union (1787)
• New York Philharmonic: America's oldest symphony orchestra debuted; they played Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (1842)
• "The Blue Marble": famous photograph was taken by the crew of the Apollo 17 as NASA's last moon mission flew away from Cape Canaveral (1972)

Birthdays

• Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini 1598
• Willa Cather 1873
• Eli Wallach 1915
• Ted Knight 1923
• Bent Frabric 1924
• Bobby Osborne 1931
• Ellen Burstyn 1932
• Carole Simpson 1940
• Harry Chapin 1942
• Johnny Bench (MLB) 1947
• Gary Morris 1948
• Tom Waits 1949
  
• Larry Bird (NBA) 1956
• Priscilla Barnes 1956
• Edd Hall 1958
• Tim Butler (Psychedelic Furs) 1958
• C. Thomas Howell 1966
• Nicole Appleton (All Saints) 1975 
• Orli Shoshan 1976 (Shaak Ti from the Star Wars prequels)
• Sara Beth Bareilles 1979 - Singer
• Jennifer Carpenter 1979
• Emily Browning 1988