insouciant \in-SOO-see-uhnt\, adjective:
- Marked by lighthearted unconcern or indifference; carefree; nonchalant.
Insouciant is from the French, from in-, "not" + souciant, "caring," present participle of soucier, "to trouble," from Latin sollicitare, "to disturb," from sollicitus, "anxious." The noun form is insouciance.
Dohment- One of those slap your forehead moments when you realise that you've just done something incredibly stupid.The moment when something "dawns on you" and "the penny drops.
A dohment is when you realise that you've put the baby outside and tucked the cat up in the cot for the night.
orA dohment is when you wonder why the lawn isn't looking any better then notice that you haven't engaged the lawnmower blade.
TriviaWhat popular garden flower is named after a hat?
- The tulip. Its name is a corruption of tülbend, the Ottoman Turkish word for “turban.” The Turks who named it thought the opened flower resembled a turban.
- Ulysses: a US appeals court ruled that the James Joyce novel was not obscene and therefore should not be banned (1934)
- Kon-Tiki: the balsa wood raft made it across the Pacific, crashing at the end on a reef in the Tuomotu Islands; this demonstrated that pre-Columbian South Americans could have reached and settled Polynesia (1947)
- Gulf of Tonkin resolution: US Congress authorized President Lyndon B. Johnson to use military force in Vietnam (1964)

- US embassy bombings: simultaneous al-Qaeda attacks in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killed over 200 people and wounded thousands (1998)
- Mata Hari (1876-1917): dancer/spy
- B.J. Thomas (67): country/pop singer, "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head"; also, musicians Bruce Dickinson (51) and Marcus Roberts (46)
- David Duchovny (49): actor, The X-Files, Californication; also, performers Stan Freberg (83), Wayne Knight (54), Harold Perrineau (46) and Charlize Theron (34)
- Sidney Crosby (22): center for Pittsburgh Penguins; runners Abebe Bikila (1932-1973) and Alberto Salazar (51) share this birth date











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