27 August 2015
flapdoodle
[flap-dood-l]
noun, Informal.
1. nonsense; bosh.
Origin of flapdoodle
1820-1830; origin uncertain
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Examples from the Web for flapdoodle
Contemporary Examples
But instead we are getting the flapdoodle campaign, in which more and more ado is made about less and less.
The Flapdoodle Campaign
Megan McArdle
October 22, 2012
Historical Examples
Ye remember how he sashayed round newspaper offices in ‘Frisco until he could write a flapdoodle story himself?
A First Family of Tasajara
Bret Harte
You’re the last man I ever expected to hear that kind of flapdoodle from.
The Three Partners
Bret Harte
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Today’s quote
We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.
― Haile Selassie I
On this day
27 August 1883 – the world’s biggest recorded explosion occurs on Krakatoa, an Indonesian island as a volcano erupts, killing between 36,000 and 120,000 people. The noise is heard in Perth, Western Australia, 3,500km away and Mauritius, 4,800km away where it was thought to be cannon fire. Tsunamis up to 30m high were recorded. It generated a cloud of ash 27km high. In the 12 months after the explosion, global temperatures fell by 1.2oC. The explosion darkened the sky for years afterward.
27 August 1908 – birth of Sir Donald Bradman (The Don), Australia’s (and arguably, the world’s) greatest cricketer. In his last Test, Bradman’s batting average was 101.39 runs per innings, but on the second ball he faced, he was bowled for a duck (zero), reducing his batting average to 99.94. It is the highest batting average in test cricket. Died 25 February 2001.
27 August 1975 – death of Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia. Although Selassie was an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian, Rastafarians believe that he is the Messiah returned. Born 23 July 1892.