Thursday, June 23, 2011

jujitsu \joo-JIT-soo\, noun:

1. The ability to accomplish a task with no apparent effort or resistance.

2. Method developed in Japan of defending oneself without the use of weapons by using the strength and weight of an adversary to disable him.

Jujitsu comes from the Japanese martial art of the same name, with the word being a combination of ju, "soft," and jitsu, "technique."

File That Under Who Gives a Shit

• This is a reply that you give to an announcement that in inconsequential, especially when the person making the announcement thinks it's some sort of big deal, or even notable.

You won a Golden Globe for that?

Yes, I did.

Wow...file that under Who Gives a Shit

Trivia

What was the world’s first televised sports spectacular?

• The Joe Louis-Billy Conn heavyweight championship fight at Yankee Stadium on June 19, 1946. The bout sponsored by Gillette and televised by NBC, was seen by 45,266 paying spectators at the stadium plus an estimated 150,000 TV viewers. The world’s first televised sports event was a college baseball game between Columbia and Princeton on May 17, 1939.

History

• typewriter: Christopher Sholes received a patent for his new typing machine (1868)
• Banff National Park: Canada's first national park was signed into law; it is in Alberta, on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains (1887)
• SAT: standardized college-admission exam was first administered; 8,000 test-takers had 90 minutes to answer 315 questions (1924)
• Warren E. Burger: was sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States; he served until 1986 (1969)
• John Gotti: the "Teflon don," boss of the Gambino crime family, was sentenced to life in prison (1992)
• Mr & Mrs Bax0jayz tie the (balloon) knot (2001)

Birthdays

• Edward VIII (1894-1972): king of England who abdicated for love; Napoleon's consort and French empress Joséphine (1763-1814) shared this birth date
• Alan Turing (1912-1954): pioneer in computers and AI
• Bob Fosse (1927-1987): choreographer/director, Tony winner for Pippin, Oscar winner for Cabaret; also, playwright Jean Anouilh (1910-1987)
• Clarence Thomas (63): Supreme Court justice
• Randy Jackson (55): rock star and American Idol judge; plus, musician June Carter Cash (1929-2003)
• Frances McDormand (54): Oscar winner for Fargo; also, actors Ted Shackelford (65), Bryan Brown (64) and Selma Blair (39)
• Zinedine Zidane (39): 1998 World Cup MVP; Olympic gold-medalist Wilma Rudolph (1940-1994) was also born on this date

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