Next Box Office Event

Hello fellow Box Officers!

Just writing to let you all know that I will be hosting a Box Office potluck at my house on Tuesday, December 21st at 6:00pm, and you're all invited. Now, I do live in the boonies, but I will be sending you all a map to my house via your e-mail accounts, so check them soon. I am making lasagna, a salad, probably garlic bread and a couple of desserts, so you guys can bring whatever you want. (Word on the street is that Ashley is making a rum cake, so maybe don't bring that!) Anyway, any questions or comments, drop me an e-mail at tlara15@hotmail.com.

Thanks! Deidre

A Vocabulary Lesson

Floccinaucinihilipilification: The action of judging something as worthless.
It is derived from four Latin words: Floccus - Tuft of wool(figuratively: worthless, insignificant), Nauci - Trivial, Nihil - Nothing (as in: nil, annihilate, nihilism), and Pilus - A hair(fig: small, insignificant).

The word is believed to have been originally coined as a humorous attempt at creating the longest word in the English language by combining the 4 words and adding "fication". At 29 letters, it indeed was the longest word in the Oxford English Dictionary 1st Edition, however, a new word, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (a lung disease caused by inhaling volcanic ash), has taken over the title.

The earliest recorded use of the word was in 1741 by William Shenstone: “I loved him for nothing so much as his flocci-nauci-nihili-pili-fication of money”, but more recently was used by Senator Jesse Helms in 1999 to comment on the demise of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty: “I note your distress at my floccinaucinihilipilification of the CTBT”.

Ok, well I think(hope) this marks the end of my rediculously stupid procrastination of starting those late papers/assignments/projects that still need to be handed in, not to mention studying for those four exams I write this week... I guess you could say I floccinaucinihilipilificate schoolwork.