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President Barack Obama is in Boston today to tour MIT and to appear at a fund-raiser for Governor Deval Patrick at Westin Copley Place. (Expect traffic snarls on Huntington Avenue and elsewhere in the Back Bay.) He will be speaking to a select group of MIT faculty, students, and staff at 12:30 in MIT's Kresge Auditorium. We'd suggest shanking a student to get a ticket for the talk, but you probably won't be allowed past the doors with a shank or a stranger's blood on you. [Globe]
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According to a few MIT students I talked to yesterday, MIT students weren't offered tickets or even a lottery to see the prez - only certain students were selected to attend the speech by a mysterious, unexplained method, probably having something to do with how they look on camera.
In other news, the MIT Press Bookstore has a large sign in their window reading: "WELCOME PREZOBAMA: 1/2 PRICE FOR YOU!"
You don't shank someone with a shank. Shank is a verb. You shank someone with a shiv. Just sayin...
I'm sorry, but that is a commonly made mistake. Both shank and shiv can be used as either a noun or a verb.
References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiv_(weapon)
http://www.allwords.com/word-shank.html
I promise to hunt down a more precise etymology, if you aren't convinced.