Sunday, December 03, 2017

Sunday, December 3, 2017

operose \OP-uh-rohs\, adjective:
1. Done with or involving much labor.
2. Industrious, as a person.
Operose is from the Latin word operosus meaning “taking great pains.” It shares a root with the word opus meaning “work.”
 
crocodile arms
  • When going out with peers to a bar or restaurant and nobody offers to pay the bill, hence they and yourself have the short arms of a crocodile.
It's kinda of a turn off when you go on a date with a girl and you got crocodile arms all night.
 
Trivia
What do crocodiles do to help themselves dive deeper and remain submerged longer?
  • They swallow stones, which also aid their digestion.
History
  • coed: Oberlin College became the first institution of higher learning in the US to serve both male and female students (1833)
  • A Streetcar Named Desire: Tennessee William's Pulitzer Prize-winning play opened on Broadway (1947)
  • heart transplant: the procedure was first performed by Christiaan Barnard on Louis Washkansky in Cape Town; the patient lived 18 days before succumbing to pneumonia, but his new heart didn't fail (1967)
  • 20th Century Limited: luxury NYC–Chicago train, on which passengers were routinely given flowers and perfume, finished its final run (1967)
  • Bhopal disaster: poison gas emission from Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, killed thousands of people in arguably the worst industrial disaster ever (1984)
Birthdays
  • George McClellan 1826
  • Joseph Conrad 1857
  • Carlos Montoya 1903
  • Ferlin Husky 1925
  • Andy Williams 1927
  • Jean-Luc Godard 1930
  • Jaye P. Morgan 1931
  • imagebam.comBobby Allison 1937
  • John Cale 1940 - Musician (Velvet Underground)
  • Mary Alice 1941
  • Peter C. Schulz 1942
  • Ozzy Osbourne 1948 
  • Heather Menzies 1949
  • Mickey Thomas 1949 - Musician (Jefferson Starship)
  • Don Barnes 1952 - Musician (.38 Special) 
  • Rick Mears 1953
  • Steve Forbert 1954
  • Paul Gregg 1954 - Musician (Restless Heart)
  • Daryl Hannah 1960 - Actress
  • Julianne Moore 1960
  • Katarina Witt 1965
  • Montell Jordan 1968
  • Brendan Fraser 1968 - Actor ("George of the Jungle")
  • Royale Watkins 1969
  • Bruno Campos 1973
  • Holly Marie Combs 1973
  • Lauren Roman 1975
  • Anna Chlumsky 1980
  • Brian Bonsall 1981
  • Amanda Seyfried 1985
  • Michael Angaran 1987

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