Friday, June 3, 2011

Buridan's ass (byoo-RUHD-uhnz ass)noun:

• A situation demonstrating the impracticality of decision-making using pure reason, especially a situation involving two equal choices.

Etymology: Named after French philosopher Jean Buridan (1300-1358).

Loltracktor

• The pet name of the german Ltractor tank in the Game World of Tanks

First guy- "Wtf is a Loltractor doing in a tier 10 game"

Second guy-"hes in platoon with the IS-4"

First guy-"Shit i dont want to have waste the ammo to kill him to expensive"

Second guy-"I cant belive the loltracktor killed us becuase no one wanted to pay 1k for the shell that would kill him" *facepalm*

Trivia

• Sorry, later

Today's History

• ''Casey at the Bat'': was first published, in the San Francisco Examiner (1888)
• Duke of Windsor: the former King Edward VIII wed American divorcee Wallis Simpson, for love of whom he abdicated the throne of England (1937)
• Tupolev Tu-144: Soviet jet crashes at the Paris Air Show; it was the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft (1973)
• The Producers: Broadway musical by Mel Brooks won a record 12 Tony Awards (2001)

Today's Birthdays

• Jefferson Davis (1808-1889): Confederate president
• Charles Drew: surgeon who created the first blood bank (1904-1950)
• Josephine Baker (1906-1975): singer, dancer, activist
• Tony Curtis (1925-2010): star of Some Like it Hot and The Boston Strangler
• Larry McMurtry (75): novelist/screenwriter who wrote The Last Picture Show and Lonesome Dove; writers William Douglas-Home (1912-1992) and Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) shared his birth date
• Dan Hill (57): singer/songwriter, "Sometimes When We Touch"; also, musicians Curtis Mayfield (1942-1999), Charles Lecocq (1832-1918), Boots Randolph (1927-2007), Suzi Quatro (61)
• Anderson Cooper (44): broadcast journalist, host of CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°
• Rafael Nadal (25): tennis pro