Thursday, October 17, 2019

loblolly \LOB-lol-ee\, noun:

1. South Midland and Southern U.S. a mire; mudhole.
2. a thick gruel.

Loblolly is thought to be onomatopoeic, perhaps mimicking the sound of porridge or stew bubbling and boiling. 

beat time

• Similar to bed time, but takes place about 5 minutes prior. It's that special time of night when, you guessed it, masturbation occurs.

"I gotta go, it's my beat time."

October 17

• National girl hug a boy day, girls get to hug any boy they want :)

"Nation Girl Hug a Boy day is October 17!"

Trivia

What now extinct flightless bird weighed close to a half-ton and stood 10 feet tall?

• The elephant bird of Madagascar. A relative of the ostrich and emu, it’s believed to have been the largest bird ever. It disappeared soon after Madagascar was colonized in the 17th century. Scientists hope to bring the gigantic bird back through DNA extracted from eggshell fossils.
  

History

• Battle of Saratoga: key battle of the American Revolutionary War ended with a major British surrender (1777)
• Al Capone: mobster called Scarface who ruled much of Chicago was finally convicted — of income tax evasion; he served eight years of an 11-year sentence (1931)
• 1973 Oil Crisis: was sparked when OPEC cut oil supplies to nations that supported Israel in the Yom Kippur War

Birthdays 

• Jupiter Hammon 1711
• Charles Kraft 1880 - Founder of Kraft
• Spring Byington 1893
• Jean Arthur 1900
• Irene Ryan 1902
• Cozy (William) Cole 1909
• John Mosley 1914
• Jerry Siegel 1914
• Arthur Miller 1915
• Marsha Hunt 1917
• Rita Hayworth 1918
• Elie Abel 1920
• Montgomery Clift 1920
• Julie Adams 1926
• Beverly Garland 1926
• Tom Poston 1927
• Johnny Klippstein (MLB) 1927
• Jimmy Breslin 1930
• Evel Knievel (Robert Craig) 1938
• James Seals (Seals and Crofts) 1940
• Earl Thomas Conley 1941
• Gary Puckett (The Union Gap) 1942
• Bob Seagren 1946
• Jim Tucker (The Turtles) 1946
• Michael McKean 1947
• George Wendt 1948
• Margot Kidder 1948
• Bill Hudson (The Hudson Brothers) 1949
  
• Howard Rollins 1950
• Sam Bottoms 1955
• Mae Jemison 1956
• Vincent Van Patten 1957
• Alan Jackson 1958
• Mike Judge 1962
• Norm MacDonald 1963
• Ziggy Marley 1968
• Chris Kirkpatrick ('N Sync) 1971
• Marshall "Eminem" Mathers 1972
• Felicity Jones 1983