Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Wednesday, August 29, 2018

phthisis \THAHY-sis\, noun:
1. A wasting away.
2. Pulmonary tuberculosis; consumption.
Phthisis comes from the Greek root phthí which meant "to decay."
 
ego waffles
  • waffles made out of ego which are consumed by narcissistic people in order to sustain a delicate ego
That condescending bitch is so full of herself, I'll bet she ate ego waffles for breakfast.
 
Trivia  
Anatomy-wise, what is the meaning of the slang term cankle?
  • Fat ankle. A combination of the words calf and ankle, it is used when a person’s calf and ankle appear to be the same thickness.
History
  • Atahualpa: last sovereign Incan emperor was garroted by Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizzaro, who thus defeated the Incan Empire and conquered Peru (1533)
  • Royal George: some 900 drowned when the ship sank at port; the event was immortalized in William Cowper's "On the Loss of the Royal George" (1782)
  • Shay's Rebellion: uprising began in Massachusetts, led by Revolutionary War captain Daniel Shays; farmers were protesting crushing debt and taxes (1786)
  • Treaty of Nanking: marked the end of the First Opium War and the ceding of Hong Kong Island to Britain (1842)
  • The Beatles: gave their last paid concert, at San Francisco's Candlestick Park, now Monster Park (1966)
  • Hurricane Katrina: the costliest natural disaster in US history made landfall in Louisiana and Mississippi, devastating cities, most notably New Orleans (2005)
Birthdays
  • John Locke 1632
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809
  • Preston Sturges 1898
  • Barry Sullivan 1912
  • Ingrid Bergman 1915
  • George Montgomery 1916
  • Isabel Sanford 1917
  • Charles White 1920
  • Charlie "Bird" Parker 1920
  • Wendell Scott 1921
  • Sir Richard Attenborough 1923
  • Dinah Washington 1924
  • Dick O'Neill 1928
  • John McCain 1936 (RINO)
  • Elliott Gould 1938
  • William Friedkin 1939
  • Ellen Geer 1941
  • Robin Leach 1941
  • Sterling Morrison (The Velvet Underground) 1942
  • Deborah Van Valkenburgh 1952
  • Mark Morris 1956
  • Dan Truman (Diamond Rio) 1956
  • Michael Joseph Jackson 1958
  • Rebecca DeMornay1962
  • Liz Fraser (Cocteau Twins) 1963
  • Me'Shell NdegeOcello 1969
  • Carl Martin (Shai) 1970
  • Carla Gugino 1971
  • A+ 1982
  • Lea Michele 1986


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