evanescent \ev-uh-NES-unt\, adjective:
- Liable to vanish or pass away like vapor; fleeting.
Evanescent is from Latin evanescere, "to vanish," from e-, "from, out of" + vanescere, "to disappear," from vanus, "empty."
- A term used by many, generally in reference to someone who may be trying to make something or someone look appealing or attractive when it quite clearly will not work, or will only deceive the dumbest of people. Car salesmen are generally good at "putting lipstick on a pig" because they are always selling unroadworthy buckets of shit and try and hide their shitfulness by tarting them up.
The dude in that car yard just put a body kit on that piece of shit. Talk about putting lipstick on a pig.
Trivia
How many signatures are on the U.S. Declaration of Independence?
- 56.
- Hope Diamond: large, allegedly cursed deep blue diamond was stolen during the French Revolution (1792)
- World Wide Fund for Nature: conservation and environmental group was formed, in Switzerland (1961)
- 9/11 attacks: suicide hijackers crashed planes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania, killing 3,000 (2001)
- D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930): author of Lady Chatterly's Lover; writers O. Henry (1862-1910) and Jessica Mitford (1917-1996) were also born on this date
- Tom Landry (1924-2000): football player and coach of the Dallas Cowboys; University of Alabama coach Paul (Bear) Bryant (1913-1983) shares this birth date
- Mickey Hart (65): drummer, Grateful Dead; also, musicians Tommy Shaw (55), Moby (43), Harry Connick, Jr. (41) and Ludacris and Jon Buckland (both 31)
- Scott Patterson (50): Luke on Gilmore Girls; other actors born today include Betsy Drake (85), Earl Holliman (80), Roxann Dawson (50), Virginia Madsen (47), Kristy McNichol (46), Ryan Slattery (26) and Tyler Hoechlin (21)
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Ok, you lost me with Kristy McNichol ....
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