Sunday, December 30, 2018

lagan \LAG-uhn\, noun:

• Anything sunk in the sea, but attached to a buoy or the like so that it may be recovered.

Lagan is not as well known as its contextual brethren, flotsam and jetsam. The word comes from the Old Norse word lǫgn which meant "a net laid in the sea."

 

Police Navidad

• when a Christmas party gets out of control, and the cops are called

It was all Merry Christmas and Peace on Earth ‘til the fight broke-out and, next thing I knew, it was Police Navidad.

Amazonukkah

• When Christmas really lasts 8 days because the presents take longer to deliver from Amazon.com than anticipated by the purchaser. This is often caused by the reckless use of Super Saver Shipping on items which were bought on Christmas Eve. As a result, the presents are received in small amounts each day over an 8 day period, similar to Hanukkah.

Kid 1: Did you get everything you wanted for Christmas?

Kid 2: I dunno, we're celebrating Amazonukkah this year. My parents are real procrastinators. FML

Holiday

• Bacon Day
  

History

• Gadsden Purchase: was signed, acquiring the land of southern New Mexico and Arizona from Mexico (1853)
• The Pirates of Penzance: Gilbert and Sullivan operetta was first staged (1879)
• USSR: was established when Russia joined Byelorussia, Ukraine and the Transcaucasian Federation (1922)
• Arroyo Seco Parkway: aka the Pasadena Freeway, connecting Los Angeles with Pasadena, opened (1940)
• Saddam Hussein: the Iraqi dictator was executed by hanging for war crimes in the Dujail massacre (2006)

Birthdays

• André Messager 1853
  
• Rudyard Kipling 1865
• Simon Guggenheim 1867
• Stephen Leacock 1869
• Hideki Tojo 1884
• Vincent Lopez 1895
• Bert Parks 1914
• Marie Wilson 1915
• Jo Van Fleet 1922
• Bo Diddley 1928
• Barbara Nichols 1929
• Jack Lord 1930
  
• Skeeter Davis 1931
• Russ Tamblyn 1934
• Fred Lorenzen 1934
• Sandy Koufax (MLB) 1935
• John Hartford 1937
• Noel Paul Stookey 1937
• Paul Stookey (Peter, Paul and Mary) 1937
• Joseph Bologna 1938
• Del Shannon 1939
• Fred Ward 1942
• Michael Nesmith (Monkees) 1942
• Davy Jones (Monkees) 1945

• Roger Glover (Rainbow) 1945
• Patti Smith 1946
• Jeff Lynne (E.L.O., Traveling Wilburys) 1947
• Suzy Bogguss 1956
• Sheryl Lee Ralph 1956
• Patricia Kalember 1956
• Matt Lauer 1957
• Tracey Ullman 1959
• Ben Johnson 1961
• Jay Kay (Jamiroquai) 1969
• Tiger Woods 1975
• Meredith Monroe 1976
• Tyrese 1978
• Eliza Dushku 1980
• Kristin Kreuk 1982