February 17, 2011
Volume 13 No 32
Stupid Quote Of Quotes Of The
The Day
Day
On Corrections, Shocking:
e said that, in the American TV
drama 24, Jack Bauer, the
counter-terrorism agent, resorted
to electrocution to extract
information. you cannot extract information
from someone who has been electrocuted
because they are dead.
W
1
correction in The Guardian
d Gardner:
E
“Opera is when a guy gets
stabbed in the back and, instead of
bleeding, he sings.”
Fran Lebowitz:
“I never took hallucinogenic drugs
because I never wanted my consciousness
expanded one unnecessary iota.”
Dr. Martin Henry Fischer:
“Half of the modern drugs could well be
thrown out of the window, except that the
birds might eat them.”
Doris Egan, House M.D., House vs. God:
“You talk to God, you're religious. God
A Word A Day
arity Pronunciation (PAR-i-tee)
p
noun: Equality in amount, status, etc.
Via French from Latin paritas, from
par (equal). Earliest documented
use: 1572.
"That means that the parity of the
Australian dollar against the greenback,
loved by Aussies heading overseas but
hated by exporters, is more accident than
design." Ian McIlwraith; Pressure on China
for Yuan Move; The Sydney Morning
Herald (Australia); Nov 12, 2010.
noun:
1. The condition of having given birth.
2. The number of children born by a
woman.
"It wasn't just ageing parity -- women
waiting until their mid30s to have a child -that forced the
change." Zoe
Williams; How the
Inventor of the Pill
Changed the World for
Women; The Guardian
(London, UK); Oct 30,
2010.
This week’s theme:
five short words with
multiple, unrelated
meanings.
DILBERT-OF-THE-DAY
talks to you, you're psychotic.”
Useless Facts
Of The Day
U
seless facts:

When released in China, the
James Bond film From Russia
with Love was retitled 007
Averted the Spy Plot.

Urban Word(s)
Of The Day
The mechanical shark in the 1975 hit
movie Jaws was named Bruce.
Published: 3/9/2016 11:27 PM
g
oing ham
a derivative of the word mayhem
v.
meaning to raise mayhem
Shelley hit me in the balls and ran, I'm
going ham the next time i see her.
*Happy Birthday*
------------------------1925 Hal Holbrook OH, actor (Mark Twain) [86]
1932 Buck Trent SC, banjoist/singer(Hee Haw)[79]
1933 Bobby Lewis rocker (Tossin' & Turnin') [78]
1934 Buddy Ryan NFL coach (Eagles) [77]
1935 Christine Pickles Eng, actr(St Elsewhere)[76]
1936 Jim Brown NFL FB (Browns)
[75]
1939 Mary Ann Mobley actr (Diff'rent Strokes) [72]
1945 Brenda Fricker Irel, actr (My Left Foot) [66]
1945 Zina Bethune NY, actress (Nurses) [66]
1946 André Dussollier act (3 Men & a Cradle) [65]
1946 Dodie Stevens actress (Mary Hartman!) [65]
1954 Rene Russo actress (Ransom) [57]
1956 Richard Karn actor (Home Improvement) [55]
1958Heidi Hagman actr(Archie Bunker's Place)[53]
1962 Lou Diamond Phillips actor (La Bamba) [49]
1963 Michael "Air" Jordan NBA G/F(Bulls)[48]
1963 Dan Reed rocker/actor (HOTS)
[48]
1965 Clayton Prince PA, actor (Dark Justice) [46]
1971 Denise Richards actress (Love Actually) [40]
1972 Billie Joe Armstrong singer (Green Day) [39]
1972 Valeria Mazza Argen, model(Cosmo-7/95)[39]
1974 Jerry O'Connell NY, actor (Sliders) [37]
1981 Joseph Gordon-Levitt act (Third Rock…)[30]
1981 Paris Hilton female ne’er-do-well [30]
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Stuff-Of-The-Day Newsletter
History Of The
Day
1
598 Boris Godunov chosen tsar of
Russia
1676 Kings Charles II & Louis XIV
sign secret
treaty
1936 "The Phantom" cartoon strip by Lee
Falk debuts
1949 Men's Figure Skating Championship
in Paris won by Richard Button USA
1950 31 die in a train crash in Rockville
Center, New York
1953 Baseball star/pilot Ted Williams
1981 Chrysler Corp reports largest
corporate losses in US history
1988 US Lieutenant Colonel William
Higgins kidnapped by Lebanese terrorists &
later killed
1989 Whitesnake's rocker David Coverdale
weds actress Tawny Kitaen
1991 US male Figure Skating
championship won by Todd Eldredge
1791 Messier
catalogs M83
(spiral galaxy in
Hydra)
1993 Haitian ferry boat capsize in storm,
800-2,000 die
1998 Diane Zamora, 20, Naval Academy
cadet convicted of capital murder
1801 House
breaks electoral
college tie,
chooses
Jefferson
President over
Burr
Gadget Of The
Day
1865 Columbia
SC burns down
during the Civil
War
1870 Mississippi
becomes 9th
state re-admitted
to US after Civil
War
1979 Eric Heiden equals skating world
record 1000 meter (1:14.99)
1989 Former baseball player/manager Leo
Durocher injured in a car crash
1772 1st
partition of
Poland-Russia &
Prussia, joined
later by Austria
1867 1st ship
passes through
Suez Canal
1979 China invades Vietnam
M
X-Class Flare
Explanation: On Valentine's Day (ET) the Sun unleashed one of its most powerful
explosions, an X-class flare. The blast was the largest so far in the new solar cycle.
Erupting from active region AR1158 in the Sun's southern hemisphere, the flare is
captured here in this extreme ultraviolet image from the Solar Dynamics Observatory
(SDO). The intense burst of electromagnetic radiation momentarily overwhelmed
pixels in SDO's detectors causing the bright vertical blemish. This X-class flare was
also accompanied by a coronal mass ejection (CME), a massive cloud of charged
particles traveling outward at nearly 900 kilometers per second. Skywatchers at high
latitudes should be alert for aurorae tonight.
1876 Sardines
1st canned
(Julius Wolff-Eastport ME)
uninjured as plane shot down in Korea
1880 Tsar Alexander II of Russia survives
an assassination attempt
1956 Ladies Figure Skating Championship
in Garmisch won by Carol Heiss USA
1883 A Ashwell patents free-toilet in
London
1957 Suez Canal reopens
1904 Giacomo Puccini's opera "Madama
Butterfly" premieres in Milan
1906 Theodore Roosevelt's daughter Alice
marries in the White House
1913 New York Armory Show introduces
Picasso, Matisse, Duchamp to US public
1913 1st minimum wage law in US takes
effect (Oregon)
1915 Edward Stone, 1st US combatant to
die in WWI, is mortally wounded
1926 Avalanche buries 75 in Sap Gulch
Bingham UT, 40 die
1933 1st issue of "Newsweek" magazine
published
http://www.stuffoftheday.com/
1957 Fire in Warreton MO, kills 72
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1958 Comic strip "BC" 1st appears
1962 Storm in Hamburg, kills 265
1964 US Supreme court rules - 1 man 1
vote (Westberry vs Sanders)
3 DAY FORECAST
1967 Beatles release "Penny Lane" &
"Strawberry Fields"
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Saturday
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1969 Golda Meir sworn in as Israel's 1st
female prime minister
1974 49 die in stampede for seats at
soccer match, Cairo, Egypt
1974 Carol Mann wins LPGA Naples Lely
Golf Classic
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