Friday, December 30, 2016

TGIF! Friday, December 30, 2016

dithyrambic \dith-uh-RAM-bik\, adjective:
  1. Wildly enthusiastic.
  2. Wildly irregular in form.
  3. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a dithyramb.
Dithyrambic is ultimately from dithyrambos, a word of unknown origin but associated with Greek, meaning "a wild choric hymn, originally in honor of Dionysus."
 
Internet Coma
  • When you are sitting on your couch, feet up on the coffee table, laptop on your lap. 4-10 hours later you are in an entirely prone position with your legs off the edge of the coffee table and your head on the seat cushion. You become completely unresponsive to your surroundings.
  • Loss of peripheral vision, amnesia, severely reduced motor function ability, and drooling with one eye closed are common symptoms.
I got online this morning to check my email and mess around on facebook for a bit. Next thing I know it's 7pm, my legs are totally numb, and I have this nasty trail of dried drool down my chin. That internet coma completely ruined my day!

Amazonukkah
  • When Christmas really lasts 8 days because the presents take longer to deliver from Amazon.com than anticipated by the purchaser. This is often caused by the reckless use of Super Saver Shipping on items which were bought on Christmas Eve. As a result, the presents are received in small amounts each day over an 8 day period, similar to Hanukkah.
Kid 1: Did you get everything you wanted for Christmas?
Kid 2: I dunno, we're celebrating Amazonukkah this year. My parents are real procrastinators. FML

Holiday

  • Bacon Day
History
  • Gadsden Purchase: was signed, acquiring the land of southern New Mexico and Arizona from Mexico (1853)
  • The Pirates of Penzance: Gilbert and Sullivan operetta was first staged (1879)
  • USSR: was established when Russia joined Byelorussia, Ukraine and the Transcaucasian Federation (1922)
  • Arroyo Seco Parkway: aka the Pasadena Freeway, connecting Los Angeles with Pasadena, opened (1940)
  • Saddam Hussein: the Iraqi dictator was executed by hanging for war crimes in the Dujail massacre (2006)
Birthdays
  • André Messager 1853
  • Rudyard Kipling 1865
  • Simon Guggenheim 1867
  • Stephen Leacock 1869
  • Hideki Tojo 1884
  • Vincent Lopez 1895
  • Bert Parks 1914
  • Marie Wilson 1915
  • Jo Van Fleet 1922
  • Bo Diddley 1928
  • Barbara Nichols 1929
  • Jack Lord 1930
  • Skeeter Davis 1931
  • Russ Tamblyn 1934
  • Fred Lorenzen 1934
  • Sandy Koufax (MLB) 1935
  • John Hartford 1937
  • Noel Paul Stookey 1937
  • Paul Stookey (Peter, Paul and Mary) 1937
  • Joseph Bologna 1938
  • Del Shannon 1939
  • Fred Ward 1942
  • Michael Nesmith (Monkees) 1942
  • Davy Jones (Monkees) 1945
  • Roger Glover (Rainbow) 1945
  • Patti Smith 1946
  • Jeff Lynne (E.L.O., Traveling Wilburys) 1947
  • Suzy Bogguss 1956
  • Sheryl Lee Ralph 1956
  • Patricia Kalember 1956
  • Matt Lauer 1957
  • Tracey Ullman 1959
  • Ben Johnson 1961
  • Jay Kay (Jamiroquai) 1969
  • Tiger Woods 1975
  • Meredith Monroe 1976
  • Tyrese 1978
  • Eliza Dushku 1980
  • Kristin Kreuk 1982

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