Tuesday, November 1, 2011

aioli \ahy-OH-lee\, noun:

• A sauce made of oil and eggs, usually flavored with garlic, from the Provence region of France.

Aioli comes from the Provençal word for garlic, ai and the Latin word for oil, oli.

Scoratorium

• The purposeful avoidance of all forms of media or communication which might disclose the results of a sporting event that an individual is recording on a device such as a digital video recorder ("DVR") for future viewing. May also require notice of such condition to friends, family and co-workers to avoid inadvertent disclosure of results by them.

I have to stay late at work tonight so I am on scoratorium for the Sharks game. Don't tell me the score. I have it DVR"d for later tonight when I get home.

Trivia

Which is the most dangerous outdoor sport, according to a U.S. government study?

• Snowboarding. In a survey of hospital emergency room admissions conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that was published in 2008, snowboarding accounted for 25.5 percent of all outdoor sports injuries reported.

Holiday

• All Saints Day

History

• Othello: Shakespeare's tragedy was first performed in London (1604)
• Lisbon: was leveled by earthquake, fires and a tsunami; 70,000 died (1755)
• Stamp Act: the first direct tax on the American colonies went into effect (1765)
• Axis: term was coined by Benito Mussolini to refer to the alliance between Italy and Nazi Germany (1936)
• Seabiscuit: defeated favorite War Admiral at Pimlico (1938)
• Ivy Mike: the United States detonated its first hydrogen bomb on Enewetak, a Pacific atoll (1952)
• film-rating system: the Motion Picture Association of America began to rate films "G," "R" and "X" (1968)
• Maastricht Treaty: went into effect, creating the European Union (1993)

Birthdays

• Benjamin Guinness (1798-1868): brewer, politician and philanthropist who was Ireland's richest man
• Stephen Crane (1871-1900): novelist and short story writer who wrote The Red Badge of Courage
• Gary Player (76): champion golfer
• Bo Bice (36): American Idol runner-up; other musicians born on this date are Bill Anderson (74), Kinky Friedman (67), Dan Peek (61), Keith Stegall (57), Lyle Lovett (54), Anthony Kiedis (49), Rick Allen (48) and LaTavia Roberson (30)
• Penn Badgley (25): Gossip Girl's Dan Humphrey; also, actors Barbara Bosson (72), Robert Foxworth (70), Marcia Wallace (69), Rachel Ticotin (53), Toni Collette, Jenny McCarthy and David Berman (all 38) and Aishwarya Rai (37)

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