Saturday, January 27, 2024

conciliate \kuhn-SIL-ee-eyt\, verb:

1. To overcome the distrust or hostility of; placate; win over.
2. To win or gain (goodwill, regard, or favor).
3. To make compatible; reconcile.
4. To become agreeable or reconciled.

Conciliate comes from the Latin word conciliāre meaning "to bring together." It is related to the words council and calendar.

 

Petri Douche

1. A place/location where a lot of douchebags are known to congregate.
2. A place that attracts and seemingly breeds chavs/douchebags/jackwagons/etc etc.

Oh hell no I'm not going to Wetherspoons, that place is a petri douche!
Or: 
urgh why would you want to go to Las Vegas, that place is such a petri douche.

 

History

• light bulb: Thomas Edison got a patent for his incandescent light (1880)
• Leningrad: the 880-day siege ended; more than half the city's population died during the harsh winter of 1942 (1944)
• Auschwitz: Nazi concentration and extermination camp was liberated by the Red Army (1945)
• Nevada Test Site: nuclear testing began with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat (1951)
• Outer Space Treaty: began collecting signatories; it bans WMDs in space and says the moon is communal property (1967)
• Apollo I: during a preflight test, a cockpit fire trapped and killed NASA astronauts Roger Chaffee, Virgil (Gus) Grissom and Ed White; they were to have made the first manned voyage to the moon (1967)

Birthdays

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756

  
• Lewis Carroll 1832
• Jerome Kern 1885
• Harry Ruby (Rubinstein) 1895
• Hyman Rickover 1900
• William Randolph Hearst Jr. 1908
• Milt Raskin 1916
• Skitch (Lyle) Henderson 1918
• David Seville (Chipmunks) 1919
• Donna Reed 1921
• Giovanni Verga 1922
• Bobby 'Blue' Bland 1930
• George Follmer 1934
• Troy Donahue 1936
• James Cromwell 1940
• Tommy Cromwell 1940
• Nick Mason (Pink Floyd) 1944
• Nedra Talley (The Ronettes) 1947
• Milkail Baryshnikov 1948
• Carl Mannerheim 1951
• Brian Downey (Thin Lizzy) 1951
• Seth Justman (The J. Geils Band) 1951
• Cheryl White (The Whites) 1955
• Richard Young (The Kentucky Headhunters) 1955
• Mimi Rogers 1956
• Janick Robert Gers 1957 (Iron Maiden) 
  Cris Collinsworth (NFL) 1959
• Gillian Gilbert (New Order) 1961
• Margo Timmons (Cowboy Junkies) 1961
• Bridget Fonda 1964
• Tracy Lawrence 1968
• Mike Patton (Faith No More) 1968
• Mark Owen 1972
• Mackenenzie Lynn Adkins 1998
• Dante 1999 (1/27/99 - 7/4/2010) diamond back terrapin (turtle), nuclear physicist, noble prize winner, 3 time Oscar winner, 6 Pulitzer prizes, ninja, dragon slayer, loved krill, had a pink nose.