Saturday, September 18, 2010

wend \WEND\, verb:

1. To pursue or direct (one's way).

2. To proceed or go.

Wend can be traced back to the Goth wandjan, which is related to the verb "to wind."

etm.

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  Latin abbreviation for the literal translation of "and shit", specifically, "et merda". Just like "etc." (and so forth), "i.e." (that is), and "e.g." (for example), "etm." can be used to abbreviate "and shit".

At the farmer's market I got tomatoes, cucumbers, radishes, etm.

I was just taking care of bills etm. before he came over.

Trivia

What year is it on the Jewish calendar?

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  5771.

History

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  Tiffany and Co.: upscale jewelry retailer was founded as a stationery and fancy goods store (1837)
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  The New York Times: the "Gray Lady," then known as The New-York Daily Times, published its first issue (1851)
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  Jimi Hendrix: influential rock guitarist died, age 27, due to substance abuse (1970)
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  2001 anthrax attacks: began, a week after 9/11, with a mailing from Trenton, New Jersey, to various media sources in New York City (2001)

Birthdays

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  Samuel Johnson (1709-1784): lexicographer who wrote A Dictionary of the English Language
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  Léon Foucault (1819-1868): physicist who created Foucault's pendulum

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  John Diefenbaker (1895-1979): Canada's 13th PM
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  Agnes de Mille (1905-1993): dancer, choreographer of musicals like Oklahoma! and Carousel
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  Fred Willard (71): comic actor, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show; also, actors Greta Garbo (1905-1990), Rossano Brazzi (1916-1994), James Gandolfini (49), Holly Robinson Peete (46), Aisha Tyler (40), Jada Pinkett Smith (39), James Marsden (37), Emily Rutherfurd and Travis Schuldt (both 36), Jason Sudeikis (35) and Alison Lohman (31)
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  Lance Armstrong (39): winner of 7 Tours de France