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Provided by the compucert chimera \ky-MIR-uh\, noun:
- (Capitalized) A fire-breathing she-monster represented as having a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail.
- Any imaginary monster made up of grotesquely incongruous parts.
- An illusion or mental fabrication; a grotesque product of the imagination.
- An individual, organ, or part consisting of tissues of diverse genetic constitution, produced as a result of organ transplant, grafting, or genetic engineering.
Urban Word of the Day: web shy
- Unwillingness to expose one's thoughts, feelings or identity on the web, knowing that doing so means freaknobs from Baton Rouge to Bangladesh will know everything about you.
"Jeez, Paul--you need to get with it! You should create your own web site, post your picture, do some blogging about your beliefs, and generally trumpet yourself and your innermost thoughts via that there Internet."
"You kidding me? I am waaaaaaaay too web shy for any of that!"
"You kidding me? I am waaaaaaaay too web shy for any of that!"
Trivia
Who were the only women to have their own film production studios in the 20th century? Clue: There were three.
- Mary Pickford, Lucille Ball, and Oprah Winfrey.
- The Eternal City: Rome was founded by Romulus, according to tradition (753 BCE)
- Tiradentes: Brazilian hero nicknamed the "tooth puller" was executed in Rio de Janeiro for conspiring against Portuguese rule (1792)
- The Red Baron: German ace aviator was shot down for the second time — this time, fatally (1918)
- Tiananmen Square: anti-communist protest grew to 100,000 in Beijing; troops suppressed it six weeks later, killing thousands (1989)
- Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855): author of Jane Eyre
- John Muir (1838-1914): naturalist, founder of national parks and the Sierra Club
- Elizabeth II (82): queen of Great Britain
- Iggy Pop (61): punk rock pioneer, zombie
- Andie MacDowell (50): star of Four Weddings and a Funeral and Groundhog Day, she's also the face of L'Oréal hair care products; actors Anthony Quinn (1915-2001), Elaine May (76), Charles Grodin (73), Patti LuPone (59) and Tony Danza (57) were also born on this date
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Word of the day chimera?! We know of an individual by that name... and a she-monster that person is!
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