Porn and Movie

• To purge or purify.

• A tingling or numbness or a sharp, piercing pain shooting through the wrist as a direct result of engaging in pleasuring one's self while watching excessive porn.

• Hamilton was on the $5 bill: Lincoln on the $10 bill—the reverse of today’s $5 and $10 bills.

• Chicago: the Windy City was founded with a population of 350 (1833)


• Isaac Singer: got a patent for his sewing machine (1851)


• Spanish-American War: peace protocol was signed; Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines were ceded to the US and Cuba was released from Spanish rule (1898)


• IBM-PC: IBM introduced its first personal computer, which contained an Intel chip and Microsoft's DOS operating system (1981)


• Sue: the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever found was discovered in South Dakota; she now resides in Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History (1990)


• Kursk: Russian nuclear submarine sank in the Barents Sea, killing the whole of its 118-member crew (2000)

• Linda O'Neil (38): actress and the most popular body model that you probably never heard of.


• George IV (1762-1830): king of Great Britain


• Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929): poet who wrote "America the Beautiful"; plus, writers Robert Southey (1774-1843), Jacinto Benavente (1866-1954), Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958) and Ann M. Martin (56)


• Cecil B. DeMille (1881-1959): director of blockbusters like The Ten Commandments; plus, director John Derek (1926-1998)


• Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961): theoretical physicist, Schrödinger's equation


• Mark Knopfler (62): composer, guitarist, rock singer; also, jazzman Pat Metheny (57)


• Peter Krause (46): Nate Fisher in Six Feet Under and Adam Braverman in Parenthood; also, actors Cantinflas (1911-1993), George Hamilton (72), Bruce Greenwood (55), Michael Ian Black (40), Rebecca Gayheart (39), Casey Affleck (36), and Maggie Lawson and Dominique Swain (both 30)


• Pete Sampras (40): tennis champ; also baseball hall-of-famer Christy Mathewson (1880-1925)

I heard this on the radio this morning:

1. Rise of the Planet of the Apes $54M
2. The Smurfs $21M
3. Cowboys & Aliens $15.7M
4. The Change-Up $13.5M
5. Captain America: The First Avenger $13M

• To increase the alcohol in a wine by adding sugar.

• A game where everyone in Congress refuses to agree on a deal to raise the debt ceiling until the last possible minute. It's like regular chicken, but instead of driving cars at each other, politicians are using the economy.

• The parliament ruled that for the next 10 years, in order to rebuild the city’s devastated population, each male citizen would be permitted to have two wives.

• Mont Blanc: the tallest Alp was summited for the first time, by Frenchmen Jacques Balmat and Michel-Gabriel Paccard (1786)


• mimeograph: was patented by Thomas A. Edison (1876)


• Great Train Robbery: 15 thieves stole more than £2m. from a London-bound traveling post office after stopping the train with a false red signal in Buckinghamshire (1963)


• Richard Nixon: announced his resignation from the presidency in the wake of Watergate, six years to the day after he was nominated by the Republican Party (1974)

• Emiliano Zapata (1879-1919): rebel leader of the Mexican revolution


• Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953): Pulitzer Prize-winner for The Yearling; plus, winner of the first Pulitzer Prize for poetry Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)


• Paul Dirac (1902-1984): mathematician and physicist who won a Nobel Prize for work on atomic theory


• Dino De Laurentiis (92): film producer, Serpico; also, director/producer Martin Brest (60)


• Dustin Hoffman (74): award-winning actor, Rain Man; plus, actors Esther Williams (90), Connie Stevens (73), Keith Carradine (62), Donny Most (58), Tawny Cypress (35), Michael Urie (31) and Meagan Good (30)


• Drew Lachey (35): singer/dancer, 98 Degrees, DWTS; also, musicians Mel Tillis (79), Phil Balsley (72), The Edge (50), Kool Moe Dee (49) and JC Chasez (35)

1. Conveying meaning by hint, euphemism, innuendo, or the like.

2. Pertaining to, or characteristic of Aesop or his fables.

• A TSA pat-down with a "happy landing."

• Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, and Stan Musial.

• freedom of the press: a legal precedent was established when newspaper editor John Peter Zenger was acquitted of seditious libel; he had published criticism of the colonial governor of New York (1735)
• US Coast Guard: was launched as the Revenue-Marine, later called the Revenue Cutter Service (1790)
• Anne Frank: teenage Jewish diarist was discovered, along with her family, by Nazis; their hiding place was revealed by a Dutch informant and they were sent to concentration camps, where most perished (1944)
• Burkina Faso: West African republic received its new name meaning "land of upright people"; it was formerly called Upper Volta (1984)

• Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (1900-2002): wife of George VI, mother of Elizabeth II
• Louis Armstrong (1901-1971): jazz trumpeter
• Raoul Wallenberg (1912-1947?): Swedish diplomat/businessman who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews during WWII; in 1945, he was taken into custody by the Russians and disappeared
• Barack Obama (50): the 44th POTUS
• Roger Clemens (49): pitcher with the record for Cy Young Awards — 7; plus, runner Glenn Cunningham (1909-1988)
• Dennis Lehane (46): novelist, Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone; writers Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) and Robert Hayden (1913-1980) were also born on this date
• Daniel Dae Kim (43): Jin-Soo Kwon on Lost; also, actors Richard Belzer (67), Billy Bob Thornton (56), Lauren Tom (50), James Tupper (46) and Michael DeLuise (42)

1. TIE: Cowboys & Aliens / The Smurfs $36.2M

2. Captain America: The First Avenger $24.9M
3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 $21.9M
4. Crazy, Stupid, Love. $19.3M
5. Friends with Benefits $9.3M

1. The smallest amount or distance.

2. The lowest throw at dice, the double ace (two ones.)

3. Bad luck; misfortune.

• Marketing catchphrase/buzzword than, when attached to a name, implies an "improved" or "superior" product than it's predicesor. When used in comparisons like ' A is B 2.0" ,' it's like saying "B" is like "A" only "better."

• The island republic of Trinidad and Tobago, which was ruled by the Spanish from 1757 until 1797, when the British invaded and seized control.

• Trinidad: island in the Caribbean was discovered by Christopher Columbus (1498)
• Samuel Hopkins: received the first US patent for a process of making fertilizer (1790)
• Christchurch: became the first New Zealand city to be chartered (1856)
• NYSE: closed due to the outbreak of World War I, but opened again four months later to help the war effort by selling bonds (1914)
• K2: the world's second-highest peak, also known as Mount Godwin-Austen, was summited for the first time, by an Italian team (1954)

• Henri Brisson (1835-1912): two-time premier of France
• Milton Friedman (1912-2006): Nobel Prize winner for Economics
• Primo Levi (1919-1987): Italian chemist who wrote of his experiences during the Holocaust
• Evonne Goolagong Cawley (60): tennis champ
• Will Champion (33): rocker, Coldplay; also, musicians Kenny Burrell (80), Lobo (68), Gary Lewis (66), Michael Wolff (59), Bill Berry (53), Fatboy Slim (48) and Jim Corr (47)
• B.J. Novak (32): comic writer/actor, The Office; also, actors France Nuyen (72), Susan Flannery (68), Geraldine Chaplin (67), Richard Griffiths (64), Barry Van Dyke (60), Michael Biehn (55), Wesley Snipes (49), Dean Cain (45), Ben Chaplin (41) and Annie Parisse (36)