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Provided by the compucert bibulous \BIB-yuh-luhs\, adjective:
- Of, pertaining to, marked by, or given to the consumption of alcoholic drink.
- Readily absorbing fluids or moisture.
Urban Word of the Day
December 29, 2007: drives to the mailboxhttp://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=drives+to+the+mailbox&defid=2758165
- Describing of a person of unfathomably great laziness. Looks for every opportunity to get out of work. Even trivial chores are too much of a finger lift for them. So called because they will get into their car, turn the key, adjust the mirrors, put on their seatbelt, and drive to the mailbox that is at the end of their driveway.
Trivia
What was remarkable—physically—about American gymnast George Eyser, who won six medals at the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis?
- He had a wooden prosthesis for a left leg. Three of his medals were gold, two were silver, and one was bronze.
- Thomas Becket: Archbishop of Canterbury was murdered in his own church in England (1170)
- Lone Star State: Texas became the 28th US state 10 years after declaring independence from Mexico; it spent that decade as a republic (1845)
- Wounded Knee Massacre: last major confrontation between the Sioux and the US Army ended in massacre, with 153 Indian deaths and 25 soldiers killed (1890)
- Guatemala: peace treaty was signed by the government of president Álvaro Arzú Irigoyen and URNG guerrillas, ending 36 years of civil strife (1996)
- Andrew Johnson (1808-1875): 17th US president, who led the country during Reconstruction
- Mary Tyler Moore (71): 9-time Emmy award-winning actress and comedienne who starred in The Mary Tyler Moore Show
- Jude Law (35): actor, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Cold Mountain, The Holiday; in 2004, People magazine named him Sexiest Man Alive
- Ted Danson (60): actor
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