remit \ri-MIT\, verb:
1. To slacken or relax.2. To transmit money, a check, etc., as in payment.3. To abate for a time or at intervals, as a fever.4. To refrain from exacting, as a payment or service.5. To pardon or forgive a sin, offense, etc.
Remit is derived from the Latin roots re- meaning "back" and mit meaning "send," so it literally meant "to send back."
brown carded
- When a person does not wash their hands after taking a dump they receive a brown card. Similar to a warning in sports.
Brad got brown carded because he is a disgusting douche bag and didn't wash after laying an offering to the porcelain god.
Trivia
What was Europe’s first mass-produced car?
- The French Citroën, in 1919. Its first model was the 10-horsepower Type A.
History
- Great Blizzard of 1888: nor'easter killed hundreds and paralyzed the East Coast of the US from Maryland to Maine
- Juliette Gordon Low: founded the Girl Scouts of America (1912)
- Salt Satyagraha: Mahatma Gandhi began a civil disobedience campaign against the British salt tax in India with a 241-mile march to Dandi (1930)
- fireside chats: FDR began a series of morale-boosting evening radio addresses to the American public (1933)
- Anschluss: Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany (1938)
- Truman Doctrine: US president Harry S Truman announced his policy to assist countries threatened by Communism; the document provided economic assistance to Turkey and Greece (1947)
Birthdays
- Gustav Robert Kirchoff 1824
- Clement Studebaker 1831
- Charles Boycott 1832
- Jane Delano 1862
- Gustavo Diaz Orcaz 1911
- Paul Weston 1912
- Wally Schirra 1913 - Astronaut
- Googie Withers 1917
- Gordon MacRae 1921
- Jack Kerouac 1922
- Edward Albee 1928 - Playwright ("Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf")
- Al Jarreau 1932 - R&B-jazz singer
- Andrew Young 1932 - Civil rights leader, politician
- Barbara Feldon 1933 - Actress ("Get Smart")
- Johnny Rutherford 1938
- Brian O'Hara 1942 - Musician (The Fourmost)
- Liza Minnelli 1946 - Singer, actress
- Mitt Romney 1947 - RINO
- Mark Moseley 1948
- James Taylor 1948 - Singer, songwriter
- Mike Gibbins 1949 - Musician (Badfinger)
- Bill Payne 1949 - Musician (Little Feat)
- Jon Provost 1950 - Actor ("Lassie")
- Carl Hiaasen 1953 - Author
- Ron Jeremy 1953 - The Hedgehog - t3h pr0n
- Jerry Levine 1957 - Actor
- Steve Harris 1957 - Musician (Iron Maiden)
- Courtney B. Vance 1960 - Actor
- Titus Welliver 1961
- Darryl Strawberry 1962 - Baseball player
- John Andretti 1963
- Julia Campbell 1963 - Actress
- Aaron Eckhart 1968 - Actor
- Graham Coxon 1969 - Musician (Blur)
- Samm Levine 1982 - Actor
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