Sunday, December 27, 2009

Sunday, December 27, 2009

expatiate \ek-SPAY-shee-ayt\, intransitive verb:

  • To speak or write at length or in considerable detail.
  • To move about freely; to wander.
Expatiate is from Latin expatiari, "to walk or go far and wide," from ex-, "out" + spatiari, "to walk about," from spatium, "space; an open space, a place for walking in."
christmas tight
  • The period of time after Christmas and New Years where the clothes you wore prior to the holidays that fit well, all of a sudden are a little tighter than they should be.
"I got this new dress shirt for Christmas. I went to wear it with my favorite work pants, but they are a little Christmas tight now."
Trivia
What movie topped the American Film Institute’s list of the 100 funniest films ever?
  • Some Like It Hot, the 1959 Billy Wilder classic starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon. The list was compiled in 2000.
Today in History
  • Carry Nation: hatchet-wielding temperance activist smashed her first saloon (1900)
  • Radio City Music Hall: world's largest indoor theater staged its first show (1932)
  • World Bank: was formed to fund postwar reconstruction in Europe; later, the focus turned to developing third-world countries (1945)
  • Afghanistan: was seized by Soviet forces; president Hafizullah Amin, was overthrown, executed and replaced with Soviet-supported Babrak Karmal (1979)
  • Free Aceh Movement: Indonesia's Aceh rebels formally disbanded their military wing, ending a 30-year armed struggle for independence, in accordance with a peace deal that came out of the 2004 tsunami (2005)
Today's Birthdays

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