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Provided by the compucert grok \GRAWK\, verb:
- To understand, especially in a profound and intimate way. Slang.
The slang word grok was coined by Robert A. Heinlein in the science fiction novel "Stranger in a Strange Land", where it is a Martian word meaning literally "to drink" and metaphorically "to be one with".
air guitar- An ancient art that originated after God wanted to rock out but had no electric guitar on hand. He realised how sweet a thing he had just created so he wanted to pass it down onto man when man had no axe to rock with. This talent was given to man, by God, through Jesus. Jesus showed the world the ineffable art of air guitar during his ressurection. Jesus was radiating with a bright white light because he was rocking so hard. The art of the air guitar was thus written down in the Bible and succesfully passed on to man. The practice of air guitar since it's inception has been shown throughout the history of the world. Jesus is discretely air guitaring in the famous painting The Last Supper in the Galleria Borghese, Rome. On and on has this holy tradition gone. It is kept alive by generations of rockers young and old. If you are listening to a really sweet guitar solo and you have no real guitar to emulate the action of rocking, pick up your hands, put them in position, and rock and roll all night. Remember...rock on.
Adam was listening to Communication Breakdown by Led Zeppelin and it was nearing the kickass guitar solo. But he had no guitar. So he took matters into his own hands. He played air guitar and never stopped rocking.
Trivia What world-famous poem was originally titled He Do the Police in Different Voices?
- The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot, whose editor, Ezra Pound, is believed to have pressed for the title change. The poem is dedicated to Pound.
- Pocahontas: Algonquian princess married English colonist John Rolfe, a tobacco planter (1614)
- veto: was used by a US president for 1st time — by George Washington; it was another half century before Congress first overrode a presidential veto (1792)
- Akashi Kaikyō Bridge: Japanese "Pearl Bridge" opened; it links Kobe to Awaji Island and, at 1,991 meters or 6,532 feet, is the world's longest suspension bridge (1998)
Birthdays
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679): political philosopher, Leviathan; also, philosopher/politician Vincenzo Gioberti (1801-1852)- Joseph Lister (1827-1912): physician who pioneered the use of antiseptics during surgery
- Booker T. Washington (1856-1915): educator, founder of Tuskegee University
- Spencer Tracy (1900-1967): Oscar-winning star of Adam's Rib and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner; other actors born on this date include Bette Davis (1908-1989), Gregory Peck (1916-2003), Gale Storm (1922-2009), Michael Moriarty (69), Max Gail (67), Jane Asher (64), Mitch Pileggi (58) and Krista Allen (39)
Agnetha Fältskog (60): one of the ABBA four; musicians Tommy Cash (70), Allan Clarke (68), Mike McCready (44), Troy Gentry (43), Paula Cole (42) and Pharrell Williams (37) were also born on this date
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