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Provided by the compucert obtrude \uhb-TROOD; ob-\, transitive verb:
- To thrust out; to push out.
- To force or impose (one's self, remarks, opinions, etc.) on others with undue insistence or without solicitation.
- To thrust upon a group or upon attention; to intrude.
- A relatively recent phenomenon from the Bay area (specifically Oakland) in which people modify bicycles to resemble (either functionally, aesthetically or philosophically) the famed "scrapers" of the hyphy movement.
Man, you see the homemade spinners on that scraper bike? Shit is tight!
Trivia
What sport did China's Mao Zedong ban in 1959, saying it was too dangerous?
Trivia
What sport did China's Mao Zedong ban in 1959, saying it was too dangerous?
- Boxing. It was reinstated in 1986 by Deng Xiaoping after three goodwill visits to China by boxing great Muhammad Ali.
Today's Holiday
- Victoria Day (Canada, Cayman Islands, Edinburgh and Dundee)
- Anne Boleyn: Henry VIII's 2nd wife was beheaded for adultery and treason at the Tower of London (1536)
- Tariff of 1828: was passed to protect US industry (1828)
- Marilyn Monroe: crooned ''Happy Birthday, Mr. President'' to John F. Kennedy at Madison Square Garden (1962)
- Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965): writer, A Raisin in the Sun; screenwriter/director Nora Ephron (67) also shares this birth date
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