Word of the Day for Tuesday, July 3, 2007

carom \KAIR-uhm\, noun:

1. A rebound following a collision; a glancing off.
2. A shot in billiards in which the cue ball successively strikes two other balls on the table.
3. To strike and rebound; to glance.
4. To make a carom.
5. To make (an object) bounce off something; to cause to carom.

Urban Word of the Day

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July 03, 2007: iPerbole

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• The hype surrounding any product Apple unveils.

Claims that the iPhone will change the world are all part of the iPerbole surrounding the cultish company.

Trivia:

How many hotels and how many houses are included in a standard Monopoly board game?

• 12 hotels; 32 houses.

Today's Birthdays
Talk show host Montel Williams is 51
Franz Kafka (1883-1924): author of The Metamorphosis
John Kundla (91): basketball hall-of-famer and coach
Dave Barry (60): Pulitzer-winning humor columnist
Tom Cruise (45): actor / scientologist

Thomas Gibson (45): actor

Mimi Miyagi (34): pr0n star

Yeardley Smith (43): actress / voice of Lisa Simpson

Pía Reyes (46): actress, Playmate

Liz Stewart (I) (46): actress, Playmate