Sunday, July 15, 2007

Word of the Day for Sunday, July 15, 2007

providential \prov-uh-DEN(T)-shuhl\, adjective:
1. Of or resulting from divine direction or superintendence.
2. Occurring through or as if through divine intervention; peculiarly fortunate or appropriate.


Urban Word of the Day
www.urbandictionary.com
July 15, 2007:
REMF
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=REMF&defid=113053

  • Rear Echelon Mother Fucker. One who has no frontline or combat experience, and therefore makes huge errors at expense of human life. The REMF's decisions make sense only if you think of human beings as statistics. This is the main problem with REMFs- they think of people as numbers.
Shit! That REMF canceled the supply drop! We're on our own for this one!

Trivia:
How many Hollywood films did future governors Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jesse Ventura appear in together?
  • Three—Predator and The Running Man, both in 1987, and Batman & Robin in 1997. Former bodybuilder Schwarzenegger was elected governor of California; former wrestler Ventura, Minnesota.
Today's Birthdays:


Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669): Dutch painter
Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850-1917): first US saint
Jacques Derrida (1930-2004): Algerian-born French deconstructionist philosopher
Linda Ronstadt (61): country rock star of the 1970s
Jesse Ventura (56): former wrestler, governor of Minnesota

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