century

Also known as Century Club and 100 Minutes, this is a very straightforward drinking game which will get you very drunk, very quickly.

How to Play:
• Designate a timekeeper (preferably someone sober)
• Once the game begins, the players are then instructed by the timekeeper to take one shot, once every minute.
• Try to last for 100 minutes.

The drunker you get, the shorter those minutes get. This game is usually played with beer and a middling sized shot glass.

In cricket, a century is a score of 100 runs. See: Sir Donald Bradman.

In bicycling, a century is a single bicycle ride of 100 miles or more. There is also a metric century which is 100 kilometers or 62 miles.

Anyone who is physically able to ride a bike can probably do a century with about 8 weeks of careful training. It's just a matter of building up a tolerance to pain.

A variant of the infamous and once-common Jerusalem computer virus for DOS. According to F-secure, this virus has existed, but no virus researcher has got a specimen.

This virus is a pretty stupid one, for several reasons.

It activated on January 1, 2000, and displayed the message "Welcome to the 21st Century". It, like Jerusalem, zeroed all FATs and disk data sectors it could find.

The problems?

• The virus appreared in the 80s. If this virus existed, there was more than a decade to get rid of it.
• The virus author was foolish enough to think that MS-DOS would still be in use in 2000 - ah, never mind, it was, but I bet the releases of Win95 and Win98 probably somewhat cramped this virus, as DOS viruses don't spread that well in Windows apps =)
• The 21st century started on 2001-01-01, not 2000-01-01... Ah, hell, why am I telling this, no one listened then and won't listen to me now, either?

Webster's explanation of 'century' as a Roman army unit is a little lacking - here it is, in more detail:

A century in a legion of the Roman Republic was half of a maniple - typically, 60 men in the case of the soldiers of the first two lines (the hastati and principes), or 30 of the third-line veterans (the triarii.) In an imperial legion, centuries within the 2^nd through ten^th cohorts consisted of 80 men, while the centuries of the 1^st cohort were double that. A century was the smallest individual fighting unit in the legion.

In 1953, Cross introduced what has become its signature pen, the Century ball point pen. True, they have produced a number of writing instruments prior to this point, and they were one of the major manufacturers. Also, they have expanded the line to include other writing modes (fountain pens, pencils, etc.). However, when one thinks of a “Cross Pen,” a Century ball point, a quarter-inch in diameter, and 5.25” long is what comes to mind.

The Century comes in a number of finishes, from matte gray (like mine) to 14 karat gold, though the quintessential finish would have to be chrome. Often, a little emblem is affixed to the clip—a flag, seal of a university or branch of the military, or a company logo. A feature common to all of them is a chrome top with a black stripe, and a chrome stripe about a third of the way towards the tip.

Like all ball points, it is essentially a fancy holder for a refill. Cross makes them blue, black, red, and green, in broad to fine points. They also make a stylus refill, for people who want something more like a real pen for their PDA. The refill is extended by twisting the top part of the pen.

It is my personal theory that every male in the United States received one as a gift sometime during their lifetime. Typically, this is either for a High School or College graduation.

Cen"tu*ry (?), n.; pl. Centuries (#). [L. centuria (in senses 1 & 3), fr. centum a hundred: cf. F. centurie. See Cent.]

1.

A hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a hundred things.

[Archaic.]

And on it said a century of prayers. Shak.

2.

A period of a hundred years; as, this event took place over two centuries ago.

⇒ Century, in the reckoning of time, although often used in a general way of any series of hundred consecutive years (as, a century of temperance work), usually signifies a division of the Christian era, consisting of a period of one hundred years ending with the hundredth year from which it is named; as, the first century (a. d. 1-100 inclusive); the seventh century (a.d. 601-700); the eighteenth century (a.d. 1701-1800). With words or phrases connecting it with some other system of chronology it is used of similar division of those eras; as, the first century of Rome (A.U.C. 1-100).

3. Rom. Antiq. (a)

A division of the Roman people formed according to their property, for the purpose of voting for civil officers.

(b)

One of sixty companies into which a legion of the army was divided. It was Commanded by a centurion.

Century plant Bot., the Agave Americana, formerly supposed to flower but once in a century; -- hence the name. See Agave. -- The Magdeburg Centuries, an ecclesiastical history of the first thirteen centuries, arranged in thirteen volumes, compiled in the 16th century by Protestant scholars at Magdeburg.

 

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