Monday, August 24, 2020

Monday, August 24, 2020

shoat \ shoht \ , noun; 
  1. Also, shote. a young, weaned pig. 
  2. geep. 
Origin: Shoat has been in English since the 1300s. It comes from the late Middle English shote and is related to the dialectal Dutch schote. 

half and half and half
  • A type of coffee so diluted by sugar, cream or milk that it no longer tastes like coffee, instead like milk and sugar, and has a beige or light brown color to it. The drink is typically concocted by those who want to appear as if they are drinking coffee but despise the taste.
Anne: Carrol is such a coffee poser, she'll only fill her mug with coffee halfway before she drowns it in milk and sugar.
Jill: Yeah, i hate the taste of her half and half and half.


History
  • St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre: the murder of 70,000 French Protestants (Huguenots) by Catholics began (1572)
  • White House: the seat of the US government was burned down by the British when they invaded Washington, DC, during the War of 1812 (1814)
  • Treaty of Cordóba: Mexico gained independence from Spain (1821)
  • Pluto: got demoted to dwarf planet following a redefinition of "planet" by the International Astronomical Union (2006)
Birthdays
  • Joshua Lionel Cowen 1880
  • Jose Luis Borges 1899
  • Edmund Germer 1901
  • Preston Foster 1901
  • Durward Kirby 1912
  • Dennis James 1917
  • Penny Edwards 1919
  • Louis Teicher 1924
  • Yasser Arafat 1929
  • Roger McCluskey 1930
  • Kenny Baker1934
  • Murray Balfour 1936
  • Mason Williams 1938
  • David Freiburg (Jefferson Starship) 1938
  • Ernest Wright (Little Anthony and the Imperials) 1941
  • Marshall Thompson (The Chi-Lites) 1942
  • John Cipollina (Quicksilver Messenger) 1943
  • Gregory Jarvis 1944
  • Jim Capaldi (Traffic) 1944
  • Jim Brady (The Sandpipers) 1944
  • Ken Hensley (Uriah Heep) 1945
  • Joe Regalbuto 1949
  • Mike Shanahan 1952
  • Jeffrey Daniel (Shalamar) 1955
  • Gerry Cooney 1956
  • Stephen Fry 1957
  • Steve Guttenberg 1958
  • Cal Ripken, Jr. 1960
  • Mark Bedford (Madness) 1961
  • Craig Kilborn 1962
  • John Bush (Anthrax) 1963
  • Marlee Matlin 1965
  • Reggie Miller 1965
  • Kristin Osborn (SheDaisy) 1970
  • David Chappelle 1973
  • Carmine Giovinazzo 1973
  • Beth Riesgraf 1978 
  • Chad Michael Murray 1981
  • Rupert Grint 1988



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