April 30, 2010 Volume 13 No 77
Stupid Quote Of Quotes Of The A Word A Day
The Day Day ccrete Pronunciation (uh-KREET)
On Mountain Climbing, X- rank Leahy:
a verb tr., intr.: To grow gradually by
accumulation.
Treme:
hree Women Climb High Mountain
F “Egotism is the anesthetic that
dulls the pain of stupidity.” Back-formation from accretion, from
accrescere (to grow). Ultimately from the
T And Set Record For Sex
Headline in a North Bend, Oregon,
newspaper (referring to the women’s
Jonathan Winters:
"I couldn't wait for success, so I went
Indo-European root ker- (to grow) that is
also the source of words such as increase,
recruit, crew, crescent, cereal, concrete,
ahead without it."
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climbing record)
Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973)
"Personal Conduct":
and crescendo.
"Protoplanets accrete more material and
grow into full-sized planets." Lisa
“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; Grossman; Saving the Earth With
the naive forgive and forget; the wise Dynamical Simulations; Science News
forgive but do not forget.” (Washington, DC); Jan 8, 2010.
Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa This week’s theme:reinterpretation of words
Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. to coin a new word, i.e. back-formation.
DILBERT-OF-THE-DAY *Happy Birthday*
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Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008: 1917 Bea Wain US singer/radio host [93]
1924 Sheldon Harnick Chgo, lyricist (Fiorello)[86]
“Everyone's a hero in their own way, in
Useless Facts their own not that heroic way.”
1926 Cloris Leachman actr(Last Picture Show)[84]
1933 Willie Nelson TX, country singer [77]
1938 Gary Collins CA, actor (6th Sense) [71]
Of The Day 1938 Larry [Van Cott] Niven US, sci-fi author [71]
seless facts: Urban Word(s) 1940 Burt Young NY, actor (Convoy, Rocky) [70]
1941 Johnny Farina rocker (Santo & Johnny) [69]
U Until 1942, Warner Bros.'
"Looney Tunes" were black-
and-white, with established Of The Day
1943 Bobby Vee (Night has a Thousand Eyes) [67]
1944 Jill Clayburgh actr (Unmarried Woman) [66]
1944 Richard Shoff rocker (Sandpipers) [66]
characters, and "Merrie Melodies"
otes mcgoats 1946 Carl XVI Gustav King of Sweden (1973- )[64]
were in color, usually with one-shot
characters. For 1942 and 1943,
"Looney Tunes" were in color on a
scattershot basis, then color only from
t Totally.
I totes mcgoats failed my math test
1948 Perry King OH, actor (Cody-Riptide) [62]
1953 Merrill Osmond sing (Osmond Brothers) [57]
1961 Isiah Thomas NBA forward (Pistons) [49]
1944 to the present. today. 1965 Adrian Pasdar actor (Feds, Top Gun) [45]
1968 Babette Van Veen actress (Linda-GTST)[42]
1969 Joey Restivo Brooklyn, rocker (Linear) [41]
Published: 11/20/2011 1:44 PM 1972 Debbie D act(Attack of Vampire Mermaid)[38]
1975 Johnny Galecki Belg, actor (Roseanne) [35]
1982 Kirsten Dunst actress (Spiderman) [28]
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1970 US troops invade Cambodia 1997 Big Ben stops at 12:11 PM for 54
History Of The 1972 "Arthur Godfrey Time" ends a 27 year
minutes
run on radio 1997 Tajik President Imomali Rakhmonov
Day 1972 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Alamo
wounded in assassination attempt
Ladies Golf Open
006 Brightest supernova in recorded
1 history is observed
1772 John Clais patents 1st scale
1973 Paul McCartney releases "Red Rose
Speedway" including "My Love"
1974 President Richard Nixon hands over
Gadget Of The
1789 George Washington inaugurated as
1st President of US
partial transcripts of Watergate tape
recordings
Day
1798 Department of the Navy is established ithings WiFi Scale
1803 US doubles in size through the
Louisiana Purchase ($15 million)
1975 Last US helicopter leaves US
embassy grounds in Vietnam, Saigon
surrenders
W A Modern Approach to Weight
Management
1808 1st Geeks everywhere are suffering from an
practical imbalance. Maybe they eat too much
typewriter junk, and are shaped more like Jabba
finished by than Solo. A few of us are perhaps a
Italian little smaller than we should be - and
Pellegrini Turri could stand to be a bit more Simon
Phoenix-y... in the muscular way and
1812 (Eastern) not the insane murder-death-killery
Louisiana way. We all know how to get there.
admitted as Diet and exercise. Sure, there's also
18th US state experimental gene therapy, but even
1838 if you take that route, you still have to
Nicaragua accurately monitor your progress.
declares . . . The problem is, your standard
independence bathroom scale is horribly inaccurate,
from Central and it's difficult to translate the
American scribbled weights you've recorded on
federation the back of your Netflix envelope into
1871 Apaches truly usable data.
in Arizona Enter the Withings WiFi scale! This
surrender to gorgeous hunk of glass and
white & Mars in a Manger
aluminum weighs you in kilograms,
Mexican
Explanation: At opposition in late January, Mars shone very brightly in planet Earth's night sky, pounds, or stone with an accuracy of
adventurers; among the stars of the constellation Cancer the Crab. Since then the Red Planet has been 100 grams. Also, through biometric
144 die fading, but still lingers in Cancer during April and May. In mid-April, Mars wandered remarkably impedance analysis, the scale
close to Cancer's famous star cluster M44, the Beehive Cluster. M44 is also known by an older accurately measures your body fat.
1885 Boston
name, Praesepe, Latin for cradle or manger. Captured in this 60 second time exposure made on This is all well and good, but what
Pops Orchestra April 14, a yellow-tinged Mars and M44 are near the center of the field, seemingly just beyond
forms makes this scale so gosh-darned
the reach of a pine tree. Of course, M44's stars are about 600 light-years away, while Mars was
more like 600 light-seconds from Earth. The digital photograph was made with a camera
special? WiFi! By giving your scale
1888 mounted on a telescope tracking the stars through dark skies above a camp ground in Virginia, access to the interwebs, it posts your
Hailstones kill USA. During the exposure, passing car lights briefly illuminated the tree branches. every weight measurement sample to
about 250 in your own private custom webpage
Moradabad district of Delhi India 1976 Wings release "Silly Love Songs" (a that tracks your body mass and shows you
day that will live in infamy – jim) your progress. . . .
1900 USA annexes Hawaii
1980 Terrorists seize Iranian Embassy in Price: $164.99
1902 Debussy's opera "Pelléas et London
Mélissande", premieres in Paris France http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electroni
1988 Largest banana split ever, at 4.55 c/db64/?cpg=130I&image
1904 Ice cream cone makes its debut miles long, is made in Selinsgrove PA
1937 General Douglas MacArthur marries 1989 Critics Siskel & Ebert film their 500th
Jean Faircloth TV movie-review show
3 DAY FORECAST
1945 "Arthur Godfrey Time" begins a 27 1990 As New York Mets pitcher David
year run on CBS radio Cone argues a call at 1st base, 2 Atlanta Saturday Sunday Monday
1947 Boulder Dam renamed in honor of Braves score 1 May 2010 2 May 2010 3 May 2010
Herbert Hoover 1991 In Bangladesh a cyclone kills over
1952 Mr Potato Head is 1st toy advertised 131,000 & leaves 9 million homeless
on television 1992 208th & final episode of "The Cosby
1955 Element 101, Mendelevium, Show" on NBC-TV
announced 1997 42 million watch "Ellen" admit she is Partly Cloudy Rain Few Showers
gay
1955 Perez Prado's "Cherry Pink & Apple 79°F 69°F 70°F
Blossom White" goes #1 for 10 weeks 54°F 48°F 48°F
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