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Provided by the compucert laudable \LAW-duh-bul\, adjective:
- Worthy of praise; commendable.
Laudable comes from Latin laudabilis, from laudare, "to praise," from laus, laud-, "praise."
- The act of attempting to ride a bus by standing in the aisle like a surfer. The goal is to stand for as long as possible without touching anything (seats, poles, people) for support. Often a competition between two people to see who can stand the longest..
''On the way home last night I was bus surfing for a full 3 minutes!''
Trivia
Who was the only member of a losing Super Bowl team to be named Most Valuable Player?
- Dallas Cowboys linebacker Chuck Howley, at Super Bowl V in 1971. Dallas lost 16–13 to the Baltimore Colts in a sloppily played game that was dubbed the Blunder Bowl by some and the Blooper Bowl by others because of its 11 turnovers.
- William McKinley: US president was shot; he died 8 days later (1901)
- Queen Juliana: popular monarch assumed the throne of the Netherlands, which she retained until 1980 (1948)
- Saint Petersburg: the original name was restored after the Russian city had been Leningrad since 1924 (1991)
Roger Waters (65): rock artist, Pink Floyd; musicians Macy Gray (41) and Foxy Brown (29) share this birth date - Jeff Foxworthy (50): actor, comedian and host of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?; other actors born on this date include JoAnne Worley (71), Swoosie Kurtz (64), Jane Curtin (61), Rosie Perez (44) and Justin Whalin (34)
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