"You sock-dologizing old man-trap" is such a killer line. It appears in the play Our American Cousin, a three act play by Tom Taylor. It is meant to be a funny play, and that line in particular is considered to be the funniest line in the play. And I'm sure that it is (though I have never seen it myself).
The only reason why it such a "killer line" is because on this day, April 14th, 1865 (which happened to be Good Friday), President Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth in Ford's Theatre. That line, by the way, was the moment that Booth decided to shoot Lincoln because he was hoping that the laughter would drown out the sound of the gunshot.
Interestingly enough, assassinating Lincoln was not Booth's original plan. The original plan was to kidnap Lincoln and hold him hostage. However, a speech made by the President three days prior (regarding support for voting rights for black people) infuriated Booth, and thus he escalated his plan to murder.
Why make this event in history today's Spotlight? Sometimes it's important to go back and look at the events that shaped what this country has become today. For more information on this event, as well as links to other sources, click here or here.
DUH OTHERS:
In 1828, Noah Webster copyrights the 1st edition of his dictionary (I guess you can look up "dologizing" now.
Sputnik 2 tumbles back to earth in 1958.
The Peep Show is invented by Thomas Edison. Ok, not exactly like that, but he does demonstrate his Kinetoscope in 1894.
Napster gets slammed with a lawsuit from Lars Ulrich (the drummer from Metallica) in 2000, which sets in motion the fight against file-sharing programs.
SERIES PREMIERES:
Baseball Player Pete Rose (Cincinnati Reds) in 1941
American Scientist Francis Collins (Human Genome Project) in 1950
American Actor Brad Garrett (Everybody Loves Raymond) in 1960
American Rapper Da Brat (AKA Shawntae Harris) in 1974
SERIES FINALES:
German Composer George Frideric Handel (Messiah [that "Hallelujah" song]) in 1759
English Bassist Pete Farndon (from The Pretenders) in 1983
American Computer Programmer Phil Katz (created the .zip data compression) in 2000
American Musician Don Ho ("Tiny Bubbles") in 2007
HOLIDAZE:
Happy Black Day!: a South Korean informal holiday where single people who got no gifts on Valentine's Day or White Day (March 14) eat Jajangmyeon (noodles with black bean sauce) to commiserate their single status.
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