Word of the Day for Sunday, August 26, 2007

gravitas \GRAV-uh-tahs\, noun:

• High seriousness (as in a person's bearing or in the treatment of a subject).

Urban Word of the Day

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August 26, 2007: tfsu
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tfsu&defid=2563588

• STFU in the parlance of Yoda. Acronym for "the fuck shut up."

"Stupid your argument is. TFSU you should." - Yoda

Trivia
What is the name of TV news-wit Jon Stewart’s production company?

• Busboy Productions.

Today in History
Battle of Crécy: longbows helped heavily outnumbered English defeat French, marking decline of chivalry and rise of England as a world power (1346)
MLB: the first televised baseball game pitted the Cincinnati Reds against the Brooklyn Dodgers (now the LA Dodgers) (1939)
Pope John Paul I: assumed the papacy; he died one month later (1978)

Today's Birthdays
Robert Walpole (1676-1745): British PM
Branford Marsalis (47): Grammy-winning jazz saxophonist
Thalia (35): Mexican pop superstar
Macaulay Culkin (27): actor, Home Alone