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Provided by the compucert bravado \bruh-VAH-doh\, noun;
plural bravados or bravadoes \bruh-VAH-dohz\:
- A real or pretended show of courage or boldness.
Urban Word of the Day
October 26, 2007: husband chair
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=husband+chair&defid=2620615- A chair in a womens' clothes store/department for a guy to sit in and wait while his wife or girlfriend shops.
Trivia
What mistaken medieval belief gave the leopard its name?
- It was believed that the leopard was a cross between a lion (leo) and a panther (pard).
- Erie Canal: provided a water route from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean via the Hudson River (1825)
- gunfight at the OK Corral: shootout in Tombstone, Arizona, pitted the law against the outlaw; 3 were killed (1881)
Today's Birthdays
- Hillary Rodham Clinton (60): US Senator and former first lady, smug, insincere, lying, self important, pseudo-intellectual, hyper-liberal politician
- Cary Elwes (45): the lovely Westley in The Princess Bride
- Tom Cavanagh (44): Stuckeyville's bowling-alley lawyer on Ed
- Seth MacFarlane (34): Actor, director, producer. Invented Family Guy and American Dad
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