Sunday, February 13, 2011

buss \BUS\, noun:

1. A kiss; a playful kiss; a smack.

transitive verb:

1. To kiss; especially to kiss with a smack.

Buss is probably from Old English basse, from Latin basium, "kiss."

xio

• "Kisses, Boners, and Hugs." Used as an alternative to xoxo

"Happy Valentine's Day, darling. I love you so much!

Xio, John"

Trivia

What was the final answer to the final question on the TV quiz show in the hit 2008 movie Slumdog Millionaire?

• Aramis. The question was “What was the name of the third musketeer?” The other two musketeers were Athos and Porthos.

History

• ASCAP: American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers was founded to protect members' copyrighted music (1914)
• Switzerland: the League of Nations recognized its perpetual neutrality (1920)
• Bruno Hauptmann: was found guilty of murder in the Lindbergh kidnapping case (1935)
• Dresden bombing: Allied attack on the German city during WWII caused major devastation; casualty estimates were revised downwards over the years from 250,000 to 25,000 (1945)
• BPM 37093: white dwarf star was found to have a massive diamond core; it was nicknamed Lucy, after the song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" (2004)

Birthdays

• Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820): botanist
• Georgios Papandreou (1888-1968): three-time Greek PM
• Grant Wood (1891-1942): painter of American Gothic
• William Shockley (1910-1989): Nobel Prize-winning physicist
• Chuck Yeager (88): the pilot who broke the sound barrier
• Stockard Channing (67): stage and screen performer; also, entertainers Kim Novak (78), George Segal (77), Bo Svenson (70), Carol Lynley (69), Jerry Springer (67), Neal McDonough (45), Kelly Hu (43) and Mena Suvari (32)see below...
• Robbie Williams (37): UK hall-of-fame singer/songwriter; also, musicians Leopold Godowsky (1870-1938), Feodor Chaliapin (1873-1938), Tennessee Ernie Ford (1919-1991), Peter Tork (69), Peter Gabriel (61) and Henry Rollins (50)