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Provided by the compucert lachrymose \LAK-ruh-mohs\, adjective:
- Generating or shedding tears; given to shedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful.
- Causing or tending to cause tears.
- A New Year's Resolution that starts June 1st instead of January 1st. This is assuming the original act of self improvement has failed from January to June and it is time to start over with something else.
Tim: "I thought you quit smoking as your New Year's Resolution?"
Eric: "Yeah, I tried but... I'm going to work out instead. It's my June Year's Resolution."
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Eric: "Yeah, I tried but... I'm going to work out instead. It's my June Year's Resolution."
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When it comes to song lyrics, what's a mondegreen?
- A mistaken version of a lyric—as in “’Scuse me while I kiss the sky” (from Jimi Hendrix’s Purple Haze), which is sometimes misinterpreted as “’Scuse me while I kiss this guy.” The term mondegreen is derived from a misunderstood line in the ballad The Bonnie Earl of Murray, in which the words “laid him on the green” were misinterpreted as “Lady Mondegreen.”
Today's Holiday
- Queen's Birthday (New Zealand)
- hot-air balloon: Elisabeth Thible, the first woman to fly in a balloon, spent 45 minutes aloft in Le Gustav (1784)
- Battle of Midway: began overnight; the Allies' victory marked the turning point of the naval war in the Pacific (1942)
- Tiananmen Square massacre: crowds of pro-democracy demonstrators were killed by Chinese troops (1989)
- Dr. Ruth Westheimer (80): sex therapist, possible midget zombie
- Robert Merrill (1917-2004): operatic baritone; mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli (42) has a birthday today, too
- Gerry Mulligan (1927-1996): one of jazz's greatest players of the baritone sax; saxophonist Anthony Braxton (63) was also born on this date
- Linda Lingle (55): governor of Hawaii; former US senator Howard Metzenbaum (91) shares this birthday
- Angelina Jolie (33): sexy actress, activist and Brangelina's distaff half, used up by Brad Pitt; other actors born on this date include Bruce Dern (72), Parker Stevenson (56), Keith David (52), Scott Wolf (40) and Noah Wyle (37)
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