Friday, September 17, 2021

Friday, September 17, 2021

efficacious \ef-ih-KAY-shuhs\, adjective:
  • Capable of having the desired result or effect; effective as a means, measure, remedy, etc.
Efficacious is from Latin efficax, -acis, from efficere, "to effect, to bring about," from ex-, "out" + facere, "to do or make."
 
Imma let you finish 
  • Obnoxious way to interrupt someone and steal their moment, while wryly mocking that media train wreck that is Kanye West. Based on West's instantly infamous interruption of Taylor Swift's acceptance speech at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards for Best Female Video with his insane microphone-stealing shout out to Beyonce.
Bob: Thank you Mr. Brown for having us in to give this sales presentation. We'd like to talk to you today about...
Alfred: Yo, Bob, I'm really happy for you, and Imma let you finish, but I just got to say our product is is one of the best products there is!

History
  • United States Constitution: the supreme law of the land was signed at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia (1787)
  • Norton I: Joshua Abraham Norton, a native Englishman who ended up in San Francisco, declared himself emperor of the United States (1859)
  • Battle of Antietam: bloody day — 23,000 killed — of carnage during the American Civil War (1862)
  • Lt. Thomas Selfridge: became the first person to die in an airplane crash, in a plane piloted by Orville Wright (1908)
  • M*A*S*H: the TV show whose final episode remains the top-viewed program on American TV debuted (1972)
Birthdays
  • Ben Turpin 1874
  • Andrew Foster 1879
  • J. (John) Marriott 1900
  • Esther Ralston 1902
  • Dolores Costello 1904
  • Chaim Herzog (Israel) 1918
  • Hank Williams, Sr. (Hiram King "Hank" Williams) 1923 - Country music performer
  • Bill Black 1926
  • Brother Jack McDuff 1926
  • George Blanda 1927
  • Roddy McDowall 1928
  • Sil Austin 1929
  • Pat Crowley 1929
  • Anne Bancroft 1931
  • Dorothy Loudon 1933
  • Ken Kesey 1935
  • Orlando Cepeda 1937
  • Paul Benedict 1938
  • LaMonte McLemore (The Fifth Dimension) 1939
  • David Williams 1946
  • Lol Creme 1947
  • Jeff MacNelly 1947
  • John Ritter 1948
  • Fee Waybill (Tubes) 1950
  • Cassandra "Elvira" Peterson 1951
  • Rita Rudner 1956
  • Kyle Chandler 1965
  • Douglas E. Davis 1966 (Doug E. Fresh)
  • Malik Yoba 1967
  • Keith Flint (Prodigy) 1969
  • Vinnie (Naughty By Nature) 1970
  • Marcus Sanders (Hi-Five) 1973
  • Jimmie Johnson (Jimmie Kenneth Johnson) 1975 - Nascar driver
 
   
 
           

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