pica \PAHY-kuh\, noun:
1. An abnormal appetite or craving for substances that are not fit to eat.2. A 12-point type of a size between small pica and English.3. A brown-speckled European lark, Alauda arvensis, famed for its melodious song.4. A 12-point type, widely used for typewriters, having 10 characters to the inch.
Pica is from the Middle Latin meaning "magpie," probably translating Greek kissa, "magpie, jay," also "false appetite."
carnevoyeur
- A vegetarian who derives satisfaction from watching other people eat meat or hearing about the eating of meat.
Amy says she's a vegetarian, but she also professes her love for Dinty Moore beef stew and keeps telling me I should go eat Korean Fried Chicken. She's such a carnevoyeur
Trivia
How many Star Wars performers appeared in all 10 films in the popular sci-fi adventure series?
- Only ONE. Anthony Daniels, who played C-3PO and the diminutive Kenny Baker, who played R2-D2 until he died.
- perfect game: Don Larsen pitched what remains the only perfect game in World Series history; the Yankees beat the Dodgers, 2-0 (1956)
- Che Guevara: leftist revolutionary hero was captured by the Bolivian army; he was executed the next day (1967)
- water speed record: was set by Australian Ken Warby at 318 mph/510 kph near Tumut, New South Wales; it still stands (1978)
- Solidarity: and the rest of Poland's labor unions were banned (1982); Solidarity continued to work underground, until it was declared legal in 1989
- Kashmir: a 7.6 magnitude earthquake killed some 80,000 and injured 65,000 on the Pakistan-India border (2005)
- Eddie Rickenbacker 1890
- Juan Peron 1895
- Billy Conn 1917
- Rona Barrett 1936
- Fred Stolle 1938
- Paul Hogan 1939
- David Carradine 1940
- Fred Cash (The Impressions) 1940
- Jesse Jackson 1941
- George Bellamy (The Tornados) 1941
- Buzz Clifford 1942
- R.L. Stine 1943
- Chevy Chase 1943
- Susan Raye 1944
- Tony Wilson (Hot Chocolate) 1947
- Sarah Purcell 1948
- Brian Glenwright 1949
- Sigourney Weaver 1949
- Hamish Stuart (Average White Band) 1949
- Robert "Kool" Bell (Kool & the Gang) 1950
- Johnny Cummings (Ramones) 1951
- Ricky Lee Phelps (Brother Phelps) 1953
- Michael Dudikoff 1954
- Darrell Hammond 1955
- Stephanie Zimbalist 1956
- Mitch Marine (Tripping Daisy) 1961
- Steve Perry (Cherry Poppin' Daddies) 1963
- C.J. Ward (The Ramones) 1965
- Teddy Riley 1966
- Emily Proctor 1968
- Jeremy Davies 1969 - Actor ("Lost", "Saving Private Ryan")
- Matt Damon 1970 - Actor
- Kristanna Loken 1979
- Byron Reeder (Mista) 1979
- Nick Cannon 1980
- Angus T. Jones 1993
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