29 May 2014

klutz

[kluhts]

noun Slang.

1. a clumsy, awkward person, ‘he’s such a klutz’.
2. a stupid or foolish person; blockhead.

Origin:
1965–70, Americanism; < Yiddish klots literally, wooden beam < Middle High German kloc ( German Klotz )

Today’s aphorism

A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it’s lowest ones.

– Nelson Mandela

On this day

29 May 1917 – birthday of John F. Kennedy. 35th president of the United States. Assassinated 22 November 1963.

29 May 1953 – Sir Edmund Hillary and Nepalese sherpa, Tenzing Norgay, become the first men to reach the summit of Mt Everest.