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Provided by the compucert factotum \fak-TOH-tuhm\, noun:
- A person employed to do all kinds of work or business.
Urban Word of the Day
September 26, 2007: check my spamhttp://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=check+my+spam&defid=2125395
- Checking one's email though certain one has received no important communication. Compulsively and frequently checking one's email when one is not expecting an important message.
Between friends in a cybercafe: "Hey could you hurry up so I can get on and check my email?" "Who are you kidding, little bro, you know all your email buddies have dropped you like a brick!" "Yeah, I gotta check my spam. . . vamoose!"
Trivia
What was Dr. Quincy’s first name on the TV crime drama Quincy, M.E.?
- It was never revealed—but it started with the letter R, according to a business card that Quincy, played by Jack Klugman, presented to a woman in one episode of the show.
Today in History
- New Zealand: became an independent dominion (1907)
- The Beatles: released Abbey Road (1969)
- Biosphere 2: 8 people entered a sealed complex in Oracle, Arizona, for an experiment in self-sustained living; they exited 3 hungry years later on the
same date (1991)
Today's Birthdays
- T.S. Eliot (1888-1965), George Gershwin (1898-1937): composers of literature and music, respectively
- Jack La Lanne (93): father of modern fitness
- Serena Williams (26): tennis star
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