Wednesday, July 19, 2023

zugzwang \TSOOK-tsvahng\, noun:

• A situation in which a player is limited to moves that have a damaging effect.

Zugzwang combines two German words, zug, "move," and zwang, "constraint."

 

skin-thirty

• a reply from someone who doesn't have a watch, usually said after someone asks what time it is.

1: Hey, what time is it?

2: (looks at their watchless wrist) It's skin-thirty.

baxolicious

• The superlative of donovanesque.

As donovanesque as Bateman's ex-girlfriend is, she cannot hold a candle to the baxolicious Stacey.

History

• Franco-Prussian War: began after Bismarck provoked France; it ended in Germany's unification and the deposition of Napoleon III (1870)
• Holbrook, Arizona: a meteorite weighing nearly 200 kg exploded over Earth, showering the Navajo County town with debris (1912)
• V for Victory: British PM Winston Churchill launched WWII campaign (1941)
• "Don't ask; don't tell": policy on gays in the US military was announced by president Bill Clinton (1993)

Birthdays

• Samuel Colt 1814
• Edgar Degas 1834
• Lizzie Borden 1860
• Charles Horace Mayo 1865
• Percy Lebaron Spencer 1894
• A.J. Cronin 1896
• Charles Teagarden 1913
• Rosalyn Yalow 1921
• George McGovern 1922
• Pat Hingle 1924
• Sue Thompson 1926
• Helen Gallagher 1926
• Buster Benton 1932
• Philip Agee 1935
• George Hamilton IV 1937
• Richard Jordan 1938
• Vikki Carr 1941
• Natalya Bessmertnova 1941
• Dennis Cole 1943
• George Dzundza 1945
• Alan Gorrie (Average White Band) 1946
• Brian Harold May (Queen) 1947
• Bernie Leadon (The Eagles) 1947
• Beverly Archer 1948
• Keith Godchaux (Grateful Dead) 1948
• Allen Collins (Lynyrd Skynyrd) 1952
• Peter Barton 1956
• Danny Chauncey (.38 Special) 1956
• Kevin Haskins (Love and Rockets) 1960
• Campbell Scott 1962
• Anthony Edwards 1962
• Kelly Shiver (Thrasher Shiver) 1963
• Clea Lewis 1965
• Jared Padalecki 1982 - Actor ("Supernatural")