Saturday, December 16, 2017

Saturday, December 16, 2017

abrade \uh-BREYD\, verb:
1. To scrape off.
2. To wear off or down by scraping or rubbing.
Related to abrasion, abrade is from the Latin roots ab meaning “away from” and rādere meaning “to scrape.”
 
shexting
  • Sending picture(s) of your feces to your buddie(s) via picture message on your cell phone.
Duder 1: "Hey man did you get that pic I sent you this morning?"
Duder 2: "Fuck yea, that shit was a beast son! Thanks for shexting me that."
Duder 1: "There's plenty more where that came from."

History
  • Oliver Cromwell: was sworn in as Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland; he reigned for five years, till his death (1653)
  • Boston Tea Party: rebellious American Patriots dumped tea into Boston Harbor to protest paying tea taxes to Britain (1773)
  • Battle of the Bulge: German attack began in the Ardennes region of southern Belgium in WWII (1944)
  • Millau Viaduct: taller than the Eiffel Tower and nearly as tall as the Empire State Building, the world's tallest vehicular bridge opened to traffic near Millau, France (2004)
Birthdays
  • Catherine of Aragon 1485
  • Ludwig Van Beethoven 1770 - Composer
  • Jane Austen 1775
  • George Santayana 1863
  • Arthur Fieldler 1894
  • Noel Coward 1899 - English actor, playwright and composer
  • Margaret Mead 1901
  • Turk Murphy 1915
  • Arthur C. Clarke 1917 - Author
  • Bruce Ames 1928
  • Philip K. Dick 1928 - Author (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? which became the movie BLADERUNNER, among others)
  • Wayne Connelly 1929
  • Shelby Singleton 1931
  • Morris Dees 1936 - Civil rights attorney
  • Joyce Bulifant 1937 - Actress
  • Jim Glaser 1937 - (Tompall and the Glaser Brothers)
  • Liv Ullmann 1939 Actress
  • Leslie Stahl 1941 - CBS news correspondent ("60 Minutes")
  • Paul Butterfield 1942
  • Steven Bochco 1943 - TV producer (NYPD Blue, Hill Street Blues)
  • Anthony (Tony) Hicks 1943 - Musician (The Hollies)
  • Benny Andersson 1946 - Singer, keyboards, synthesizers (ABBA)
  • Ben Cross 1948 - Actor
  • Billy Gibbons 1949 - Musician (ZZ Top)
  • Robben Ford 1951
  • Bill Bateman 1951 - Musician (The Blasters)
  • Alison LaPlaca 1959 - Actress
  • Jon Tenney 1961 - Actor (The Closer)
  • Sam Robards 1961 - Actor (American Beauty)
  • William "Refrigerator" Perry 1962 - Football player
  • imagebam.comJeff Carson 1963 - Country singer, songwriter
  • Benjamin Bratt 1963 - Actor
  • Michael McCary 1971 - Singer (Boyz II Men)
  • Krysten Ritter 1981
  • Chris Scruggs 1982 - Country musician
  • Hallee Hirsh 1987 - Actress (JAG)
  • Anna Popplewell 1988 - Actress (The Chronicles of Narnia)


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