copacetic \koh-puh-SET-ik\, adjective:
- Very satisfactory; fine.
The origin of copacetic is unknown.
unlightening
- A process of "learning" something that makes you feel dumber.
The conversation I had with my blind date was so unlightening that I practically fell asleep before the salad course.
History
- Lewis and Clark: explorers arrived back in St. Louis after a three-year journey through the US Pacific Northwest (1806)
- Neptune: the eighth planet from the sun was discovered (1846)
- Checkers speech: as a vice-presidential candidate, Richard M. Nixon denied having received improper contributions, except perhaps for his daughter's dog, Checkers (1952)
- Caesar Augustus 63 B.C.
- William McGuffy 1800
- Victoria Chaflin Woodhull 1838
- Walter Lippmann 1889
- Walter Pidgeon 1897
- Louis Nevelson 1900
- Mickey Rooney (Joe Yule, Jr.) 1920
- Gail Russell 1924
- John Coltrane 1926
- Ray Charles 1930
- Colin Blakely 1930
- Pay (Chiyoko) Suzuki 1931
- Les McCann 1935
- Romy Schneider 1938
- Ben E. King (The Drifters) 1938
- Roy Buchanan 1939
- T3h Bax0jayz Father 1939
- Julio Iglesias 1943
- Steve Boone (The Lovin' Spoonful) 1943
- Paul Petersen 1945
- Ronald Bushy (Iron Butterfly) 1945
- Don Grolnick 1947
- Mary Kay Place 1947
- Neal Smith (Alice Cooper, Bouchard, Dunaway & Smith (BSD))
- Bruce Springsteen 1949
- Jason Alexander 1959
- Elizabeth Pena 1961
- Don Herron (BR5-49) 1962
- Ani DiFranco 1970
- Lucia Cifarelli 1971 (KMFDM)
- Sarah Bettens (K's Choice) 1972
- Mike Felumiee (Smoking Popes) 1974
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