Sunday, November 6, 2011

junket \JUHNG-kit\, noun:

1. A trip, usually by an official or legislative committee, paid out of public funds and ostensibly to obtain information.

2. A sweet, custardlike food of flavored milk curdled with rennet.

3. A pleasure excursion, as a picnic or outing.

verb:

1. To go on a junket.

2. To entertain; feast; regale.

Junket is rooted in the Latin word juncata which meant “rush basket.” It is likely that the basket was associated with the notion of a picnic basket and came to signify a pleasure trip.

farting at a fan

1) Harming one's self, usually unintentionally or without knowledge of doing so.

2) Similar to saying "you are only hurting yourself."

3) Similar to phrase "shooting yourself in the foot."

Fred: "I got really annoyed at work today, so I told my boss to shut up."

Andy: "That's just farting at a fan, man."

Trivia

What is the big tourist attraction in San Pedro de Macoris in the Dominican Republic?

• Baseball. The city has produced an amazing number of major league ballplayers, many of them All-Stars, and a number of whom return from November to February to play in winter league games.

History

• Jefferson Davis: was elected president of the Confederate States of America (he'd already been serving as president under the provisional constitution), one year to the day after Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States of America (1861)
• college football: Rutgers beat Princeton in the first intercollegiate game (1869)
• October Revolution: the Bolshevik uprising began in St. Petersburg; the October/November discrepancy is due to Russian Old Style dates (1917)
• Meet the Press: the Sunday morning talk show debuted; it is the longest-running TV program in the world (1947)
• Australia: voted to keep Queen Elizabeth as its head of state (1999)

Birthdays

• James Naismith (1861-1939): inventor of basketball
• Mike Nichols (80): multiple award-winning director of stage and screen
• Glenn Frey (63): rock musician, The Eagles; plus, musician Arturo Sandoval (62)
• Maria Shriver (56): newscaster and author
• Kelly Rutherford (43): Gossip Girl's Lily van der Woodsen; also, actors Sally Field (65), Lori Singer (54), Lance Kerwin (51), Peter DeLuise (45), Ethan Hawke (41), Thandie Newton and Rebecca Romijn (both 38), Zoe McLellan (37) and Emma Stone (23)
• Ana Ivanović (24): tennis player

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