Thursday, January 11, 2024

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expostulate \ik-SPOS-chuh-leyt\, verb:

• To reason earnestly with someone against something that person intends to do or has done.

Expostulate is derived from the Latin word expostulātus which meant "demanded urgently or required."

 

hugh wear

• A name for a person's extensive wardrobe of bath robes.

Duder 1: "Hey man nice closet. What's with all the robes?"

Duder 2: "You know I like to be comfortable AND stylin' 24/7."

Duder 1: "Wow you have a complete line of hugh wear up in here. Now all you need are some skeezy blondes."

 

Trivia

What popular children’s book was written in 1957 in hopes of replacing the Dick and Jane elementary school primers?

• The Cat in the Hat, by Dr. Seuss, aka Theodor Geisel.

 

History

• Amelia Earhart: became the first person to fly solo across the Pacific from Hawaii to California (1935)
• cigarette smoking: US Surgeon General Luther Terry first reported the health hazards involved (1964)
• designated hitter: the American League's team owners voted to allow the use of a different player to bat instead of the pitcher; the National League still bans the practice (1973)
• Rosenkowitz sextuplets: the world's first surviving sextuplets were born in Cape Town (1974)

Birthdays

• Alexander Hamilton 1755 - United States Founding Father, soldier, economist, political philosopher, one of America's first constitutional lawyers and the first United States Secretary of the Treasury.
• Ezra Cornell 1807
• John A. MacDonald (Canada) 1815
• Eugenio De Hostos 1839
• Henry Gordon Selfridge 1864
• Alice Paul 1885
• Monte Blue 1890

  
• Alan Paton 1903
• Carroll Shelby 1923
• Don Cherry 1924
• Slim Harpo (James Moore) 1924
• Grant Tinker 1926
• Rod Taylor 1930
• Jack Nimitz 1930
• Goldie Hill 1933
• Mitchell Ryan 1934
• John Chretien (Canada) 1934
• Clarence Clemons (E Street Band) 1942
• Jim Hightower 1943
• Kristine Kaufmann 1945
  Tony Kaye (born Anthony John Selvidge) YES 1946 
• Naomi Judd (The Judds) 1946
• Anna Calder-Marshall 1947
• Dennis (Frederick) Greene (Sha-Na-Na) 1949
• Ben Crenshaw 1952
• John Sessions 1953
• Robert Earl Keen 1956
• Vicki Peterson (The Bangles) 1958
• Kim Coles 1963
• Jason Connery 1963
  Tom Dumont 1968 (No Doubt)
• Maxee Maxwell (Brownstone) 1969
• Mary J. Blige 1971
• Tom Rowlands (The Chemical Brothers) 1971
• Amanda Peet 1972
  Kayleen "KayPikeFashion" Pike 1988