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9/11/23 - Patriot Day and New Words

Monday 9/11/23


Celebrate:

Patriot Day

National Day of Service and Remembrance

National Emergency Responders Day

Remember Freedom Day


"I Want to Start My Own Business" Day

I'm on Top of it Day

Libraries Remember Day

Make Your Bed Day

National Boss/Employee Exchange Day

National Hot Cross Bun Day

National No News is Good News Day

Women's Baseball Day


The Weekend Box-Office

1. The Nun II $32.6 Million

2. The Equalizer 3 $12.1 Million

3. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 $10 million

4. Jawan $6.2 Million A Hindi-language film.

5. Barbie $5.9 Million


Dictionary.com just added 566 new words and terms, including a few you maybe haven't heard yet.

To make it in, each one has to be a term being "used by a lot of people" . . . it has to be "useful for a general audience" . . . and they only add words they think are "likely to stick around." Here are a few highlights .


1. Coffee nap: A short nap, usually 15 to 30 minutes, taken immediately after a cup of coffee. People claim you wake up feeling super-energized.


2. Blursday: A day not easily distinguished from other days, or the phenomenon of days running together.


3. Nepo baby: A celebrity with a parent who is also famous, especially one whose industry connections are perceived as essential to their success.


4. Shower orange: An orange that is peeled and eaten in a steamy shower. People claim it's soothing.


5. Decision fatigue: Mental and emotional exhaustion from constantly having to make decisions.


6. Jawn: A filler word used by people in Philadelphia when they can't think of the name of something. Like, "Hey, can you hand me that jawn right there?"


7. Jugging: When a criminal waits near a store or ATM to rob you.


8. Bloatware: Unwanted software that comes preinstalled on a new device.


9. Atmospheric river: A long, narrow corridor that transports massive amounts of water vapor from the tropics.


10. GPT: As in "ChatGPT". It stands for "generative pre-trained transformer."


11. Sportswashing: Mitigating negative press coverage through sports. Like Saudi Arabia and the LIV Golf tour.


12. Snite: To wipe snot from your nose with your thumb or finger. It's a British term.


13. Godwin's Law: The idea that if an internet debate goes on long enough, someone will eventually compare someone else to Hitler.


14. Mountweazel: A decoy entry in a website that's secretly planted to catch other sites stealing content. (Like a lyrics website posting incorrect lyrics on purpose, to catch other lyrics sites that just hit copy/paste.)


Today’s Useless Fact of the Day - The best-selling items at Walmart are bananas. They sell more than one billion pounds of bananas every year.

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