14 November 2013

nillionaire

Person without any money of their own.
He looks rich but it’s all borrowed and his bank account is nil, he’s a nillionaire.

Everything’s in his wife’s name, he’s just a nillionaire.

(Courtesy of urban dictionary).

Today’s aphorism

Such is life.

– Ned Kelly, (Australian bushranger, June 1854 or 1855 to 11 September 1880), when informed of the hour of his execution.

On this day

14 November 1868 – birth of Steele Rudd, Australian author, (pen-name for Arthur Hoey Davis). Wrote ‘On Our Selection‘, which introduced Australia to ‘Dad and Dave’. Died 11 October 1935.

14 November 2012 – Total solar eclipse visible from Cairns, North Queensland, Australia. Other areas saw a partial eclipse. The last total eclipse for Cairns was in 710AD, with the next one not expected for another 225 years.