Friday, March 15, 2019

bibelot \BIB-loh; Fr. beebuh-LOH\, noun:

• a small object of curiosity, beauty, or rarity.

Bibelot entered English in the late 1800s from the Old French beubelet meaning "trinket" or "jewel." This term originally came from the reduplication in Old French belbel, a word for a "plaything," the literal translation of which is "pretty pretty."

 

Does the Pope shit in the woods?

• This is a sarcastic answer to a question with an obvious answer of "yes." Taken as a combination of the similarly-intended ones, "Does a bear shit in the woods?" and "Is the Pope Catholic?"

By the way, I'm Catholic.

Do I want an Abita Turbo Dog? Does the Pope shit in the woods?

History

• Ides of March: Roman dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated, stabbed in the Senate house (44 BCE)

  
• blood bank: the first hospital repository of blood was established at Cook County Hospital in Chicago (1937)
  Howard Phillips Lovecraft passes away from cancer. (1937)
• My Fair Lady: Lerner and Loewe musical debuted on Broadway, starring Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews (1956)
• The Godfather: widely considered one of the best films ever made, premiered (1972)
• symbolics.com: the first Internet domain name was registered (1985)
• Sedna: the press announced discovery of the "tenth planet," the farthest celestial body in the solar system (2004)

Birthdays

• Andrew Jackson (U.S.) 1767

  
• Emil von Behring 1854
• Jimmy McPartland 1907
• Samuel "Lightnin" Hopkins 1912
• Macdonald Carey 1913
• Harry James 1916
• Norm Van Brocklin (NFL) 1926
• Alan L. Bean 1932 - Astronaut
• Cecil Taylor 1933
• Judd Hirsch 1935
• Jimmy Lee Swaggert 1935
• Phil Lesh 1940 - Musician (The Grateful Dead)
• Mike Love 1941 - Musician (The Beach Boys)
• David Costell 1944 - Musician (Gary Lewis & The Playboys)
• Sly Stone 1944 - Musician (Sly & the Family Stone)
• Tracy Smith 1945
• Bobby Bonds 1946
• Howard Scott 1946 - Musician (War)
• Ry Cooder 1947 - Musician
• Dee Snider 1953 - Musician (Twisted Sister)
• Craig Wasson 1954
• Park Overall 1957
• Harold Baines 1959 - Baseball player (MLB)
• Fabio 1961 - Model
• Terry Cummings 1961 - Basketball player (NBA)
• Terence Trent D'Arby 1962 - Singer
• Bret Michaels 1963 - Musician (Poison)
• Rockwell (Kenneth Gordy) 1964 - Singer
• Mark McGrath 1968 - Singer (Sugar Ray)
• Kim Raver 1969 - Actress ("24")
• Mark Hoppus 1972 - Musician (Blink 182)
• Eva Longoria 1975 - Actess ("Desperate Housewives")
• will.i.am 1975 - Musician (Black Eyed Peas)
• Joseph "Joe" Hahn 1977 - Musician (Linkin Park)
• Kevin Youkilis 1979 - Baseball player
• Young Buck 1981 - Rapper
• Kellan Lutz 1985 - Actor ("Twilight")
  Alessandra (Alessandria) Love - SNS Bikinis Model, t3h pr0n
• Caitlin Wachs 1989