churlish \CHUR-lish\, adjective:
1. Boorish or rude.2. Of a churl; peasantlike.3. Stingy; mean.4. Difficult to work or deal with, as soil.
Churlish originates in the Old English ceorlisc meaning “peasant, freeman, man without rank.” It had various meanings in early Middle English, including "man of the common people," "a country man," "husbandman," "free peasant." By 1300, it meant "bondman, villain," also "fellow of low birth or rude manners."
leverage
- A buzzword used by management and those who aspire to become management. It used to describe an advantage gained by using a tool. Later it became a term used to describe corporate debt. For example, a leveraged buy-out is one where the buyer has to borrow money in order to buy the other company. After much mis-use, the word leverage no-longer describes anything or have any meaning to anyone who has ever worked in an office. In business circles this word is most commonly used in place of the word 'use'.
Steve: Can we take this off-line, I'm hungry. I'm going to leverage a sandwich.
Paula: Great idea, I could also leverage some food.
Steve: Come on then, we can leverage my car to get to the sandwich leverager.
Paula: Good leverage, we should leverage your leverage so we'll leverage
Steve: Leverage
History
- Russo-Finnish War: began; at its conclusion, Finland ceded part of its territory to Russia (1939)
- Lucille Ball: zany redheaded comedienne married Cuban bandleader Desi Arnaz, who became her costar in I Love Lucy (1940)
- Barbados: gained its independence from Great Britain (1966)
- Tiny Tim died after ending a show early because he felt ill. (1996)
Birthdays
- Jonathan Swift 1667
- Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) 1835
- Winston Churchill (Britain) 1874
- Brownie McGhee 1915
- Efren Zimbalist, Jr. 1918
- Virginia Mayo 1920
- Richard Crenna 1926
- Dick Clark 1929
- G. Gordon Liddy 1930
- Teddy Wilburn 1931
- Bob Moore 1932
- Abbie Hoffman 1936
- Jimmy Bowen 1937
- Robert Guillaume 1937
- Frank Ifield 1937
- Ridley Scott 1937
- Luther Ingram 1944
- Rob Grill (The Grassroots) 1944
- Roger Glover (Deep Purple) 1945
- David Mamet 1947
- Margaret Whitton 1950
- Mandy Patinkin 1952
- Shuggie Otis 1953
- June Pointer (The Pointer Sisters) 1954
- Jeannie Kendall (The Kendalls) 1954
- Billy Idol 1955
- John Ashton (Psychedelic Furs) 1957
- Bo Jackson (NFL, MLB) 1962
- Jalil (Whodini) 1963
- Ben Stiller 1965
- Paul Wheeler (Icehouse) 1965
- Nicole Simmons 1969 (t3h pr0n)
- Allan Sherman 1975
- Mindy McCready 1975
- Clay Aiken (Clayton Holmes Grissom) 1978
- Elisha Cuthbert 1982
- Kaley Cuoco 1985
- CJ Gibson 1983
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