Friday, February
20th, 2004
In Today's Tribune
The contest ends tonight at
midnight. If I haven't sent you a confirmation e-mail then I suggest
you resubmit your entry. I can tell you right now that there are
only two entries that have all the correct answers so if you haven't
entered then you still have a good shot at the barbecue kit prize.
Thanks.
Here's today's tidbits
Born on February 20th
Brian Littrell (1975)
Kurt Cobain
(1967)
Andrew Shue
(1967)
Cindy Crawford
(1966)
French Stewart
(1964)
Charles Barkley
(1963)
Patty Hearst
(1954)
Ivana Trump
(1949)
Jennifer O'Neill
(1948)
Sandy Duncan
(1946)
Buffy Sainte-Marie
(1941)
Nancy Wilson
(1937)
Bobby Unser
(1934)
Robert Altman
(1925)
Sidney Poitier
(1924)
Gloria Vanderbilt
(1924)
Ansel Adams
(1902)
Special Birthday on Sunday
February 22nd
Patrick Aquino
Blind
Guy
A blind man walks into a shop with his guide dog,
he suddenly picks him up by the tail and swings him
around. An astonished sales assistant races over and
asks if he can help.
"No thanks" says the blind man I'm just looking around.
What is the Daily
Buzzword for February 20th?
incorporate \in-KOR-puh-rayt\
verb
What does it mean?
1 : to unite or form into a single whole : blend
2 : to give form to : embody
3 : to form, make into, or become a corporation
How do you use it?
The school board will incorporate suggestions from
students and parents into the design of the new playground.
Are you a word wiz?
"Incorporate" traces to the Latin word "corpus," meaning
"body." Which of the following words do you think also
comes from "corpus"?
A. corsage
B. unicorn
C. acorn
D. decoration
Answer:
Things are smelling sweet if you chose A. While the link
between "corpus" and "incorporate" is clear, it might be hard
to see a connection between the Latin word for "body" and an
arrangement of flowers worn as a fashion accessory. A look at
the history of "corsage" will help you to understand. The
original meaning of "corsage" referred to the size and shape
of the body. Over time it came to mean the waist or bodice of
a dress. From there it came to refer to a bouquet of flowers
worn on a dress.
Today's Jigsaw
puzzle
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PATRICK
That's all for this week.
Remember that the contest ends tonight and the winner will be
announced Monday. Have a nice weekend. Be safe.
The following is what appeared in Thursday's edition......
In Today's Tribune
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
The contest ends tomorrow at
midnight. Don't forget to send in your entries.
Here's today's tidbits
Born on February 19th
Justine Bateman (1966)
Seal (1963)
Jeff Daniels
(1955)
Margaux Hemingway
(1955)
Tony Iommi
(1948)
Smokey Robinson
(1940)
Lee Marvin
(1924)
Nicolas Copernicus
(1473)
I screwed up yesterday. I
didn't look at my birthday calendar. Yesterday was Josephine's
birthday. I can't blame this one on my assistant.
Josephine Rodriguez
Donations
To Bush
A Marine colonel on his way home from work at the Pentagon came to a
dead halt in traffic and thought to himself, "Wow, this traffic
seems worse than usual. Nothing's even moving."
He notices a police officer walking back and forth between the lines
of cars so he rolls down his window and asks, "Excuse me, Officer,
what's the hold up?"
The Officer replies, "President Bush is just so depressed about
being behind in the polls that he stopped his motorcade
in the middle of the Beltway and he's threatening to douse himself
in gasoline and set himself on fire. He says he can't find donators
to give him money for his campaign. I'm walking around taking up a
collection for him."
"Oh really? How much have you collected so far?"
"So far only about three hundred gallons, but I've got a lot of
folks still siphoning!"
Today's useless fact
- How does yeast make bread rise?
Yeasts are one-celled fungal organisms.
One ounce of yeast contains 200 billion cells. Yeast has unique
properties that mankind has been exploiting since before 4000 B.C.
The ancient Egyptians used yeast to make beer, wine, and bread. The
Egyptians were the first to make leavened bread.
The production of both alcoholic
beverages and leavened bread utilizes yeasts, such as "Saccharomyces
cerevisiae". Yeasts break down or ferment sugar into alcohol and
carbon dioxide (CO2). Bakers take advantage of yeast's production of
CO2 to make bread light and airy. Baker's yeast is grown in huge
vats of molasses and other nutrients. It is then dried and packaged
with starch for home use.
When making dough, yeast is mixed with
flour, water, and salt. The proteins in wheat flour form gluten, a
tenacious elastic substance that gives the dough its cohesiveness
during kneading. When the dough is kneaded, the proteins in the
flour arrange themselves so that they can trap the CO2 produced by
the yeast as it ferments the sugars in the flour. The trapped CO2
creates a large number of pores in the bread that make it rise. As
the dough rises, the yeast cells become separated from the nutrients
and the process gradually slows down. Kneading the dough again will
renew the process, causing it to rise again.
Where does the alcohol go that is
produced by the fermentation? Actually the alcohol content of the
dough just before baking can be as high as 0.5 percent, about
one-sixth as much as is found in beer. Most of this alcohol is
released as the bread is baked.
What is the Daily
Buzzword for February 19th?
quirk \KWERK\
noun
What does it mean?
1 : a sudden turn, twist, or curve
2 : an odd personal habit : idiosyncrasy
How do you use it?
Mosca thought her new teammate Jan had some pretty strange
quirks, but she realized that Jan probably thought the same
of her.
Are you a word wiz?
It's a quirk of our language that words can have more than
one function. The word "quirk" isn't only used as a noun. What
other part of speech do you think "quirk" can be?
A. interjection
B. verb
C. adjective
D. preposition
Answer:
People have used "quirk" as both a noun and a verb since
the 16th century. As a verb, "quirk" means "to curve or
twist." It usually refers to facial expressions, especially
those involving crooked smiles or furrowed eyebrows (as in,
"quirked her mouth into a grin" and "quirked his eyebrows in
puzzlement"). In addition, the noun "quirk" has named many
things, from decorative curving pen marks on paper (more
commonly called "flourishes") to clever turns of phrase and
surprising twists of fate.
Today's Jigsaw
puzzle
CLICK HERE
JOSEPHINE & NEEN
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The following is what appeared in Wednesday's edition......
In Today's Tribune
The entries for the contest
are slowly trickling in. Remember that you've only got to midnight
Friday to get them in. We have yet to hear from a lot of you. You
can view the contest rules and questions in yesterday's edition.
Someone sent in their
answers and I happened to talk to him/her later on and I asked them
if they sent in their answers and they said they did. I checked my
mail and found that I didn't receive it. I told him/her about it and
they resubmitted their entry. Because of this, I have decided to
send each entrant a received entry confirmation e-mail just to
assure them that their entry was received. If you entered the
contest and do not receive a confirmation e-mail then I suggest that
you resubmit your entry. Thank you.
Here's today's tidbits
Born on February 18th
Molly Ringwald
(1968)
Dr. Dre
(1965)
Matt Dillon
(1964)
Vanna White
(1957)
John Travolta
(1954)
Cybill Shepherd
(1950)
Yoko Ono
(1933)
Milos Forman
(1932)
Toni Morrison
(1931)
Gahan Wilson
(1930)
George Kennedy
(1925)
Helen Gurley Brown
(1922)
Bill Cullen
(1920)
Jack Palance
(1920)
Sholem Aleichem
(1859)
IRS
Internal Revenue Service sent their auditor to a synagogue. The
auditor is doing all the checks and then turns to the Rabbi, and
says, "I noticed that you buy a lot of candles."
"Yes," answered the Rabbi.
"Well, Rabbi, what do you do with the candle drippings?" he asked.
"A good question," noted the Rabbi. "We actually save them up and
when we have enough, we send them back to the candle maker and every
now and then, they send us a free box of candles."
"Oh," replied the auditor somewhat disappointed that his unusual
question actually had a practical answer. So he thought he'd go on,
in his obnoxious way... "Rabbi, what about all these matzo
purchases? What do you do with the crumbs from the matzo?"
"Ah, yes," replied the Rabbi calmly, "we actually collect up all the
crumbs from the matzo and when we have enough, we send them in a box
back to the manufacturer and every now and then, they send a box of
matzo balls."
"Oh," replied the auditor, thinking hard how to fluster the Rabbi.
"Well, Rabbi," he went on, "what do you do with all the foreskins
from the circumcisions?"
"Yes, here too, we do not waste," answered the Rabbi. "What we do is
save up all the foreskins, and when we have enough we send them to
the IRS ".
" IRS?" questioned the auditor in disbelief.
"Ah, yes," replied the Rabbi, "IRS ..and about once a year, they
send us a little prick like you."
Do you know who this
celebrity is from their high school picture?
answer below
Today's useless
fact -
What's a
hiccup, exactly? Why do we have them?
Hiccups
are muscle spasms in the diaphragm and throat. The large muscle at
the bottom of the chest cavity sometimes contracts in a spasm (as do
most muscles at one time or another). When this happens, air gets
sucked in through the mouth. The air never actually reaches the
lungs because the muscles of the throat contract at the same time.
Any number of remedies have been suggested to stop hiccups—from
swallowing dry sugar to standing on your head—but basically the same
principle works here as with other muscle spasms: If you relax, calm
down, take your mind off the spasms, and get on with your
activities, your diaphragm and throat will settle down and the
hiccups will stop.
Women's Toilet
Before and After Answer
Debbie Allen
What is the Daily
Buzzword for February 18th?
transient \TRAN-shee-unt\
adjective
What does it mean?
: not lasting or staying long
How do you use it?
The actress passed by before I could see her, but I got
a transient whiff of her perfume.
Are you a word wiz?
"Transient" has several synonyms. Which of the words below
also mean "not lasting or staying long"?
A. malcontent, bleating
B. ascent, entreating
C. evanescent, fleeting
D. circumvent, defeating
Answer:
"Transient," "evanescent," and "fleeting" all mean "not
lasting or staying long." "Transient" -- from a Latin word
meaning "to pass" -- applies to something short in its
duration or stay (as in, "a transient cloudburst that moved
on quickly"). "Fleeting," meaning "to go by quickly," implies
passing so quickly as to make catching difficult (as in, "had
a fleeting glimpse of what she thought was a smile").
"Evanescent," meaning "tending to vanish like vapor," suggests
a quick vanishing and an airy or fragile quality (as in, "the
evanescent beauty of the bubbles blown by the breeze").
Today's Jigsaw
puzzle
CLICK HERE
LOST
IN THE SIXTIES
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The following is what appeared in Tuesday's edition......
In Today's Tribune
I'm going to leave the
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The contest ends at midnight
February 20th, 2004. In case of a tie, I have developed an easy
tie-breaking system. All results are final.
Anyone can enter but only
once. If you submit all the correct answers, you'll win the fabulous
prize (see yesterday's edition). Good luck. Here are the questions.
1.
In the "Esperanza Wins" clipping, there are the lyrics to two (2)
songs on the right side but they have been cut off at the
right. Name the 2 songs. (Archives 2-2 to 2-6)
2. In the jigsaw puzzle section of today's
edition (2-12), in the animated puzzle
piece, how many different faces are there?
3. What color was my pill?
(Archives 1-19 to 1-22)
4. What is the expiration month on the
"I love da Trib" license plate? (Archives 1-27
to 1-30)
5. What is the brand name of the
Mexican "real milk chocolate" bar? (Archives
1-5 to 1-9)
6. In the “Gina wins Miss Universe”
picture, what two (2) countries are represented on the banners of
the semi-finalists? (Archives 12-22 to 12-26)
7. On the "Taiyo wins Hard Rock",
there is only one (1) song that is cut off on the right.
What's the name of that song? (2-10)
Here's today's tidbits
Born on February 17th
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
(1981)
Jerry O'Connell
(1974)
Bryan White
(1974)
Billie Joe Armstrong
(1972)
Denise Richards
(1972)
Michael Jordan
(1963)
Rene Russo
(1954)
Jim Brown
(1936)
Alan Bates
(1934)
Hal Holbrook
(1925)
Arthur Kennedy
(1914)
Red Barber
(1908)
Rest
Room Confusion
I went looking
for a rest room and found two doors
with pictures of dogs on them. I was completely baffled,
so I searched out the manager and admitted that I couldn't
tell the difference between the male dog and the female dog.
"That's not the idea," the manager smiled and said.
"One dog is a pointer, and the other is a setter."
What is the Daily
Buzzword for February 17th?
ambition \am-BISH-un\
noun
What does it mean?
1 a : an eager desire for social standing, fame, or power
b : desire to achieve a particular goal : aspiration
2 : the particular goal of one's desires
How do you use it?
Chance loves to play the piano, and his greatest ambition
is to play at Carnegie Hall.
Are you a word wiz?
There is one human activity that has more to do with the
development of the word "ambition" than any other. Which
activity do you think gave us all "ambition"?
A. running for elected office
B. waiting for a ship to sail
C. learning to drive a car
D. trying out for a sports team
Answer:
Just like their modern counterparts, candidates for public
office in ancient Rome had to spend a lot of time going around
the city urging the citizens to vote for them. The Latin word
for this effort was "ambitio," which came from "ambire," a
verb meaning "to go around." Since this "ambition" was caused
by a desire for honor or power, the word eventually came to
mean "the desire for honor or power." Middle French adopted
the word's "quest for glory" sense when they started using it
in the Middle Ages. By the 14th century, English speakers had
done the same.
Today's Jigsaw
puzzle
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JAGUAR
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