Thursday, January 18, 2018

Thursday, January 18, 2018

persnickety \per-SNIK-i-tee\, adjective:
1. Overparticular; fussy.
2. Snobbish or having the aloof attitude of a snob.
3. Requiring painstaking care.
Persnickety dates back to the late 1800s. It is a variant of the Scots word pernickety, which is of uncertain origin. Pernickety is perhaps related to other Scots words with the per- prefix, like perskeet which meant "fastidious."
 
mompetition

  • The one-up rivalry that moms play making their child seem better, smarter, and/ or more advanced than yours. May involve two or more moms and any number of children, even full-grown.
She engaged me in mompetition insisting her son walked at 6 months and implying my son was slow for his age.
History
  • Lima: capital of the Spanish New World empire was founded by Spanish explorer Francisco Pizarro after he defeated the native Incans; the now-sprawling metropolis is also known as El Pulpo ("the Octopus") (1535)
  • Sandwich Islands: Hawaii was first visited by a European, Captain James Cook, who named it after one of his sponsors, the Earl of Sandwich (1778)
  • Botany Bay: the first ship of the First Fleet arrived in Australia, bringing English convicts (1788)
  • The x-ray machine was exhibited for the first time (1896)
  • Albert DeSalvo, who claimed to be the "Boston Strangler," was convicted in Cambridge, MA, of armed robbery, assault and sex offenses. He was sentenced to life in prison. Desalvo was killed in 1973 by a fellow inmate. (1967)
  • Marion Barry: the mayor of Washington, DC, was arrested on drug charges; after serving his sentence, he reentered politics and regained the mayoralty (1990)
Birthdays
  • Peter Roget 1779
  • Daniel Webster 1782
  • A.A. Milne 1882
  • Oliver Hardy (Laurel & Hardy) 1892
  • Cary Grant 1904
  • Danny Kaye 1913
  • Berthold Goldschmidt 1903
  • David Bellamy 1933
  • Bobby Goldsboro 1941
  • David Ruffin (The Temptations) 1941
  • 'Legs' Larry Smith (The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band) 1944
  • Brett Hudson (Hudson Brothers) 1953
  • Kevin Costner 1955
  • Mark Collie 1956
  • Philip Boa 1962
  • Jane Horrocks 1964
  • Dave Bautista 1969
  • Jessie L. Martin 1969
  • DJ Quik 1970
  • Jonathan Davis 1970 Korn
  • Jason Segel 1980
  • Samantha Mumba 1983



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