Monday, April 1, 2013 @ Automotive World

insouciance \in-SOO-see-uhns; Fr. an-soo-SYAHNS\, noun:

• the quality of being insouciant; lack of care or concern; indifference.

The Latin root sollicitaire coupled with the negating prefix in- literally means "to not disturb or agitate." This adjective entered English in the nineteenth century, shortly after the noun form insouciance started being used by English speakers.

April Fool's, bitch

• When you're having sex, entering from behind (e.g. doggystyle,) about to come, you tell the receiver, "I'm about to come!" Pull out and spit on her (or his) back while grunting. when she turns around, blow your wad in her face and yell, "April Fool's, bitch!" Also known ad a "David Copperfield."

you should've seen the look on her face when i said, "April Fool's, bitch." she was so mad.

Trivia
What fast-food chain placed full-page ads in six major U.S. newspapers announcing it had purchased the Liberty Bell to help cut the national debt?

• Taco Bell, in 1996. Its ad said the national symbol would henceforth be known as the Taco Liberty Bell. At noon on the day the ad appeared, the company disclosed that it was just an April Fools’ Day joke.

Holiday

• Easter Monday: the day after Easter Sunday
  

  
• April Fools' Day: is celebrated in many countries on April 1 every year. Sometimes referred to as All Fools' Day, April 1 is not a national holiday, but is widely recognized and celebrated as a day when people play practical jokes and hoaxes on each other.

History

• US House of Representatives: achieved a quorum for the first time and elected its first Speaker, Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania (1789)
• Royal Air Force: branch of the British Armed Forces was formed (1918)
• TIROS-1: the first weather satellite was launched; it took off from Cape Canaveral and was operational for 78 days (1960)
• Apple Inc.: was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak (1976)
• Gmail: Google's web-based email service was launched (2004)

Birthdays

• William Harvey England 1578
• Otto Von Bismarck 1815
• Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873 - Composer, musician
• Lon Chaney 1883 - Actor ("The Phantom of the Opera")
• Wallace (Fitzgerald) Beery 1885 - Actor ("The Champ", "The Last of the Mohicans")
• Jagjivan Ram 1908
• Abraham Maslow 1908
• Art Lund 1920 - Singer
• Toshiro Mifune 1920 - Actor ("Midway", "Paper Tiger")
• William Manchester 1922 - Writer
• Anne McCaffrey 1926
• George Grizzard 1928 - Actor ("Bachelor Party", "False Witness")
• Jane Powell (Suzanne Burce) 1929 - Actress
• Grace Lee Whitney 1930 - Actress, singer
• Gordon Jump 1932 - Actor ("WKRP in Cincinnati")
• Debbie Reynolds (Mary Frances Reynolds) 1932 - Singer, Actress, mother of actress Carrie Fisher
• Don Hastings 1934 - Actor ("As The World Turns")
• James Edward Brown 1934 - Singer (The Browns)
• Ron (Ronald Peter) Perranoski 1936 - Baseball player, coach
• Eddie King 1938 - Blues singer
• Ali MacGraw 1938 - Actress
• Rudolf Isley 1939 - Singer (Isley Brothers)
• Phil (Philip Henry) Niekro 1939 - Baseball pitcher
• Guy Trottier 1941 - Hockey player
• Phil Margo 1942 - Singer (The Tokens)
• Alan Blakley 1942 - Musician (Brian Poole and The Tremeloes)
• Carol White 1944
• Rusty Staub 1944 - Baseball player
• Heather Young 1945
• John Barbata 1945 - Drummer (The Turtles)
• Ronnie Lane (Small Faces) 1946
• Norm Van Lier 1947 - Basketball player
• Jimmy Cliff 1948 - Reggae singer
• Doug Southerland 1948 - Football player
• Wilie (Guillermo Naranjo) Montanez 1948 - Baseball player
• Gil Scott-Heron 1949 - Jazz musician
• Samuel Alito 1950 - U.S. Supreme Court justice
• Billy Currie 1952 - Musician (Ultravox)
• Annette O'Toole 1953 - Actress
• Jeff Porcaro (Toto) 1954
• Stan Ridgway (Wall of Voodoo) 1955
• Libby Riddles 1956 - First woman to win the Iditarod dogsled race
• Mark White 1961 - Musician (ABC)
• Woody Lee 1968 - Country singer
• Sung-Hi Lee 1970 - actress, model
• Method Man 1971 - Rapper
• Rachel Maddow 1973 - Broadcast journalist
• Maradalena Maleeva 1975 - Tennis player
• Bijou Phillips 1980 - Singer
• Sam Huntington 1982 - Actor
• Hillary Scott (Lady Antebellum) 1984 - Country singer
• Josh Zuckerman 1985 - Actor