Wednesday, January 12, 2011

mansuetude \MAN-swi-tood\, noun:

• Mildness; gentleness.

Mansuetude derives from the Latin mansuescere, literally "to tame by the hand."

straight like

• when someone goes straight down your Facebook page and likes everything. including wallposts, comments, statuses, etc. usually it's a close friend of yours, or someone who's bored to death.

Al: I straight liked Amanda's Facebook page like 3 times she's pissed.

Sonia: That's hilarious I always do that to one of my co-workers when I'm bored.

Trivia

What change was made in the title of the Jane Austen classic Pride and Prejudice when Bollywood produced a musical version in 2004?

• It was called Bride and Prejudice.

History

• Hattie Caraway: became the first woman elected to the US Senate, exactly 17 years after the House rejected suffrage for women; she made no speeches in the 14 years she served (1932)
• James Bedford: Californian professor of psychology became the first person to be cryonically preserved when he was frozen a few hours after his death from cancer (1967)
• All in the Family: groundbreaking sitcom premiered on TV, dealing with issues previously considered unacceptable — including racism, homosexuality and impotence (1971)
• Deep Impact: space probe was launched from Cape Canaveral to study the core of comet 9P/Tempel by crashing into it; the probe reached its target in July (2005)

Birthdays

• Alicia Angel (27): porn actress
• Charles Perrault (1628-1703): poet and writer of fairy tales, Tales of Mother Goose; authors Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Jakob Michael Lenz (1751-1792), Jack London (1876-1916), Walter Mosley (59) and John Lasseter (54) share this birth date
• John Hancock (1737-1793): the man who so elegantly signed the Declaration of Independence
• P.W. Botha (1916-2006): PM of South Africa
• Joe Frazier (67): boxing hall-of-famer
• Howard Stern (57): "shock jock" radio host; plus, radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh (60) and TV news anchor Christiane Amanpour (53)
• Jeff Bezos (47): the man behind Amazon.com and Blue Origin
• Rob Zombie (45): muscian, film maker