Monday, September 20, 2010

imago \ih-MAH-goh\, noun:

1. An idealized concept of a loved one, formed in childhood and retained unaltered in adult life.

2. Entomology. An adult insect.

Imago is a term that originated in psychoanalysis but migrated into popular usage in the 20th Century.

ears lowered

• A slang term for a hair cut.

I got my ears lowered over the weekend.

seat gypsie

• A person or group of people that travel from one unclaimed seat to another (normally at sporting events) because their cheap asses couldn't fork up the money for better seats. Said people are forced to move once seats are claimed by the rightful ticket holders.

Move it seat gypsie, I paid good money for those spots!!

Trivia

Who was the inspiration for Neil Diamond’s 1969 hit song Sweet Caroline?

• Caroline Kennedy. Diamond said he was moved to write the song after seeing an “innocent, wonderful” photo of John F. Kennedy’s young daughter dressed in horseback riding gear, standing alongside her pony.

History

• Ferdinand Magellan: explorer set sail from southern Spain to circumnavigate the globe (1519)
• Victor Emmanuel II: seized the Papal States from the French; later he became the first king of modern Italy (1870)
• civil rights: Mississippi governor Ross Barnett personally blocked the entrance of African-American James Meredith to the University of Mississippi; Meredith did end up attending (1962)
• Battle of the Sexes tennis match: Billie Jean King won against Bobby Riggs, who had said women couldn't stand the pressure of the game; 30,000 attended and millions watched on TV (1973)

Birthdays

• Sir James Dewar (1842-1923): chemist and physicist who came up with the Dewar flask
• Upton Sinclair (1878-1968): writer/reformer, The Jungle
• Red Auerbach (1917-2006): basketball coach who led the Boston Celtics to eight consecutive NBA titles; hockey hall-of-famer Guy LaFleur (58) shares this birth date

• Dr. Joyce Brothers (82): pop psychologist
• Sophia Loren (76): Oscar-winning actress for Two Women — in 1991 she got a special Oscar for her full body of work; also, actors Anne Meara (81), Betsy Brantley (55), Gary Cole and Debbi Morgan (both 54) and Kristen Johnston (43)
• Taro Aso (70): former prime minister of Japan