Wednesday, September 27, 2023

gadabout \GAD-uh-bout\, noun:

• Someone who roams about in search of amusement or social activity.

Gadabout is formed from the verb gad, "to rove or go about without purpose or restlessly" (from Middle English gadden, "to hurry") + about.

 

sexercism

• Having sex with someone new to get over someone old. A way to cut any last emotional ties to a person you used to have sex with. A non-religious, therapeutic exercise.

Person 1: She needs to get over her ex already!

Person 2: Yeah, she needs a sexercism real fast.

History

• Society of Jesus: the Jesuits' order was chartered by Pope Paul III (1540)
• Locomotion No. 1: steam-powered locomotive hauled its first passenger train on England's Stockton and Darlington line (1825)
• Warren Commission: government investigative team concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating President John F. Kennedy (1964)
• NC-17: rating for adult-oriented films was introduced by the MPAA (1990)
• Taliban: a group of Islamic religious students captured Afghanistan's capital, Kabul (1996)

Birthdays

• George Cruikshank 1792
• Thomas Nast 1840 - Political cartoonist that created the Republican elephant and the Democrat donkey
• Vincent Youmans 1898
• Jayne Meadows 1920
• William Conrad 1920
• Arthur Penn 1922
• Sada Thompson 1929
• Kathleen Nolan 1933
• Greg Morris 1934
• Barbara Howar 1934
• Claude Jarman Jr. 1934
  

  
• Wilford Brimley 1934
• Don Cornelius 1936
• Delores Taylor 1939
• Kathy Whitworth 1939
• Don Nix 1941
• Randy Bachman (Guess Who, Bachman-Turner Overdrive) 1943
• Liz Torres 1947
• A Martinez 1948
• Robert Weller 1949
• Mike Schmidt 1949
• Cary-Hiroyuki Tagaw 1950
• Meat Loaf (Marvin Lee Aday) 1951 
• Greg Ham (Men at Work) 1953
• Johnette Napolitano (Concrete Blonde) 1957
• Shaun Cassidy 1958
• Stephan Jenkins (Third Eye Blind) 1964
• Patrick Muldoon 1968
• Mark Calderon (Color Me Badd) 1970
• Amanda Detmer 1971
• Gwyneth Paltrow 1972
• Brad Arnold (3 Doors Down) 1978
• Lil Wayne 1982 
• Avril Lavigne 1984