Monday, November 02, 2009

truculent \TRUCK-yuh-luhnt\ , adjective;

1. Fierce; savage; ferocious; barbarous.
2. Cruel; destructive; ruthless.

Origin: Truculent derives from Latin truculentus, from trux, truc-, rough, savage, fierce.

jfgi

• Just Fucking Google it. You say it when somebody asks a stupid question.

Dude #1: hey dude, what does JFGI mean?
Dude #2: Just Fucking Google it yo.
Dude #1: I tried but i couldn't find anything.
Dude #2: JUST FUCKING GOOGLE IT!
Dude #1: bro. i already tried that. don't be mean.
Dude #2: bro, you're an idiot.
Trivia
What musical instrument represents the cuckoo in Camille Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals?

• The clarinet.

What famous actress, at age seven, dressed up as trash for a trick-or-treat skit on Late Night with David Letterman?

• Lindsay Lohan, in 1993. Her costume was “Things you find on the floor of the D-train.” Letterman gave her a garden hose as a treat.

Which American auto manufacturer was the first to offer cars with air bags to the general public?

• General Motors, in 1973. The car was the Oldsmobile Toronado. In the same year, GM also manufactured 1,000 Chevrolets with experimental air bags that were earmarked for testing by its fleet customers.

Today in History

• Balfour Declaration: British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour declared support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" (1917)
• Spruce Goose: made of birch, not spruce, the largest flying boat was flown on its first and only flight by its designer, billionaire Howard Hughes (1947)
• Levelland UFO sighting: several separate witnesses in Texas claimed to have seen, late at night, a bright egg-shaped object near which their car engines died (1957)
• Lady Chatterley's Lover: in Britain, publisher Penguin Books was found not guilty of obscenity for printing the D.H. Lawrence novel (1960)

Today's Birthdays

• Daniel Boone (1734-1820): US explorer and frontiersman, who did not actually wear a coonskin cap
• Marie Antoinette (1755-1793): queen of France during the Revolution who met her end at the guillotine
• James K. Polk (1795-1849): POTUS who fulfilled America's Manifest Destiny; also, Teapot Dome Scandal POTUS Warren G. Harding (1865-1923)
• George Boole (1815-1864): mathematician, developer of Boolean algebra
• k.d. lang (48): pop and country singer/songwriter; musicians Keith Emerson (65) and Nelly (35?)
• David Schwimmer (43): awkward paleontologist Ross on Friends; actor Burt Lancaster (1913-1994) shared this birth date