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Provided by the compucert pertinacious \puhr-tin-AY-shuhs\, adjective:
- Holding or adhering obstinately to any opinion, purpose, or design.
- Stubbornly or perversely persistent.
Urban Word of the Day
January 09, 2008: blacking out
- to turn off any device that people can reach you with (cell phone, two-way, computer, home phone, morse code, etc.) in order to avoid a certain someone.
Megan is [blacking out] Brent because he was acting like a dick. She don't play that!
Trivia
What famous Civil War figure was the son-in-law of future U.S. president Zachary Taylor?
- Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America. He married Taylor's daughter, Sarah, in June 1835. She died of malaria three months later.
- Connecticut: home of the Fundamental Orders, an early constitution, became the 5th US state (1788)
- daguerreotype: L. J. M. Daguerre announced the first practical photographic process to the French Academy of Arts and Science (1839)
- autogiro: aeronautical engineer Juan de la Cierva made the first successful flight in the helicopter-like aircraft he had invented (1923)
- Joseph Strauss (1870-1938): structural engineer who designed San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge
- Richard Nixon (1913-1994): 37th POTUS, who said, "I am not a crook," but still was forced to resign because of the Watergate scandal
- Bob Denver (1935-2005): actor who went from being the beatnik Maynard G. Krebs to spending years trying to get off Gilligan's Island
- J.K. Simmons (53), actor
- Joan Baez (67): folk rock singer; other singers born today include Crystal Gayle (57), Steve Harwell (41), A.J. Mclean (30)
- Jimmy Page (64): lead guitarist, Led Zeppelin; other guitarists born today: Eric Erlandson (45), Dave Matthews (41), Carl Bell (41)
- Joey Lauren Adams (40), actress
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