Friday, January 13, 2017

Friday, January 13, 2017


FRIDAY THE 13TH!

triskaidekaphobia \ tris-kahy-dek-uh-FOH-bee-uh, tris-kuh- \ , noun;
  • fear or a phobia concerning the number 13. 
Origin: Triskaidekaphobia derives from the Greek word for thirteen, triskaídeka and the Greek word for fear, phobos . It entered English in the early 1900s.




creolize \KREE-uh-lahyz\, verb:
1. To combine local and foreign elements into a new, distinct whole.
2. To render a pidgin into a distinct, spoken language.
Creolize is a verb alteration of creole, which derives from the Spanish criollo, "a person native to a locality."
 
hahaha
  • To express on IM or SMS when something was funny, because just 'haha' or 'LOL' isn't that dramatic and can be used as just acknowledging when someone has said something.
Bobby31: ...they call it cheese and quackers!
Annette85: haha
Bobby31: oh come on it was funnier than that
Annette85: hahaha

History
  • J'accuse: French journalist Emile Zola published his defense of Alfred Dreyfus, the army captain falsely convicted of treason because he was Jewish (1898)
  • Henry Ford: patented his plastic car, which ran on ethanol; the plastic was soybean-based, and the car was unsuccessful (1942)
  • L. Douglas Wilder: became the first African American elected governor of a US state — Virginia (1990)
  • The Fantasticks: the world's longest-running musical ended its off-Broadway run after 17,162 shows and nearly 42 years (2002)

Birthdays
  • Horatio Alger 1834
  • Sophie Tucker 1884
  • Alfred Fuller 1885
  • Earle Wheeler 1908
  • Butter (Quentin) Jackson 1909
  • Jeff Morrow 1913
  • Robert Stack 1919
  • Gwen Verdon 1926
  • Liz Anderson 1930
  • Frances Sternhagen 1930
  • Robert ‘Squirrel’ Lester (The Chi-Lites) 1930
  • Charles Nelson Reilly 1931
    Rip Taylor 1934
  • Billy Gray 1938
  • Richard Moll 1943
  • Trevor Rabin (Yes) 1954
  • Kevin Anderson 1960
  • Julia Louis-Dreyfus 1961
  • Graham McPherson (Madness) 1961
  • Penelope Ann Miller 1964
  • Patrick Dempsey 1966
  • Tim Kelly (Slaughter) 1967
  • Anna Marie Goddard 1970 (actress / playmate)
  • Nicole Eggert 1972
    Orlando Bloom 1977 
    Liam Hemsworth 1990 (Thor)




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