Today’s WOTD – 10 November 2012

nerd   

[nurd]

noun (Slang)

1. a stupid, irritating, ineffectual, or unattractive person.
2. an intelligent but single-minded person obsessed with a nonsocial hobby or pursuit: a computer nerd.

Example Sentences
It doesn’t even have anything to do with whether you’re a bookworm or a nerd or a geek.
They are the refuge and the delight of every geek, nerd, lab and library rat.

Origin:

The word was first used by Dr Seuss in his 1950 book ‘If I Ran the Zoo’.

Today’s aphorism

Sheldon Cooper: 73 is the 21st prime number. Its mirror, 37, is the 12th, and its mirror, 21, is the product of multiplying – hang on to your hats – seven and three. Heh? Heh? Did I lie?

Leonard Hofstadter: We get it. 73 is the Chuck Norris of numbers.

Sheldon Cooper: Chuck Norris wishes. In binary, 73 is a palindrome: 1001001, which backwards is 1001001. Exactly the same. All Chuck Norris backwards gets you is “sirron kcuhc.”

On this day

10 November 1969 – Sesame Street debuts on PBS (Public Broadcasting Service), featuring muppets by Jim Henson. It is one of the longest running tv shows in history and has been highly successful at increasing the literacy and numeracy skills of children.

10 November 1982 – Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet President, dies in office from a heart attack.