Saturday, December 24, 2016

Saturday, December 24, 2016

chaffer \CHAF-er\, verb:
1. To bargain; haggle.
noun:
1. Bargaining; haggling.
verb:
1. To bandy words; chatter.
Chaffer is an alteration of the Middle English chapfare, "a trading journey." The archaic chap maintains a modern presence in the common term related to shopping, cheap.
Xmax
  • Xmax is a bit like Christmas, but not religious. It is the Xtreme version of Xmas and is way cooler. It is possible to celebrate Xmax inadvertantly, so if you're having quite a lot of fun at Xmas and nobody's talking about the baby Jesus, then you're probably celebrating Xmax. Don't worry tho, Xmax is much better.
"I can't believe it's December 25th again so quickly"
"Yeh, I know. Thanks for this amazing present by the way, it's much better than any Xmas present i've had before!"
Trivia
Who did Forbes magazine list as America’s richest fictional character, with an infinite estimated net worth—represented by a dollar sign and the infinity symbol ($∞)?
  • Santa Claus—in 2005.
Holiday 
  • Chanukkah
  • Christmas Eve
History
  • Kiritimati: Pacific atoll also called Christmas Island was discovered by Captain Cook (1777)
  • Treaty of Ghent: ended the War of 1812 between the US and Great Britain (1814)
  • Library of Congress: majority of collection was destroyed by fire (1851)
  • Ku Klux Klan: violent racist organization was founded in Pulaski, Tennessee, by a group of Democrat Confederate veterans (1865)
  • Aida: Giuseppe Verdi's opera had its world premiere in Cairo to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal (1871)
Birthdays
  • John (King of England) 1167
  • Ingatius (Loyola) 1491
  • Benjamin Rush 1745
  • Kit Carson 1809
  • James Joule 1818
  • Matthew Arnold 1822
  • Harry Warren (Salvatore Guaragna) 1893
  • Howard Hughes 1905
  • I.F. Stone 1907
  • Ralph Marterie 1914
  • Dave Bartholomew 1920
  • Ava Gardner 1922
  • Lee Dorsey 1924
  • Carol Haney 1924
  • Robert Joffrey 1930
  • Ray Bryant 1931
  • Jill Bennett 1931
  • Mike Curb 1944
  • Nicholas Meyer 1945
  • Lemmy Kilmister (Motorhead) 1945
  • Jan Akkerman 1946
  • Sharon Farrell 1946
  • Clarence Gilyard 1955
  • Stephanie Hodge 1956
  • Ian Burden (Human League) 1957
  • Mary Ramsey (10,000 Maniacs) 1963
  • Diedrich Bader 1966
  • Ricky Martin 1971 
  • Stephanie Meyer 1973 author those awful TWILIGHT books
  • Ryan Seacrest 1974

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