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Provided by the compucert soi-disant \swah-dee-ZAHN\, adjective:
- Self-styled; so-called.
Urban Word of the Day
October 30, 2007: highway salute
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=highway+salute&defid=2128303
- An extended middle finger from a fist thrust forth whilst driving, as a gesture of anger toward the person who it is aimed at.
"that prick is tailgating me. Give him the 'ol highway salute"
Trivia
How many kernels are on the average ear of corn?
- 800 kernels, arranged in 16 rows.
- War of the Worlds: Orson Welles's dramatization of the H.G. Wells novel caused mass panic in the US (1938)
- Rumble in the Jungle: Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in a heavyweight bout in Congo (then called Zaire) (1974)
- Quebec: voters opted to stay part of Canada by a hair's-breadth majority of 50.6% to 49.4% (1995)
Today's Birthdays
- John Adams (1735-1826): the second US president
- Henry Winkler (62): The Fonz of Happy Days
- Diego Maradona (47): Argentinian soccer great
- Nia Long (37): actress, Soul Food
- T3h Bax0jayz (36): Drummer, accountant, supreme dictator of the universe
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