Monday, December 2, 2024

fainaigue \fuh-NEYG\, verb:

1. To shirk; evade work or responsibility.
2. To renege at cards.

Fainaigue stems from British dialect, but its exact origins are unclear. Whether or not it has a relationship to finagle is a source of debate.

clout 

• Clout is being famous and having influence 

Wow - Rice, Mitch, and Banks have hella clout

History 

• Napoleon Bonaparte: was crowned emperor of France at Notre Dame (1804)
• Monroe Doctrine: was articulated by President James Monroe; it told Europe to stay out of the Americas (1823)
• EPA: Richard Nixon established a federal agency to set and enforce national pollution-control standards (1970)
• scientific experimentation: Enrico Fermi produced the first nuclear chain reaction at the University of Chicago (1942); Louis Paul Cailletet liquified oxygen (1877)
• artificial heart: Barney Clark was the recipient of the first such transplant, a Jarvik-7; he lived for 112 days (1982)
• Benazir Bhutto: was sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head a modern Muslim nation (1988)

Birthdays

• George Seurat 1859
• Charles Ringling 1862
• S. Joseph Begun 1905
• Ray Walston 1914
• Adolph Greene 1915
• Leo Gordon 1922
• Maria Callas 1923
• Alexander M. Haig 1924
• Julie Harris 1925
• Edwin Meese III 1931
• Cathy Lee Crosby 1948
• John Wesley Ryles 1950
• Keith Szarabajka 1952
• Dan Butler 1954
• Stone Phillips 1954
• Dennis Christopher 1955
• Steven Bauer 1956
• Sydney Youngblood 1960
• Rick Savage (Def Leppard) 1960 
• Lucy Liu 1968
• Nate Mendel (Foo Fighters) 1968
• Jimi Haha (Jimmie's Chicken Shack) 1968
• Anthony "Treach" Criss (Naughty By Nature) 1970
• Monica Seles 1973
• Nelly Furtado 1978
• Britney Spears 1981