#DidYouKnow that #July19 is ALSO a #HappyBirthday to @LisaLampanelli & #BenedictCumberbatch (loved by @cumberbatchcom) & the WHOLE #BirthdayCohort of #FlitchDay @365HolidaysaYear (probably not a Twitterer yet) | @411Holidays @BirthdayMates #TheFamousPeople @YourTango @MySundayMass
365HaY explains #Flitch Day in a report linked through 'that word' below; but first I want to understand that word better. And I find you understand words better if you look at 'the words at their base' (then going on to look at the words at those words' bases, then the words at those words' bases, etc.-etc. ad infinitum)
The word “Flitch” is probably built on ancient words that mean "to Tear (|Flay)" (also the base of Piece of Flesh).
The #FlitchTrials were married couples' attempts to convince juries that they deserved a #Fletch of Bacon (|Half a Pig) because they'd lived together for a year and a day without quarreling.
I sometimes get a little 'thrill' from realizing that I have the same birthday as several famous people, and enough other people get that thrill from seeing their birthday-cohort (both the currently-famous & the probably-not-yet famous) that I figure it's worth doing 'one of these entries for every birthday' ...
Today's Birthday-Cohort
Astrologically, their sign is Cancer ... no matter WHICH stars they were born under: comedian Lisa Lampanelli, Jim Norton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Lizzie Bordon, guitarist Brian May (from QUEEN), painter Edgar Degas, Anthony Edwards, Allen Collins (guitarist from Lynyrd Skynyrd) ... and lots more I don't recognize (maybe you do recognize some ... you can find the date at the birthday-cohort link)
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| the ETERNAL Horoscope-dates |
(and--if you or someone you know about has a birthday today
--please mention them (and how you know them or -know
about them) in the comments, thanks)
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