#HappyBirthday to @JimmyCarr & #OliverStone @THEoliverStone & ... you? (the #September15 #BirthdayCohort) on #Dot Day | @HolidaysCalendr @BirthdayMates #TheFamousPeople @YourTango @MySundayMass
... or -on 'whichever of these holidays &or event-anniversaries you celebrate!'
Holidays Calendar explains International Dot 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 “Dot” is built on ancient words that mean |Speck, |Head of a |Boil (possibly related to words that mean |Lump, Small Knot, Little Bunch, |Wisp, |Nipple ... grew to mean 'Mark made by a |Mere Touch of the |Pen'). #Dotted #Dotting #Dots #OnTheDot #DotsAndDashes (Morse Code) #DottedLine #Dotty #Microdot #PolkaDot #TheDot #dotCom
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 Virgo ... no matter WHICH stars they were born under: comedian Jimmy Carr, Roy Acuff, Tom Hardy, England's Prince Harry, Agatha Christie, Tommy Lee Jones, President William Howard Taft, Lisa Vanderpump (famous restauranteur who has made cameos on several reality-TV shows), movie-producer Oliver Stone, Dan Marino, James Fenimore Cooper (writer of Leatherstocking Tales (including "The Last of the Mohicans")), Lloyd Blankfein (CEO of Goldman Sachs ... I'm not even sure what the company does, other than 'bum money off the government ... allegedly ...) ... and lots more I don't recognize (maybe you do recognize some ... you can find the date at the birthday-cohort link)
(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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