Thursday, August 11, 2011

billet \BIL-it\, verb:

1. To provide or obtain lodging.

2. To direct (a soldier) by ticket, note, or verbal order, where to lodge.

noun:

1. Lodging for a soldier, student, etc., as in a private home or nonmilitary public building.

2. A small chunk of wood; a short section of a log, especially one cut for fuel.

Billet stems from the French billet, "official register." The word relates to the English bill.

Mental virginity

• The general state of mind characterized by complete ignorance about sex and human reproduction.

Dude they think that sex ed teaches us a heck of a lot of stuff we didn't know, but the truth is, we lost our mental virginity a while back.

Totally dude.

*high five

Trivia

What animal was given the Latin name Avahi cleesei in honor of actor-funnyman John Cleese?

• Not a python—a woolly lemur. It was named for Cleese, who played a lemur-loving zookeeper in the 1997 film comedy Fierce Creatures and hosted a 1998 documentary about the endangered species titled Operation Lemur.

History

• SOS: Arapahoe became the first American ship to use the distress signal (1909)
• Alcatraz: island prison in San Francisco Bay received its first civilian inmates (1934)
• Hussein ibn Talal: 16-year-old was proclaimed king of Jordan after his father was declared mentally unfit (1952)
• Watts riots: civil disturbances in Los Angeles left 34 dead (1965)
• The Mall of America: the most-visited mall in the world opened on the site of Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, Minnesota (1992)

Birthdays

• Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (1778-1852): father of gymnastics
• Alex Haley (1921-1992): author of Roots; also, writers Eduard Devrient (1801-1877), Hugh MacDiarmid (1892-1978) and Louise Bogan (1897-1970)
• Jerry Falwell (1933-2007): Moral Majority founder
• Steve Wozniak (61): cofounder of Apple Computers
• Hulk Hogan (58): wrestler/actor, host of NBC's American Gladiators
• Julia Anne Clarke (39): aka Julie Clarke, Playmate 03/91, actress, model, hardbody

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