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Provided by the compucert quondam \KWAHN-duhm; KWAHN-dam\, adjective:
- Having been formerly; former; sometime.
Quondam comes from the Latin quondam, "formerly," from quom, "when."
- Doing something that is a complete waste of effort and time for which you can expect no results and may even backfire on you.
Telling the president that invading other countries is unpopular with many voters is like pissing in the wind.
Trivia
In what sport is there a side horse?
- Gymnastics. Also known as the pommel horse, it’s a cylindrical, leather-padded apparatus with two upright handles.
- 14th Amendment: granted full citizenship to former US slaves; introduced new civil rights safeguards, due process, equal protection (1868)
- Tangshan Earthquake: rocked northeast China, killing some 250,000 (1976) 3
- IRA: ended its armed campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland in favor of "exclusively peaceful means" (2005)
- Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968): Dadaist painter; artist Judith Leyster (1609-1660) was also born on this date
- Bill Bradley (65): pro basketball player and Rhodes scholar who became a US senator and ran for president
- Sally Struthers (60): actor, All in the Family and Gilmore Girls; actors Georgia Engel (also 60) and Elizabeth Berkley (36) also have birthdays today
- Delfeayo Marsalis (43): jazz trombonist; also, musicians Rick Wright (63), Steve Morse (54), Afroman (34) and Carly Goodwin (27)
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