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Provided by the compucert harbinger \HAR-bin-juhr\, noun:
- (Archaic) One who provides lodgings; especially, the officer of the English royal household who formerly preceded the court when traveling, to provide and prepare lodgings.
- A forerunner; a precursor; one that presages or foreshadows what is to come.
- To signal the approach of; to presage; to be a harbinger of.
- A Tip-of-the-Hat, if you will, after a bystander passes gas in an egregious manner. Basically it is your vote of approval during post-flatulence that the individual did indeed go above and beyond the normal farting standards.
Chris: [faaarrrrrrt]!!!
George: "Good Push, Chris!"
Trivia
What was the original family name of the Corleones in the Godfather films?- Andolini. Vito Andolini took the name Corleone from his hometown in Sicily. When he returns there in The Godfather: Part II (1974), he tells the man who killed his family, “My father’s name was Antonio Andolini . . . and this is for you,” as he stabs him to death.
- Joshua Slocum: Canadian adventurer landed at Newport, Rhode Island, becoming the first to circumnavigate the world on his own (1898)
- Newbery Medal: children's book prize was first awarded, to Hendrik Willem van Loon for The Story of Mankind (1922)
- Stonewall riots: patrons of a Greenwich Village bar resisted a police raid, sparking the gay pride movement (1969)
- paintball: the first game was played, in New Hampshire (1981)
- United States National Do Not Call Registry: opened for business; almost ¾ of a million phone numbers were signed up on its first day in a stand against unwanted telemarketing (2003)
- H. Ross Perot (78): wealthy Texan who ran for president
- Tobey Maguire (33): reflective and empathic star of the Spider-Man film series and Seabiscuit; also, actors Bob Keeshan (1927-2004), Isabelle Adjani (53), Drake Bell (22) and Matthew Lewis (19)
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