Thursday, August 29, 2019

jilt \jilt\, verb: 

1. to reject or cast aside (a lover or sweetheart), especially abruptly or unfeelingly.

noun:

1. a woman who jilts a lover.

The origin of jilt is uncertain, but it is perhaps from the Middle English gille meaning "lass" or "wench," which was a shortening of the women's name Gillian, a variant of Jill.

 
Count it

• After an insult is made, make motion with hands similar to a basketball free throw and proceed to yell "count it" showing your superiority to whoever you just tooled on.

YOUR MOM!!!!! COUNT IT (free throw motion)

 

Trivia

What animal is pictured on bottles of Yellow Tail wine?

• A wallaby—a yellow-footed rock wallaby, to be exact. The wallaby is a marsupial native to Australia that is smaller than its cousin, the kangaroo. Yellow Tail wine is made in Australia.

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