Saturday, February 7, 2009

denigrate \DEN-i-greyt\, verb:

• to attack the character or reputation of; defame

by 1526, from Latin denigratus/denigrare "to blacken, defame," from de- "completely" + nigr-, stem of niger "black," of unknown origin.

prostiboots

• Boots that are leather, highheeled, and thigh high just like ones found on a prostitute.

She best take off those prostiboots before someone asks her what she charges!
Trivia
What animal migrates to Texas annually to participate in the largest gathering of mammals in the world?

• The bat—the Mexican free-tailed bat. Every spring, tens of millions of them descend on Bracken Cave, near San Antonio, to spend the summer, give birth, and raise their young.

Today in History:

• British invasion: The Beatles arrived in US for the first time and were mobbed at JFK International Airport (1964)
• suffrage: women were granted the right to vote in Switzerland (1971)
• Pluto: the dwarf planet moved closer to the Sun than Neptune for the first time since its discovery (1979)
• "Baby Doc" Duvalier: Haiti's "president for life" fled for France; five years later on the same date, the nation swore in its first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide (1986)

Today's Birthdays:

• Sir Thomas More (1478-1535): author of Utopia; he was beheaded for refusing to recognize King Henry VIII as head of the church
• An Wang (1920-1990): computer pioneer, Wang Laboratories; inventor John Deere (1804-1886) shared this birth date
• Gay Talese (77): writer and purveyor of New Journalism
• James Spader (49): Alan Shore on Boston Legal; other actors born today include Eddie Izzard (47) and Chris Rock (44)
• Garth Brooks (47): country singer/songwriter who, in 1992, had an unprecedented five albums at once on Billboard's pop top 50 chart; musicians Eubie Blake (1883-1983) and David Bryan (47) were also born on this date