Rock out with your RELAYER out!

One of my favorite YES songs, from the much maligned album RELAYER and tax season is FINALLY over...

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Yes

To Be Over

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACDjWeqkimM

We go sailing down the calming streams

Drifting endlessly by the bridge

To be over

We will see

To be over

Do not suffer through the game of chance that plays

Always doors to lock away your dreams

Think it over

Time will heal your fear

Think it over

Balance the thoughts that release within you

Childlike soul dreamer one journey

One to seek and see in ev'ry light do open

True pathways away

Carrying closer go gently

Holding doors will open everyway

You wander true pathways away

After all your soul will still surrender

After all don't doubt your part

Be ready to be loved

WTF Friday: Bear is easy to please! 2024

Friday, April 26, 2024

adenoidal \ad-n-OID-l\, adjective:

1. Being characteristically pinched and nasal in tone quality.
2. Of or pertaining to the adenoids; adenoid.
3. Having the adenoids enlarged, especially to a degree that interferes with normal breathing.

Adenoidal only entered English in the 1910s, referring to the glands near the nasal passage.

 

ghost post

• A comment on a Facebook item (e.g. status, note, etc) that was removed by the author due to A) misspelling, B) stupid remark, C) awkward input, or D) other. The result is typically confusion and several wasted minutes on the part of the one who was commented on or anyone who posted previously.

Facebook: XYZ commented on your note.

Me: ...where's the comment? Jeez, way to ghost post, XYZ.

 

Trivia

What type of business establishment served as the U.S. Marine Corps’ first recruiting station?

• A bar, the Tun Tavern in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1775 after Samuel Nicholas, a delegate to the 2d Continental Congress, was named Marine commandant, he went to the tavern and appointed its owner “chief Marine recruiter” and his first captain.

426 Day!

Holiday

• Alien Day - first contact according to the movie ALIEN was on a planet referred to as LV426. 426. 4/26. April 26.

 

Holiday

• National Pretzel Day - USA (4/26 Annually)
  

 

 

History

• Cape Henry: Jamestown settlers made landfall on this Virginia promontory (1607)
• Marshall Henri Pétain: the leader of France's Vichy government was arrested (1945); he died in prison in 1951
• Tanzania: African republic was formed by the union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar (1964)
• Chernobyl disaster: worst-ever nuclear reactor accident occurred near the Ukrainian city of Chernobyl; the resulting radioactive cloud covered much of Europe (1986)

Birthdays

• John James Audubon 1785 - Ornithologist, naturalist, painter
• Frederick Olmsted 1822 - Journalist, landscape designer
• Jessie Redmon Fauset 1882 - Poet, essayist, novelist
• Anita Loos 1893 - Screenwriter, playwright, author
• Rudolf Hess 1895 - Adolf Hitler's Deputy in the Nazi Party
• Charles Richter 1900 - Seismologist, creator of the Richter magnitude scale used to quantify earthquakes
• Teddy Edwards 1924 - Jazz musician
• Jorgen Ingmann 1925 - Musician
• Bernard Malamud 1914 - Author of novels and short stories
• Bambi Linn 1926 - Dancer
• Carol Burnett 1933 - Actress, comedian 
  

  
• Duane Eddy 1938 - Musician
• Maurice Williams 1938 - Musician (Zodiacs)
• Claudine Clark 1941 - Musician
• Bobby Rydell 1942 - Singer
• Claudine Auger 1942 - Actress ("Thunderball")
• Gary Wright 1943 - Musician
• Giorgio Moroder 1944 - Record producer, songwriter, performer
• Boyd Matson 1947 - Television anchor (National Geographic Explorer, NBC's Weekend Today)
• Donna De Varona 1947 - Swimmer
• Giancarlo Esposito 1958 - Actor, director
• Roger Taylor 1960 - Musician (Duran Duran)
• Chris Mars 1961 - Artist, musician
  

  
• Joan Chen 1961 - Actress
• Michael Damian 1962 - Actor, singer, producer
• Jet Li 1963 - Actor ("War", "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor")
• Kevin James 1965 - Actor ("I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry", "The King of Queens")
• Marianne Jean-Baptiste 1967 - Actress ("Without a Trace")
  Melania Trump 1970 - model / First Lady 
• T-Boz (Tionne Tenese Watkins) 1970 - Songwriter (TLC)
• Jordana Brewster 1980 - Actress (and Mrs. Bax0jayz doppleganger)
• Marnette Patterson 1980 - Actress
• Jessica Lynch 1983

 

    

 

 

 

  

 

  

Turtle Thursday: Meme

Thursday, April 25, 2024

barnburner \BAHRN-bur-ner\, noun:

1. Something that is highly exciting or impressive.
2. Chiefly Pennsylvania. A wooden friction match.
3. (Initial capital letter) A member of the progressive faction in the Democratic party in New York State 1845–52.

Barnburner is an Americanism that was first observed in the 1830s. It referred to the practice of burning down a barn to get rid of rats.

 

bruv

• A word used by mainly South Londoners. It's the shorter version of 'bruvva' which is a slang variation of 'brother' 

Ez mate. You alright, bruv?

(_*_)

• emoticon asshole symbol

sometimes u are such an (_*_)

Holiday

• World Penguin Day

History

• guillotine: highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier was beheaded in France's first public execution-by-guillotine (1792)
• Suez Canal: ground was broken on the waterway connecting the Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea (1859)
• license plates: were required on cars in New York State — the first time in the US (1901)
• United Nations: delegates met in San Francisco to organize the international body (1945)
• double helix: in the magazine Nature, Francis Crick and James D. Watson published their "Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid," which described the structure of DNA (1953)

Birthdays

• Oliver Cromwell 1599 - English military and political leader
• Guglielmo Marconi 1874 - Italian inventor (radio telegraph system)
• Edward R. Murrow 1908 - American broadcast journalist
• Earl Bostic 1913 - Musician
• Sal Franzella 1915 - Musician
• Jerry Barber 1916 - Golfer
• Ella Fitzgerald 1918 - Vocalist, known as "First Lady of Song" and "Lady Ella"
• Robert Q. Lewis 1920 - Radio and television personality, game show host, actor
• Albert King 1923 - Musician
• Anita Bjorak 1923 - Actress
• Melissa Hayden 1923 - Dancer
• Vassar Clements 1928 - Musician
• Paul Mazursky 1930 - Actor, director
• Willis "Gator" Jackson 1932 - Saxaphonist
• Meadowlark Lemon 1932 - Basketball player, Harlem Globetrotters
• Jerry Leiber 1933 - Songwriter
• Anthony Lukas 1933 - Journalist, author
• Al Pacino 1940 - Actor
• Stu Cook 1945 - Musician (CCR)
• Bjorn Ulvaeus 1945 - Musician (Abba)
• Talia Shire 1946 - Actress ("The Godfather", "Rocky" film series)
• Jeffrey De Munn 1947 - Actor ("The Green Mile", "The Shawshank Redemption")
• Michael Brown 1949 - Musician (The Left Banke)
• Hank Azaria 1964 - Actor
• Andy Bell 1964 - Musician (Erasure)
• James Barbour 1965 - Actor, singer ("A Tale of Two Cities")
• Eric Avery 1965 - Musician (Jane's Addiction)
• Jane Clayson 1967 - Television host, journalist, author
• Renée Zellweger 1969 - Actress
• Jason Lee 1970 - Actor ("My Name is Earl")
• Emily Bergl 1975 - Actress ("The Rage: Carrie 2")
• Tim Duncan 1976 - Basketball player
• Sara Paxton 1988 - Actress
  Adria Arjona 1992 - actress
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hasselhoff Wednesday: Now that Tax season is over...

PARTY TIME!

Road trip this weekend!

Hasselhoff Wednesday: Passover

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

fard \fahrd\,

verb:

1. To apply cosmetics.

noun:

1. Facial cosmetics. .

Fard comes from the Old Low Franconian word farwiđon meaning "to dye or color." In the Old French it became farder meaning "to apply makeup."

 

Vehicular Hypochondria

• A severe mental disability in which sufferers chronically experience acute anxiety attacks related to the welfare of their vehicles. A typical vehicular hypochondriac may face bouts of depression and paranoia stemming from the false belief that his/her car is malfunctioning when it is in fact operating in perfect order.

Sane Human Being: Why are you giving away all of your earthly possessions and digging a large hole in the ground in front of a tombstone with your name on it?

Vehicular Hypochondriac: Well, my check engine light came on today. I'm going to die.

History

• Trojan horse: traditional date of the ancient Greeks' ruse to gain entry into Troy (1184 BCE)
• "La Marseillaise": France's national anthem was composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1792)
• Library of Congress: was established with $5,000; today it has 18 million books and 100 million other items in 470 languages (1800)
• Hersheypark: amusement park opened in Hershey, Pennsylvania, for the exclusive use of Hershey Chocolate Company's employees; it was later opened to the public (1907)
• Easter Uprising: unsuccessful Irish rebellion against British rule began (1916)

Birthdays

• John Graunt 1620
• Edmund Cartwright 1743
• Robert Bailey Thomas 1766
• George Bascom 1836
• Henri Philippe Petain 1856
• Robert Penn Warren 1905
• Jack E. Leonard 1911
• Aaron Bell 1922
• J.D. Cannon 1922
• John Griffin 1928
• Freddy Scott 1933
• Shirley Boone 1934
• Shirley MacLaine 1934 - Actress
• Jill Ireland 1936
• Joe Henderson 1937
• Sue Grafton 1940 - Author
• Barbra Streisand 1942 - Singer
• Richard Sterban 1943 - Singer (The Oak Ridge Boys)
• Bob Lunn 1945
• Robert Knight 1945
• Doug Clifford 1945 - Musician (Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR))
• Glenn Cornick 1947
• Eric Bogosian 1953 - Actor
• Vince Ferragamo 1954
• Michael O'Keefe 1955
• David J. 1957 - Musician (Bauhaus, Love and Rockets)
• Boris Williams 1958 - Musician (Cure)
• Glenn Morshower 1959 - Actor ("24")
• Billy Gould 1963 - Musician (Faith No More)
• Paul Ryder 1964 - Musician (Happy Mondays)
• Djimon Hounsou 1964 - Actor
• Cedric the Entertainer 1964 - Actor, comedian
• Patty Schemel 1967 - Musician (Hole)
• Omar Vizquel 1967 - Baseball player
• Aaron Comess 1968 - Musician (Spin Doctors)
• Chipper Jones 1972 - Baseball player
• Brian Aubrey Marshall 1973 - Musician (Creed)
• Eric Balfour 1977 - Actor
• Carlos Beltran 1977 - Baseball player
• Kelly Clarkson (Kelly Brianne Clarkson) 1983 - Singer, first "American Idol" participant to win a Grammy Award, Who's High Pitch?