Saturday, August 19, 2023

hobbyhorse, noun [hob-ee-hawrs] 

1. a pet idea or project.
2. a stick with a horse's head, or a rocking horse, ridden by children.

ORIGIN: In Middle English one of the meanings of hobby was “small horse, pony” (obsolete except in dialect). By the early 19th century hobby acquired the sense “favorite occupation or amusement,” the current meaning of the word. This last sense of hobby was borrowed from the earlier hobbyhorse, which in the 16th century meant several things, e.g., a figure of a horse made of wicker worn in morris dances, pantomimes, and burlesques; a child’s toy consisting of horse’s head on the end of a stick or a rocking horse; a horse on a merry-go-round or a carousel. By the 17th century hobbyhorse developed the meaning “pet project, favorite pastime.” Hobbyhorse entered English in the 16th century. 

chain scrolling 

• When you have the tablet scrolling Twitter and the phone scrolling Instagram.

My lady has graduated from AOL to chain scrolling.

 
History

• Old Ironsides: the USS Constitution defeated the British ship HMS Guerrière off the coast of Newfoundland during the War of 1812 (1812)
• Sputnik 5: Soviet satellite entered orbit with dogs, rats, mice and plants aboard; all returned safely the next day (1960)
• Bitches Brew: trumpeter Miles Davis began three days of recording the iconic jazz-rock album (1969)
• Iraq War: a suicide truck bomb killed 22 at the UN compound in Baghdad, including envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello (2003)

Birthdays

• Bernard Baruch 1870
• Orville Wright 1871
• Coco Chanel 1883
• Alfred Lunt 1892
• Ogden Nash 1902
• James Cozzens 1903
• Claude Dauphin 1903
• Philo Taylor Farnsworth 1906
• June Collyer 1907
• Ring Lardner Jr. 1915
• George Rowles 1918
• Malcolm Forbes 1919
• Gene Roddenberry 1921
• L.Q. Jones 1927
• Willie Shoemaker 1931
• Debra Paget 1933
• Bobby Richardson 1935
• Diana Muldaur 1938
  
• Ginger Baker (Cream, Blind Faith) 1939
• Johnny Nash 1940
• Jill St. John 1940
• Billy J. Kramer (The Dakotas) 1943
• Eddy Raven 1944
• Ian Gillan (Deep Purple) 1945
• Bill (William Jefferson) Clinton (U.S.) 1946 POTUS impeached for perjury; rapist and pedophile
• Tipper Gore 1948 free speech hating cunt
• Gerald McRaney 1948
• Deana (Dina) Martin 1948 - Singer, actor, daughter of Dean Martin
• John Deacon (Queen) 1951
• Jonathan Frakes 1952
• Mary Matalin 1953
• Peter Gallagher 1955
• Adam Arkin 1956
• Gary Chapman 1957
• Martin Donovan 1957
• Ron Darling 1960
• Eric Lutes 1962
• John Stamos 1963
• Kevin Dillon 1965

• Kyra Sedgwick 1965
• Lee Ann Womack 1966
• Tabitha Soren 1967
• Mark McGuinn 1968
• Clay Walker 1969
• Matthew Perry 1969 - Actor ("Friends")
• Fat Joe 1970
• M.C. Eric (Technotronic) 1970
• Mary Joe Fernandez 1971
• Erika Christiansen 1982
• J. Evan Bonifant 1985
• Lil' Romeo 1989