TGIF! Friday, August 29, 2014

tautology \ taw-TOL-uh-jee \ , noun; 

1. needless repetition of an idea, especially in words other than those of the immediate context, without imparting additional force or clearness, as in "widow woman." 
2. an instance of such repetition. 
3. Logic . a. a compound propositional form all of whose instances are true, as "A or not A." b. an instance of such a form, as "This candidate will win or will not win." 

Origin: Tautology comes from the Greek tautología , and is formed with tauto- meaning "same" and -logy meaning "writing" or "discourses."

I'm picking the corn out your shit

1. Understanding what another person is saying,
2. Hearing the main points of a conversation, lecture or instructions and filtering out the rest.

Many uses for this phrase,
1. "Get to the Point Man, I'm having to pick the corn out your shit here"
2. "I'm picking the corn out your shit, I smell what your steppin' in, I'm picking up what you're putting down, I've been there before, it'll be alright"

History

• Atahualpa: last sovereign Incan emperor was garroted by Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizzaro, who thus defeated the Incan Empire and conquered Peru (1533)
• Royal George: some 900 drowned when the ship sank at port; the event was immortalized in William Cowper's "On the Loss of the Royal George" (1782)
• Shay's Rebellion: uprising began in Massachusetts, led by Revolutionary War captain Daniel Shays; farmers were protesting crushing debt and taxes (1786)
• Treaty of Nanking: marked the end of the First Opium War and the ceding of Hong Kong Island to Britain (1842)
• The Beatles: gave their last paid concert, at San Francisco's Candlestick Park, now Monster Park (1966)
• Hurricane Katrina: the costliest natural disaster in US history made landfall in Louisiana and Mississippi, devastating cities, most notably New Orleans (2005)

Birthdays

• John Locke 1632
• Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809
• Preston Sturges 1898
• Barry Sullivan 1912
  
• Ingrid Bergman 1915
• George Montgomery 1916
• Isabel Sanford 1917
• Charles White 1920
• Charlie "Bird" Parker 1920
• Wendell Scott 1921
• Sir Richard Attenborough 1923
• Dinah Washington 1924
• Dick O'Neill 1928
• John McCain 1936
• Elliott Gould 1938
• William Friedkin 1939
• Ellen Geer 1941
• Robin Leach 1941
• Sterling Morrison (The Velvet Underground) 1942
• Deborah Van Valkenburgh 1952
• Mark Morris 1956
• Dan Truman (Diamond Rio) 1956
• Michael Joseph Jackson 1958
• Rebecca DeMornay1962
• Liz Fraser (Cocteau Twins) 1963
• Me'Shell NdegeOcello 1969
• Carl Martin (Shai) 1970
• Carla Gugino 1971
• A+ 1982
• Lea Michele 1986