Monday, February 16, 2009

interminable \in-TUR-muh-nuh-buhl\, adjective:

• so long as to seem endless; never stopping

c.1374, from Late Latin interminabilis, from in- "not" + terminabilis
Slip of the thumbs

• When sending a text message and the recipient of the message was not the intended recipient. Alternatively, when you try to reply to one person, and another message comes in just as you're about to reply, and you end up replying to the wrong person. This issue can have detrimental effects.

Girl to married guy: "Hey, what are you up to?" (Guy is getting ready to reply, when he's distracted for two seconds, during which time, the following message hits his phone."

Wife to her husband: "I made it to Dallas." (Now husband, thinking he's replying to his girlfriend says)

Husband to his wife (slip of the thumbs): "Nothing, my wife is out of town if you want to sleep over tonight."

Wife to husband: "WTF!?!?!"

Trivia

Which U.S. president had dogs named Tipsy, Tipler, and Drunkard, as well as Sweetlips and Truelove?

• George Washington. The dogs were founders of the American foxhound breed, created by Washington when he bred descendants of English hounds with a French foxhound given to him by the Marquis de Lafayette.

Today in History:

• Tutankhamen's ancient tomb, found nearly intact by Egyptologist Howard Carter (1922)
• nylon: the high-strength synthetic polymer was patented by industrial chemist Wallace Hume Carothers (1937)
• Fidel Castro: became leader of Cuba after ousting Fulgencio Batista; he stepped down in 2008 due to ill health, and his brother Raúl took office (1959)
• 911: the first US emergency telephone system began, in Haleyville, Alabama (1968)

Today's Birthdays:

• Sonny Bono (1935-1998): singer, mayor, congressman
• Richard Ford (65): novelist, The Sportswriter; writers Nikolay Semyonovich Leskov (1831-1895) and Henry Adams (1838-1918) shared this birth date
• Ice-T (51): gangsta rapper/actor, O.G. Original Gangster, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit; also, actors LeVar Burton (52) and William Katt (58)
• John McEnroe (50): tennis superstar
• Jeremy Bulloch (63): actor, Boba Fett from Star Wars
• Valentino Rossi (30): Italian-born world champ of motorcycle racing

Today's Holiday:

• Presidents' Day: The third Monday in February, observed in the United States as a legal holiday in commemoration of the birthdays of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.