Sunday, March 22, 2009

pithy \PITH-ee\, adjective:

• concise and to the point; full of meaning and forcec.

1400, from Old English pith, of unknown origin but cognate German words referring to "inner part, essence"
bitchassness

• Term coined by Diddy on Making the Band. Overall stank actions towards others through words, facial expressions, and/or song. Symptoms include: thinking your better than those around you, not speaking your true feelings, throwing large amounts of shade.

Tony: "Dont fuck up in our friendship Kile ... cause i will call u out on ur BitchAssNESS!!!"

Kile: "Doctor, is there something we can do??? is there something that i can take to cure this bitchassness???"

Trivia
Which U.S. state and its capital city do not share any of the same letters?

• South Dakota and its capital, Pierre.

Today in History:

• Equal Rights Amendment: was approved by US Congress; it was never ratified by the states (1972)
• Flying Wallendas: patriarch Karl Wallenda fell to his death from a tightrope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico (1978)
• Hale-Bopp: comet passed the closest to Earth till the year 4397 at a distance of 1.315 AU (1997)

Today's Birthdays:

• Randolph Caldecott (1846-1886): artist and illustrator, he's the inspiration for the Caldecott Medal; and, portrait painter Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641)
• Louis L'Amour (1908-1988): author of more than 100 novels, most of them westerns; plus, novelists Bienvenido Santos (1911-1996) and James Patterson (62)
• William Shatner (78): Captain Kirk on Star Trek and Denny Crane on Boston Legal; also, performers Karl Malden (97), Marcel Marceau (1923-2007), M. Emmet Walsh (74), Lena Olin (54), Matthew Modine (50) and Reese Witherspoon (33)

  

• Andrew Lloyd Webber (61): composer, Phantom of the Opera, Cats ; also, composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim (79)
• Wolf Blitzer (61): journalist, reporter for CNN

Quote:

• "When the well is dry, they know the worth of water." — Benjamin Franklin