Monday, January 03, 2022

Monday, January 3, 2022

tortuous \TOR-choo-us\, adjective:
  1. Marked by repeated turns and bends; as, "a tortuous road up the mountain."
  2. Not straightforward; devious; as, "his tortuous reasoning."
  3. Highly involved or intricate; as, "tortuous legal procedures."
Tortuous is from Latin tortuosus, from tortus, "a twisting," from the past participle of torquere, "to twist."
 
Guac-blocked
  • When you're at a party and all you really want is to get some guacamole dip and chips, but one of your fellow party-goers is drunkingly blocking your path to the guac.
Sarah had gotten her drink and was ready to get some snacks, but unfortunately she was guac-blocked by Cody, who had moved between her and the food.


Trivia
According to ufologists, what is a close encounter of the fourth kind?
  • The abduction of a human by an extraterrestrial. A close encounter of the third kind is the sighting of an extraterrestrial.
History
  • Meiji Restoration: re-established the authority of Japan's emperor and led to the fall of the shoguns (1868)
  • the Curse of the Bambino: Red Sox losing streak began with the team's sale of Babe Ruth to the Yankees; it lasted till 2004 (1920)
  • March of Dimes: fundraising organization was founded by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to raise funds for the battle against poliomyelitis; it later expanded its aim to the prevention of premature birth, birth defects and infant mortality (1938)
  • Alaska: the territory once known as Seward's Folly became the 49th and largest US state (1959)
Birthdays
  • Marcus Tullius Cicero 106 B.C.
  • Lucretia Mott 1793
  • Clement Attlee 1883
  • Anna Pavlova 1885
  • J.R.R. Tolkien 1892 (LOTR)
  • Marion Davies 1897
  • Zasu Pitts 1898
  • Ray Milland 1905
  • Victor Borge 1909
  • Joseph Rauh 1911
  • Maxene Andrews (The Andrews Sisters) 1916
  • John Russell 1921
  • Bill Travers 1922
  • Hank Stram 1924
  • George Martin 1926
  • Joan Walsh Anglund 1926
  • Robert Loggia 1930
  • Dabney Coleman 1932
  • Coo Coo (Clifton) Marlin 1932
  • Bobby Hull (NHL) 1939
  • Van Dyke Parks 1943
  • Victoria Principal 1944
  • Stephen Stills (Buffalo Springfield) 1945
  • Betty Rollin 1946
  • John Paul Jones (Baldwin) 1946
  • Melody Anderson 1955
  • Mel Gibson 1956
  • Shannon Sturges 1968
  • James Carter 1969
  • Michael Schumacher 1969
  • Jason Marsden 1975
  • Danica McKellar 1975

 
  
 
 

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