Word of the Day for Wednesday, February 6, 2008

lubricious \loo-BRISH-us\, adjective:

1. Lustful; lewd.
2. Stimulating or appealing to sexual desire or imagination.
3. Having a slippery or smooth quality.

Urban Word of the Day February 06, 2008: disneyfication

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=disneyfication&defid=2819622

• The act of taming the world to make it all safe, clean, and completely simlar to a theme park. To remove the sharp edges and darkness that is life.

NYC suffered from disneyfication under Rudy, and now is as boring as any small town USA.


Trivia

What is burned to provide the ashes used in Ash Wednesday services?

• Palms from the previous year's Palm Sunday.

Today's Holidays

• Waitangi Day (New Zealand)
• Ash Wednesday (Christian): The seventh Wednesday before Easter and the first day of Lent, on which many Christians receive a mark of ashes on the forehead as a token of penitence and mortality.

Today in History

• Bay State: one of the original Thirteen Colonies, Massachusetts was admitted to the union as the sixth US state (1788)
• Elizabeth II: became the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom; she was formally crowned a year later (1952)
• Ariel Sharon: was elected prime minister of Israel; he has been comatose since suffering a stroke two years ago (2001)

Today's Birthdays

• Aaron Burr (1756-1836): Thomas Jefferson's vice president; he killed opponent Alexander Hamilton in a duel
• Babe Ruth (1895-1948): New York Yankee slugger
• Ronald Reagan (1911-2004): 40th US president, known as the Great Communicator
• François Truffaut (1932-1984): New Wave film director and critic
• Tom Brokaw (68): former NBC news anchor; other TV personalities born today include Patrick Macnee (86), Rip Torn (77) and Mike Farrell (69)
• Axl Rose (46): rock singer with Guns 'N Roses; other musicians born today are Bob Marley (1945-1981), Fabian (65), Rick Astley (42) and Natalie Cole (58)