Monday, January 29, 2018

hotchpot \HOCH-pot\, noun:

• the bringing together of shares or properties in order to divide them equally.

Dating back to the early 1200s, hotchpot literally meant "shake-pot" in Anglo-French. It is related to the word hodgepodge

brain boner

• Something that strikes a chord in someone's thinking, creating a spur of "enlightenment" and stimulation in knowledge, especially in subjects like philosophy & logic.

John: Hey, have you seen that recent philosophical discussion between XXX and YYY on YouTube

Peter: Yeah, it was so good it gave me a brain boner.

History

• John Beckley: became the first Librarian of Congress; he was paid $2 a day (1802)
• "The Raven": Edgar Allen Poe's poetic lament for the lost Lenore was first published, in The New York Evening Mirror (1845)
• Compromise of 1850: Henry Clay introduced to Congress his proposal to settle slavery issues
• Baseball Hall of Fame: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson were named the first inductees; the hall of fame and museum opened 3 years later (1936)
• Axis of Evil: Iran, Iraq and North Korea were named "regimes that sponsor terror" in President George W. Bush's State of the Union address (2002)

Birthdays

• Thomas Paine 1737
• William McKinley (U.S.) 1843
• Lawrence Hargrave 1850
• W.C. Fields 1880
• Huddie Ledbetter 1889
• Allen B. DuMont 1901
• Joe Primeau 1906
• "Professor" Irwin Corey 1912
• Victor Mature 1916
• John Raitty 1917
• John Forsythe 1918
• Paddy Chayefsky 1923
• Noel Harrison 1936
• Germaine Greer 1939
• Katherine Ross 1942
• Claudine Longet 1942
• Tom Selleck 1945
• David Byron (Uriah Heep) 1947
• Marc Singer 1948
• Tommy Erdelyi (The Ramones) 1952
• Ann Jillian 1950
• Louie Perez (Los Lobos) 1953
• Oprah Winfrey 1954
• Diane Delano 1957
• Irlene Mandrell 1957
• Judy Norton Taylor 1958
• Johnny Spampinato (NRBQ) 1959
• Greg Louganis 1960
• Eddie Jackson (Queensryche) 1961
• David Baynton-Power (James) 1961
• Nicholas Turturro 1962
• Roddy Frame (Aztec Camera) 1964
• Dominik Hasek (NHL) 1965
• Edward Burns 1968
• Aeneas Williams (NFL) 1968
• Thomas Jane 1969
• Heather Graham 1970
• Sara Gilbert 1975
• Andrew Keegan 1979
• Jonny Lang 1981