Saturday, November 16, 2024

franchise \FRAN-chahyz\, noun:

1. The right to vote.
2. A privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual,group, or company by a government.

Franchise derives from the Old French word for "freedom," which shares a root with the English frank.

 

Red Pen Police

• People who preoccupy themselves with correcting the spelling and grammar of others - normally out of some self-esteem issue or desire to prove some value from their otherwise useless thirty-grand education.

-- Lengthy, intelligent facebook status meant to prompt discussion --

Comment: You're*

Reply: UH OH RED PEN POLICE

Reply: Uh oh red pen police.*

History

• Jadwiga: blonde blue-eyed beauty became "king" of Poland (1384)
• Battle of Cajamarca: conquistador Francisco Pizarro massacred thousands of Incas in a surprise attack in Peru, and captured the emperor Atahualpa (1532)
• Native Americans surrender to British in Indian War of Chief Pontiac (1764)
• Federal Reserve System formally opens in the US (1914)
• US-USSR relations: FDR extended formal diplomatic recognition to the Soviet Union (1933)
• Sound of Music: the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical opened on Broadway (1959)
• Skylab 4 launched into Earth orbit (1973)

Birthdays 

• Burgess Meredith 1908

• Daws Butler 1916
• Clu Gulager 1928
• Hubert Sumlin 1931
• Elizabeth Drew 1935
• Joanna Pettet 1944
• Steve Railsback 1948
• David Leisure 1950
• Mani (The Stone Roses) 1962
• Zina Garrison-Jackson 1963
• Dwight Gooden (MLB) 1964
• Lisa Bonet 1967
• Suzi Simpson 1968 - from Athens Greece, playmate (Jan, 1992)
• Tammy Lauren 1969
• Martha Plimpton 1970
• Oksana Baiul 1977