Saturday, September 25, 2010

frabjous \FRAB-juhs\, adjective:

• Wonderful, elegant, superb, or delicious.

Frabjous is one of many words coined by Lewis Caroll in Through the Looking-Glass.

pabst blue ribbon

• The best beer that comes in a 30 rack.

Person 1:Dude, here's ten bucks get some beer.

Person 2: What kind?
Person 1: Busch Light.
Person 2: Fuck that, I'm buying PBR?

Trivia

What was Casablanca, Morocco, called when the Portuguese built the city in 1515?

• Casa Branca, Portuguese for “white house.” After the Portuguese abandoned the city following an earthquake in 1755, the city was rebuilt and the Spaniards who settled there renamed it Casablanca, which means “white house” in Spanish.

History

• Pacific Ocean: was first seen by Europeans when Vasco Núñez de Balboa and his Spanish crew crossed the Isthmus of Panama (1513)
• polygamy: Mormon practice was renounced by Wilford Woodruff, the president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1890)
• Little Rock Nine: in a step for racial integration, black students entered a segregated Arkansas high school, protected by federal troops and over the protests of the state's governor (1957)
• Sandra Day O'Connor: became the first woman to be sworn into the US Supreme Court (1981)

Birthdays

• William Faulkner (1897-1962): author of As I Lay Dying
• Colin Davis (82): conductor who has recorded all of Berlioz's works; composers also born on this date include Glenn Gould (1932-1982)
• Shel Silverstein (1930?-1999): poet, illustrator, songwriter and composer, The Giving Tree, Where the Sidewalk Ends
• Scottie Pippen (45): NBA star; athletes Bob McAdoo (59) and Matt Hasselbeck (35) share this birth date
• Catherine Zeta-Jones (41): award-winning star of Chicago; other screen personalities born on this date include Barbara Walters (81?), Michael Douglas (66), Anson Williams (61), Mark Hamill (59), Christopher Reeve (1952-2004), Heather Locklear (49), Aida Turturro (48), Tate Donovan (47) and Will Smith (42)