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Provided by the compucert insensate \in-SEN-sayt; -sit\, adjective:
- Lacking sensation or awareness; inanimate.
- Lacking human feeling or sensitivity; brutal; cruel.
- Lacking sense; stupid; foolish.
Insensate comes from Late Latin insensatus, from in-, "not" + sensatus, "gifted with sense, intelligent," from Latin sensus, "sense."
cheese and rice
- This is a less offensive way of saying "Jesus Christ" It originated with the movie 'The Faculty'. In the real version, one of the characters exclaimed "Jesus Christ!" but in the edited TV version, they had it changed to "Cheese and rice!"
Guy #2: Cheese and rice!
Trivia
What basketball legend once negotiated to box Muhammad Ali but backed out minutes before the scheduled contract-signing ceremony?
- Wilt “the Stilt” Chamberlain. He had agreed to make his pro boxing debut against Ali in 1971 for $500,000 or 25 percent of the gross proceeds, but bowed out when he couldn’t get a tax-free guarantee of $500,000.
- Sirimavo Bandaranaike: was elected leader of Sri Lanka, becoming the world's first female prime minister (1960)
- Petrarch (1304-1374): poet and scholar
- George II (1890-1947): king of Greece
- Sir Edmund Hillary (1918-2008): the man who, along with Tenzing Norgay, was the first to scale Everest
- Carlos Santana (61): rock musician, Santana; other rock stars born on this date include Paul Cook (52), Chris Cornell (44) and Stone Gossard (42)
- Josh Holloway (39): James "Sawyer" Ford on Lost; also, actors Sally Ann Howes (78), Natalie Wood (1938-1981), Diana Rigg (70), Donna Dixon (51), Frank Whaley (45), Reed Diamond (41) and Judy Greer (33)
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