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Provided by the compucert asperity \as-PAIR-uh-tee\, noun:
- Roughness of surface; unevenness.
- Roughness or harshness of sound; a quality that grates upon the ear.
- Roughness of manner; severity; harshness.
Asperity comes from Latin asperitas, from asper, "rough." It is related to exasperate, "to irritate in a high degree," from ex- (here used intensively) + asperatus, past participle of asperare, "to roughen," from asper
- The look that someone gives another person when they pass gas in public.
Dude, Rachael totally farted today during class, so I flatuglanced her.
Trivia
In how many Alfred Hitchcock films did James Stewart star?
- Four—Rope (1948), Rear Window (1954), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), and Vertigo (1958).
- Ulysses: a US appeals court ruled that the James Joyce novel was not obscene and therefore should not be banned (1934)
- Kon-Tiki: the balsa wood raft made it across the Pacific, crashing at the end on a reef in the Tuomotu Islands; this demonstrated that pre-Columbian South Americans could have reached and settled Polynesia (1947)
- Philippe Petit: French stuntman walked a tightrope between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center (1974)
- US embassy bombings: simultaneous al-Qaeda attacks in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killed over 200 people and wounded thousands (1998)
- Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga (1533-1594): soldier and poet, La Araucana
- Mata Hari (1876-1917): dancer/spy
- B.J. Thomas (66): country/pop singer, "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head"; also, musicians Bruce Dickinson (50) and Marcus Roberts (44)
- Jimmy Wales (42): founder of Wikipedia
Sidney Crosby (21): center for Pittsburgh Penguins; runners Abebe Bikila (1932-1973) and Alberto Salazar (50) share this birth date - Garrison Keillor (66): writer/host of A Prairie Home Companion
- David Duchovny (48): actor, The X-Files; also, performers Stan Freberg (82), Wayne Knight (53) and Charlize Theron (33)
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