Friday, August 01, 2025

Friday, August 1, 2025

scabrous \SKAB-ruhs\, adjective: 
1. full of difficulties.
2. having a rough surface because of minute points or projections.
3. indecent or scandalous; risqué; obscene: scabrous books.
Scabrous is related to the common word scab. Both terms come from the Latin word scaber meaning "rough." 
 
textretary 
  • A person's sidekick who texts for the driver.
Louie never drives and texts. He has his own textretary to send messages.
 
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Holiday
  • International BEER Day! (first Friday of August, annually)
History
  • Slavery Abolition Act 1833: abolished slavery in Britain and Ireland
  • WWI: erupted as Germany declared war on Russia (1914)
  • Fulbright: scholarship program was signed into US law (1946)
  • MTV: cable music station was launched with, aptly, The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star" (1981)
Birthdays
  • Francis Scott Key 1779
  • Herman Melville 1819
  • Arthur Hill 1922
  • Lionel Bart 1930
  • Geoffrey Holder 1930
  • Tom Wilson 1931
  • Ramblin' Jack Elliot 1931
  • Dom DeLuise 1933
  • Yves Saint Laurent 1936
  • Giancarlo Giannini 1942
  • Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) 1942
  • Boz Burrell (Bad Company) 1946
  • Tim Bachman (Bachman-Turner Overdrive) 1951
  • Robert Cray 1953
  • Michael Penn 1958
  • Robert Buck (10,000 Maniacs) 1958
  • Joe Elliot (Def Leppard) 1959
  • Suzi Gardner (L7) 1960
  • Chuck D (Public Enemy) 1960
  • Coolio 1963
  • Adam Duritz (Counting Crows) 1964
  • George Ducas 1966
  • Charlie Kelley (Buffalo Club) 1968
  • Tempestt Bledsoe 1973
  • Taylor Fry 1981
  • Asheley Angel (O-Town) 1981

  
 
  

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