Sunday, September 8, 2019

viceroy \VAHYS-roi\, noun:

1. a person appointed to rule a country or province as the deputy of the sovereign: the viceroy of India.
2. a brightly marked American butterfly, Limenitis archippus, closely mimicking the monarch butterfly in coloration.

Viceroy comes from the Latin prefix vice meaning "in place of" and roi meaning "king." It's been used in English since the 16th century.

Doubtfire holiday

• A period in which an adult man disguises himself as a woman in order to secretly spend time with his children. Not to be confused with a Tootsie weekend in which a man assumes a female identity for a short period to determine whether or not he would enjoy being a woman.

A: Your ex-wife has sole custody of the kids?
B: Yeah, but I get to see them on Doubtfire holidays.

Holiday

• National Grandparents Day

History

• St. Augustine: the oldest permanent European settlement in the US was founded (1565)
• Galveston Hurricane: made landfall; it was the deadliest natural disaster to strike the US to date (1900)
  

  
• Miss America: the annual pageant was first held in Atlantic City; 16-year-old Margaret Gorman of Washington DC was the first to be crowned (1921)
• Siege of Leningrad: nearly 2.5-year blockade of the city by the Germans in WWII began (1941)
• Star Trek: TV series recounting the adventures of the starship Enterprise premiered (1966)
• John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts: opened in Washington, DC, with the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass (1971)
• Watergate: US president Gerald Ford granted his predecessor, Richard Nixon, a full pardon for "crimes he committed or may have committed" (1974)

 

Birthdays

• Richard the Lionhearted (England) 1157
• Antonin Dvorak 1841
• Jimmie Rodgers 1897
• Claude Pepper 1900
  
• Hillary Brooke 1914
• Sid Caesar 1922
• Peter Sellers 1925
• Harlan Howard 1927
• Patsy Cline 1932
• Willie Tyler 1940
• Alan Feinstein 1941
• Christopher Connelly 1941
• Dante Drowty (Dante and The Evergreens) 1941
• Brian Cole (The Association) 1942
• Ron McKernan (Grateful Dead) 1945
• Ben Orr (Benjamin Orzechowski) (The Cars) 1947
• Ann Beattie 1947
• Will Lee 1952
• Heather Thomas 1957
• Michael Lardie (Great White) 1958
• David Steele (English Beat, Fine Young Cannibals) 1960
• Marc Gordon (Levert) 1964
• Brooke Burke 1971
• David Arquette 1971
• Larenz Tate 1975
• P!nk (Alecia Beth Moore Hart) 1979 - Singer
• Jonathan Taylor Thomas 1981
     
  
  
   
  
  
  

 

A funny story. During the 80s I had several Heather Thomas posters in my bedroom. I had a friend who insisted that he had the issue of Playboy in which she was nude. I asked to see it a couple times but he never produced it. Now with t3h interw3b I have found NO EVIDENCE that she ever did such a spread. Moral of the story? Never lie. You never know when the truth might come out.

              

These are some of my fav pics of her.