Tuesday, February 3, 2009

defalcate \di-FAL-keyt\, verb:

• to steal or misuse money or property entrusted to one's care

c 1540, from Latin defalcere, from de- + falx/falcem "sickle, scythe"

sofa king

• A 'friendly' way to say "so fucking".

"Dag, yo! I am sofa king high!"

"I could jump off a cliff, I'm sofa king bored..."

"I'm sofa king stoned..."

"You're sofa king stupid!"

Trivia

What are the triffids in the classic 1951 sci-fi novel and 1963 cult horror film The Day of the Triffids?

• Plants—fierce, mobile man-eating plants that can kill with a single swipe of their poisonous stingers.

Today in History:

• 15th Amendment: was ratified, granting black men the right to vote (1870)
• income tax: was authorized on a federal level in the US (1913)
• the day the music died: a plane crash killed rock stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and "the Big Bopper" (1959)
• Luna 9: Soviet spacecraft became the first to soft-land on the moon (1966)

Today's Birthdays:

• Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847): composer, conductor
• Gertrude Stein (1874-1946): avant garde author; also, writer James Michener (1907-1997)
• Norman Rockwell (1894-1978): illustrator who painted a nostalgic, idealized picture of small-town US life
• Paul Sarbanes (76): Maryland's longest-serving senator; he sponsored the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
• Bob Griese (64): NFL hall-of-famer; quarterback Fran Tarkenton (69) also celebrates his birthday today
• Nathan Lane (53): comic actor, The Producers; other actors born today include Joey Bishop (1918-2007), Shelley Berman (83), Blythe Danner (66), Morgan Fairchild (59), Maura Tierney (44), Warwick Davis (39) and Isla Fisher (33)

Quote:

• "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." — Dante Alighieri