Saturday, July 27, 2024

Saturday, July 27, 2024

tawpie \TAW-pee\, noun:
  • A foolish or thoughtless young person.
Tawpie comes from the Swedish word tåbe meaning "a simpleton." 

Chik-Fil-Atheist
  • A person who loves Chik-Fil-A, but not God, and is therefore pissed that Chik-Fil-A is closed on Sundays.
Even though I'm an avowed Chik-Fil-Atheist, I tried to go to Chik-Fil-A on Sunday again. Goddamn it!
 
History
  • transatlantic telegraph cable: was completed, linking the US and Europe; the cord shortened communication time from days to minutes (1866)
  • insulin: physiologists isolated the hormone used to manage diabetes (1921)
  • Bugs Bunny: debuted in The Wild Hare (1940)
  • Billboard: the magazine published its first singles record chart (1940)
  • Korean War: the conflict ended with no clear winner, splitting the country into North and South (1953)
  • Coronation Street: British soap characters Ken Barlow and Deirdre Langton tied the knot; their wedding got higher telly ratings than that of Prince Charles and Lady Di (1981)
Birthdays
  • Charlotte Corday 1768
  • George Foster Peabody 1852
  • Keenan Wynn 1916
  • Homer (Henry D. Haynes) 1918
  • Charles P. Ginsburg 1920
  • Norman Lear 1922
  • Bob Morse (Hi-Lo's) 1927
  • Harvey Fuqua (The Moonglows) 1929
  • Jerry Van Dyke 1931
  • Nick Reynolds (The Kingston Trio) 1933
  • Don Galloway 1937
  • Irv Cross 1939
  • James Victor 1939
  • Dennis Ralston 1942
  • John Pleshette 1942
  • Bobbie Gentry 1944
  • Al Ramsey (Gary Lewis & The Playboys) 1946
  • Betty Thomas 1948
  • Peggy Fleming 1948
  • Maury Chaykin 1949
  • Maureen McGovern 1949
  • Michael Vaughn (Paperlace) 1950
  • Janet Eilber 1951
  • Roxanne Hart 1952
  • Duncan Cameron (Sawyer Brown) 1956
  • Karl Mueller (Soul Asylum) 1963
  • Rex Brown (Pantera) 1964
  • Juliana Hatfield 1967
  • Stacy Dean Campbell 1967
  • Julian McMahon 1968
  • Maya Rudolph 1972
  • Peter Yorn 1974
  • Alex Rodriguez (MLB) 1975
  • John Rhys Meyers 1977


 
 
 

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