6 April 2015

bugaboo

[buhg-uh-boo]

noun, plural bugaboos.
1. something that causes fear or worry; bugbear; bogy.

Origin of bugaboo
1730-1740; earlier buggybow. See bogy, boo

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Examples from the web for bugaboo
– Because of that old museum curator’s bugaboo : ultraviolet light.
– Now, free parking is a favorite bugaboo of a certain strain of microeconomists and economically minded commentators.
– As always, the bugaboo is lift, since every additional measure of weight requires a vast addition of volume to hold gas.

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Today’s aphorism

Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.

– U.G. Krishnamurti

On this day

6 April 1895 – The Australian ballad, ‘Waltzing Matilda‘ is performed at the North Gregory Hotel, Winton (central-west Queensland). This is believed to be the first time the song was performed in public.

6 April 1896 – The Olympic Games recommences in Athens 1,501 years after being banned by Emperor Theodosius I in 393AD.

6 April 1909 – Robert E. Peary and Matthew A. Henson become the first men to reach the North Pole. Their claim is in dispute because of navigation techniques and lack of independent verification.

6 April 2006 – the National Geographic Society reveals the discovery of a papyrus codex in a cave near El Minya, Egypt, which it claims is the Gospel of Judas Iscariot. The codex is yet to be verified as written by Judas.