Wednesday, March 8, 2023

puckish \PUHK-ish\, adjective:

• Whimsical; mischievous; impish.

Puckish comes from Puck, the name of a mischievous sprite in English folklore, from Middle English pouke, "goblin," from Old English puca.

 

Words with friends with benefits

• When in the course of playing a member of the opposite sex in words with friends. You or they play provocative words as if to drop hints.

Boy played sex for 13 points

Girl played blow for 16 points

Boy played tit for 8 points

Dude, she must be a words with friends with benefits

 

Holiday

• International Women's Day

 

History

• Gnadenhutten massacre: nearly 100 Native American converts to Christianity were murdered by militiamen during the American Revolution in revenge for raids carried out by other Native Americans (1782)
• New York Stock Exchange: the world's largest stock exchange by dollar volume received its constitution and its name (1817)
• FBI: 9 men from the US Secret Service were moved to the Justice Department, forming the Bureau of Investigation — later to become the FBI (1909)
• February Revolution: broke out in Russia — February 23 in the Julian calendar; it brought an end to the reign of Tsar Nicholas II and the Romanov dynasty (1917)
• cloture: the US Senate voted in a method of bringing endless debates — filibusters — to an end (1917)
• Nelson Pillar: Dublin's granite column topped with a statue of Lord Nelson, the British hero of the Battle of Trafalgar, was destroyed by an IRA bomb (1966)

Birthdays

• Karl Ferdinand von Grafe 1787
• Alvan Clark 1804
• Oliver Wendell Holmes 1841
• Kenneth Grahame 1859
• Otto Hahn 1879
• Stuart Chase 1888
• Louise Beavers 1902
• Claire Trevor 1909
• Alan Hale, Jr. 1918
  

  
• Cyd Charisse 1923
• Sean McClory 1924
• Dick Hyman 1927
• Sue Ane Langdon 1936 - Actress
• Lew DeWitt 1938 - Singer (The Statler Brothers)
• Jim Bouton 1939 - Baseball player, author
• Susan Clark 1940
• Ralph Ellis 1942 - Musician (The Swinging Blue Jeans)
• Lynn Redgrave 1943 - Actress
• Mickey Dolenz 1945 - Singer, musician (The Monkees), actor
• Randy Meisner 1946 - Musician (The Eagles)
• Carole Bayer Sager 1947
• Mike Allsup 1947 - Musician (Three Dog Night)
• "Little" Peggy March 1948 - Singer
• Jamie Lyn Bauer 1949
• Jim Rice 1953 - Baseball player
• Cheryl Baker 1954
• Clive Burr (Iron Maiden) 1957
• Gary Numan 1958 - Singer (Tubeway Army)
• Pauline Murray 1958 - Musician (Penetration, Invisible Girls)
• Aidan Quinn 1959 - Actor
• Lester Holt 1950 - News anchor ("Today")
• Jimmy Dormire 1960 - Country musician (Confederate Railroad)
• Camryn Manheim 1961 - Actress ("The Practice", "Ghost Whisperer")
• Cheryl "Salt" James (Salt-N-Pepa) 1964
• Peter Gill (Frankie Goes to Hollywood) 1964
• Shawn Mullins (The Thorns) 1968
• Andrea Parker 1969
• Jason Elam 1970 - Football player
• Boris Kodjoe 1973 - Actor
• Hines Ward 1976 - NFL wide receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers)
• Freddie Prinze Jr. 1976 - Actor
• James Van Der Beek 1977 - Actor ("Dawson's Creek)
• Kameelah Williams 1978 - Singer (702)
• Tom Chaplin 1979 - Singer (Keane)
• Bob Moffatt (The Moffatts) 1984
• Clint Moffatt (The Moffatts) 1984
• David Moffatt (The Moffatts) 1984
  Milana Vayntrub 1987 (the AT&T girl)