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Provided by the compucert maladroit \mal-uh-DROYT\, adjective:
- Lacking adroitness; clumsy; awkward; unskillful; inept.
Urban Word of the Day
October 08, 2007: foody callhttp://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=foody+call&defid=2541383
- (noun) a phone call, page or conversation aimed at getting free food from a partner in a no strings attached, no conversation meal.
I was so broke and hungry I had to make a foody call last night. She cooked meatloaf, and it was good.
Trivia
In 1484, what king was the first to turn down Christopher Columbus’s request for financing for his daring voyage east to find a water route to the Orient?
- Portugal’s King João (John) II. After eight years, and rejections from Henry VII of England and the city of Genoa, Columbus finally won the sponsorship of Spain’s King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella.
- The Great Chicago Fire: began; America's deadliest fire, the Peshtigo fire, began the same day in Wisconsin (1871)
- Che Guevara: leftist revolutionary hero was captured by the Bolivian army; he was executed the next day (1967)
- Frank Herbert (1920-1986): author of Dune
- Jesse Jackson (66): civil rights activist
- Chevy Chase (64): actor, Caddyshack
- Columbus Day (US — observed)
- Thanksgiving (Canada)
- Dan Nezavisnosti (Independence Day, Croatia)
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