Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Wednesday, January 12, 2022

torpor \TAWR-per\, noun:
  1. Lacking in vitality or interest.
  2. A state of mental or physical inactivity or insensibility.
  3. Lethargy; apathy.
Origin: Torpor derives from Latin torpēre, to be stiff or numb.
 
Good lenses, bad frames

  • Describing someone who gives a bad first impression but is actually a good person. Someone who doesn't appear to be competent, yet is extremely capable at what he/she does.
Dr. Bruce is a spaz, but he's one of the best doctors I know. You wouldn't know it by looking at him...good lenses, bad frames.
 
History
  • Hattie Caraway: became the first woman elected to the US Senate, exactly 17 years after the House rejected suffrage for women; she made no speeches in the 14 years she served (1932)
  • James Bedford: Californian professor of psychology became the first person to be cryonically preserved when he was frozen a few hours after his death from cancer (1967)
  • All in the Family: groundbreaking sitcom premiered on TV, dealing with issues previously considered unacceptable — including racism, homosexuality and impotence (1971)
  • Deep Impact: space probe was launched from Cape Canaveral to study the core of comet 9P/Tempel by crashing into it; the probe reached its target in July (2005)
Birthdays
  • Edmund Burke 1729
  • Johann Pestalozzi 1746
  • Jack London 1876
  • John Singer Sargent 1856
  • Herman Goering 1893
  • Joe E. Lewis (Klewan) 1902
  • Tex (Woodward) Ritter 1905
  • Henny Youngman 1906
  • Luise Rainer 1910
  • Martin Agronsky 1915
  • P.W. Botha 1916
  • Ray Price 1926
  • Ruth Brown 1928
  • Lloyd Ruby 1928
  • Tim Horton 1930
  • Glenn Yarbrough (The Limeliters) 1930
  • James Fergason 1934
  • The "Amazing Kreskin" 1935
  • Ron Harper 1936
  • William Lee Golden (The Oak Ridge Boys) 1939
  • Tucker (Ivan) Frederickson 1943
  • Joe Frazier 1944
  • Maggie Bell (Stone the Crows) 1945
  • Cynthia Robinson (Sly and the Family Stone) 1946
  • Anthony Andrews 1948
  • Wayne Wang 1949
  • Drew Pearson 1951
  • Rush Limbaugh 1951
  • Ricky Van Shelton 1952
  • Howard Stern 1954
  • Kirstie Alley 1955
  • George Duke 1956
  • Tommy Ardolino (NRBQ) 1957
  • Per Gessle (Roxette) 1959
  • Charlie Gillingham (Counting Crows) 1960
  • Jeffrey Bezos 1964
  • Rob Zombie (White Zombie) 1966
  • Vendela Kirsebom 1967
  • TBird (B-Rock and the Bizz) 1967
  • Raekwon 1970 (Wu Tang Clan)
  • Matt Wong (Reel Big Fish) 1973
  • Melanie Chisholm (Spice Girls) 1975
  • Alicia Angel (t3h pr0n) 1984
  • Andrew Lawrence 1988

 Beth Stern: Howard Stern Cleans Our Cats' Litter Box!

 
 
 

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