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Provided by the compucert complement \KOM-pluh-muhnt\, noun:
- Something that fills up or completes.
- The quantity or number required to make up a whole or to make something complete.
- One of two parts that complete a whole or mutually complete each other; a counterpart.
- To supply what is lacking; to serve as a complement to; to supplement.
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December 16, 2007: facebook limbo
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=facebook+limbo&defid=2692170
- The electronic space between accepting and rejecting a [facebook] friendship. In facebook limbo, the user fails to accept or reject friend requests from would-be facebook friends from a variety of sources (e.g., random annoying classmates, despised work associates, ex-girlfriends, etc), because the user is uncertain if he or she will have to interact with these individuals in the future.
(At the bar)
Jim: How about that new kid, Ryan. He's so cool.
Thom: I dunno man, he already tried to facebook me, wtf?
Jim: So?
Thom: So I'm leaving him in facebook limbo, I don't want him [jo]'ing to pictures of my drunk girlfriend...
(At the lunchroom)
Alex's Stalker Ex: Why didn't you add me to your friends on facebook? I friend requested you last week! I thought we were [friends] now! How come every day when I go through your whole list of friends I'm not on there?
Alex: Baby, it's okay, I just haven't had a chance to approve you.
Trivia
What National Football League Hall of Famer pitched in the major leagues—and gave up two home runs to Babe Ruth?
- Ernie Nevers, who played baseball with the St. Louis Browns (1926-28) before switching to football and the Chicago Cardinals. Ruth slammed two homers off Nevers in 1927, the year the Babe hit his record 60 four-baggers.
What did the ancient Mayans believe their gods used to create mankind?
- Maize (or corn). According to Mayan mythology, the gods molded the bodies of the first four men and four women out of maize dough.
- Boston Tea Party: American colonists dumped British tea overboard in Boston Harbor to protest tea taxes; the punishment for this act served to further unite the colonies in their opposition to the British, helping pave the way toward the American Revolution (1773)
- Battle of the Bulge: the last WWII German offensive on the Western Front began in Belgium; the drive was stopped by the Allies, but not before both sides had suffered heavy losses (1944)
- Jean-Bertrand Aristide: was elected president of Haiti in the country's first democratic elections; a military coup sent him into exile 7 months later (1990)
Today's Birthdays
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): composer, musician and innovator who was unrivaled in his last years despite being completely deaf
- Jane Austen (1775-1817): author of Pride and Prejudice; her major novels were published anonymously
- Philip K. Dick (1928-1982): prolific sci-fi writer whose works inspired Blade Runner, Total Recall and Minority Report
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