Friday, March 2, 2012

cant \kant\, verb:

1. To talk hypocritically.

2. To speak in the whining or singsong tone of a beggar; beg.

noun:

1. Insincere, especially conventional expressions of enthusiasm for high ideals, goodness, or piety.

2. The private language of the underworld.

3. The phraseology peculiar to a particular class, party, profession, etc.

4. Whining or singsong speech, especially of beggars.

Cant comes from the same Latin word as chant, the Latin word for song, cantus. The sense of "insincere talk" arose in the early 1700s.

weird part of youtube

the part of youtube where one encounters very odd videos, such as the retarded running horse, retarded dog, and drunk squirrel.

how the hell did i get to the weird part of youtube?

Trivia

Who are the eight princesses that have been featured in Walt Disney movies since the 1937 debut of Snow White in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?

• Cinderella (Cinderella); Aurora (Sleeping Beauty); Ariel (The Little Mermaid); Belle (Beauty and the Beast); Jasmine (Aladdin); Pocahontas (Pocahontas); Mulan (Mulan); and Tiana (The Princess and the Frog).

History

• Puerto Rico: became a US territory; its residents gained US citizenship (1917)
• Time: the newsweekly debuted (1923)
• Bill of Rights: the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution were finally ratified by Massachusetts, 147 years after having gone into effect (1939)
• B-50 Superfortress: became the first aircraft to fly around the world nonstop, landing in Fort Worth, Texas, after a flight time of 94:01 (1949)
• Morocco: gained independence from France (1956)
• 100-point game: Wilt Chamberlain set the NBA's single-game scoring record in a Philadelphia Warriors-New York Knicks game; he had not slept and had a hangover (1962)

Birthdays

• Sam Houston 1793 - First President of the Republic of Texas
• Dr. Suess 1904
• Desi Arnaz 1917
• Jennifer Jones 1919 - Actress
• John Cullum 1930 - Actor ("Northern Exposure")
• Tom Wolfe 1931 - Author
• Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 - Former Soviet President
• Al Waxman 1934
• Doug Watkins 1934
• Paul Dino 1939
• Barbara Luna 1939 - Actress
• Jon Finch 1941 - Actor
• John Irving 1942 - Author
• Lou Reed 1942 - Musician (Velvet Underground)
• Eddie Money 1949 - Musician
• Karen Carpenter 1950 - Singer (The Carpenters)
• Cassie Yates 1951 - Actress
• Laraine Newman 1952 - Actress ("Saturday Night Live")
• Jay Osmond 1955 - Singer (The Osmond Brothers)
• Mark Evans 1956 - Musician (AC/DC)
• John Cowsill 1956 - Musician (The Cowsills)
• Kevin Curren 1958
• Larry Stewart 1959 - Musician (Restless Heart)
• Jon Bon Jovi 1962 - Musician (Bon Jovi)
• Daniel Craig 1968 - Actor
• Casey 1976 - Musician (Jimmie's Chicken Shack)
• Heather McComb 1977 - Actress ("Party of Five")
• Chris Martin 1977 - Musician (Coldplay)
• Bryce Dallas Howard 1981 - Actress
• Ben Roethlisberger 1982 - Football player
• Robert Iler 1985 - Actor ("The Sopranos")
• Reggie Bush 1985 - Football player