pettifogging \PET-ee-fog-ing, -faw-ging\, adjective:
- insignificant; petty: pettifogging details.
- dishonest or unethical in insignificant matters; meanly petty.
Pettifogging comes from a combination of the word petty and the Middle Dutch word voger meaning "one who arranges things." The verb pettifog is a backformation of this term.
idgaf
- An acronym for 'I don't give a fuck'. Indifference. Used when you don't care about something, or have no opinion on a matter. Sometimes used without the 'i', ie "I dgaf about her".
Person 1: Hey hey you you I don't like your girlfriend
Person 2: idgaf
History
- Canada: was ceded by France to Britain when the Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War (1763)
- "All the News That's Fit to Print": first appeared on page 1 of The New York Times; the slogan was coined by owner Adolph S. Ochs (1897)
- 1934 - The first imperforated, ungummed sheets of postage stamps were issued by the U.S. Postal Service in New York City. "Chattanooga Choo Choo": earned bandleader Glenn Miller the first gold record for sales of over 1 million (1942)
- 1962 - The Soviet Union exchanged capture American U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for the Soviet spy Rudolph Ivanovich Abel being held by the U.S.
ZZ Top played their first show together (1970) - Deep Blue: computer won its first game against world chess champ Garry Kasparov (1996)
Birthdays
- William Allen White 1868
- Boris Pasternak 1890
- Jimmy Durante 1893
- Maurice Harold Macmillan 1894 - British Prime Minister from 1957-1963
- Bertolt Brecht 1898 - Dramatist, poet
- Dame Judith Anderson 1898
- Lon Chaney, Jr. 1905
- Larry Adler 1914
- Allie Reynolds 1919
- Leontyne Price 1927
- Jerry Goldsmith 1929
- Robert Wagner 1930
- James E. West 1931
- Don Wilson (The Ventures) 1937
- Roberta Flack 1939
- Jimmy Merchant (Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers) 1940
- Ral Donner 1943
- Frances Moore Lapp 1944
- Greg Norman 1955
- Kathleen Beller 1955
- Lionel Cartwright 1960
- George Stephanopoulos 1961
- Cliff Burton 1962 - Musician (Metallica)
- Laura Dern 1967
- Dude Mowrey 1972
- Elizabeth Banks (Elizabeth Maresal Mitchell) 1974 - Actress
- Chloë Grace Moretz 1997
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