Thursday, February 5, 2009

unwitting \uhn-WIT-ing\, adjective:

• not knowing; unaware; unintentional

c 893, Old English unwitende, from un- (1) "not" + witting. Rare after c.1600; revived c.1800.
DLS

• Dirty Little Secret -a secret you and someone else share that you don't want anyone else to know for it may be too much for any other person's ears

Girl 1: "You got breast implants?!"
Girl 2: "Yeah, but don't tell anyone. It's our DLS."
Trivia

When it comes to Cockney rhyming slang, what does “Britney Spears” mean? How about “Christian Slater”?

• Spears = beers; Slater = later.

Today in History:

• Reader's Digest: DeWitt and Lila Wallace published their first issue of condensed articles; the pocket-sized volume cost 25 cents (1922)
• BBC pips: six short tones used to mark the end of the hour were broadcast for the first time from the Royal Greenwich Observatory (1924)
• Tybee bomb: the US lost a hydrogen bomb off the coast of Georgia; some 14 nuclear weapons are known to be missing from the US arsenal alone (1958)

Today's Birthdays:

• Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850): British PM who modernized the police force; Greek PM Andreas Papandreou (1919-1996) shared this birth date
• Andrew M. Greeley (81): priest and best-selling author; also, writers Ralph E. McGill (1898-1969), William Burroughs (1914-1997), Stephen J. Cannell (68) and Christopher Guest (61)
• Hank Aaron (75): MLB hall-of-famer and No. 2 on the all-time HR list; athletes Roger Staubach (67) and Roberto Alomar (41) also celebrate birthdays today
• Laura Linney (45): SAG-, Emmy- and Golden Globe-winner for John Adams; other actors born today include John Carradine (1906-1988), Stuart Damon (72), David Selby (68), Charlotte Rampling (63), Barbara Hershey (61), Tim Meadows (48), Jennifer Jason Leigh (47) and Jeremy Sumpter (20)