Sunday, May 22, 2011

Fun Facts About Assassination

Soon, unless I bomb my audition, I will be jumping headfirst into the Jeopardy! contestant pool for the next eighteen months. Realizing that I don't use this blog as much as I should (I paid for it and all), I've decided I'm going to post interesting things I learn while studying.

First up.....assassination (get excited)!

Did you know....
* the word 'assassination' has the same etymological root as 'hashish', and it is believed that ancient assassinators may have been under the influence of hashish while doing the deed (assassinating)?
* the first use of the word "assassination" is believed to be in Macbeth?

You're way smarter now.

4 comments:

  1. Very cool that you'll be posting things you learn from your J! studies!
    You're being sarcastic about paying for the blog, right?
    Say, I was thinking about getting some of us together for dinner or something after our auditions (if the boards ever come back up, that is). Are you interested?

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  2. P.S. Do you have a means to "follow" your blog besides RSS?

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  3. Haha, good point. I paid for the URL, so that's what I meant.

    Yeah, I could be interested in dinner, depending on when it is. My audition's on Tuesday the 14th.

    And I'm not sure how you follow it, but I know some people are following it...I just added a Google Friend Connect to it, so maybe you can follow that way? Thanks!

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  4. My audition's on the 13th. Are you in town yet that day? (I wish the boards were back up!)

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