sumpsimus \SUHMP-suh-muhs\, noun:
- Adherence to or persistence in using a strictly correct term, holding to a precise practice, etc., as a rejection of an erroneous but more common form (opposed to mumpsimus).
- A person who is obstinate or zealous about such strict correctness (opposed to mumpsimus).
Like its counterpart mumpsimus, sumpsimus comes from to a story about an illiterate priest. In this case, sumpsimus refers to the opposite practice as mumpsimus.
- The substance flowing through the veins of Charlie Sheen & other bad ass rock stars that allows them to survive epic partying (copious amounts of alcohol and illicit controlled substances like cocaine, etc) that would kill normal people.
Charlie Sheen-"The last time I took drugs I probably took more than anybody could survive, I was banging 7 gram rocks and and finishing them because that's how I roll!"
Interviewer-"How do you survive that??"
CS-"'Cause I'm me... I have a different brain, a different heart, ya' know, I got tiger blood man"
Trivia.
History
- Great Fire of Rome: a conflagration that destroyed Rome began; Nero (who probably didn't really fiddle while Rome burned) blamed it on Christians and began the first Roman persecutions of them (65)
- secret ballot: new voting method was introduced in Britain (1872)
- Spanish Civil War: General Francisco Franco led an uprising in Spanish North Africa, beginning a war that lasted for three years; at the war's end, Franco became dictator of Spain until his death in 1975 (1936)
- FDR: the 32nd POTUS was nominated for an unprecedented third term in office (1940)
- Nadia Comaneci: 14-year-old Romanian earned the first perfect 10 in Olympics gymnastics (1976)
- Gilbert White 1720
- William Makepeace Thackeray 1811
- Vidkum Quisling 1887
- Chill Willis 1903
- S.I. Hayakawa 1906
- Clifford Odetts 1906
- Lou Busch 1910
- Hume Cronyn 1911
- Harriet Nelson 1912
- Marvin Miller 1913
- Richard "Red" Skelton 1913
- Nelson Mandela 1918 - President of South Africa
- John Glenn 1921 - Astronaut
- Dick Button 1929
- Screamin' Jay Hawkins 1929
- 'Papa Dee' Allen (War) 1931
- Tenley Albright 1935
- Hunter S. Thompson 1937
- Brian Auger (Mahavishnu Players) 1939
- Dion DiMucci (Dion and the Belmonts) 1939
- James Brolin 1940
- Lonnie Mack (Memphis) 1941
- Martha Reeves (Martha and the Vandellas) 1941
- Robin McDonald (Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas) 1943
- Kurt Mann 1947
- Glenn Hughes 1950
- Ricky Skaggs 1954 - Singer
- Terry Chambers (XTC) 1955
- Nigel Twist (The Alarm) 1958
- Audrey Landers 1959
- Elizabeth McGovern 1961
- Jack Irons (Pearl Jam) 1962
- John Herman (Widespread Panic) 1962
- Vin Diesel 1967 - Actor
- Tony Fagenson (Eve 6) 1978
- Jason Weaver 1979
- Kristen Bell 1980
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