Sunday, October 09, 2016

Sunday, October 9, 2016

roborant \ROB-uh-ruhnt\, adjective:
  • 1. Strengthening; restoring vigor.
noun:
  • 1. A strengthening medicine; a tonic; a restorative.
Roborant derives from the present participle of Latin roborare, "to strengthen," from robur, roboris, "strength."
 
No hair off my balls
  • Despite the obvious misfortune one remains optimistic.
or to the layman:
  • Shit ain't a big deal.
No hair off my balls.

History
  • Leif Erikson: the Norwegian explorer became the first European to step on North American soil (1000)
  • Roger Williams: religious dissident who espoused a separation of church and state was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony; he went on to found Rhode Island (1635)
  • Yale University: was founded in New Haven, as The Collegiate School of Connecticut (1701)
  • Laura Ingalls: became the first woman to fly solo across the US, from New York to California (1930) (not the one from Little House on the Prairie)
Birthdays
  • Rube Marquard 1889
  • Bruce Catton 1899
  • Aimee Semple McPherson 1890
  • Otto Schnering 1891
  • Alistair Sim 1900
  • Howard St. John 1905
  • Jacques Tati 1908
  • Edward Andrews 1914
  • Fyvush Finkel 1923
  • Donald Sinden 1923
  • Joe Pepitone (MLB) 1940
  • John Lennon 1940 - Musician (Beatles) 
  • Peter Tosh 1944
  • John Alec Entwistle 1944 - Musician (The Who) 
  • Jackson Browne 1948 - Musician
  • Robert Wuhl 1951
  • imagebam.comJames Fearnley 1954 - Musician (The Pogues)
  • Shona Laing 1955
  • Scott Bakula 1955 - Actor
  • Alain David "Al" Jourgensen 1958 - Musician (Ministry)
  • Mike Singletary (NFL) 1958
  • Michael Pare 1959
  • Kurt Neumann 1961 - Musician (The Bodeans)
  • Gary Bennett (BR5-49) 1964
  • Guillermo del Toro 1964
  • PJ Harvey (Polly Jean Harvey) 1969 - Musician, singer, songwriter
  • Sean Lennon (Sean Tara Ono Lennon) 1975
  • Randy Spelling 1978
  • Zachery Ty Bryan 1981

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