Wednesday, December 21, 2011

brogue \brohg\, noun:

1. Any strong regional accent.

2. An Irish accent in the pronunciation of English.

3. A durable, comfortable, low-heeled shoe, often having decorative perforations and a wing tip.

4. A coarse, usually untanned leather shoe once worn in Ireland and Scotland.

5. Brogan.

6. A fraud; trick; prank.

Brogue originally referred to a type of shoe worn by rural Irish and Scottish highlanders. The word came to be associated with the accent of these people by the early 1700s.

classic as fuck

• Something that is extremely timeless and will never get old.

Duder 1: "Ha ha I can't believe he stepped on that burning bag full of dog shit."

Duder 2: "I know, that trick is classic as fuck."

Duder 1: "All right, let's go, we got 15 more houses to hit."

Trivia

How many menorah candles in all are needed for the eight days of Hanukkah?

• 44. One to be lit on the first night of the holiday, two on the second night, three on the third, and so on through the eight nights, for a total of 36—plus one shamash (or servant) candle for each of the eight nights, to use in lighting the other candles.

History

• Pilgrims: arrived in the New World, seeking religious freedom; they went ashore near Plymouth Rock, having traveled west after their initial settlement in Leiden, Holland, became unsustainable (1620)
• radium: radioactive element was discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie (1898)
• crossword puzzle: Liverpudlian journalist Arthur Wynne published the first "word-cross" puzzle, in The New York World (1913)
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: film version premiered in Hollywood (1937)
• Pan Am Flight 103: went down over Lockerbie, Scotland, after a terrorist bomb exploded aboard, killing all 259 people on the plane and 11 on the ground (1988)

Birthdays

• Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881): English PM; and Communist leader Joseph Stalin (1879-1953)
• Rebecca West (1892-1983): novelist and critic; and, novelist Heinrich Böll (1917-1985)
• Michael Tilson Thomas (67): composer and conductor; plus, rock musician Frank Zappa (1940-1993)
• Jeffrey Katzenberg (61): a founder of DreamWorks SKG
• Chris Evert (56): tennis pro; also, athletes Joe Paterno (85), Florence Griffith-Joyner (1959-1998), Karrie Webb (37) and Jackie Stiles (33) were also born on this date
• Kiefer Sutherland (45): Jack Bauer on 24; also, actors Ed Nelson (83), Jane Fonda (74), Larry Bryggman (73), Samuel L. Jackson (63), Jane Kaczmarek (56), Ray Romano (54), Andy Dick (46), Karri Turner (45) and Julie Delpy (42)

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