Wednesday, January 4, 2017

exculpate \EK-skuhl-payt; ek-SKUHL-payt\, transitive verb:

• To clear from alleged fault or guilt; to prove to be guiltless; to relieve of blame; to acquit.

Exculpate is ultimately derived from Latin ex-, "without" + culpare, "to blame," from culpa, "blame, fault."

 

Comment Jump (v):

• to disregard, not acknowledge, or skip over a comment when replying on a post or status update.

Did you see when George comment jumped me!? I can't believe he ignored me like that, I thought we were friends.

Stephen just comment jumped Angelina. He has been avoiding her since last week.

 

Christina: Don't you just hate it when someone you don't like comments on a post, but there are other people you want to comment back to?

Drake: Just comment jump them!

History

• McDonald Islands: uninhabited, barren, volcanic islands were discovered in the Indian Ocean near Antarctica (1854)
• appendectomy: the first such surgical removal of the appendix was performed in Iowa (1885)
• Great Society: President Lyndon B. Johnson outlined his domestic policies in his State of the Union address; he aimed to "end poverty and racial injustice" (1965)
• Nancy Pelosi: became the US's first female Speaker of the House (2007)

Birthdays

• Jakob Grimm 1785
• Louis Braille 1809
• Charles "Tom Thumb" Stratton 1838
• Augusta John 1878
• Sterling Holloway 1905
• Jane Wyman 1914
• Barbara Rush 1927
• Don Shula (NFL) 1930
• Ray Starling 1933
• Jean Chretien 1934
• Floyd Patterson 1935
• Dyan Cannon 1937
• Grace Bumbry 1937
• John McLaughlin 1943
• Arthur Conley 1946
• Barbara Ann Cochran 1951
• Kathy Forrester (The Forrester Sisters) 1955
• Ann Magnuson 1956
• Bernard Sumner (New Order) 1956
• Patty Loveless 1957
• Matt Frewer 1958
• Denise Matthews 1959 (aka VANITY)
• Michael Stipe (R.E.M.) 1960
• Patrick Cassidy 1961
• Dave Foley 1963
• Julia Ormond 1965
• Deana Carter 1966
• Benjamin Darvill (Crash Test Dummies) 1967
• Jeremy Licht 1971