Thursday, May 26, 2011

clinquant \KLING-kunt\, adjective:

1. Glittering with gold or silver; tinseled.

noun:

1. Tinsel; imitation gold leaf.

Clinquant is from French, glistening, tinkling, present participle of obsolete clinquer, to clink, perhaps from Middle Dutch klinken

back door braggart

• n. A person who states a problem that they have with the express intention of letting everyone know how awesome they think they are, revealing their douche baggery to all.
• v. Back Door Bragging: The act of expressing a false statement in order to set up the conversation to prove how (seemingly) fantastic the subject finds themselves.
• effect: typically leads to eye rolls and general annoyance with subject.

Sarah: Lets go check out the new mall!

Lisa: Oh I hate clothes shopping anymore. Since I've been working out I can never find anything that fits because my waist is too tiny and my tits are too big. Life is so unfair!

Sarah: You're such a back door braggart, Lisa. Go fuck yourself.

Trivia

What canned goods were the subject of the first food standards established by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration?

• Canned tomatoes, tomato puree, and tomato paste, in 1939. The agency’s second set of food standards dealt with jams and jellies.

History

• Edict of Worms: declared Martin Luther an outlaw and banned his writings (1521)
• Andrew Johnson: 17th president of the United States was acquitted by one vote in his impeachment trial (1868)
• Dow Jones Industrial Average: stock market index was first published by The Wall Street Journal (1896)
• George Willig: the "human fly" scaled the South Tower of the World Trade Center in 3.5 hours; he was fined $1.10 for the illegal feat — a penny per story (1977)
• Ellis Island: the US Supreme Court ruled that the immigration landmark belonged more to New Jersey than New York (1998)

Birthdays

• Aleksandr Pushkin (1799-1837): poet, novelist, playwright
• Miles Davis (1926-1991): jazz trumpeter, Kind of Blue; also, musicians Al Jolson (1886-1950), Stevie Nicks (63), Hank Williams Jr. (62) and Lenny Kravitz (47)
• Sally Ride (60): America's first woman in space; plus, America's first female ambassador Helen Eugenie Anderson (1909-1997)
• Helena Bonham Carter (45): Bellatrix Lestrange in the Harry Potter films and Queen Elizabeth, in The King's Speech; also, actors John Wayne (1907-1979), Robert Morley (1908-1992), James Arness (88), Pam Grier and Philip Michael Thomas (both 62), Margaret Colin (54), Doug Hutchison (51) and Genie Francis (49)
• Matt Stone (40): creator of South Park; comedian Bobcat Goldthwait (49) shares this birth date

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