Saturday, November 7, 2015

lycanthrope, \LAHY-kuhn-throhp, lahy-KAN-throhp\, noun, 

1. a werewolf or alien spirit in the physical form of a bloodthirsty wolf. 
2. a person affected with lycanthropy. 

Origin: Lycanthrope comes from the Greek word lykánthrōpos meaning "wolf-man." 

stall brother 

• A person who enters and occupies a public restroom stall adjacent to a stall that is already occupied despite the fact that there were other stalls available that would have allowed a buffer, negatively affecting the enjoyment of your activity. An offense similar to occupying the middle urinal. 

I went to take a dump at the mall and had the whole bathroom to myself! Then just as I get ready to go, some asshole walks in and takes the stall next to me. I said 'Dude, can you take the next one down? I don't want to be stall brothers'

 

History

• Canadian Pacific Railway: transcontinental system was completed, linking Montreal with Port Moody, British Columbia (1885)
• Bolshevik Revolution: Lenin's forces overthrew Kerensky's government (1917)
• Blue law: overturned in Pennsylvania, permitting sports on Sunday (1933)
• Galloping Gertie: suspension bridge over the Tacoma Narrows collapsed due to aeroelastic flutter, killing a cocker spaniel and becoming a textbook engineering disaster case (1940)
• Richard Nixon: quit politics, saying "You won't have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore" (1962); he was elected US President on the same date (1972)
• African-American civil rights movement: Carl B. Stokes became the first black mayor of a major US city, Cleveland (1967); Douglas Wilder became the first elected black governor of a US state, Virginia (1989)

  
• Magic Johnson: LA Lakers basketball star announced he had AIDS and was retiring (1991)

Birthdays

• Madame Curie 1867
• Ed Dodd 1902
• Dean Jagger 1903
• Albert Camus 1913
• Billy Graham 1918
• Al Hirt 1922
• Dame Joan Sutherland 1926
• Barry Newman 1938
  
• Dee (Delectus) Clark 1938
• Johnny Rivers 1942
• Joni Mitchell (Roberta Joan Anderson) 1943
• Joe Niekro 1944
• Nick Gilder 1951
• Christopher Knight 1957
• Christopher Pallies (King Kong Bundy) 1957
• Keith Lockhart 1959
• Todd McKee 1963
• Dana Plato 1964
• Cathleen Raymond (aka Gabrielle Scream, Kathleen, Noelle) 1971 t3h pr0n
• Robin Rinck (NIN) 1971
• Jason London 1972
• Jeremy London 1972
• Kim Yun-jin (Yunjin Kim) 1973 - Actress ("Lost")