Monday, February 14, 2022

laisser-aller [ le-sey-a-ley ], noun,

• unchecked freedom or ease; unrestraint; looseness.

Origin: Laisser-aller “unchecked freedom or ease” is a direct borrowing from French, in which the phrase means “to allow to go.” Laisser “to let, allow” ultimately comes from Latin laxus “loose,” which is the source of English relax, release, and relish and is a distant cognate of English slack “not tight.” The story of aller “to go” is a bit more complicated. Aller is a suppletive verb, which means that several of its inflected forms originated as borrowings from other words; while the infinitive form aller may derive either from a Celtic source or from Latin ambulāre “to walk,” the present and future forms vais “I go” and irai “I will go” come from Latin vādere and īre, respectively, both of which mean “to go.” In English, one common suppletive verb is go (with its past tense form, went, borrowed from wend “to proceed”), and suppletion is found as well with the adjectives good and bad (with comparative forms better and worse and superlative forms best and worst derived from different roots). Laisser-aller was first recorded in English in the early 19th century.

 

billet-doux \bil-ay-DOO\, noun; plural billets-doux \bil-ay-DOO(Z)\: 

• A love letter or note.

In French, billet-doux means "sweet note;" or "short note" (billet, "note" + doux, "sweet," from Latin dulcis).

 

mfeo

• acronym for made for each other

jack and jill were mfeo

love

• nature's way of tricking people into reproducing

valentine shame kleenex

• 2ply partner-in-a-box usually found on the floor in a ball on February 15th.

I can tell Con didnt have a date, she must have watched love actually by herself last night, look at all the valentine shame kleenexs all over her room.

Valentime's Day

• The 14th of February. It falls on the same day as [Valentine's Day] except this one is only celebrated by 5 year olds.

My daughter rocks, she got Valentimes from all the boys at school on Valentime's Day.

Holiday

• St. Valentine's Day: celebrated in various American and European countries by the exchange of valentines or love tokens. Also called Valentine's Day. (now go get some ass!)

History

• St. Valentine's Day massacre: seven gangsters were killed as Al Capone's gang ambushed Bugs Moran's (1929)
• ENIAC: "Giant Brain" Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer was unveiled at theUniversity of Pennsylvania (1946)
• fatwa: edict was issued by Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini urging Muslims to kill Satanic Versesauthor Salman Rushdie (1989)
• NEAR Shoemaker: space probe went into orbit around 433 Eros, becoming the first craft to orbit an asteroid (2000)
• Dolly the sheep: the first cloned mammal was put to sleep at age 6.5, suffering from lung cancer (2003)

Birthdays

• Christopher Sholes 1819
• George Ferris 1859
• John Barrymore 1882

  
• Jack Benny (Benjamin Kubelsky) 1894 - Comedian
• James Pike 1913
• Jimmy Hoffa 1913
• Mel Allen (Israel) 1913
• Hugh Downs 1921
• Skeezix Wallet 1921
• Cesare Siepi 1923
• Donna Atwood 1923
• Elliot Lawrence 1925
• Frank Borman 1928
• Phyllis McGuire 1931 - Singer (The McGuire Sisters)
• Vic Morrow 1932
• Florence Henderson 1934 - Actress ("The Brady Bunch")
• Andrew Prine 1936
• Razzy Bailey 1939
• Lillie Bryant 1940 - Singer (Billy & Lillie)
• Ricardo Rodriguez 1942
• Michael Bloomberg 1942 - tyrant
• Bob Murphy 1943
• Maceo Parker 1943
• Alan Parker 1944 - Director
• Carl Bernstein 1944 - Journalist
• Gregory Hines 1946
• Pat O'Brien 1948 - Television personality
• Raymond Joseph Teller 1948 - Comedian, magician (Pen and Teller)
• Ewa Aulin 1949

  
• Roger Fisher 1950 - Musician (Heart)
• Jo Jo (Alicia) Starbuck 1951
• Michael Doucet (Beausoleil) 1951
• Ken Wahl 1957 - Actor ("Wiseguy")
• Meg Tilly 1960 - Actress ("The Big Chill," "Agnes of God")
• Jim Kelly 1960 - Football player
• Dwayne Wiggins 1961
• Zach Galligan 1963
• Enrico Colantoni 1963
• Rickey Wolking 1966 - Musician (The Nixons)
• Manuela Maleeva 1967
• Elaine Youngs 1970
• Simon Pegg 1970 - Actor
• Drew Bledsoe 1972 - Football player
• Kevin Blades 1972 - Musician (Lit)
• Rob Thomas 1972 - Musician (Matchbox 20)
• Steve McNair 1973