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Provided by the compucert bruit \BROOT\, transitive verb:
- To report; to noise abroad.
Bruit comes from Old French, from the past participle of bruire, "to roar."
- A game that can be played in large meetings. The players write down management-nonsense word like "Out-of-the-box-thinking", "Synergy", "Content streamlining" etc. in a 5 by 5 square bingo card. If a word or phrase is used during the meeting you check the box. When you get a five box line (horizontally, vertically or diagonally ) you shout "BULLSHIT!" and win.
Company bigshot fancypants: "And that is why this merger is going to benefit shareholder value by creating value driven content.
You: "BULLSHIT BINGO!"
Company bigshot fancypants: "You're fired!"
Trivia
What does the k.d. stand for in singer-songwriter k.d. lang's name?
- Katherine Dawn.
- RAF: UK prime minister Winston Churchill saluted his country's air force with the statement, ''Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few" (1940)
Prague Spring: brief period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia ended when the country was invaded by Warsaw Pact troops and tanks (1968)
- Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901): 23rd POTUS; Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi (1944-1991) was also born on this date
- Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-1968): poet and translator; other writers born on this date include Edgar Guest (1881-1959) and Walter Bernstein (89)
Isaac Hayes (1942-2008): R&B singer and South Park's Chef, who died earlier this month; also, musicians Jimmy Pankow (61), Robert Plant (60), John Hiatt, Doug Fieger and Rudy Gatlin (all 56), KRS-One (43), Fred Durst (38), Brad Avery (37) and Monique Powell (33) - Peter Horton (55): actor/director, thirtysomething, Grey's Anatomy; actors Joan Allen (52), James Marsters (46) and Jonathan Ke Quan (37) also have a birthday today
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