bombast \BOM-bast\, noun:
- Pompous or pretentious speech or writing.
Bombast comes from Medieval French bombace, "cotton, hance padding," from Late Latin bombax, "cotton."
echo boomer- The child of a Baby Boomer.
I didn't have my Echo Boomer around to show me how to download a ringtone to my cell phone.
TriviaWho guest-starred on the TV sitcom Friends, playing an ungainly male stripper in a policeman’s uniform?
- Danny DeVito, in a 2004 episode titled “The One Where the Stripper Cries.”
- peace symbol: was designed by Gerald Holtom as a nuclear disarmament logo; it combines the letters "n" and "d" in the flag semaphore alphabet (1958)
- Malcolm X: militant civil rights leader was assassinated by members of the Nation of Islam while delivering a speech in New York (1965)
- Steve Fossett: became the first to cross the Pacific in a balloon upon traveling from South Korea to Canada; 12 years later, he disappeared while flying a plane in Nevada and later was declared dead (1995)
- Anais Nin (1903-1977): writer best known for her diaries and erotica; author W.H. Auden (1907-1973) and Erma Bombeck (1927-1996) were also born on this date
- Hubert de Givenchy (83): designer of classically elegant fashions
- Jennifer Love Hewitt (31): TV and film actor, Ghost Whisperer; also, actors Rue McClanahan (75), Richard Beymer (72), Peter McEnery (70), Tyne Daly, Anthony Daniels and Alan Rickman (all 64), Christine Ebersole andWilliam Petersen (both 57), Kelsey Grammer (55), Jack Coleman (52), William Baldwin (47), Ellen Page (23) andCorbin Bleu (21)
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