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Provided by the compucert misprize \mis-PRYZ\, transitive verb:
- To hold in contempt.
- To undervalue.
Misprize comes from Middle French mesprisier, from mes-, "amiss, wrong" + prisier, "to appraise."
Joe the Plumber- a fictional person representing the whole of the people; mostly the lower to middle class.
- a political strategy where one side asks the other what he would do for the above mentioned.
man2: yea, they're increasing his taxes.
man1: so if you became president, what would you do for Joe the Plumber?
man2: well, i would give him a big taxbreak.
Trivia
Who was the only performer to take home an Oscar for Best Actor when all the other nominees were past winners?
- Adrien Brody, who won for The Pianist in 2003. The other nominees were Nicolas Cage (Adaptation), Michael Caine (The Quiet American), Daniel Day-Lewis (Gangs of New York), and Jack Nicholson (About Schmidt).
- birth control: nurse Margaret Sanger founded the first clinic in the US, in Brooklyn, New York, for which she was arrested (1916)
- Million Man March: African-American men rallied in Washington, DC, led by Louis Farrakhan, in an effort to increase voting and community involvement (1995)
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) wrote sophisticated, clever and pithy plays and poetry.
- David Ben-Gurion (1886-1973): first prime minister of Israel; Irish revolutionary leader Michael Collins (1890-1922) was also born on this date
- Tim Robbins (50): actor/filmmaker, The Shawshank Redemption; also, actors Angela Lansbury (83), Barry Corbin (68), Suzanne Somers (62), Kellie Martin (33) and Jeremy Jackson (28)
- John Mayer (31): singer/songwriter; also, musicians C.F. Turner (65), Bob Weir (61), Gary Kemp (49), Flea (46) and Roy Hargrove and Wendy Wilson (both 39)
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Ahh, Suzanne Somers. That pic is from one of her old Playboy shoots, in my collection, of course.
I think I used to have it too, but the wife had other thoughts.
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