Sunday, October 9, 2022

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
• James Fearnley 1954 - Musician (The Pogues)
• Shona Laing 1955
• Scott Bakula 1955 - Actor
• Alain David "Al[ien]" Jourgensen 1958 - Musician (Ministry)
• Mike Singletary (NFL) 1958
• Marisa Roebuck (Pare) 1959 - American Gladiators
  
• 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