29 December 2012

jocose

[ joh-kohs, juh-]

adjective

– given to or characterized by joking; jesting; humorous; playful: a jocose and amusing manner.

Origin:
1665–75; < Latin jocōsus, equivalent to joc ( us ) joke + -ōsus -ose

Today’s aphorism

‘History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people’.

– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

On this day

29 December 1998 – Six people die in the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race as huge waves swamp the vessels during the 1167km race.

29 December 1998 – Former Khmer Rouge leaders apologise for the Pol Pot led genocide in Kampuchea (now known as Cambodia), which killed 1 million people between 1975 and 1979.