Sunday, June 12, 2011

arroyo \uh-ROI-oh\, noun:

• A small steep-sided gulch with a nearly flat floor: usually dry except after heavy rains.

Arroyo is an Americanism, adopted from the Spanish term; akin to Latin arrūgia, "mine shaft."

pseudointellectual

• A bunch of academic quacks who have substantial abilities in faking their exaggerated reasoning abilities, and resent doing "real work" because they consider it "beneath them".

1. They question, or do not believe in the existence of God, because being an atheist makes them feel rebellious, distinctive, and "smart".

2. They sponge up much needed financial aid that would have been better invested in technical fields like engineering or medical research.

3. They are no valuable use to society. Their theory about the "Ambitions of Man" will not stop the emerging SuperAIDS epidemic from wiping out those who can't afford the state-of-the-art prescriptions. Same goes for SARS and the bird flu.

4. They congregate at StarBucks because without a adequate shot of caffeine, which is what their blood is mostly composed of, their heart rate would slow down and they will literally "freeze" to death.

• Pseudointellectuals believe in God and his Son's birth only during the Christmas season, so they can upgrade their cell phone plans and state their own independence from "mainstream" society by buying overpriced shirts from the Abercrombie captioned "Fuck Bush".
• In short, they are self-important assholes with a strong vocabulary.

Examples:

1-

Jon: Hi Janet! We didn't disturb you, did we?

Janet: No, I was merely reading the Sunday New York Times.

Bax: ***koff*** pseudointellectual

2-

Con: Did you hear Martin's brilliant analysis of all that's wrong with the United States?

Bob: No. Lemme guess, it ties out with why he can't get a decent paying job?

Con: He's not a cog in the capitalist machine.

Bob: No, he's a pseudointellectual.

Trivia

In what four sports do players dribble a ball?

• Basketball, soccer, water polo, and bandy. Bandy is a winter sport played on ice with a ball and stick.

Holidays

• Russia Day (Russia)

History

• Virginia: became the first state to adopt a bill of rights — the Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776)
• perfect game: John Lee Richmond pitched the first MLB game in which no batter reached base during the entire nine innings (1880)
• Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum: shrine to the US national pastime was dedicated in Cooperstown, New York (1939)
• Loving v. Virginia: US Supreme Court struck down all bans on interracial marriages (1967)
• Gossamer Albatross: human-powered aircraft was flown by Bryan Allen across the English Channel (1979)
• "Tear down this wall": challenge was issued by US President Ronald Reagan to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev; the Berlin Wall did indeed come down two years later (1987)
• $50 bill: new and improved design was unveiled by the US Treasury to help the elderly and hinder counterfeiters (1997)

Birthdays

• Adriana Lima (30): hot Brazilian supermodel
• John A. Roebling (1806-1869): civil engineer who designed the Brooklyn Bridge
• Johanna Spyri (1827-1901): author of Heidi; other writers born on this date include Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) and Djuna Barnes (1892-1982)
• George H.W. Bush (87): US president who promised a "kinder, gentler nation"; another world leader who shared this birthday was Anthony Eden (1897-1977)
• Anne Frank (1929-1945): the Jewish teen who wrote a diary about the years her family hid from the Nazis during WWII
• Chick Corea (70): Grammy-winning musician who helped develop jazz fusion; also, musicians Vic Damone and Richard Sherman (both 82), Jim Nabors (81), Junior Brown (59), Meredith Brooks (53), John Linnell (52) and Kenny Wayne Shepherd (34)
• Timothy Busfield (54): actor/director, thirtysomething, The West Wing; also, actors Paula Marshall (47) and Frances O'Connor (44)
• Kendra Wilkinson (26): former Girl Next Door

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