Word of the Day Friday August 24, 2007

effrontery \ih-FRUN-tuh-ree\, noun:

• Insulting presumptuousness; shameless boldness; insolence.

Urban Word of the Day

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August 24, 2007: Remasculate
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• The opposite of [emasculate]. To grow one's balls back after they have been shrunken by an especially effeminate activity.

God, the girlfriend dragged me to go see License to Wed... it was terrible. I had to remasculate afterwards by watching Die Hard: The Bloody Retribution.





Trivia

For what baseball team did Archie “Moonlight” Graham play during his brief stint in the major leagues?

• Graham played for the New York Giants for one inning in June 1995—never fielding a ball or getting a turn at bat. He was made famous in the 1989 film Field of Dreams, in which he was portrayed by Frank Whaley as a young man and by Burt Lancaster as an old man.

Today in History

• Mount Vesuvius: erupted, burying the Roman cities of Stabiae, Pompeii and Herculaneum in volcanic ash; some 20,000 people died (79)
• Washington, DC: was invaded by the British during the War of 1812; the Capitol and White House were set ablaze (1814)
• Mexico: became independent of Spain (1821)

Today's Birthdays

• Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986): Argentinian writer, Ficciones
• Dave Chappelle (34): star of Chappelle's Show
• Rupert Grint (19): Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter movies
• Kenny Baker (73): actor who played R2-D2 in Star Wars