Friday, September 14, 2018

Friday, September 14, 2018

[Pictured: Katie Fey, aka Jenya D]
fey \FAY\, adjective:
1. Possessing or displaying a strange and otherworldly aspect or quality; magical or fairylike; elfin.
2. Having power to see into the future; visionary; clairvoyant.
3. Appearing slightly crazy, as if under a spell; touched.
4. (Scots.) Fated to die; doomed.
5. (Scots.) Marked by a sense of approaching death.
Fey comes from Middle English feye, feie, from Old English fæge, "fated to die."

vigorish \VIG-er-ish\, noun:
  1. Interest paid to a moneylender, especially a usurer.
  2. A charge paid on a bet, as to a bookie.
Vigorish is an Americanism that arose in the 1910s. It is most likely an adaptation of the Yiddish slang výigrysh from the Russian word meaning "profit." 
 
poindextrous 
  • To be able to communicate equally well with both nerds and normal people alike.
John is quite poindextrous because he is the company's tech dude that will drink you under the table while getting all the cute chicks in the bar.
 
Trivia 
What product was ceremoniously unveiled to the public on September 4, 1957, a day its manufacturer hailed as “E-Day”?
  • The Edsel, the Ford that never took off.  
History
  • "The Star Spangled Banner": US anthem was written by attorney Francis Scott Key during the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore (1814)
  • Selective Service Act: Congress authorized the first peacetime draft in US history (1940)
  • Luna 2: the spherical Soviet spacecraft became the first man-made object to reach the Moon; it crashed onto the lunar surface (1959)
  • Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton: widow who founded the American Sisters of Charity was canonized by Pope Paul VI, becoming the first US-born saint (1975)
  • 1994 Major League Baseball season: was officially canceled by acting commissioner Bud Selig, 34 days after the players' strike began (1994)
Birthdays 
  • Ivan Pavlov 1849
  • Charles Dana Gibson 1867
  • Margaret Sanger 1879
  • Jack Hawkins 1910
  • Clayton Moore 1914
  • Kay Medford 1920
  • Hughes Rudd 1921
  • Constance Baker Motley 1921
  • Bud Palmer 1923
  • Jerry Coleman 1924
  • Allan Bloom 1930
  • Zoe Caldwell 1933
  • Harve Presnell 1933
  • Kate Millett 1934
  • Walter Koenig 1936
  • Nicol Williamson 1938
  • Priscilla Mitchell 1941
  • Joey Heatherton 1944
  • Pete Agnew (Nazareth) 1946
  • Sam Neill 1947
  • John "Bowser" Bauman (Sha Na Na) 1947
  • Steven Gaines (Lynyrd Skynyrd) 1949 
  • Paul Kossoff (Free) 1950
  • Barry Cowsill (The Cowsills) 1954
  • Steve Berlin (Los Lobos) 1955
  • Joe Penny 1956
  • John Berry 1959
  • Mary Crosby 1959
  • Mary Frances 1959
  • Morton Harket (a-ha) 1959
  • Faith Ford 1964
  • Don Cortese 1968
  • Tyler Perry 1969
  • Craig Montoya (Everclear) 1970
  • Kimberly Williams-Paisley 1971
  • Andrew Lincoln 1973 (Rick Grimes from The Walking Dead)
  • Nas 1973
  • Amy Weinhouse 1983 (singer turned zombie)
  • Adam Lamberg 1984
Katie FEY
     
 
  
Jevgenija Diordijchuk (real name)
AKA: Yevgenia / Eugenia / Evgenia Diordiychuk, Jenya D, Shawnee, Katie Fey, Shawnee, Vanesa Gojgik

 

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