Saturday, October 9, 2010

roborant \ROB-uh-ruhnt\, adjective:

• 1. Strengthening; restoring vigor.

noun:

• 1. A strengthening medicine; a tonic; a restorative.

Roborant derives from the present participle of Latin roborare, "to strengthen," from robur, roboris, "strength."

No hair off my balls

• Despite the obvious misfortune one remains optimistic.

or to the layman:

• Shit ain't a big deal.

No hair off my balls.

Trivia

Why were most of the cast members over six feet tall in the 1994 film comedy Richie Rich?

• To make the film’s star, Macaulay Culkin, who was almost five feet six when the film was shot, appear shorter and younger. It was Culkin’s last child-star role.

History

• Leif Erikson: the Norwegian explorer became the first European to step on North American soil (1000)
• Roger Williams: religious dissident who espoused a separation of church and state was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony; he went on to found Rhode Island (1635)
• Yale University: was founded in New Haven, as The Collegiate School of Connecticut (1701)
• Laura Ingalls: became the first woman to fly solo across the US, from New York to California (1930)

Birthdays

• Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935): French captain wrongly accused of treason in the Dreyfus Affair
• Jackson Browne (62): Rock and Roll Hall-of-Famer; other musicians born on this date include Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921), John Entwistle (1944-2002), Kenny Garrett (50), P.J. Harvey (41) and Sean Lennon (34)
• Tony Shalhoub (57): Emmy-winning actor, Monk; also, actors Fyvush Finkel (88), Richard Chaves and Robert Wuhl (both 59), Sharon Osbourne (58), Scott Bakula and John O'Hurley (both 56), Steve Burns (37), Brandon Routh (31), Zachery Ty Bryan (29) and Tyler James Williams (18)
• Mike Singletary (52): NFL hall-of-famer; golfing legend Annika Sorenstam (40) shares this birth date