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Provided by the compucert mot juste \moh-ZHOOST\, noun:
- a word or phrase that exacts fits the case
from French mot "word" and juste "right"
- the general euphoria experienced when your candidate of choice wins by a landslide.
- the sexual arousal and excitement caused by same.
"Dude, when I saw the final tally of votes on Nov. 4, I got a total election erection!" or "You may have a first-time voter boner, but when Obama won I got a total election erection."
Trivia
What basketball great was the only three-time winner of the National Collegiate Association of America's Most Valuable Player award?
- Lew Alcindor, playing for UCLA, from 1967 to 1969. He later changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
- October Revolution: the Bolshevik uprising that really took place in November (the difference is due to Russian Old Style dates) began in St. Petersburg (1917)
- Adolphe Sax (1814-1894): inventor of the sax; composers John Philip Sousa (1854-1932) and Ignace Jan Paderewski (1860-1941) share this birth date
- James Naismith (1861-1939): inventor of basketball
- Mike Nichols (77): multiple award-winning director of stage and screen
- Kelly Rutherford (40): Gossip Girl's Lily van der Woodsen; also, actors Sally Field (62), Lori Singer (51), Lance Kerwin (48), Peter DeLuise (42), Ethan Hawke (38), Thandie Newton and Rebecca Romijn (both 36) and Zoe McLellan (34)
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