Saturday, January 06, 2024

Saturday, January 6, 2024

sprat \sprat\, noun:
1. A small or inconsequential person or thing.
2. A species of herring, Clupea sprattus, of the eastern North Atlantic.
Sprat is a variation of the Old English word sprot which meant "a sprout or twig." Its most common usage is in the nursery rhyme "Jack Sprat."
 
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  • Virtually any college or university campus in Mississippi, Alabama or Tennessee, where over 30% of the student body is significantly obese.
"Dude, it was like an entire university campus of sumo wrestlers! I couldn't believe the amount of morbidly obese 20-year olds cruising the hippocampus on mobility scooters."
 
Trivia
What three letters appear on the pull tabs of most zippers?
  • YKK—for the Japanese-based company that manufactures zippers sold worldwide. The initials come from the company’s original name, Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikikaisha. Its largest zipper factory, the largest in the world, is in Macon, Georgia.
Holiday
  • Armenian Christmas
  • Twelfth Day (Christian)
History
  • George Washington: wed wealthy widow Martha Dandridge Custis (1759)
  • Maria Montessori: Italian educator, known for the Montessori method, opened her first school in a Rome housing project (1907)
  • Four Freedoms: in his State of the Union message to Congress, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt described his goals for all humanity: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of religion, freedom from want, and freedom from fear (1941)
  • George H.W. Bush: WWII Navy pilot married Barbara Pierce, who had dropped out of college to solidify the union (1945)
  • Wheel of Fortune: TV's longest-running syndicated game show first aired (1975)
  • President Bush: defeated that lying whiny-assed cry-baby Al Gore as Congress certified George W. Bush the winner of the close and bitterly contested 2000 presidential election (2001)
Birthdays
  • King Richard II (England) 1367
  • Joan of Arc 1412
  • Jacques-Ètienne Montgolfier 1745
  • Jebediah Smith 1799
  • Gustave Doré 1833
  • Carl Sandburg 1878
  • Tom (Thomas Erwin) Mix 1880
  • Joey Adams 1911
  • Danny Thomas 1912
  • Loretta Young 1913
  • Eugene Maleska 1916
  • Sun Myung Moon 1920
  • Earl Scruggs (Bluegrass Boys, Foggy Mountain Boys) 1924
  • John Z. DeLorean 1925
  • Pat Flaherty 1926
  • Wilbert Harrison 1929
  • Vic Tayback 1930
  • Dickie Moore 1931
  • E.L. Doctorow 1931
  • Bobby Lord 1934
  • Silvia Syms 1934
  • Nino Tempo 1935
  • Doris Troy 1937
  • Bonnie Franklin 1944
  • Syd Barrett (Pink Floyd) 1946 
  • Kim Wilson (The Fabulous Thunderbirds) 1951
  • Jett Williams 1953
  • Malcolm Young (AC/DC) 1953
  • Rowan Atkinson 1955
  • Van McCoy 1956
  • Nancy Lopez Knight 1957
  • Kathy Sledge (Sister Sledge) 1959
  • Eric Williams (BLACKstreet) 1960
  • Michael Houser (Widespread Panic) 1962
  • Charles Haley (NFL) 1964
  • John Singleton 1968
    Norman Reedus 1969 (The Walking Dead)
  • Gabrielle Reece 1970
  • Danny Pintauro 1976
    Hiromi Oshima ("Bunny" Girl) 1980
    Irina Shayk 1986

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