Friday, August 6, 2021

hebetude \HEB-uh-tood-; -tyood\, noun:

• Mental dullness or sluggishness.

Hebetude derives ultimately from Latin hebes, "blunt, dull, mentally dull, sluggish, stupid." The adjective form is hebetudinous.

 

Ghost Tweeter

1. The act of helping a friend fine tune their twitter updates. Either to make them funnier or more concise.
2. Knowingly coming up with tweets for a friend or colleague.
3. Tweeting for a company or entity under the guise of being them.
4. Tweeting as a celebrity without their knowledge.

"Wow, Jane's last tweet was hilarious. she must have a funny ghost tweeter."
or
"That's not really Ashton Kutcher on twitter. That is a ghost tweeter."

 

Holiday

• International BEER Day! (first Friday of August, annually)

History

• Holy Roman Empire: came to an end with the abdication of Francis II (1806)
• Bolivia: declared independence from Spain (1825)
• electric chair: was first used as method of execution, on murderer William Kemmler at New York's Auburn Prison (1890)
• Gertrude Ederle: became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1926)
• Enola Gay: US bomber dropped an atomic weapon on Hiroshima, killing over 60,000 instantly; it was the first-ever use of nuclear warfare (1945)
• Voting Rights Act: was signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson; it prohibited states from imposing racial discrimination at the polls based on literacy or financial ability (1965)
• Gerry Adams: the Sinn Féin president and British PM Tony Blair meet; it's the first time in 76 years that a British leader met with an IRA ally (1997)

Birthdays

• Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809
  
• Leo Carrillo 1881
• Louella Parsons 1881
• Sir Alexander Fleming 1881
• Scott Nearing 1883
• Hoot Gibson 1892
• Harry E. Cooper 1904 - Golfer
• Helen Hull Jacobs 1908
• Charles Crichton 1910
• Lucille Ball 1911
• Robert Mitchum 1917
  
• Buddy Collette 1921
• Sir Freddie Laker 1922
• Andy Warhol 1928
• Abbey Lincoln 1930
• Paul Bartel 1938
• Peter Bonerz 1938
• Ray Buktenica 1942
• Michael Anderson Jr. 1943
• Andy Messersmith 1945
• Dorian Harewood 1950
• Catherine Hicks 1951
• Pat McDonald (Timbuk 3) 1953
• Stepfanie Kramer 1956
• Randy DeBarge 1958
• Peggy Lynn (The Lynns) 1964
• Patsy Lynn (The Lynns) 1964
• Lisa Stewart 1968
• Geri Estelle Halliwell (Spice Girls) 1972
• Soleil Moon Frye 1976
• Marisa Miller 1978
• Adrianne Curry 1982
• Nessa Barrett 2002