Friday, August 18, 2023

mussitation, noun [muhs-i-tey-shuh n] 

1. muttering; mumbling; murmuring.
2. silent movement of the lips in simulation of the movements made in audible speech.

ORIGIN: Mussitation, a very rare noun, derives from Late Latin mussitātiō (stem mussitātiōn-) “suppression of the voice, silence.” The sense of “moving the lips in silence but as if speaking” is a modern medical sense dating from the late 19th century. Late Latin mussitātiō derives from the Latin verb mussitāre “to speak in a low tone, grumble, take no notice of, bear silently.” Mussitation entered English in the mid-17th century. 

Slave to the gram 

• When one is willing to go to extreme heights in order to obtain an instagram photo, possibly risking injury.

She only ski-dived for the instagram , she's a slave to the gram

History

• Phobos: Martian moon named for the Greek god of fear was discovered by Asaph Hall (1877)
• 19th Amendment: was ratified when Tennessee became the 36th state to approve it; this gave US women the right to vote (1920)
• Lolita: controversial Vladimir Nabokov novel, about a middle-aged man who becomes obsessed with a 12-year-old girl, was published (1955)
• James Meredith: became the first African American to graduate from "Ole Miss" (1963)

Birthdays

• Antonio Salieri 1750
  Merriwether Lewis 1774

  
• Max Factor 1904
• Caspar Weinberger 1917
• Shelley Winters 1920
• Rosalynn Carter 1927
• Grant Williams 1930
• Roman Polanski 1933 director, convicted child rapist 
• Gail Fisher 1935
• Rafer Johnson 1935
• Robert Redford 1937
• Johnny Preston 1939
• Christopher Jones 1941
• Martin Mull 1943
• Carl Wayne (The Move) 1944
• Nona Hendryx 1945
• Dennis Elliot (Foreigner) 1950
• Patrick Swayze 1952
• Ron Strykert (Men at Work) 1957
• Madeleine Stowe 1958
• Zac Maloy (The Nixons) 1968
• Everlast 1969
• Edward Norton 1969
• Christian Slater 1969
• Malcolm-Jamal Warner 1970
• Mike Boorem 1988

 

 

 

A forthcoming Zombie production!

TWD finally ended the series. It's been awful for years. ZOmbies should be scary and create unease. 

My friend's production company is working on a new show, check out his instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/thedeadwakeseries/

Wednesday, January 5, 2022

atelier \at-l-YAY\, noun:

• A workshop; a studio.

Origin: Atelier comes from French, from Old French astelier, "carpenter's shop," from astele, "splinter," from Late Latin astella, alteration of Latin astula, itself an alteration of assula, "a shaving, a chip," diminutive of assis, "board."

instagram bae

• someone who likes all your Instagram pictures and gives you shoutouts and acts like Yall a couple over instagram.

Dang who this girl liking all ya pics on IG?

That's my Instagram Bae

History

• x-rays: discovery by Wilhelm Roentgen was announced; though their exact nature was unknown to him (hence the name), the achievement won him the first Nobel Prize in Physics (1896)

  
• minimum wage: Henry Ford instituted the first minimum wage; he paid his employees at least $5 a day (1914)
• Fair Deal: newly reelected president Harry S. Truman coined the phrase to refer to a 21-point program he sent to Congress in 1945, focusing on civil rights and social welfare (1949)
• Prague Spring: a brief period of reform began in Czechoslovakia; it ended later in the year with a Soviet invasion (1968)
• Eris: largest dwarf planet was discovered (2005)

Birthdays

• Stephen Decatur 1779
• Edmund Ruffin 1794
• Jeannette Piccard 1895
• George Reeves 1914
• Al Blozis 1919
• Erica Morini 1919
• Jean-Pierre Aumont 1911
• Sam Phillips 1920
• Buddy Young 1926
• W.D. Snodgrass 1926
• Fred Glover 1928
• Walter 'Fritz' Mondale 1928
• Robert Duvall 1930
• Alvin Ailey 1931
• Chuck Noll 1932
• Johnny Adams 1932
• Francois d'Aulan 1932
• Earl Battey 1935
• Lindsay Crosby 1938
• Chuck McKinley 1941
• Wayne Rutledge 1942
• Sam Wyche 1945
• Diane Keaton 1946
• Ted Lange 1947
• George "Funky" Brown (Kool and the Gang) 1949
• Chris Stein (Blondie) 1950
• Pamela Sue Martin 1953
• Clancy Brown 1959
• Suzy Amis 1961
• Iris Dement 1961
• Jeff Fassero 1963
• Schellenbach (Luscious Jackson) 1967
• Joe Juneau 1968
• Marilyn Manson 1970
• Kylie Bax 1975
• January Jones 1978

 

Wednesday, November 25, 2020

deiform \ DEE-uh-fawrm \ , adjective; 

• godlike or divine in form or nature.

Origin: Deiform comes from the Medieval Latin word deiformis , a combination of dei- (meaning "god") and -formis (meaning "having the form of"). 

gram

• To take a photo using Instagram.

Wait, hold it right there, I've got to gram this.

 

History

• Hollywood Ten: screenwriters were blacklisted by producers for being suspected Communists (1947)
   The Star Wars Ewok Adventure aired on the ABC Sunday Night Movie. (1984)
• Iran-contra affair: arms-sales scandal blew open; US National Security Council aide Oliver North was fired for planning to ship arms secretly to Iran (1986)
• Elián González: 6-year-old Cuban émigré was rescued by fishermen off Florida's coast, sparking a political asylum/child custody battle (1999)
• Department of Homeland Security: was signed into law by George W. Bush; Tom Ridge was named the first department head (2002)

Birthdays

• Andrew Carnegie 1835
  
• Carry Nation 1846
• Virgil Thomson 1896
• Joe DiMaggio (MLB) 1914
• Augusto Pinochet (Chili) 1915
• Ricardo Montalban 1920
• Etta Jones 1928
• Nat Adderley 1931
• Kathryn Crosby 1933
• Matt Clark 1936
• Percy Sledge 1940
• Tracey Walter 1942
• Ben Stein 1944
• Bob Lind (Elusive Butterfly) 1944
• Bev Bevan (Electric Light Orchestra) 1946
• Jonathan Kaplan 1947
• John Larroquette 1947
• Amy Grant 1960
• John F. Kennedy, Jr. 1960
• Bernie Kosar (NFL) 1963
• Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees) 1964
• Dougray Scott 1965
• Stacy Lattisaw 1966
• Deborah Wells 1968 t3h pr0n
• Erick Sermon 1968
• Jill Hennessey 1968
• Christina Applegate 1971

 

Friday, February 22, 2019

kinchin \kin-chin\, noun:

• a child.

Derived from the German kindchen, kinchin is a diminutive form of kind meaning "child." Kindchen entered the lexicon in the last decade of the 1600s.

 

Instagram Friendly

• Used to describe a location, typically a restaurant, where there is either good cellular coverage or free wi-fi and adequate lighting to properly capture food porn photos and upload them to Instagram.

Mike is really addicted to food porn photos, he'll only go to Instagram Friendly restaurants now.

 

Trivia
Where in the U.S. is the only statue of George Washington for which America’s first president actually posed?

• In Richmond, Virginia, in the state capitol. The life-size marble statue was carved by noted French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon after he took detailed measurements of Washington’s body, and made a life mask of his face and a plaster bust of his head. The statue was installed in the capitol rotunda in 1796.

Who owned the largest commercial whiskey distillery in 18th-century America?

• George Washington. At its peak in 1799, the five-still distillery produced 11,000 gallons of whiskey. Located three miles from Washington’s Mount Vernon estate, it was reconstructed and opened for guided tours in 2007.

Holiday

• George Washington's Birthday (USA 2/22)

History

• Transcontinental Treaty: Spain ceded Florida to the US (1819)
• Woolworth's store: general-store clerk Frank Woolworth opened his first five-and-dime, in Utica, NY (1879)
• Daytona 500: NASCAR's most important race was first held in Daytona Beach, Florida; Lee Petty came in first, driving at 135.52 mph (213.22 kmph) (1959)
• 1978 - Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen were arrested in New York and charged with drug possession.
• Miracle on Ice: the US beat the Soviet Union at ice hockey in a major upset at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York (1980)
• 1989 - Milli Vanilli won a Grammy for Best New Artist. It was admitted later that they were not the vocalists on the album.
• 1993 - Radiohead's first album, "Pablo Honey", was released.
• Securitas depot robbery: a group of men pulled off Britain's biggest crime in terms of cash stolen — £53 million (2006)

Birthdays

• George Washington (U.S.) 1732 - First President of the United States.
• Johann Nikolaus Forkel 1749
• Rembrandt Peale 1778
• Frederic-Francois Chopin 1810
• James Russell Lowell 1819
• Robert Baden-Powell 1857
• Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892
• Luis Bunuel 1900
• Robert Young 1907
• Sheldon Leonard 1907
• John Mills 1908
• Robert Wadlow 1918
• Bud Yorkin 1926
• Paul Dooley 1928
• Edward M. Kennedy 1932 - got away with murder
• Ernie K-Doe 1936
• Bobby Hendricks 1938
• Jonathan Demme 1944
• Oliver (Swofford) 1945

  
• John Ashton 1948
• Ellen Greene 1950
• Julie Walters 1950
• Julius Erving II 1950
• Miou-Miou (Sylvette Hery) 1950
• Amy Alcott 1956
• Kyle MacLachlan 1959
• Steve Irwin 1962 - The Crocodile Hunter
• Jeri Ryan 1968
• Jose Solano 1971
• Lea Salonga 1971
• Michael Chang 1972
• Scott "Flip" Phillips (Thomas Scott "Flip" Phillips) 1973 - Drummer (Creed)
• Drew Barrymore 1975 - Actress