bonny \BON-ee\, adjective:
1. Pleasing to the eye.2. British Dialect. A. (Of people) Healthy, sweet, and lively. B. (Of places) Placid; tranquil. C. Pleasing; agreeable; good.
adverb:
1. British Dialect. Pleasingly; agreeably; very well.
noun:
- 1. Scot. and North England Archaic. A pretty girl or young woman.
Bonny is of uncertain origin. It may be related to the Old French word bon meaning "good." It entered the Scots dialect in the mid-1400s
Trivial Pursuit
- A veiled invitation for sex.
"Do you want to come over and, uh, play Trivial Pursuit?"
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
- 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
- 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
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